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BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

Diet approves income tax rise; you could pay 145,000 yen extra

The Diet passed a bill Wednesday that will effectively raise income taxes next year to fix the nation's faltering finances.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2005

No exception for Pyongyang

HONOLULU -- No issue more clearly illustrates the chasm in public perceptions that has developed between the United States and South Korea than the issue of human rights in North Korea.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 31, 2005

Miyazato values overseas experience

Ai Miyazato hopes one day to be as famous on the world stage as she is in Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Mar 31, 2005

Field of figures captivates kids

Last November, when students at the Early Learning Center of the American School in Japan went off to view an installation titled "Asian Field" by the renowned sculptor Antony Gormley, probably no one guessed just how big an impact the experience would have.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

Horie said ready to meet Kitao after shareholder meet

Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie has expressed willingness to meet Softbank Investment Corp. President Yoshitaka Kitao after it joins the management of Nippon Broadcasting Systems Inc. in late June, a South Korean daily reported Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

Industrial output fell 2.1% in February

Japan's industrial production in February fell a seasonally adjusted 2.1 percent compared with the previous month, according to preliminary figures released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

Japan, Thailand strike pact on FTA talks' farm aspects

Japan and Thailand have struck a basic deal on the contentious farm products segment of trade talks, Japanese government sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

Daiei shareholders stamp rehab

Daiei Inc. received approval from shareholders Wednesday to adopt a rehabilitation program mapped out by the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan that features a 592.4 billion yen aid package.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 31, 2005

Shonan Beach mystique evaporates upon arrival

It's here: the season of mizu nurumu (water loosening) when one's thoughts turn to things ocean-like: surf and sand and this year's ichiban kawaii mizugi (the cutest bathing suit).
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2005

LDP to submit card forgery bill

The Liberal Democratic Party plans to submit a bill that would require Japanese financial institutions to compensate depositors for losses from cash card forgeries, according to party lawmakers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 31, 2005

Boning up on a Man much maligned

Quarry workers in the Neander Valley in Germany dug up more than limestone when, in 1856, they came across parts of an old skull and skeleton. By 1864, other similar specimens had been found and studied, and the archaic human was recognized as a new species: Homo neanderthalensis. (Neander Tal means...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 30, 2005

Season gets stranger for Pacers

NEW YORK -- Really, can anything else happen to Indiana this season?
MORE SPORTS
Mar 30, 2005

Ai-chan set for Chinese club

Japanese table tennis player Ai Fukuhara flew off to China's Shenyang Province on Tuesday as she prepares to formally sign with Chinese club Liaoning.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 30, 2005

The influence of a literary titan lasts for 200 years

Renowned as a poet, novelist, dramatist and critic, Victor Hugo was a figure of legendary proportions whose funeral procession through Paris in 1885 attracted more than 2 million devotees.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Mar 30, 2005

Asia week sees debut show of a famous celadon potter

New Asian art becomes the talk of the town each spring -- not just in Tokyo or Beijing -- but in New York City where its annual Asia Week is now in full sway. Exhibitions abound in the Big Apple with some of the world's top dealers offering their treasures to collectors who visit from around the world....
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Nippon Oil hikes price of gas by 5.1 yen per liter

Nippon Oil Corp. announced Tuesday its largest wholesale price increase in 14 years for gasoline and other petroleum products for April.
EDITORIALS
Mar 30, 2005

Ready or not, a revolution it is

Fourteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, democracy is showing fresh signs of life in yet another former Soviet republic: Kyrgyzstan. Last week, in a dramatic display of "people power," popular protests against disputed elections toppled President Askar Akayev, who had ruled the Central Asian...
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Household spending fell 3.8% in February

Spending by wage-earning households fell a real 3.8 percent in February from a year earlier to 301,372 yen, the government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Daiei's Hokkaido pullout in doubt

The president of Marubeni Corp., a part of the consortium sponsoring the rebuilding of Daiei Inc., said the retailer's reported withdrawal from Hokkaido is not a given.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

FSA preparing guide for cross-sector financial conglomerates

The Financial Services Agency will draw up guidelines for supervising cross-sector financial conglomerates in June in the face of increasing reorganization by banks, brokerages and insurers, agency officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Seibu group may ditch 85 resort units

The panel handling the rehabilitation of the scandal-tainted Seibu Railway Co. group is considering selling or closing the group's 85 hotels and resort facilities to reduce debts, sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Glass wool makers hit over cartel suspicions

The Fair Trade Commission searched 10 producers and sellers of glass wool Tuesday that are suspected of forming a cartel in violation of the Antimonopoly Law, officials of the antimonopoly watchdog said.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 29, 2005

Judo judges to try out video aids

International judo officials will begin using video footage at this year's world championships on a trial basis to help avoid controversy in refereeing, Japanese judo officials said Monday.
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
Why Typhoon Shanshan's movements are so difficult to predict
Typhoon Shanshan as it moves closer to the Kyushu region in this satellite photo on Wednesday
Japan’s 'lost generation' gets a raise, and the economy, a small boost
Japanese workers in their 40s and 50s — known as the "lost generation" — saw their wages rise slightly in the second quarter.
Heavy rain batters Japan after Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall in Kyushu
Vehicles are stranded on flooded road on Thursday following heavy rains from Typhoon Shanshan in the city of Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.
This English schoolboy has big dreams of becoming yokozuna — and more
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday. Tarasenko’s potential in sumo was made obvious when he won U18 gold in the 90-kg weight class at the 2023 Baruto Cup in Estonia despite being four years under the age limit and having only had a total of one hour of sumo training before the meet.
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan
A Rapidus factory construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido, on July 24. The plan to ramp up renewable energy usage in the region to 60% by 2030 is part of a larger concept known as “Hokkaido Valley.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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