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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 30, 2005

Bellamy, Diouf, Savage put stain on game with actions

LONDON -- In the coming weeks members of the Football Writers' Association will start to give serious consideration to their choice for Footballer of the Year.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

Woman gives birth with partial womb

A woman whose womb was partially preserved during an operation to treat advanced-stage cervical cancer gave birth last fall, the first such case in Japan, hospital officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

'Bot' computer virus spreading

A new computer virus called "bot," which creates networks of infected computers to mount attacks on specific Web sites, is spreading, National Police Agency officials said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 30, 2005

Not just rhetoric anymore

Nine days ago, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered his second inaugural speech, a rousing, 21-minute address in which, among other things, he extolled liberty and proclaimed "ending tyranny in our world" the ultimate goal of U.S. policy. God himself backed this policy, Mr. Bush said. Wasn't it in...
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

Nuclear policy panel calls for Monju restart

A governmental panel on nuclear policy is saying that the trouble-plagued Monju fast-breeder reactor should be put back into operation as soon as possible, according to panel members.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

LDP seeks more robust postal control

The Liberal Democratic Party aims to convince the government to expand its control of postal operations even after privatization begins in a bid to ensure uniform services nationwide, according to party sources.
COMMENTARY
Jan 30, 2005

A mountain of good will without strings

HONOLULU -- Now that a month has passed since the tragic earthquake and tsunami that wrecked widespread devastation across South and Southeast Asia, it is time to separate fact from fiction regarding the timeliness, level and intention of U.S. relief efforts.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2005

Neglect led to higher Indian casualty toll

MADRAS, India -- In India, very few people had heard the word tsunami, let alone understood what these waves could do. Until Sunday, Dec. 26, hardly anybody had the vaguest inclination of the destructive ability of the sea.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

Telephone scams net 28.4 billion yen in last 12 months

Phone fraud cases, including scams in which callers solicit money from people by impersonating a relative, netted some 28.4 billion yen last year, according to the National Police Agency.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2005

Looking up after bleak year

Two years ago, the World Economic Forum launched a Global Governance Initiative that brought together a group of experts from around the world to map the state of the world on peace and security, education, environment, health, human rights, and hunger and poverty. The initiative provides an assessment,...
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

Iraq team back

A group of Ground Self-Defense Force members returned home Saturday after winding up a six-month logistical support mission for the GSDF's main contingent providing humanitarian and reconstruction work in Iraq.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 30, 2005

Japanese hero pointedly ignored

It's said that the virtue most valued in Japan is loyalty, which is why the famous heroes of Japanese literature and history are people who made sacrifices for their lords rather than their beliefs. And often, as in the case of the 47 ronin celebrated in Chushingura or the tokkotai (kamikaze) pilots...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 30, 2005

McLaughlin: a mind-set for music

Guitarist John McLaughlin burst onto the jazz scene in the 1960s as a member of Miles Davis' cutting-edge electric groups. On famed works like "In a Silent Way," "Bitches' Brew" and "Jack Johnson," his guitar work very much helped define Miles' sound. Then in the early '70s, his own jazz-rock fusion...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 30, 2005

Mercury Rev: "The Secret Migration"

Along with their occasional partners in crime, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev made orchestral pop safe for college radio in the '90s. Both bands started out as psychedelicatessens, and like the Lips' Wayne Coyne, MR's Jonathan Donahue possesses a limited vocal instrument that makes it necessary for him...
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2005

80% of regional banks may introduce ATM cards with chips

More than 80 percent of the nation's regional banks are considering switching from magnetic cash cards to ones embedded with IC chips to make counterfeiting more difficult.
Japan Times
Features
Jan 30, 2005

'Curiosity' at the core of days packed with lots to chew on

Atsuko Tanuma's day begins at 5 a.m. It's a routine she has followed for 17 years, since she started preparing lunch-boxes for her first son when he began kindergarten at the age of 4.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2005

Treading softly on Jakarta's sensibilities

SINGAPORE -- Many observers believe the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster has opened up Aceh and the rest of Indonesia to the West. In fact, Aceh has been intermittently "closed" to international scrutin for 30 years amid the struggle by Acehnese secessionists to create an independent state. Now, as the Indonesian...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jan 30, 2005

Kabuki illustrated with the vibrancy of sheer enthusiasm

HEROES OF THE KABUKI STAGE, by Arendie & Henk Herwig. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers/Hotei Publishing, 2004, 360 pp., 280 full-color illustrations, $125 (cloth). This large (245 x 297 mm), beautifully produced book calls itself "an introduction to the world of kabuki with retellings of famous plays, illustrated...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 30, 2005

Someday in Shinbashi jazz festival

Few jazz club stages in Tokyo fit anything larger than a quartet, much less a full 16-piece big band. The jazz club Someday in Shinbashi, though, has not only the space but the wherewithal to offer two weeks of the city's best big jazz bands. Though performances of full-size bands aren't rare, this annual...
Japan Times
Features
Jan 30, 2005

Counselor counters the blues through chanson and jazz

Junko Umihara turned up a bit late for our interview at a cafe in Tokyo's Hiroo district one afternoon recently. She had been with a patient at her Umihara Mental Clinic in nearby Minato Ward, she said, "and counseling took a bit longer than scheduled."
Japan Times
Features
Jan 30, 2005

'Secret' writer joins Diet drama

There are lawyers-turned-politicians. There are bureaucrats-turned-politicians. There are professors-turned-politicians . . . sports players-turned-politicians . . . actors-turned-politicians . . . and so on.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 30, 2005

Roots Manuva: "Awfully Deep"

After three years away from the circus, Roots Manuva is back to remind listeners just who runs U.K. hip-hop. It's not easy to describe Manuva, aka Rodney Smith, but then he does a pretty good job himself, boasting on his new album, "Awfully Deep," of his "venomous eloquence" and his "cryptic displays...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jan 30, 2005

TBS's "The Heart of Valentine is French Chocolate" and more

This week, TV Asahi's business documentary series, "The Dawn of Gaia" (Tue., 10 p.m.), looks at the past, present and future of automobile navigation systems, which have become an indispensable part of motoring in Japan.
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
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.
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.
Over 100 people fall sick in Kumamoto with river eyed as potential source
The Todoroki Falls in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Saturday. Seven high school students who had played in a river nearby experienced vomiting and diarrhea.
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.
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.
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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