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JAPAN
Jan 11, 2005

Palestinians to receive more funds

Japan will extend an additional $60 million in financial and humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority following the weekend election to choose a new Palestinian leader, officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2005

Japan to work on svelte spy satellite

Japan wants to scale down the size of its spy satellites to enhance their maneuverability and hopes to launch a small fourth-generation satellite by around fiscal 2010, government sources said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2005

Daunting U.S. tasks in Asia

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- President George W. Bush has claimed a renewed mandate and has reshuffled his national securit team. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will become Secretary of State, and Steve Hadley will move up at the National Security Council. Richard Armitage and Jim Kelly, who have...
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2005

Scientists find gene that may cause arthritis

A group of scientists has found a gene suspected of causing osteoarthritis, the most common form of human arthritis, the science magazine Nature Genetics reported Sunday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 11, 2005

Habitat destruction, work gear and photos

A distressing end to 2004 . . . off to a resilient and positive start in 2005.
EDITORIALS
Jan 11, 2005

Now to work for Mr. Abbas

A s expected, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas has won elections to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Abbas is viewed as a moderate and a technocrat; there are widespread hopes that he will make genuine efforts to push for peace with Israel. If he does, he will be dealing with a newly...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 11, 2005

Should Prime Minister Koizumi visit Yasukuni Shrine?

Vicky Majajas Skills adviser, 53 Koizumi is entitled as head of state to make his own decisions. He should be true to himself because you can't have a prime minister who is phony.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 11, 2005

Gaijin in cyberspace

It's a pretty lively gathering. A group of eikaiwa teachers are noisily denouncing their employers, while nearby a pair of leery Charisma Men are swapping tales of sexual conquests, and next to them some language students are loudly debating the Yasukuni Shrine.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2005

Team probes deaths linked to nationwide diarrhea outbreak

A team of experts launched an investigation Monday into the mysterious deaths of seven elderly people hit by diarrhea and vomiting at a nursing home in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, between the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
Rugby
Jan 10, 2005

Waseda reclaims rugby title from Kanto

The 41st University Rugby Football Championship final was the fourth time in a row that Waseda University has taken on Kanto Gakuin University and this year it was Waseda that walked away with the silverware following its 31-19 win at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday.
SUMO
Jan 10, 2005

Asashoryu off to winning start

Grand champion Asashoryu of Mongolia picked up right where he left off last year with a convincing win over compatriot Hakuho on the opening day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 10, 2005

Inoue rediscovers winning form

Japanese heavyweight judoka Kosei Inoue put the disappointment of his shock Olympic defeat behind him Sunday as he won the Kano Cup international tournament in his comeback to competitive judo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 10, 2005

Former Hanshin pitcher Yabu on verge of joining Oakland A's

Free-agent right-hander Keiichi Yabu has reached a basic agreement with the Oakland Athletics and is close to signing a contract, baseball officials said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 10, 2005

Mr. Gonzales and Abu Ghraib

The nomination of Mr. Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general in the second Bush administration has focused attention once again on revelations that the United States has used torture on terror suspects. Since the first photographs of those misdeeds were made public last summer, there has been a steady...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2005

Why does CCP still fret over the news?

LONDON -- A short while ago, when I was in Beijing, I wanted to keep up with some political development in Hong Kong. I turned on my computer and went to the Asia-Pacific page of the BBC's Web site. Or at least I tried to; I had forgotten that the BBC site is blocked in China.
COMMENTARY
Jan 10, 2005

Improving Japan's leverage

To promote national interest in diplomacy, it is essential to set goals, establish basic policies to achieve them and work out overall strategies, while keeping in mind the links between individual goals and between those of nations and regions. However, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi lacks such strategies....
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2005

Nursing homes hit by strange illness

More than 250 people have suffered diarrhea and vomiting at homes for the elderly from late December to early January in seven prefectures, including a woman who died in Kanagawa Prefecture, in addition to seven deaths already reported in Hiroshima Prefecture, officials said Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2005

U.S. has self to blame for weaker dollar

UBUD, Bali -- Earth to China-bashers: Beijing should not be blamed for America's trade deficits or for the weakness of the dollar. Those that believe so are confusing symptoms with causes. Other elements of conventional wisdom have it that there is some choice as to whether the exchange value of the...
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2005

Kamei may seek Koizumi ouster over postal reform

Shizuka Kamei, an influential member of the Liberal Democratic Party member, said Sunday he may seek Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's dismissal as head of the LDP if he proceeds with postal privatization.
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.
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.”
Masterful and stirring, ‘Pachinko’ returns with more depth
Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family as they move through the 20th century.
How Japan's health care system is gearing up for more heatstroke cases
An ambulance is parked at the entrance of the emergency room of Saitama Hospital in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, on July 24.

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