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BASKETBALL
Aug 25, 2006

Loss to USA aside, Italians taking beautiful game onward

SAPPORO -- Argentina, Spain and Germany are countries known more for soccer than basketball, and Italy is in the same boat.
BASKETBALL
Aug 25, 2006

Argentina ends group perfect

SENDAI -- Luis Scola scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Argentina rallied to a 83-79 victory over Serbia and Montenegro on Thursday afternoon to finish with a perfect 5-0 record in Group A at the FIBA World Championship.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 25, 2006

Interleague, playoff plans agreed

The Central League and the Pacific League agreed Wednesday to have 24 interleague games for each club -- a reduction from the current 36 games -- and postseason playoffs for both leagues from next year.
BASKETBALL
Aug 25, 2006

Spain overwhelms Japan in rout

HIROSHIMA -- Team Japan suffered its second loss in as many days Thursday night.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Ricoh reveals seven accidents with its shredders

Office machine manufacturer Ricoh Co. said Thursday there were seven cases of children being injured by Ricoh paper shredders between 1985 and 1997, including one serious injury.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

40 years of Corolla history covered at Toyota exhibition

The history of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most popular car, the Corolla, is the focus of an exhibition in Tokyo's Odaiba district to mark the 40th anniversary of one of Japan's best-selling autos.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Sandstorm drop belies west China desertification

is a problem that needs to be treated," Diallo told reporters. "If it is not treated, it spreads." The adverse effects of desertification in western China have been visible in Japan. Sandstorms that carry the Gobi desert's "kousa" yellow sand eastward increased substantially since 2000.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Woman held in umbrella eye-stabbing

Police said Thursday they have arrested a 31-year-old woman on suspicion of seriously wounding a saleswoman at a Tokyo department store earlier this month by poking her in the eye with an umbrella.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Essay about tossing kittens off cliff sparks outcry

want to raise a living creature as a pet, the owners must opt for a way that makes better sense for themselves," she writes. "I chose enrichment of 'life' for the cats that I have raised and opted to kill their kittens out of a sense of my social responsibility. Of course, I must bear the pain and grief...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2006

Wood chips to power 40,000 vehicles in biomass fuel initiative

The Environment Ministry said Thursday it will launch a project to mass produce environmentally friendly biomass fuel made from materials like wood chips to power about 40,000 motor vehicles annually in metropolitan areas.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2006

Sony Bank to acquire brokerage

Sony Bank said Thursday it will acquire Kaiyo Securities Co. based in Okinawa to launch Internet-based securities brokerage services in the first half of fiscal 2007.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Aso bucking odds in LDP race

Nobody likes to lose and there may still be a chance to win, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Thursday of his hope to emerge victorious the Sept. 20 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 25, 2006

Be Your Own Pet "Be Your Own Pet"

Fast-playing BYOP sparked an indie buzz in 2005 as a raw, late-teens rock band from Nashville with an archetypal post-punk hellcat in lead singer/yelper Jemina Pearl Abegg. The buzz built up further after they launched a string of three hot singles without releasing an album. By then their mystique ensured...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2006

Oji requests talks with Mitsubishi president

Oji Paper Co. President Kazuhisa Shinoda is requesting direct talks with Mitsubishi Corp. President Yorihiko Kojima in hopes he can persuade the trading house to sell him its shares in Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd., sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 25, 2006

Solid world of dancing

Jean-Laurent Sasportes, a dancer who has worked with one of the great figures of modern dance, choreographer Pina Bausch, will tour Japan in collaboration with double bassist and composer Tetsu Saitoh from Sept. 2-24.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2006

TBS envisages holding company

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. plans to set up a holding company in fall next year, after the broadcasting law is revised in the first half of 2007, according to sources.
COMMENTARY
Aug 25, 2006

Softening northern borders

MARIEHAMN, Finland -- It was cruel irony that the Aug. 16 killing of a Japanese fisherman by Russian security forces in the Northern Territories took place just as a group of Japanese and Russian scholars and former government officials were meeting with a group of Alanders to discuss possible creative...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2006

Ministry to keep track of who runs the railways

The transport ministry plans to conduct hearings with major shareholders and holding companies of railways whenever deemed necessary to strengthen its monitoring of train safety, ministry officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 25, 2006

Motor City soul

In the mid-1980s, when Detroit was a city in decline, Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson (collectively known as the Belleville Three) kicked off a musical revolution. By working the futuristic electro sound of European acts like Kraftwerk and New Order into a funky, dance floor-friendly musical...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Aug 25, 2006

Hot slabs of jazz

While summer rock festivals are as numerous as fireworks, outdoor jazz concerts have recently become as rare as a non-humid day. Just five years ago, Japan had so many jazz festivals all over the country that musicians had trouble making the tightly scheduled gigs. Then, sadly, economics caught up, distance...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 25, 2006

Psychedelic radar 08.25

Sirius: Aug. 26-27
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Database of 2,000 clinics that help smokers quit goes online

An online database of about 2,000 medical institutions that accept health insurance for a course of nonsmoking treatment has been made available by the Japanese Society for Tobacco Control, the group's officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Pyongyang bureau for Kyodo News

Kyodo News, Japan's major news agency, said Thursday it will open a bureau in Pyongyang on Sept. 1, the first Japanese news organization to establish a bureau in North Korea.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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