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OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2004

Japan Olympians to prepare for tour

Hiroyuki Tomita, Takehiro Kashima and Isao Yoneda, who were all part of the gold medal-winning men's gymnastics team at the Athens Olympics, will compete in the World Cup series in Europe this fall, gymnastics sources said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 23, 2004

Rakuten, Livedoor battle for Sendai team

Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani says he'll make a formal application Friday to set up a professional baseball team based in Miyagi Prefecture north of Tokyo -- a move that would put the firm in direct competition with fellow Internet services company Livedoor.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 23, 2004

Ichiro bears down on Sisler's hits record

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki went 5-for-5 to pull within 14 hits of equaling George Sisler's major league record of 257 as the Seattle Mariners overpowered the Anaheim Angels 7-3 on Tuesday night.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 23, 2004

Kurihara looking to play overseas

Japan national wing spiker Megumi Kurihara will leave corporate team NEC next month, citing playing style differences with the V. League team, team sources said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 23, 2004

Dragons near CL flag

Hirokazu Ibata drove in two runs Wednesday night as the Chunichi Dragons closed in on their first Central League pennant in five years with a 3-0 win over the Yakult Swallows.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2004

Mad cow scare bludgeons Nakau

Fast food chain operator Nakau Co. said Wednesday it will close up to 28 outlets due to a halt in sales of "gyudon" beef-and-rice dishes triggered by the mad cow disease scare.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2004

Vodafone unveils 3G models for yearend season

Vodafone K.K. on Wednesday unveiled seven cell phone models for the yearend shopping season.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2004

August trade surplus logs first decline in 14 months

Japan's trade surplus fell 26 percent in August from a year earlier to 576.1 billion yen, marking its first decline in 14 months as higher oil prices pushed up overall import prices, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 23, 2004

Herring gull

* Japanese name: Segurokamome * Scientific name: Larus argentatus * Description: Herring gulls are large, noisy, boisterous birds. They are white with light gray backs, black wingtips and pink legs that have webbed feet. A key identifying mark is the red spot on the lower tip of their yellow bills....
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 23, 2004

Good stuff, people and advice on how to tailor your consumption

It's back-to-school time again, and whether you are going back, sending your child off, or just getting swept up in the streams of backpack-wielding kids, change is in the air. Time for new books, new people and new gossip, and time to clear the desk even if only for a place to rest your head.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Sep 23, 2004

Putin's bloodless coup d'etat

MOSCOW -- In what amounts to a coup d'etat five years after he came to power in August 1999, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a number of measures annihilating the fragile system of checks and balances constructed during President Boris Yeltsin's tenure in the 1990s.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Sep 23, 2004

"The World Came To My Place Today," "Faerie Wars"

"The World Came To My Place Today," Jo Readman and Ley Honor Roberts, Random House; 2004; 24 pp.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 23, 2004

High-octane crash and burn

What's the big complaint about video games these days? Lack of innovation.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2004

Look for a larger Russian role in Korea

SEOUL-- With the six-party talks in the deep freeze, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun is looking east to help break the ice. In his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week Roh is expected to both press Putin to play a more active diplomatic role in resolving the nuclear standoff...
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2004

A new broom in Jakarta

Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is set to become Indonesia's next president. The former general has been projected as the landslide winner of this week's presidential ballot. His victory could usher in a new era in Indonesian politics: He is the first president of the post-Suharto era who is genuinely qualified...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 22, 2004

And in the tattered black tights, Papa

Backdrop Papa Rating: * * * (out of 5) Director: Toshio Lee Running time: 98 minutes Language: Japanese Opens Oct. 8 [See Japan Times movie listings] Boys want their fathers to be heroes. Men want to be heroes to their sons. These truisms sound old-fashioned in today's unheroic Tokyo,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 22, 2004

It's a thin line between love and hate

Monster Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Patty Jenkins Running time: 109 minutes Language: English Opens Sept. 25 [See Japan Times movie listings] Aileen Wuornos is often tagged the first female serial killer and the first U.S. woman to receive the death penalty neither is true,...
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2004

Landmark power transfer in China

The resignation of Mr. Jiang Zemin as chairman of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), the country's top military post, completes the transfer of power from Mr. Jiang to his successor, Mr. Hu Jintao. The handover is a landmark in modern Chinese politics, but its political impact is unclear. Mr....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 22, 2004

Getting under the skin of a serial killer

After "Hannibal" et al., seeing another serial killer flick was about as pleasant a prospect as being buried alive. It was a nice surprise, then, to find that director Patty Jenkins had made an intelligent, genre-defying film grounded in reality. Jenkins, who also wrote the screenplay, has been riding...
SUMO
Sep 22, 2004

Asashoryu regains share of lead

Asashoryu came from behind to beat Dejima at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday, throwing the No. 5 maegashira to the dirt surface after narrowly avoiding defeat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 22, 2004

Stop usif you'veheard thisone before

The Quiet American Rating: * * * 1/2 (out of 5) Director: Philip Noyce Running time: 101 minutes Language: English Now showing [See Japan Times movie listings] When Graham Greene penned his novel "The Quiet American" in 1954, he was set on capturing a particular point in time in late,...
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2004

Smaller PlayStation 2 set to debut

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said Tuesday it will release a smaller PlayStation 2 model in November at home and overseas.
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2004

Daikyo, UFJ to take IRCJ rehab route

Daikyo Inc. and its main creditor, UFJ Bank, are planning to seek support from the government's Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, possibly this month, to rehabilitate the struggling condominium builder, sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Sep 22, 2004

Project seeks new sites for sore eyes

I would estimate that for every artist sipping champagne at an opening reception -- clad in Gaultier and coiffed with contrived insouciance -- there are hundreds of other artists sitting alone in cheap apartments eating cold noodles. "Starving artist" may be a cliche, but the truth is that most people...
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2004

ANA to offer in-flight broadband

All Nippon Airways Co. said Tuesday it will offer in-flight broadband Internet access in November, the first Asian airline to offer a service of this kind and the second carrier to do so overall.
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2004

Japan-Philippines flights to increase

Japan and the Philippines have agreed to boost the number of passenger and cargo flights between the two countries, the transport ministry said Tuesday in Tokyo.

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