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BASKETBALL
Aug 11, 2006

Japan unveils roster for World Championship

Speed, agility, experience and poise -- versatility, unpredictability and desire, too. These are trademarks of the 12 basketball players named to the Japan National Team on Thursday night.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Food self-sufficiency holds at 40%

Japan's self-sufficiency in food stayed at 40 percent in fiscal 2005 for the eighth straight year since fiscal 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Pregnant women get badges to sit

Tokyo railways are providing pregnant women with badges in the hope of prompting other passengers to offer them seats.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Sister of B-29 copilot visits crash site in Ibaraki

TSUKUBAMIRAI, Ibaraki Pref. -- Wilma Cook remembers how hard her father tried to discover what happened to her brother, 2nd Lt. Eugene Cook, when his B-29 bomber crashed in Japan during an air raid in March 1945.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Researcher gave Russian high-tech Nikon device

Tokyo police turned over to prosecutors Thursday their case against a former Nikon Corp. researcher who is suspected of giving a Nikon device under development related to fiber-optic communications to a Russian official in Tokyo last year.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Tokyo Tower likely to get culture status

With its days as a television broadcasting tower numbered, the company that owns Tokyo Tower wants to register it as state-designated cultural property, company officials said Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2006

Nukaga unlikely to join LDP race

Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga will probably not become a candidate in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election in September because his own faction will not support him, political sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

2,339 pools don't pass drain grille muster

Nationwide, 2,339 school and public swimming pools do not meet safety standards because their drain and intake grilles are not properly bolted in place, according to a government survey released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2006

Used auto sales off a fourth month

Used vehicle sales, excluding minivehicles, fell 8.6 percent in July from a year earlier to 396,057 units, down for the fourth straight month, an industry body said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Paloma offices, factory raided over poisonings

at Paloma Co. answers questions from reporters Thursday in Nagoya after the company was searched. KYODO PHOTO
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2006

Suds shipments slump to record low

Shipments of beer, "happoshu" low-malt beer and nonmalt, beerlike drinks by Japan's five top brewers in July fell 5.7 percent year on year to 47.50 million cases due to a long rainy spell that cooled demand, industry figures showed Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2006

Cluster bombs add to terror

NEW YORK -- As if the ruthless air attacks on Lebanese civilians weren't enough, Israel has been using illegal cluster munitions in populated areas of that country. Human Rights Watch researchers working on the ground in Lebanon have confirmed that an attack with cluster bombs was carried out on the...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Sax man Pharoah Sanders still hitting the right notes

One of the finest tenor saxophone players of his generation, Pharoah Sanders returns to Japan to play three dates at the Blue Note in Tokyo from Aug. 20-23, before guesting with the Japanese jazz-dance fusion band Sleepwalker as part of Metamorphose, an eclectic one-day dance music/jazz festival taking...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Classic Broadway musical 'West Side Story' staged

The Joey McNeely-directed Broadway musical "West Side Story" runs at Tokyo's Bunkamura, from Aug. 16-Sept. 3, before touring Osaka, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Matsumoto and Toyama.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Japan Phil strings keep program secret

A string quartet made up of members of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a mini concert on Aug. 18 in Suginami, western Tokyo. The concert program is being kept a surprise.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 11, 2006

Psychedelic radar 08.11

Mother: Aug. 13-15
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Examining one nation's identity

Seven films by directors from Armenia and its diaspora will be screened as part of the "Armenian Film Selection," taking place Aug. 11-12 and Aug. 19 at two Tokyo venues, Athenee Francais Cultural Center in Chiyoda Ward and Uplink Factory in Shibuya. Four films -- Harutyun Khachatryan's "Return to the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Aug 11, 2006

An attack of the cute and quirky

Fashion designer Eri Utsugi is a very lucky lady: After only one catwalk outing, her mercibeaucoup brand will open six new stores in prime locations -- starting with Aoyama and Ginza -- over the course of the next seven weeks.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Obituary: Hirokazu Kuroda

Hirokazu Kuroda, the leader of a radical leftist group from the 1960s to the 1990s, died at a hospital in Saitama Prefecture in late June, sources said Thursday. He was 78.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 11, 2006

Nikaido Kazumi "Nikaido Kazumi No Album"

Kazumi Nikaido's first solo album in three years is an odd proposition. It's scattered and insane, like a schizophrenic puppy that's been at the cough medicine. But when it shines, it really shines.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Showa Era star remembered

The International Theatre Institute is offering half-price kabuki tickets to foreigners living in Japan for its September program taking place at Kabuki-za theater in Ginza, Tokyo, on Sept. 15-17 (4:30 p.m.).
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
¥21.3 trillion stimulus package approved by Cabinet
The Cabinet is expected to submit an extra budget bill to finance the package to parliament, which is in session until Dec. 17.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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