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CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 23, 2006

Ordinary is illuminated

OZU YASUJIRO: TWO POSTWAR FILMS -- Late Spring & Early Summer, translated, by D.A. Rajakaruna. Colombo (Sri Lanka): Godage International Publishers (PVT) Ltd., 178 pp., $15 (paper). In Japan, in distinction from other countries, film scripts are sometimes read as literature. Those written by Yasunari...
CULTURE / Books
Jul 23, 2006

Taking people out of the boxes

IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE: The Illusion of Destiny, by Amartya Sen. Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pp., $24.95 (cloth). Amartya Sen once had trouble getting a hotel operator to understand the spelling of his family name. So he spelled it out letter by letter in this form: "S for somebody; E for everybody; N for...
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 23, 2006

Democracy falters as underworld forces flourish

Kyrgyzstan is referred to as a faltering state, meaning that it is not quite failing.
SOCCER / World cup
Jul 22, 2006

JFA ties up deal with JEF coach Osim for national team job

The Japan Football Association on Friday approved the appointment of former JEF United Chiba manager Ivica Osim as national team coach.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2006

PL making compromise on playoffs

The Pacific League has come up with a set of compromise proposals to reduce the number of interleague games and hold postseason playoffs involving teams from both the Central and Pacific leagues starting next year.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2006

Central League captures opener

Kyuji Fujikawa couldn't even get a save for his birthday.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Koizumi apologizes to emigrants

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi officially apologized Friday to Japanese who moved to the Dominican Republic with the promise of a Caribbean paradise and fertile farmland under a state-promoted emigration project between 1956 and 1959 and instead found sterile land and starvation.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

President apologizes for Livedoor in court

Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu, testifying in court Friday, apologized for his company's having misled the stock market by releasing false announcements and window-dressing for the business year to Sept. 30, 2004, before he assumed his position.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2006

Man firebombs Nikkei doorway

A man firebombed the headquarters of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily in Tokyo's Otemachi business district early Friday morning, but no one was hurt and there was no major damage, police said.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2006

Fukuda not to run in LDP presidential poll

Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, a Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight and one of four prospective candidates for the Sept. 20 party presidential election, told reporters Friday he has decided against joining the race.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

ODA rethink yields new sections

The Cabinet said Friday it will create new sections in the Foreign Ministry to improve the planning of official development assistance, especially for Southeast and Southwest Asian nations, government officials said.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Hiraizumi tapped for Heritage listing

The Agency for Cultural Affairs will recommend the region surrounding the ancient town of Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, be named a UNESCO World Heritage site, aiming for registration in 2008, agency officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

JAXA to replace expensive M-5 rockets in fiscal 2007

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will stop producing M-5 solid-fuel rockets and replace them with cheaper ones in the next fiscal year, JAXA officials said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 22, 2006

Funding scandal shakes ivory tower

It came as a shock last year when former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo Suk's claims that he had created stem cells by cloning human embryos turned out to be fraudulent. A recent case at Waseda University in Tokyo is no less surprising, although it mainly concerns the irregular use of...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2006

Putting Lebanon back together again

LONDON -- Today's crisis in Lebanon is a crisis of the Lebanese state. It is this structural crisis that must be addressed if the violence is to stop.
COMMENTARY
Jul 22, 2006

UNSC passes the test, so far

HONOLULU -- Hat's off to Pyongyang! It has helped to accomplish in 10 days what American officials had failed to accomplish in almost four years of diplomacy: a unanimous United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that not only condemns its July 5 (Fourth of July in the United States) missile...
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Ministry reprimands Toyota over defect handling

boils down to that point," Takimoto said.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2006

Nikai not optimistic on Doha talks

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai said Friday he is not optimistic about the prospects for successfully concluding the Doha Round of global free-trade talks by the end of this year as targeted by the World Trade Organization.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Lung-disease plaintiffs file appeal

A group of construction workers and relatives of those who have died filed an appeal Friday against the Tokyo District Court's decision to award them 69.3 million yen in damages for pneumoconiosis contracted during state-backed tunnel projects, demanding the government adopt stricter controls to prevent...
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Foreign states can be sued, top court rules

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that suits involving foreign governments are within the jurisdiction of Japan's judicial authorities, changing a 78-year-old legal precedent.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

Mindan chiefs resign over Chongryun detente snafu

on May 17. In May, the leaders of the two feuding groups met for the first time in 60 years and signed a joint statement pledging to reconcile and form closer ties.
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.
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.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
¥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.
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

Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40
By Weiwen Lin

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