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JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Japan detainee meets family in China

A Japanese man detained in China for allegedly engaging in smuggling people by helping them flee from North Korea has met members of his family, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Chinese rejected over suspect papers

Immigration authorities have denied entry permission to about 150 Chinese, suspecting their application papers may have been forged, sources said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 18, 2004

Valentine speaks his mind in preseason game

The season hasn't even started yet and Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine is already getting hot under the collar.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Terror-at-sea bill wins approval

A House of Representatives committee unanimously approved a bill Wednesday to tighten measures aimed at countering terrorist attacks on ships and ports.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Panel floats suspension for surgeons

A health ministry panel recommended Wednesday that two surgeons involved in a fatally botched prostate cancer operation in November 2002 be suspended from practicing medicine for two years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

Booming manufacturers reward workers

Automakers, electronics firms and other manufacturers responded Wednesday to wage-increase demands from their labor unions, with Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. fully meeting them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Court halts weekly over story on Tanaka daughter

The latest issue of Shukan Bunshun was removed from newsstands Wednesday after the Tokyo District Court ordered a temporary injunction barring the sale of the Japanese-language weekly magazine.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Blood centers get creative to lure donors

Mitsuko Kobayashi often gave blood at local Red Cross centers as a young girl, because her mother said she should try to help people. But after giving birth two years ago, she found such trips difficult with a child in tow.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

'Manga' spins Japan's forex intervention as evil U.S. plot

The plot is sinister: Officials in Washington conspire to keep the dollar low and force Japanese authorities to intervene in the exchange market to buy the U.S. currency -- not to save vulnerable Japanese exporters from the dangers of a high yen, but to keep the U.S. economy from sliding.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Ex-governor's daughter handed suspended term

The Tokyo District Court handed a suspended prison term Wednesday to the daughter of a former Saitama governor for violating the Political Funds Control Law.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 18, 2004

Miyazato picks up Academic Award

The Japan Golf Association on Wednesday named Tohoku High School senior Ai Miyazato the Academic Award winner, honoring her as the most valuable student golfer in 2003 in the high school division.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

LDP, Komeito turn up heat on Pyongyang

Officials of the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling bloc partner, New Komeito, reached a final agreement Wednesday on proposed legislation that would allow Japan to ban port calls by North Korean ships.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Obituary: Cid Corman

Cid Corman, an American poet, editor and translator who lived in Japan for nearly 40 years, has died after suffering a heart attack, his coeditor said Wednesday. He was 79.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

Obituary: Masami Kogayu

Masami Kogayu, former vice finance minister, died Tuesday of heart failure at his home in Tokyo. He was 72.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2004

Burden of the Kanebo bailout

Following weeks of tortuous bailout talks that put the notion of corporate governance to shame, the government's Industrial Revitalization Corp., or IRC, last week unveiled a huge rescue package for Kanebo Ltd., the troubled cosmetics firm that has looked like a rudderless ship all the while. What lies...
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

DoCoMo to set lowest flat rate for 3G cell phone data service

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to set a monthly flat rate of about 3,900 yen for unlimited third-generation cell phone data transmissions, NTT DoCoMo sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

Poultry imports from Netherlands banned over flu

Japan banned poultry imports from the Netherlands on Wednesday following the European country's discovery of two suspected bird flu cases.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

Preventive-care firms lift operations in response to graying population

Care-related firms are trying to expand operations aimed at preventing the physical and mental deterioration of people insured for nursing care, in line with the government's plan to reform the nursing-care insurance system in fiscal 2005.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2004

UFJ Bank head denies data coverup

UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi denied Wednesday that the bank covered up the financial health of borrowers before the government launched probes into the major banking group.
COMMENTARY
Mar 18, 2004

China adds protections to Constitution

HONG KONG -- The 2004 session of China's National People's Congress closed Sunday with the passage of several constitutional amendments. Attention focused on those relating to human rights and the protection of private property.
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Mar 18, 2004

Wartime stories of schoolkids on the move

I recently stumbled across a war story I knew nothing about. I was at the library looking for books to keep my older son reading in Japanese, now that he no longer attends Japanese school. Since he had just made a trip to Hiroshima with his international school, I chose books about Japanese children's...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 18, 2004

76ers mismatch turns ugly

NEW YORK -- So, the 76ers' fading franchise player and the NBA's all-time inflexible interim coach are at war again. It's a mismatch the prohibitive favorite can't hope to win.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Mar 18, 2004

The wonder that is winter

The seasons have a powerful effect on me, which perhaps explains my need to anthropomorphize and personify them. Temperate Japan's six distinct seasons roll on inexorably: spring, rainy, summer, typhoon, autumn and winter. Though battered and bruised by the perceptible effects of global climate change,...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 18, 2004

Professional bowling coming to an alley near you

When first approached to interview Steve Miller, President and CEO of the Pro Bowling Association Tour (PBA), I was reluctant to put it politely. Bowling for me was always something of a last resort if a date was going badly, a sport in which my average closely resembled what it takes me to get around...
Japan braces for typhoon landfall early next week
Severe Tropical Storm Shanshan is seen in a satellite image from Friday afternoon
Typhoon Shanshan gains steam as storm projected to hit broad swath of Japan
Typhoon Shanshan is forecast to approach or make landfall on the islands of Honshu or Shikoku by Tuesday afternoon, with rough weather expected from western to eastern Japan through Wednesday before hitting the country’s northeastern areas late Wednesday into Thursday.
High temperatures expected to continue in Japan through October
A construction worker in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo, on Wednesday. High temperatures are projected to linger on past the summer.
Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
Inside the mouth of a mouse whose teeth were missing due to congenital anodontia (left) and the inside of the mouth after teeth were grown after taking medicine.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
Ueda promises better communication as he sticks to the script
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks during a Lower House hearing on Friday in Tokyo.
Remembering Keiichi Tanaami's surreal grotesqueries
Keiichi Tanaami died on Aug. 9 after a 60-year career as a Pop Art pioneer. He was 88.
In Japan’s flyover country, 72 hours of hidden gems
Okayama and Tottori prefectures are some of the least-visited regions in Japan among foreign tourists — which is why they offer such a welcome break from crowd-clogged cities like Tokyo and Kyoto.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
Italy-Japan ties enter ‘new era’ amid deepening alignment, top envoy to Tokyo says
The Italian Navy's aircraft carrier ITS Cavour at the Yokosuka naval base on Thursday. The 244-meter, 27,100-ton Italian flagship arrived at the base in Kanagawa Prefecture Thursday morning for a port call.

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