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CULTURE / Books / THE BOOK REPORT
Mar 4, 2004

New Akutagawa winners offer hope

It's been amazing to experience all the excitement surrounding the latest winners of the Akutagawa Prize, a famous literary prize awarded twice a year to promising, new authors. While TV cameras and photographers crammed Tokyo Kaikan, newspapers and magazines wrote breathless descriptions of what the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2004

Cut-price Bentley coupe to be launched in Japan

A cut-price coupe of the British luxury brand Bentley will be launched in Japan, possibly in May, Bentley Motors Japan Vice President Tim Mackinlay said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 4, 2004

China shines as host at arduous standoff

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BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2004

DoCoMo ready to sell Hutchison stake

NTT DoCoMo Inc. is close to agreeing on the sale of its 20 percent stake in Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.'s third-generation mobile phone business in Britain, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2004

Coalition readies bill to bar North Korea ships

The two ruling parties agreed at an executive meeting Wednesday to seek passage during the current Diet session of a bill aimed at giving Japan another tool to impose economic sanctions unilaterally on North Korea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2004

Girls just wanna kill men

Fukuro Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Kaneto Shindo Running time: 119 minutes Language: Japanese Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] Kaneto Shindo thoroughly deserves the title of Grand Old Man of Japanese movies. Now 92, he has been a scriptwriter and director...
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2004

Weir's far from all at sea

Russell Crowe never made it to the press conference for "Master and Commander," apparently due to an injury suffered on the set of his current film. On the plus side, the usual slack-jawed celeb-oglers were nowhere to be found and a number of interesting questions were put to director Peter Weir, himself...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2004

Hard to the theater, landlubbers

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Peter Weir Running time: 135 minutes Language: English Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] In these days of cinematic sensitivity, men just aren't afforded the opportunity to run the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

DPJ lawmaker denies taking aide's pay

A senior lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Japan denied Tuesday he registered as his publicly paid secretary a woman who did not work for his office.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2004

Once upon a time he made a good film

Once upon a time in Mexico Rating: * * (out of 5) Director: Robert Rodriguez Running time: 101 minutes Language: English Opens March 6 [See Japan Times movie listings] Robert Rodriguez is one of those directors who shot to fame in the early '90s, a fabled time when the words "independent...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

Cabinet OKs reform package boasting lay judges

The Cabinet approved a package of bills Tuesday designed to revamp the judicial system, including a bill that would introduce a quasi-jury system under which randomly selected citizens would sit on the bench for criminal trials.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

Discriminatory registry of child upheld

The Tokyo District Court said Tuesday that the way the daughter of an unmarried couple has been registered in their family registry infringed on their privacy because it clearly shows she was born out of wedlock.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

22% say foreigners' rights secondary to locals'

Foreigners in Japan should not expect to have the same human rights protections here as Japanese, 21.8 percent of respondents in a fiscal 2002 survey said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2004

Tokyo venture plans to market humanoid robots

A venture business in Tokyo said Tuesday it will market at the end of 2004 a doll-size humanoid robot for roughly 500,000 yen as one of the first humanoid robots to be offered to general consumers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 3, 2004

Edo craftsmanship in full flower

Located in Kitanomaru Park, a famous cherry blossom viewing spot in Kudanshita, central Tokyo, is the National Museum of Modern Art's Crafts Gallery. It seems appropriate that during the flowering seasons of ume (plum) and cherry the gallery should be hosting a show titled "Flower Design." The exhibition,...
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2004

DBJ creates infrastructure fund

The governmental Development Bank of Japan said Tuesday it has established an infrastructure investment fund with Australia's Macquarie Bank that is the first of its kind in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 3, 2004

Realist master on the prowl

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JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

FTC raids 40 firms over bid-rigging

The Fair Trade Commission raided more than 40 companies Tuesday in connection with alleged bid-rigging practices tied to public works projects in Niigata Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2004

Lapses in halting avian flu

The latest outbreak of avian flu in Japan, at a large chicken farm in Kyoto Prefecture, has come as a shock -- not only because of its magnitude but also because it has exposed glaring lapses in epidemic prevention. In both respects, it is far more serious than the previous two cases that hit earlier...
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 3, 2004

Japan players to receive reprimands for conduct

Seven players from the Japanese national team are set to be reprimanded for violating team regulations by indulging in a drinking binge and acting improperly during a training camp in Kashima last month.
COMMENTARY
Mar 3, 2004

Secret operations rock Blair's boat

LONDON -- From the moment Tony Blair let it be known that he had decided to send troops to Iraq, his days of smooth government were over. The decision unleashed all the dark forces of suspicion and a sense of illegality that are usually contained by democratic institutions. As the prime minister battles...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2004

Former Toshiba inventor latest to sue

A former Toshiba Corp. engineer who says he invented two types of flash memory sued the electronics giant Tuesday for 1 billion yen over the transfer of patent rights.
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.
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.
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.
Summer Sonic: The heat doesn’t matter when the lineup works
British hard rock outfit Bring Me the Horizon delivered a dramatic set that featured a surprise appearance from local metal-meets-idol group Babymetal.
Shinjiro Koizumi's criticism of LDP factions could return to haunt him
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 43, is the son of Junichiro Koizumi, who was prime minister between 2001 and 2006.

Podcast

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

Longform

The volunteer lifesavers of Nishihama Surf Lifesaving Club never know what's in store at the start of their day.
It's no simple day at the beach for Japan's volunteer lifesavers
By Yuko Tamura

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