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Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

Returnees' families urge pressure on Pyongyang

The families of Japanese abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s urged the government Monday to step up its pressure on Pyongyang.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

METI to boost the number of FTA staff to 80 from 35

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to increase the number of officials working on negotiations for free-trade agreements to about 80 from the current 35, a METI official said Monday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 17, 2004

Posting food to the U.S. and big clothes

U.S. posting rules Dear Lifelines; Is there some new prohibition against sending Japanese foods to the U.S.?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / A GAIJIN'S TALE
Feb 17, 2004

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

I met my (Japanese) wife in Australia, where we decided to get married. I later agreed to come to Japan to meet her parents and seek their permission to tie the knot.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

Aum locations searched in runup to guru's verdict

The Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency on Monday raided 11 locations connected with Aum Shinrikyo ahead of next week's court verdict on cult founder Shoko Asahara.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLITICS IN FOCUS
Feb 17, 2004

Koizumi, Kan warm to unicameral system

Whenever a Diet session convenes, the Emperor gives a short speech at the House of Councilors' opening ceremony -- a tradition that should demonstrate the chamber's status.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

Bureaucrat to be top court justice

The government plans to appoint Osamu Tsuno, former director general of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, as a Supreme Court justice, replacing Tsugio Kameyama, who is retiring, government officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

Number of failed companies falls for 13th month

Corporate bankruptcies fell 16.1 percent in January from a year earlier to a total of 1,205, marking the 13th consecutive month of decline, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

Don't forget Afghanistan: ADB official

The international community, including Japan, should demonstrate further commitment toward rebuilding Afghanistan at the donors conference next month in Berlin, according to a senior official of the Asian Development Bank.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 17, 2004

Enduring life in the Japanese company

It's probably just as difficult to find a happily employed Westerner in a Japanese company as it is to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

Japan CDs made abroad face five-year import ban: agency

The Cultural Affairs Agency is considering a ban on importing Japanese music CDs manufactured overseas until about five years after their release, government sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

TSE listing reflects Shinsei's return to viability

Demonstrating its successful revival, Shinsei Bank, the successor to the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, will list its shares Thursday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

Toyota approach lifts NEC's PC production

NEC Corp. has boosted per-worker output of personal computers almost sixfold in the three years since it introduced Toyota Motor Corp.'s production style, company officials have said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2004

New college dedicated to education on parenting

Need parenting tips? Go to college.
COMMENTARY
Feb 17, 2004

U.S.-British naivete unmasked

With the United States bringing out new rules of international relations regularly, it is important to take stock from time to time. One of them, spawned by the Iraq conflict, is the uncertainty doctrine. This says that whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or not does not matter. What is...
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

France win of China rail bid denied

The transport ministry on Monday denied that France has beaten Japan and Germany in a bid to provide technology for a planned high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 17, 2004

What is your ideal work environment?

Naoki Daisho Samurai Student, 22
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

Honda, GE to market engine for business jets

Honda Motor Co. and General Electric Co. said Monday they have agreed to jointly commercialize a new turbofan jet engine for small business planes.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

Retail beef prices set new record, up fifth straight week

Retail prices for domestic and imported beef rose last week for the fifth consecutive weekly increase as the import ban on U.S. beef continued to push up prices to record levels, the farm ministry said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2004

Tokyo to seek talks in March with Pyongyang

The government has decided to seek talks with North Korea in March in hopes of achieving a breakthrough on issues surrounding the abduction of Japanese nationals, including bringing the relatives of five former abductees to Japan, government sources said Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 16, 2004

Sore ankle keeps Sasaki out of bullpen

Kazuhiro Sasaki, who returned to Japan to play for the Yokohama BayStars after a four-year stint with the Seattle Mariners, skipped his scheduled bullpen session on Sunday because of swelling in his right ankle.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2004

Taking nonproliferation seriously

The inadequacies of the global nuclear nonproliferation regime become more evident each day. From Libya and Pakistan come recent revelations that a black market in nuclear materials has existed for years virtually under the nose of the world's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency....
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2004

SDF command structure to be centralized following U.S. model

The Defense Agency plans to centralize the Self-Defense Forces' command structure into a new 650-strong joint staff organization, modeled after the joint staff of the U.S. military, agency sources said Sunday.
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.
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.
Mount Fuji’s new measures bear fruit in tackling dangerous 'bullet climbing'
Climbers converge in front of Mount Fuji's 5th Station, which leads to the popular Yoshida trail, in Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 11.

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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