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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 6, 2004

Dhaba India: a South Indian oasis in central Tokyo

Fans of Indian food -- and the Food File is a lifelong member of that happy congregation -- are always pleased to discover new places to satisfy those insistent cravings for the spicy flavors of the subcontinent. As we sat down for dinner at Dhaba India, though, we felt overjoyed.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2004

Coalition irons out pension plan

The ruling coalition reached final agreement Wednesday on a pension reform program that includes a phased premium increase for salaried workers and benefit decrease to cope with the rapidly graying society.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2004

Fears over depleted uranium lead to GSDF use of dosimeters

Responding to concerns over the use of depleted uranium rounds by the U.S. military during the Iraq war, the Defense Agency is equipping Ground Self-Defense Force troops in the country with hundreds of radiation dosimeters.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 5, 2004

Mori hospitalized

Seibu Lions right-hander Shinji Mori was hospitalized Tuesday after he was diagnosed with an irregular pulse rate, which heightens the risk of stroke.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2004

Effort on to curb Sumatra logging

A fund to preserve Sumatra's forests was established recently by a nongovernmental organization and Japanese firms importing paper from the Indonesian island.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

Honda workers seek record bonus

The labor union of Honda Motor Co. will demand a record-high annual bonus equivalent to 6.6 months' salary during this year's spring wage negotiations.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

Standard sought for Net appliances

A group of 14 electronics and telecom companies will set up a forum aimed at creating a single industry standard for Internet-capable digital home appliances, industry officials said Wednesday.
CULTURE / Books / THE BOOK REPORT
Feb 5, 2004

Japan mulls its future with Koizumi

What stance should Japan take in a world dominated by the American superpower? Is Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi no more than an errand boy for bullyboy George W. Bush, as a Shukan Gendai headline implied last March? Is he an incompetent know-nothing who has casually thrown away Japan's precious pacifist...
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

Think tanks see 4.9% growth in October-December period

The economy is estimated to have expanded at an average annualized rate of 4.9 percent in real terms in the October-December quarter, according to projections by nine major economic research institutes.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

Hitachi profit jumps in third quarter

Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it chalked up a group net profit of 2.52 billion yen in the October-December quarter, marking a turnaround from a loss of 2.26 billion yen posted a year ago.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 5, 2004

Defending champ Davenport eases into Toray quarterfinals

Defending champion Lindsay Davenport walloped Venezuelan Maria Vento-Kabuchi 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals of the singles competition at the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 5, 2004

Set to resume political donations

Nippon Keidanren, or the Japan Business Federation, is moving toward the resumption of donations to political parties. As a preliminary step, the organization has published a report evaluating key policies of the two largest parties, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan. The...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2004

Visiting Serb hopes western Balkan economic parley boosts investments

Japan will host a two-day ministerial meeting in April in Tokyo to promote stability and boost the economy of the western Balkans, according to Zlatan Milosevic, visiting director of the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

Wholesale prices of pork surge 40%

Wholesale prices of pork have surged 40 percent in the last 10 days due to rising demand following import bans on U.S. beef and suspension of poultry shipments from some Asian countries, industry officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Feb 5, 2004

Deer's tasty demise helps them, too

The first time I saw a Japanese sika (deer, Cervus Nippon) was on tiny Lundy Island, which lies in the Bristol Channel between South Wales and the north coast of the beautiful English county of Devon. I was going on for 20, and had gone to the island to assist the warden.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Feb 5, 2004

"The Pig Scrolls," "Blood Red Horse"

"The Pig Scrolls," Paul Shipton, Puffin Books; March 2004; 224 pp. Author Paul Shipton warns us at the outset of his (sort of) Greek-style epic that though every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the material, the Great Library of Alexandria was closed on the Tuesday afternoon he tried to go...
COMMENTARY
Feb 5, 2004

Musharraf must convince skeptical public

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has taken the unprecedented step of ordering an investigation of some of the country's top nuclear scientists on charges that they helped transfer nuclear-weapons technology to Iran. While the investigation has been hailed in the West as a decisive...
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2004

ANA soars back to profitability

All Nippon Airways Co. said Wednesday it returned to the black in the October-December quarter due to cost-cutting efforts and higher fares.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 5, 2004

Here comes the Arctic sun

The people of Tromso on the Norwegian Sea coast of Norway know how to celebrate the return of the sun. You would, too, if you hadn't seen it in 60 days!
Japan braces for typhoon landfall early next week
Severe Tropical Storm Shanshan is seen in a satellite image from Friday afternoon
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.
Tokyo under assault by ‘guerrilla rainstorms’
Torrential rain in Tokyo on Wednesday night
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’

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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
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