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COMMUNITY
Dec 6, 2003

Folktales of days gone by fly off the gallery walls

There is so much energy bouncing around Ginza's Gallery Yougen that just to step inside is uplifting. There are the images on the walls -- 17 woodcut prints created to illustrate the book "Tales of Days Gone By," stories selected from 1,000 folktales compiled in the 12th century for the classic literary...
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2003

Honda develops small jet

Honda Motor Co. has developed a small jet plane and plans to test fly it in the United States by Dec. 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Tokushima inn warned for barring blind with guide dogs

The Justice Ministry's local chapter in Tokushima Prefecture issued a warning Thursday to a semipublic hot spring hotel in Ichiba for its refusal to allow two blind people to stay there with their guide dogs last month.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2003

Wiretap charges clip highflier

Takefuji Corp., Japan's largest consumer finance company, is at the center of an unfolding wiretap scandal. Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested the company's founding chairman, Mr. Yasuo Takei, on charges of ordering his employees to wiretap a freelance journalist who had criticized...
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Fresh charges served in Takefuji wiretap case

Four people who were indicted Thursday on a charge of wiretapping a journalist were served fresh arrest warrants later in the day for allegedly bugging the phones of another journalist in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Swift dispatch of SDF wins backing of 7.5% of pollees

Only 7.5 percent of respondents to a recent Kyodo News survey believe the Self-Defense Forces should be swiftly dispatched to Iraq.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Space agency gropes to regroup

Japan's Mars probe is in trouble. Its weather satellites are breaking down. And its latest attempt to put a pair of spy satellites into orbit ended last weekend in a 110 billion yen fireball.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Bush's alleged Afghan war crimes face 'tribunal'

The final hearings of a citizens' tribunal trying the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush over its military operations in Afghanistan will be held in Tokyo over two days ending Dec. 14.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Bagabandi submits war internee info

Visiting Mongolian President Natsagiin Bagabandi on Thursday handed over documents on about 110 Japanese transferred to Mongolia after being detained by the Soviet Union after World War II.
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 5, 2003

Kubo blasts Japan past China

Tatsuhiko Kubo scored the first two goals of his international career to give Japan a 2-0 victory over China on the opening day of the East Asian Football Championship in Tokyo on Thursday evening.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

FSA seeks DIP experts to run Ashikaga Bank

The Financial Services Agency will seek new managers for the nationalized Ashikaga Bank who boast expertise in extending short-term loans to troubled companies and can respond to the claims of local businesses.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

Ministry nears approval of nighttime drug sales

The health ministry is leaning toward approving nighttime drug sales on condition that instructions on medication are given to retailers by pharmacists by videophone, ministry officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

LDP panel looks to hit working wives for local tax

The Liberal Democratic Party's tax panel wants to increase the number of residents paying one form of local income tax, as well as raise the basic rate, a senior panel member said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

Capital spending rising at slower pace

Capital spending in the July-September period rose on a year-on-year basis for the second quarter in a row, although the pace of expansion slowed to 0.4 percent, according to a Finance Ministry survey released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

Regionals lag behind big banks on bad loans

The recent interim earnings results for 15 regional banks that received public fund injections show their bad-loan disposal efforts lag behind those at major banking groups by a wide margin.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 5, 2003

Akihabara -- not just a treat for the tourists

Growing up means putting away your toys. At least that's the accepted view. But in truth, adults don't forsake toys -- we just buy more expensive and interesting ones.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

Drastic improvement seen in business sentiment

The key gauge for business sentiment among major companies swung into the plus column in the October-December period for the first time in 11 quarters, thanks to improvement in the domestic economy, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Farmers lose 33-year fight over land at Narita

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by farmers seeking nullification of the government's expropriation of land for Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2003

Fiscal 2002 GDP data downgraded

The Cabinet Office said Thursday it has revised downward the nation's gross domestic product data for fiscal 2002, with real growth lowered to 1.2 percent from the 1.6 percent estimated in November.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Half of Tokyoites turned off by tap water

Half of Tokyo residents are dissatisfied with the quality of their tap water and more than half do not directly drink it, according to a recent survey conducted by the metropolitan government.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Dec 5, 2003

Plying the watery margins of old Edo

The accompanying 1830s woodblock print by Hasegawa Settan, titled "The Rokugo Ferry," shows a ferry that has just embarked on a crossing of the Tama River, taking about a dozen passengers and a horse to Kawasaki on the far shore. The two men dashing in vain to get on the boat will not be disappointed...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2003

Ministry shows photos of envoys' car

The Foreign Ministry released three photographs Thursday of the four-wheel-drive vehicle in which two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver were shot dead in northern Iraq.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 5, 2003

Barcelona vs. Real Madrid match stirs passions like no other

LONDON -- Sir Bobby Robson called it "a powder keg." It is not so much football rivalry but a chance for political revenge and when the teams last met, among the objects thrown on to the pitch was a pig's head.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 5, 2003

Izawa, Katayama battle it out at Yomiuri links

Toshimitsu Izawa, who currently leads the overall money rankings, and Shingo Katayama, who is 5.71 million yen behind in third, both got off to flying starts in the opening round of the season-ending Nippon Series JT Cup on Thursday.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Tokyo issues warning as rare but deadly STSS bacterial infections rise
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of group A streptococcus bacteria
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.
Keiichi Tanaami, pioneering Pop Art visionary, dies at 88
Keiichi Tanaami
Is factional support still key for aspiring LDP presidential candidates?
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi holds a news conference Tuesday. The party has decided to hold its leadership election on Sept. 27.
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.
How Japan's health care system is gearing up for more heatstroke cases
An ambulance is parked at the entrance of the emergency room of Saitama Hospital in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, on July 24.

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