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JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Hotel under scrutiny for discriminatory behavior

An investigation was launched Wednesday into an "onsen" hotel in a famous hot spring resort area in Kumamoto Prefecture that refused to accept former Hansen's disease patients as guests earlier this month.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Koizumi wins Diet approval to stay on as prime minister

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected Wednesday for a second term following the Nov. 9 House of Representatives general election that returned his coalition to power.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

Corporate behavior program created

An international organization led by business leaders has developed a program for Japanese companies to promote corporate social responsibility, or CSR, its Japanese branch announced Wednesday in Tokyo.
LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC
Nov 20, 2003

What's the point in learning how to write kanji?

Joe Lauer, a long-term American resident of Hiroshima, sent the following feedback on a workshop I conducted to promote the Kanji Proficiency Examination (Kanken), a standardized test that measures both kanji reading and writing ability:
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 20, 2003

Giants gain rights to Nishimura

The Yomiuri Giants obtained the right to negotiate with Kentaro Nishimura on Wednesday, naming the Koryo High School right-hander in the second round of the annual baseball draft held at a Tokyo hotel.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Regular six-party talks pursued

Japan and China have agreed that six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program should be held regularly to speed up the process, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Tanaka rips Koizumi on reform

Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, after joining a parliamentary group led by the Democratic Party of Japan, lashed out Wednesday at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's policies as she formally made her comeback to the Diet.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 20, 2003

Oki to step down as S-Pulse coach

Shimizu S-Pulse coach Takeshi Oki will step down from the helm after the second stage and be temporarily succeeded by assistant coach Koji Gyotoku for the Emperor's Cup, officials of the J. League first division side said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

JSDA to convert Jasdaq into full-scale exchange

The Japan Securities Dealers Association decided Wednesday to convert its Jasdaq over-the-counter stock market into a full-scale exchange as defined by the Securities and Exchange Law.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Clinton meets kin of slain exchange student

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday met the parents of a Japanese exchange student who was shot to death in Louisiana, a crime Clinton cited in pushing for stricter gun control while he was in office.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 20, 2003

Talk of Kobe joining Spurs just hot air

NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA where Jazz fans are wondering why John Stockton took so long to retire and turn over the point guard responsibilities to Carlos Arroyo.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 20, 2003

Relicts of the distant past

Time passes; it flows on, sometimes seemingly at breathtaking speed like a mountain torrent, at others crawling like a meandering backwater. Personal time expands and contracts. Geological time is relentless; grinding, shaping, wearing; sufficiently prolonged to isolate islands, to raise landmasses,...
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

Nikkei hits three-month low

Tokyo stocks plunged Wednesday, with the key Nikkei index ending at a fresh three-month low below 9,700. The 225-issue Nikkei stock average slid 282.45 points, or 2.85 percent, to close at 9,614.60, its lowest finish since Aug. 12.
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2003

Debate needed on pension reform

Japan's underfunded public pension system -- which was a major issue in the Nov. 9 general election -- is in need of urgent reform. As expected, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's plan for 2004, unveiled Monday, calls for drastic changes that would impose a greater burden on both the younger and...
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

Nippon Keidanren eyes new donation plan

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) will encourage its member corporations to make political donations in accordance with the size of their membership fees to the group, Keidanren sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

SDF will go to Iraq despite recent security incidents, Fukuda asserts

Japan will not back down from its plan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Nov 20, 2003

Empty school buildings: reuse or recycle?

Not far from where I live, there's an elementary school with just 36 students. It's not a private school. It doesn't have a special curriculum. It's a regular public school designed to serve several hundred students. But the neighborhood has changed into a business district, and the few residents who...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2003

Exposing the roots of Islam

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BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

Race is on to get into world's most prestigious MBA programs

Some liken it to an event as pivotal as marriage. Others say it's a ticket to a super white-collar job, or even the ultimate test of one's being.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Iraqi glad Hussein fell but rues the cost

Life in Iraq may no longer be the "prison" it was under the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein, but Tallal F. Abdalridah is still tormented by the fact that the U.S-led war on his country resulted in the loss of so many innocent lives and in so much social disruption.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2003

Worlds apart: a tale of two Asian cities

LONDON -- I have spent most of the last two months traveling in the poor areas of western China (the mountain areas in south Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu) and in Uzbekistan. What a contrast! You could describe the development process in western China as two steps forward and one step back, while in Uzbekistan...
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Hospital sent family wrong corpse

A hospital in Tokyo's Toshima Ward mixed up patients of the same last name who died last summer and sent the wrong corpse to one next of kin, a hospital official said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 19, 2003

The perils of permissiveness

The former Soviet republic of Georgia is breaking down. Despite years of aid and assistance, the country resembles a failing state, with its economy on the brink of collapse, separatist movements controlling large parts of the nation and fears that terrorists are using Georgian territory for their headquarters....
Yen’s rebound threatens earnings growth in Japan
The yen's rebound is clouding an outlook for Japanese firms' earnings that have enjoyed a boost from the weak yen.
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.
Japan's low birthrate sparks talks of university consolidation
Akamon Gate at the University of Tokyo
NFL-style changes sumo could and should make
Kotozakura (left) defeats Terunofuji at Dolphins Arena in Nagoya on July 28.
Tokyo under assault by ‘guerrilla rainstorms’
Torrential rain in Tokyo on Wednesday night
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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