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JAPAN
Nov 15, 2003

House of Councilors member Kondo accepts offer to head Japan Highway

House of Councilors member Takeshi Kondo on Friday officially accepted Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's request to give up his Diet seat and take the helm of the debt-ridden Japan Highway Public Corp.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 15, 2003

Definitely don't go to this restaurant!

What would the Japanese do without all those magazines telling them what to do and where to go? There are fashion magazines with detailed instructions on how to apply eye makeup, recreational magazines that suggest "date courses" in which you take your date on a pre-planned route that includes a trendy...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 15, 2003

Mackenzie Thorpe

The Japan Dyslexia Society, known as NPO EDGE, exists to promote understanding of dyslexia and to raise funds to help support patients. Recently EDGE organized in Tokyo a charity exhibition of the drawings, sculptures and silk-screen works of Mackenzie Thorpe, an English artist. The recognition of his...
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2003

Nakasone still a believer in LDP, Japan

Although he is still smarting from his enforced retirement before last Sunday's election, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone still backs the Liberal Democratic Party and the Junichiro Koizumi administration.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2003

Traces of banned toxic insecticide found in land animals

Traces of a banned and highly toxic insecticide that has never been used or manufactured in Japan have been found in animals such as crows and monkeys in the eastern part of the country, the Environment Ministry said Friday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 14, 2003

Constant in-fighting by Dutch leaves little energy for opponents

LONDON -- If Euro 2004 was to be decided on the basis of back-stabbing, internal politics, racism, disharmony and picking the wrong team, then Holland would have no rival.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Special Diet session may be extended to a week

The government and ruling coalition parties are considering extending an originally planned three-day special Diet session to about one week, partially meeting requests by opposition parties, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Doctors' medical bills lower than average joe

Unlike salaried workers, who despite health insurance must pay 30 percent of their medical bills, most doctors in Japan are paying less under a different scheme that favors medical professionals, insurance union officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Xenophobia aside, Japan said to need foreign labor

OSAKA -- Although immigrant labor can play a key role in creating economic growth and vitality in Japan, serious debate on the issue has been stymied by traditional reluctance to welcome foreigners, sensationalized media coverage of the rise in crimes by foreigners and xenophobic comments by rightwing...
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Women appeal gender-discrimination ruling

Six women who claimed they suffered gender-based wage discrimination at trading house Kanematsu Corp. lodged an appeal Thursday at the Tokyo High Court against an earlier ruling rejecting their damages suit.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2003

Divisions within Sri Lanka

Ending the 20-year civil war in Sri Lanka was never going to be easy, but that task has become considerably more difficult with the outbreak of fighting within the Sri Lankan government. The battle between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe over the peace talks has...
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Ashikaga Financial bailout denied

The government denied a news report Thursday that the Financial Services Agency is considering injecting public funds into regional bank Ashikaga Financial Group Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Tokyo deaf to Chongryun tax gripes

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has rejected complaints filed by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun) over taxes levied on the pro-Pyongyang group, officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

State flip-flops yet again on SDF dispatch

The escalating violence in Iraq has forced the government to once again step back from its on-again, off-again schedule for an SDF mission to the country.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Wholesale price skein reaches 38th month

Wholesale prices nationwide fell 0.4 percent in October from a year earlier for the 38th straight monthly fall, the Bank of Japan said in a preliminary report Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Nov 14, 2003

On the road to wine-country romance

There has always been a friendly rivalry between Napa and Sonoma, California's two premier wine-growing regions. We think of Napa as Kyoto -- containing stunning vistas, but marred by a tour-bus mentality. To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, we sometimes feel "there's no there there." Sonoma, on the other...
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

NEC seeks cancer diagnosis system

NEC Corp. and its subsidiary NEC Soft Ltd. said Thursday they have reached an agreement with U.S. venture LifeSpanBioscience Inc. to develop a system to help diagnose cancer.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Bilateral talks suit abductions issue: Dai

Dai Bingguo, visiting Chinese vice foreign minister, on Thursday urged Japan to resolve the abductions issue via bilateral talks with North Korea rather than through six-way negotiations.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Taiwan's spas bubbling over with popularity

TAIPEI -- Chu Chien-huei stretches her arms in a hot tub full of orchid petals on a sunny day at Spring City Resort, a hot spring hotel in Peitou, with her 5-year-old daughter at her side.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 14, 2003

Letting the plane take the strain

There can be fewer more ostentatious trappings of wealth than a private jet. However, the perception of such aircraft as mere playthings of the rich and famous has tended to detract from their more mundane role as effective, hassle-reducing business tools.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Sony forms e-publishing joint venture

Fifteen companies, including Sony Corp., have established a joint venture to provide paid electronic publishing services to member customers, Sony and four other major partners said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Pretax profits at major firms up 14%

The combined pretax profits of 434 major Japanese companies rose 14.2 percent in the six months to Sept. 30 from a year earlier to 6.82 trillion yen due to greater cost-cutting efforts, the Shinko Research Institute said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Mitsubishi profit soars in first half

Mitsubishi Corp., the nation's largest trading house, said Thursday its first-half net profit jumped 39 percent to 60.56 billion yen, thanks to brisk auto trade in Asia.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

European business group makes pitch for robust deregulation

The European Business Community in Japan called Thursday for an improved investment climate through drastic deregulation to achieve Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's pledge to double foreign direct investment by 2008.
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.

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
By Yuko Tamura

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