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BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2005

MHI to sell two-cycle gas engines

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is ready to start marketing new two-cycle, multipurpose gasoline engines, it said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Nov 1, 2005

"Chasing Vermeer," "How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare"

"Chasing Vermeer," Blue Ballietta, Chicken House; 2005; 272 pp.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2005

New legal procedure OK'd in attempted murder case

A new pretrial procedure that will be required under the planned "citizen judge" system will be applied for the first time in an attempted murder trial that opened in September in Tokyo, sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Force realignment plan criticized

Top Japanese and U.S. officials boasted that Saturday's interim report on U.S. military realignment in Japan will realize the two principles they set out to achieve -- maintaining a deterrent force in the Asia-Pacific region and reducing the burden of host communities.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Negishi wins film fest's top prize

Director Kichitaro Negishi won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival for his work "What the Snow Brings" as the event drew to a close Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 31, 2005

Heavenly Romance pulls off upset win of Emperor's Cup

Heavenly Romance turned the tables on a formidable field of Group 1 winners in Sunday's Emperor's Cup at Tokyo Racecourse, as the longshot mare snatched her first top-level win from race favorite and 2004 winner Zenno Rob Roy.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

DPJ mulls age limit to field younger candidates

Democratic Party of Japan leader Seiji Maehara is considering instituting an age limit of 65 when fielding new candidates to run in single-seat districts for the House of Representatives, sources said Sunday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 31, 2005

Is the American dream now a mirage?

NEW YORK -- Is the American dream just a mirage now? Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal ran a series called "Challenges to the American Dream," casting into doubt the "staple of America's self-portrait" that "a child born in poverty isn't trapped there." If that was putting the matter delicately,...
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Ishihara plan for Yokota gets nowhere

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara expressed disappointment Sunday over a bilateral accord on the realignment of U.S. forces as it does not address his proposal on military-civilian use of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 31, 2005

Gamba falls again

Gamba Osaka tumbled to their second defeat in as many weeks and had their lead at the top of the J. League table cut to one point after a 2-1 loss at FC Tokyo on Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2005

Students need analytical skills

One characteristic of Japanese universities is that they provide highly specialized education for undergraduate students. This is partly because high-school students receive a high level of science education. In fact, their knowledge level in math and physics is one of the highest in the world. Thus,...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 31, 2005

Why should Japan's Pharaohs fear the locusts of change?

"God said to Moses, 'Extend your hand over Egypt to bring the locusts, and they will emerge on Egypt. They will eat all the foliage in the land . . . " (Exodus 10:12)
MORE SPORTS
Oct 31, 2005

Kapranova wins Aeon Cup all-around title

Newly crowned world champion Olga Kapranova of Russia won the individual all-around title at the Aeon Cup world club rhythmic gymnastics championships Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2005

Rengo's uphill battle

The process that saw Mr. Tsuyoshi Takagi elected to the presidency of Rengo (the Japanese Trade Union Confederation), Japan's largest labor organization, symbolizes the current situation that Japanese workers and labor unions find themselves in.
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2005

EU must win grassroots trust

LONDON, PARIS and ROME-- European leaders have been holding a special meeting at the invitation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss what he calls "the strategic issues facing Europe in the years ahead."
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Koizumi wants legal basis for military

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi voiced hope Sunday that the Constitution will be revised to clearly stipulate the nation's possession of military forces for self-defense.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 30, 2005

Series wins surprisingly easy for Marines, White Sox

Are you surprised at how easily the Chiba Lotte Marines and Chicago White Sox won, respectively, the Japan Series and World Series?

Longform

Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40