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JAPAN
Oct 23, 2005

Keidanren made covert trip to China last month

Top officials of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), including Chairman Hiroshi Okuda, secretly went to China on Sept. 30 and held talks with President Hu Jintao, sources said Saturday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 23, 2005

With satellite, cable TV you can get your fill of pro baseball

Readers John Rucynski of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and Ken Smith of Tokyo e-mailed this column and, respectively, wanted to know why the Pacific League Stage 2 playoff games between the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chiba Lotte Marines were not televised, and why NHK BS-1 did not carry live Games 5...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 23, 2005

Genghis Khan: Greatest leader or brutal monster?

GENGHIS KHAN: Conqueror of the World, by Leo de Hartog. London/New York: Tauris Parke, 2004, 230 pp., with maps, $12.99 (paper). The warrior who united the Mongol tribes and created an empire that was the largest the world has known, has long defied historians.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 23, 2005

It's about time for Japan to take its foot off the gas . . . and think

What do the following recent news items have in common? 1) An automobile driven by a 23-year-old man in Yokohama accidentally runs into a line of high-school students returning home from school, killing two and injuring seven. 2) The United States Senate votes to open the Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 23, 2005

Japanese emperors: Between the people and the gods

ENIGMA OF THE EMPERORS: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History, by Ben-Ami Shillony, Global Oriental, 2005, 312 pp., (cloth). This well-researched and scholarly study by Ben-Ami Shillony of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will interest not only students of Japanese history but also all those concerned...
Japan Times
Features
Oct 23, 2005

A more dignified way to die

Many of us struggle with difficult decisions regarding, say, our careers or relationships. But one decision that many of us avoid is "How do I want to die?"
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2005

Broad-based effort to help 'NEETs' find jobs

A group drawn from industry, local government and academia has launched a project to help youths not in employment, education or training -- known as "NEETs" -- find jobs.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 23, 2005

Best to dig deep and study language from its roots

W hen I was growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, the L.A. County Board of Education decided that the children of the city should learn Spanish. While the language was not made compulsory, it was taught to us regularly with the usual visual aids, such as pictures of elephants, giraffes, mountains...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2005

DoCoMo e-mail addresses leaked

The Web site of an Internet company on Guam temporarily allowed access to a list of e-mail addresses of some 71,000 users of NTT DoCoMo Inc. mobile phones, NTT DoCoMo officials said Saturday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 23, 2005

Look for change next year

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's determination to visit Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine needs to be seen in the perspective. The visit was not necessarily, as Beijing and Seoul seem to believe, a final proof of prime-ministerial evil.
Features
Oct 23, 2005

Japan's take on the issue of diagnosis

Cancer diagnosis has long been a divisive issue in Japan.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 23, 2005

Check out vintage clothing in TV Tokyo's "Kaiun! Nan'demo Kanteidan" and more

Though he isn't considered elegant, comedian-musician Joji Tokoro has a distinctive sense of style that goes beyond his huge collection of eyewear and short-cropped blonde hair.
Japan Times
Features
Oct 23, 2005

Sickness unto death, without despair

One summer morning in 2001, a good friend of mine, Bronson Conrad, rang me at my Manhattan home. After we'd chatted for a while, he broke the news that he had incurable, terminal cancer in his hip bone.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 22, 2005

Henry confirms status as best player in Premier League

LONDON -- There can be little doubt that Chelsea has the best team in England, breaking records almost for fun. But for all its many qualities, Chelsea does not have the Premiership's best player, and the return of Thierry Henry in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Sparta Prague last Tuesday underlined his true...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

NPA plans hotline for 'harmful' Internet content

The National Police Agency plans to set up an online hotline for the public to report illegal or harmful content they spot on the Internet, such as that related to drug trafficking, child pornography or the production of explosives, NPA officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Emissions data put Kyoto target in doubt

Japan emitted 1.329 billion tons of greenhouse gases in fiscal 2004, up 7.4 percent from the benchmark year of 1990 set under the Kyoto Protocol, the Environment Ministry announced Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Press curbs infuriate media body

The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association urged the government on Friday to reconsider proposed legislation that would give police the discretion to withhold the identity of crime victims, saying this information is essential for reporting.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Overfishing threatening too many species: expert

efforts, after a few years the population will be rebuilt and we catch more," Pauly said. To help depleted fish stocks recover, 10 percent to 30 percent of the world's oceans should be protected, he said. Currently, less than one percent of the ocean is protected.
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 2005

How not to manage U.S.-Singapore ties

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps the last thing that the well-run city-state of Singapore needs is for some outside columnist to defend it. Among the many natural-born rhetorical defenses available on this amazing island is the redoubtable Lee Kuan Yew. Even at 82, the founding prime minister of modern Singapore...

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