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JAPAN
Oct 4, 2003

Government appeals arms ruling

The government on Friday appealed to the Tokyo High Court a ruling ordering it to pay compensation for fatalities and injuries caused by chemical weapons the Imperial Japanese Army abandoned in China at the end of World War II.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 4, 2003

'Good old Japan days' gone -- whew!

It used to be said that you know it's time to leave Japan when you start bowing on the phone. Have you been in Japan too long? Maybe. But to prevent you from becoming one of those old Japan-hands relenting the present and waxing lyrical about the past and the "good old Japan days," first tell me if you...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 4, 2003

Fujita out of Fukuoka Marathon

Former Japanese record holder Atsushi Fujita has pulled out of this December's Fukuoka International Marathon after failing to regain full fitness following a niggling thigh injury, Fujitsu team officials said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 4, 2003

John Owens

Next Thursday the curtain rises on the 107th season of Tokyo International Players. This longevity would be an impressive record for any volunteer theatrical company. It is particularly impressive in Tokyo, where since 1896 TIP has survived both natural and man-made disasters, and overcome the uncertainties...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 4, 2003

Surf is always up for Internet addicts

At least I have a decent excuse.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

Nippon Steel plots major complex

Nippon Steel Corp. said Friday it plans to create one of the world's largest commercial and amusement complexes on idle land currently occupied by its Sakai iron mill in Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2003

DPJ eyes toll-free roads, 'amakudari' ban

With an eye to the expected general election next month, the Democratic Party of Japan has drafted a compact platform calling for various reforms, including elimination of highway tolls.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

Insurers admit failing to pay special dividends on policies

Meiji Life Insurance Co. and Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co., which are set to merge in January, said Friday they failed to pay special dividends in full to holders of certain insurance policies.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

Honda plans fuel-efficient scooter

Honda Motor Co. said Friday it will launch the world's first 50cc scooter with an electronically controlled fuel-injection system next spring.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

Outsourcing perceived as rural revival measure

In a bid to reinvigorate the nation's fragile rural economies, the government will review legal barriers that prevent the outsourcing of local administrative services to the private sector, economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka said Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 4, 2003

Dad(o) hands down a family tradition

Frederic Holyszewski (aka Dado, Deedrah) was raised in the countryside of Fontainebleau, south of Paris. His parents handed down strong family traditions that grew out of a humble background. It was a charmed setting in which to grow up -- Fontainebleau even has a castle. And music was a pillar of his...
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

NTT firms set to enter IP market

The Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry on Friday approved plans by two regional operators of the NTT group to launch cut-rate Internet Protocol telephony services.
COMMENTARY
Oct 4, 2003

Angst builds over next round with North

Japanese diplomacy appears to be in a lull with the situation in Asia centered on the problem with North Korea. Immediately after the six-nation talks were held in the first half of September, reports from Moscow suggested that the next round of six-nation talks would take place in Beijing in early November....
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2003

BTM creates new loan unit for small firms

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi said Friday it has created a section tasked with overseeing strategies related to financing for small and midsize firms and with creating loan products targeting these firms.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2003

Ward marks antismoking anniversary

A pair of middle-aged men in bright yellow uniforms patrol a business district near JR Tokyo Station in Chiyoda Ward, watching every pedestrian like hawks. They spot a salaryman carrying a lighted cigarette and spring into action.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2003

Only recourse is to negotiate

Will Myanmar (also known as Burma) be banned from the summit meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations next week? That's not likely, but Myanmar's new prime minister, Gen. Khin Nyunt, could utterly lose face unless the regime frees prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi before the...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 4, 2003

World Cup schedule decided

The schedule for November's volleyball World Cup has been decided with host Japan's women to take on Argentina in the first match while the men are set to meet Egypt, tournament organizers said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2003

A checkered economic recovery

During an economic recovery, it often happens that disparities in business performance between companies that are doing better and those that are not become more apparent. That is the case with Japanese companies today, as shown clearly by the Bank of Japan's latest survey of business sentiment. While...
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2003

Cigarette packs to carry stern health warnings

The Finance Ministry will order tobacco companies to print stricter health warnings on cigarette packs beginning in July 2005, a ministry official said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2003

Yakuza paraphernalia for sale on auction site

Badges and mobile-phone straps engraved with the crests of crime syndicates are being offered on Yahoo Japan Corp.'s auction site.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2003

Fertility treatment carries heavy price

Women typically pay between 500,000 yen and 4 million yen to undergo in vitro fertilization treatment, sometimes borrowing money for the procedure, according to a recent study in Oita.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2003

LDP moves to revise electoral law

Candidates running for political office in the near future will likely be allowed to distribute detailed pamphlets of their policies while campaigning.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2003

China shrimp again yield antibiotics

Antibiotics have been found again in frozen shrimp processed in China and imported by Nichirei Corp., health ministry officials said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2003

Saving a Japanese monument

Japan still has an entry on the World Monuments Fund's biennial "watch list" of the planet's 100 most endangered cultural sites, according to the 2004 update released last week. It is time to ensure that the historic port town of Tomonoura, which was first included in the 2002 list, is not on it two...
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2003

Stargazing Hiroshima fan names asteroid after Carp

An ardent Hiroshima Carp fan has named an asteroid he discovered four years ago somewhere between Mars and Jupiter after his favorite baseball team.
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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