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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 27, 2005

Get peace of mind . . . in the off-season

Arrival in some places doesn't always meet expectations. From stories I had read of Taketomi, I had built up a picture of a sleepy subtropical paradise. This island at the southwestern end of the Okinawan chain was, I learned, a place of coral-sand streets and quaint Okinawan life, an island where cars...
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

Heavy industries ink Boeing 787 deal

U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co. signed a deal Thursday with Japanese manufacturers for work on the new 787 jetliner, marking the biggest involvement of this nation's companies in a Boeing project.
EDITORIALS
May 27, 2005

Planning for transport safety

One month after the April 25 train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, it is not yet completely clear how and why it occurred, but the government's investigation committee has kept the public reasonably well informed about its progress even before publishing its report. Its positive attitude toward...
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

NBS launches 40 billion yen share buyback

Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. on Thursday started buying 6.3 million of its own shares at a cost of 6,300 yen per share -- or a total of 40 billion yen -- via a public tender that will end June 15.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

Tamagotchi's rebirth sparking new sales binge

Every day for more than a year, phones at Hakuhinkan Toy Park have been ringing off the hook when the store opens at 11 a.m.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

Nintendo saw profits more than double in 2004

Nintendo Co.'s net profit more than doubled for fiscal 2004, lifted by strong sales of its new portable game player Nintendo DS and gains from foreign-exchange fluctuations, the firm said Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
May 26, 2005

Softball in Sendai for Japan, U.S.

The Japanese and U.S. women's national softball teams will play three exhibition games in Sendai in August, the Japan Softball Association said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 26, 2005

Otsuka, Agbayani lead Lotte past the Giants

Akira Otsuka connected for a solo homer in the fourth inning Wednesday as the Pacific League-leading Chiba Lotte Marines scored a pair of runs on their way to a 5-3 win over the Yomiuri Giants in interleague play.
Rugby
May 26, 2005

Brave Blossoms fell Romanian Oaks to set up rugby final against Canucks

Daisuke Ohata may well be the pin-up boy of Japanese rugby but 19-year-old Ayumu Goromaru is the face of the future and the two combined on Wednesday to send Japan into the final of the Toshiba Super Cup as the Brave Blossoms beat the Oaks of Romania 23-16 at Tokyo's National Stadium.
MORE SPORTS
May 26, 2005

Murofushi set for season debut

Athens Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi will make his delayed season debut at the upcoming national track and field championships, athletics officials said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
May 26, 2005

Bid-rigging at public expense

The Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office is conducting a sweeping investigation of a number of public engineering companies on charges of violating the Antimonopoly Law over the years by restricting fair business transactions. Public prosecutors have launched the massive investigation in response to...
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

Kansai airport turns first profit

The operator of Kansai International Airport said Wednesday it posted its first-ever full-year profit in fiscal 2004, thanks to an increase in international flights and a reduction in interest payments on debts.
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

High oil prices trim trade surplus 10.4%

Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus shrank 10.4 percent in April from a year earlier to 962.8 billion yen as high oil prices inflated the value of imports, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

Lack of trading on new JEPX blamed on utilities

The daily average trading volume on the Japan Electric Power Exchange (JEPX), inaugurated last month as part of electricity market liberalization, is barely flickering, at only one-20th of its target.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 26, 2005

Butterfly dragonfly

* Japanese name: Choutonbo * Scientific name: Rhyothemis fuliginosa * Description: With huge wings colored a beautiful deep blue, this dragonfly is unmistakable. Its body is fairly short and stout, at 32-41 mm long, while its hind wings are 30-40 mm across. The name "butterfly dragonfly" refers...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
May 26, 2005

Mining the Earth's problems for drama

'It starts with the Earth. How can it not?"
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

Banks must wait eight months to sell insurance

The Financial Services Agency will not let banks sell savings-based insurance products, including endowment insurance, for another eight months, it was announced Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

Ito-Yokado to up stake in China JV

Supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. said Wednesday it will turn its Chinese supermarket joint venture, Hua Tang Yokado Commercial Co., into a consolidated subsidiary by raising its stake to 51.75 percent from the current 36.75 percent.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
May 26, 2005

Parenting book gets princely praise

Parenting expert Dorothy Law Nolte enjoys a huge following worldwide; her 1998 book, "Children Learn What They Live," sold over 700,000 copies in her native U.S. and has been translated into 36 languages. The Japanese version was a steady seller -- until February this year, when the father of a certain...
BUSINESS
May 26, 2005

OIE rules not tough enough on BSE? Prove it: adviser

Japan will need to provide sound scientific evidence if it plans to have stricter regulations to combat mad cow disease than the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), according to an honorary adviser to the international body.
SOCCER / World cup
May 25, 2005

Injured Takahara doubtful for World Cup qualifying game

German-based striker Naohiro Takahara, who picked up a hamstring injury in a league game Saturday, is doubtful for Japan's upcoming World Cup qualifier away to Bahrain, national team officials said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 25, 2005

Agbayani leads the way as Marines hand Giants a thrashing

Benny Agbayani drove in a pair of runs Tuesday as the Pacific League-leading Chiba Lotte Marines pounded the Central League's last-place Yomiuri Giants 11-0.
OLYMPICS
May 25, 2005

Japan aiming for five medals in Turin Winter Olympics

The newly appointed head of Japan's delegation for next year's Winter Olympics, Kenichi Chizuka, said Tuesday that winning five medals is an attainable goal for the country's athletes at the Turin Games.
EDITORIALS
May 25, 2005

Stop the torture and abuse

The steady drip of revelations about the abuse of prisoners in the global war against terror is doing serious damage to the U.S. image and efforts to win that battle. Contrary to official claims, the instances of misbehavior are not episodic or exaggerated; they appear to be serious, widespread and systematic....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 25, 2005

Stage plays restore your faith in comedy

"Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith," wrote the English playwright Christopher Fry in Time magazine in 1950. These days the moment you switch on television in Japan, you are likely to be assailed by gales of laughter as young comedians talk frantically,...
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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