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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2003

Myanmar's regime must embrace change

"We are confident that change will come -- not as quickly as most of us would wish it to come -- but it will come. And I think the more we all try to make change come instead of wondering when change will come, the quicker it will come."
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2003

Enough with the France-bashing, please

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and some of his Pentagon associates appear to be on a private vendetta against France. The Pentagon has not denied, and may even have planted, false rumors that France helped some members of Saddam Hussein's government escape Iraq during the recent...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 2, 2003

Neo Universe speeds home to capture Nippon Derby

Neo Universe, without even a single lash of the whip, landed the 70th Nippon Derby on Sunday by half a length to claim his second title in Japan's Triple Crown series.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 2, 2003

Consequences of eternal stability may mummify Japan's economy

Stability is a good thing. But you can always have too much of a good thing. Too much stability turns into rigidity. Rigidity begets stagnation. Stagnation leads to decline. Decline leads to death. Such is the dynamics of economic activity.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2003

Keep political donations transparent

Stung by a series of corruption scandals since last year, the ruling-coalition parties have begun talks aimed at updating some of the rules governing the financing of political campaigns in Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party seeks to raise the legal limit on donations that do not require disclosure...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 2, 2003

U.S.-Japan global alliance

Last week's summit between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush ushered in a new era for the Japan-U.S. security alliance: The bilateral system is beginning to change into a global alliance.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Big Issue Kansai magazine to help homeless help themselves

OSAKA -- Hoping to imitate the success of its British namesake, a company was recently set up here to publish a magazine called Big Issue Kansai, which will help homeless people earn money by selling the paper on the street.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Typhoon loses some of its sting

Typhoon Linfa, the first typhoon to strike Japan in May since 1965, weakened into a temperate depression Saturday morning, after coming ashore at Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 1, 2003

S. Korea claims revenge

South Korea avenged a 1-0 home defeat to Japan in April by the same scoreline at a rain-swept National Stadium on Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Medicines for colds linked to potentially deadly pneumonia

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has identified 28 cases of pneumonia since 1996 that it suspects were side effects of nonprescription drugs for common colds, it was learned Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Medicines for colds linked to potentially deadly pneumonia

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has identified 28 cases of pneumonia since 1996 that it suspects were side effects of nonprescription drugs for common colds, it was learned Saturday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 1, 2003

Rumor mill churns on Beckham, Wenger

LONDON -- The truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction and the ongoing Spanish inquisition involving David Beckham and Arsene Wenger is becoming, to borrow a line from Alice In Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 1, 2003

Face to face from worlds far apart

The miracle is no blood was shed. On the contrary, the Americans and the Japanese rather liked each other. That too is something of a miracle.
Couche-Tard bids for $31 billion Japanese retailer Seven & I
A 7-Eleven convenience store, operated by Seven & I Holdings, in Tokyo
LDP presidential hopefuls' first hurdle — securing 20 signatures
Digital minister Taro Kono at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in September 2023
Rising star Takayuki Kobayashi launches bid for LDP president
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi announces his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan offers lifeline to ESG investing amid backlash overseas
Wind turbines in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture
Pillar at entrance to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine vandalized again
Graffiti was found on the pillar bearing Yasukuni Shrine’s name and at its base at the Tokyo shrine's entrance Monday.
LDP presidential hopefuls' first hurdle — securing 20 signatures
Digital minister Taro Kono at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in September 2023
Japan offers lifeline to ESG investing amid backlash overseas
Wind turbines in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
Hurdles remain in Japan for transplants of pig organs into humans
Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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