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Mar 12, 2005

It's the real thing for Kitajima

Japanese breaststroker Kosuke Kitajima has signed a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola (Japan) for an undisclosed fee running through March 2009, the Athens Olympic double gold medalist said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Government OKs off-hours trading bill

The government endorsed a bill Friday to revise the Securities and Exchange Law so new rules can be applied to public tender offers involving stock acquisitions of one-third or greater in a company through off-hours trading.
COMMENTARY
Mar 12, 2005

Opium again driving Afghan economy

ISLAMABAD -- This month's warning by the United Nations' main drug-monitoring watchdog that Afghanistan is in danger of becoming a narcotics-driven state should hardly come as a surprise.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 12, 2005

International symposium to focus on kids' health

As director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Setagaya,Tokyo, Dr. John Ichiro Takayama is right now an especially busy man.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Skymark begins Haneda-Kansai runs

Skymark Airlines Co. started flights Friday between Tokyo's Haneda airport and Kansai International Airport.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 12, 2005

Respect carries a high price tag in Asia

I often meet people who are taking off a few months to travel through Asia. These people spend months traveling through China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, etc., but they invariably skip Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 12, 2005

Oh give me a home where the roaches won't roam

For years I took my dog on walks into Saitama Prefecture so she could go pee, among other things. Now I have found similar use for Saitama myself.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Injunction a landmark decision for capital market

The Tokyo District Court's decision Friday to stop Fuji Television Network Inc. from issuing share warrants as a method to take control of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. is being seen as propelling Japan's capital market into the future.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 12, 2005

Shaktikanta Das

CHENNAI, India -- "Do you think the tsunami will visit us again?"
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Young cows may be excluded from BSE tests: panel chief

A government panel could reach a conclusion later this month that cows aged up to 20 months would not require BSE testing, clearing a hurdle to lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports to Japan, the head of the panel's research team indicated Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

End to deposit guarantee symbolic more than strategic: economist

The upcoming removal of the government's decade-long unlimited guarantee on bank deposits is not expected to drastically change the financial portfolio of the average household, said Paul Sheard, chief economist for Asia at Lehman Brothers.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 11, 2005

Man United fans questioning Ferguson after recent results

LONDON -- Unthinkable as it may seem, given that he has made the club the most successful in Premiership history, but a significant number of Manchester United fans are turning on manager Sir Alex Ferguson, their view that the Scot should step down this summer hardened in the wake of the Champions League...
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2005

Recalling the alternative to peace

It has been 60 years since U.S. bombers destroyed much of Tokyo in the spring of 1945. Survivors of the "Great Tokyo Air Raids" -- most of them now in their 70s and 80s -- are few and far between. Words like "B-nijuku" (B-29), "bokugo" (air-raid shelter) and "shoidan" (incendiary bomb) are no longer...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Mar 11, 2005

Omotesando goes one step beyond

Omotesando has seen a flurry of buildings for up-market fashion brands open in recent years, most notably Jun Aoki's Louis Vuitton flagship store and Herzog & de Meuron's Prada tower. Now, the thoroughfare lined with trashcans inscribed with "the Champs Elysees of Tokyo" is blessed with another architectural...
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

National wealth off for a sixth year

The national wealth slipped 2.6 percent in 2003 to 2.72 quadrillion yen for the sixth consecutive year of decline.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

JAL to pare 1,400 more jobs to cut costs

Japan Airlines Corp. said Thursday it will slash 1,400 more jobs by the end of March 2008 through attrition and transfers in an effort to counter high fuel prices.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

Koizumi remark trips dollar but T-bill selloff not in cards

Japan is not considering unloading dollars to diversify the currencies in its foreign-exchange reserves, the country's top currency bureaucrat said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Mar 11, 2005

Wines of Washington State

Every state in America now lays claim to indigenous winemaking attempts -- from Alaskans experimenting with Salmonberry wine to alcoholic beverage conglomerates setting their sights on fallow potato patches in Idaho in a quest for inexpensive, "undiscovered" potential vineyards. The results of these...
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

SMFG to issue shares to up capital

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group said Thursday it will effect a much-needed capital boost worth some 210 billion yen by issuing preferred shares.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

JR East bullet train test to exceed 400 kph

East Japan Railway Co. will begin testing a bullet train in June that will operate at speeds up to 360 kph.
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Mar 10, 2005

Narita wins overall World Cup women's halfpipe title

Japanese halfpipe snowboarder Mero Narita has won the women's overall halfpipe World Cup title for the 2004-05 season, the Ski Association of Japan said Wednesday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 10, 2005

Will the 'Brave Blossoms' soon be drinking champagne?

It's often said that it is a brave man who owns up to being wrong.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 10, 2005

Aussies seek switch to Asian confederation

The Australian soccer federation is seeking to join the Asian Football Confederation in a switch from the Oceania Football Confederation, Japan Football Association VP Junji Ogura said Wednesday.
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Mar 10, 2005

Jockey Okabe to call it a day

Japan Racing Association jockey Yukio Okabe, who has won a record 2,943 races, is set to announce his retirement, sources close to him said Wednesday.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
SoftBank is said to have explored potential takeover of Marvell
SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry's largest-ever deal.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

Podcast

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

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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