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JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

236 sue over visits to Yasukuni

OSAKA -- A group of 236 people, including 124 Taiwanese, filed a lawsuit Monday seeking 2.36 million yen in damages over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visit to Yasukuni Shrine in January.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

Asao confirms he will not run race on LDP ticket

Keiichiro Asao, a House of Councilors member of the Democratic Party of Japan, said Monday he will not run for governor of Kanagawa Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

143 Cosmo employees bought out

Cosmo Securities Co. said Monday 143 employees applied for the brokerage's incentive-based early retirement program during the three-week period to Feb. 7.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

Husband's status slips as marriage gets longer: wives

The number of housewives who view their husbands as the most important aspect of their life drops drastically after the 10th year of marriage, according to the results of a Tokyo-area survey released recently by Yakult Honsha Co.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 18, 2003

A kind word, visa sponsorship and tax refunds

A kind word I was sitting in the NTT Telephone shop waiting to have a telephone repaired and a bit discouraged.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

Income tax season gets under way

The period for filing income tax began Monday with 524 local tax offices accepting returns for 2002.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

Economic growth remains flat amid uncertainty: BOJ

Growth in the economy remains flat amid "substantial uncertainty" about the outlook, the Bank of Japan said Monday in its monthly economic and financial report for February.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

Toyota launches revamped Harrier SUV with crash radar

Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday released its remodeled Harrier luxury sport utility vehicle on the domestic market, touting the inclusion of what the automaker says is the world's first precrash safety system using "millimeter-wave" radar.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 18, 2003

Japan's TV news in a world of its own

Watch a newscast produced in United States or Europe, and you'll see a fast-paced program consisting of lots of short segments augmented by a slew of computer-generated graphics.
COMMENTARY
Feb 18, 2003

Japan must shift to regional autonomy

Elections are in Japan's forecast for this year -- nationwide local elections in April, the contest for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency in October and perhaps a general election for the House of Representative sometime in between -- with a strong possibility of political turbulence along the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

JR West to get new chief April 1

OSAKA -- Takeshi Kakiuchi, vice president of West Japan Railway Co., will become the carrier's president April 1, replacing Shojiro Nanya, who will become chairman, JR West said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

Japanese photographer highlights postwar suffering of Iraqi children

A black-and-white photograph shows a 6-year-old Iraqi girl lying in a hospital bed, her bald head swollen as a result of terminal leukemia; her open eyes, puffy and blackened, see nothing.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

ASEAN official eyes political, cultural cooperation

The relationship between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations should encompass political, security and cultural cooperation, as well as economic concerns, a senior ASEAN official said Monday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

Cigar maker hopes to light up Japanese market

Altadis, the world's leading cigar maker, is set to increase its share in the small but fast-growing Japanese market by primarily targeting fashion-conscious young professionals, according to the firm's Asia-Pacific sales manager.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

Contract is out on alien fish in moat

Something fishy is lurking in the near-sacred moat ringing the Imperial Palace -- an invasion of American species that Japan says must be stopped.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

JUSEC accepting applications for Fulbright program

The Japan-United States Educational Commission has started accepting applications for its Fulbright Grant Program for the year beginning July 2004.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / NOTES FROM THE SMOKE
Feb 18, 2003

Disturbing artwork and disturbed fish on the Koenji trail

A recent visit to the suburb of Koenji reminded me of my JET program orientation in Kansai; I visited a temple, learned some outlandish local customs, ate sushi, and was shown around a vintage toy store with cosmic price tags.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2003

Average monthly pay dropped 2.4% in 2002

Average monthly pay in all industries in 2002 fell 2.4 percent from the previous year to 343,480 yen, the government said in a revised report Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

Court throws out groping lawsuit

The Tokyo District Court on Monday rejected a suit filed by a man seeking damages over the emotional distress he suffered after a high school girl wrongly accused him of groping her on a train in May 1994.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2003

Revival of the 'twin deficit' threat

A budget crisis is returning to the United States. Along with worsening trade deficits, record budget shortfalls projected for the fiscal year 2003 and beyond are reviving a nightmare threat of "twin deficits." It is worrisome for global growth and security that the world's only military and economic...
MORE SPORTS
Feb 17, 2003

Suntory juggernaut rolls into All Japan Championship final

The Suntory juggernaut kept on rolling on Sunday at Toyko's Chichibunomiya Stadium with a 52-24 win over Ricoh in the semifinal of the All Japan Championship. The Goliath, which is now unbeaten against Japanese opposition since January 2001, will face NEC in the final, following its surprise 29-5 victory...
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2003

Empress' speech put into booklet

The Tokyo publishing house Suemori Books Co. has recently published in a bilingual booklet Empress Michiko's speech from a children's book congress in Basel, Switzerland.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2003

Attack needs U.N. approval: New Komeito

Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, secretary general of New Komeito, said Sunday his party opposes a U.S.-led attack on Iraq in the absence of a new U.N. resolution authorizing such action.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2003

U.S. planning military buildup in Japan to guard against North Korea

Washington has told Tokyo of its plan to beef up its military presence in Japan to prepare for a possible emergency amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it was learned Sunday.
Takayuki Kobayashi set to announce LDP presidential bid
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters during a visit to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
The rule of law is coming for Putin
Efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable for the war in Ukraine have begun, with the International Criminal Court already issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and others for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
'The Box Man': Absurdist Kobo Abe adaptation speaks to the present
A Tokyo man who scuttles around the city in a dirty cardboard box finds himself fighting off odd characters in Gakuryu Ishii’s “The Box Man.”
Love was a most subversive affair in Edo Japan
Only two other class of persons were treated with anything like the merciless ferocity meted out to lovers: subversives and Christians.
Prepare for a new wave of anime-born bands
Produced by Toei Animation, “Girls Band Cry” follows five young women who form a band and navigate the Japanese rock landscape.
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.
New tales in translation to give you chills and thrills this summer
For centuries, Japanese people have been scaring themselves with horror stories as a way of cooling down during the stifling summer months.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.

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