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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Kansai casinos a dicey proposition

OSAKA -- It's way past dinner time in the back streets of Osaka's Shinsaibashi district. But one establishment advertising itself as an all-you-can-eat Italian restaurant is doing a booming business.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Tertiary industry activity continues downward slide

Tertiary industry activity fell 0.7 percent in November from October for the third consecutive monthly dip, the government said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Mob ranks swell, especially among nonsyndicated

The ranks of Japan's underworld rose last year for the seventh year in a row, with the organized crime scene marked by a steady increase of nonsyndicated gangsters, the National Police Agency said in a report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Resona turns to Asian bank for help in recapitalization

OSAKA -- Resona Holdings Inc., the holding firm for Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank, has asked the Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia to help it recapitalize, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

The colonel hit hard by downturn

Hit by tighter consumer purse strings, Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. announced Thursday that its consolidated net profit dropped 15.2 percent to 1.38 billion yen in the business year that ended in November.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Last SDF land mines to be destroyed

Japan will finish disposing of antipersonnel land mines held by the Self-Defense Forces on Feb. 8, in line with the Ottawa Treaty, Tetsuro Yano, senior vice foreign minister, said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Talks to seek return of U.S. base land

Japan and the United States have reached a basic agreement to start talks on the return of idle land in four U.S. military facilities in Yokohama, according to Japanese government officials.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Noncapsule stimulant seizures fall, Ecstasy hauls rise: ministry report

Japanese customs last year seized a smaller amount of stimulants and other illegal drugs that were smuggled into Japan but impounded a record amount of banned substances packaged in capsules, the Finance Ministry said in a report Thursday.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 24, 2003

Cafu to join Marinos

Brazil right-back Cafu of AS Roma has agreed to join the Yokohama F. Marinos after the current European season, the J. League Division One club announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Yano proposes Japan-Brunei FTA

Tetsuro Yano, senior vice foreign minister, said Thursday he has proposed that Japan and Brunei start looking into the possibility of a free-trade agreement.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Sick U.S. official cancels meetings

U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton canceled his meetings Thursday with Japanese officials due to illness, according to Foreign Ministry officials.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

322 dangerous drivers arrested

The number of violations of a new law aimed at curbing dangerous driving came to 322 last year, with drunken driving accounting for nearly half of the cases, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Kodansha and Random House tie up

Kodansha Ltd. and U.S.-based Random House Inc. announced Thursday they have agreed to forge a joint venture aimed at publishing books in Japanese.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Parents demand death over school massacre

OSAKA -- The parents of three 7-year-old girls fatally stabbed in a killing spree in June 2001 at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, called Thursday for the defendant to be sentenced to death.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Ministry panel looks to raise unemployment premiums

A subcommittee of an advisory council to the labor minister urged Thursday that the monthly sum of unemployment insurance premiums be raised to an amount equal to 1.6 percent of an employee's wages beginning April 1, 2005.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Taiwan firm inks deal for more shinkansen line

A group of nine Japanese companies and two Taiwanese firms said Thursday it has landed an order from Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. to lay the northern 150-km section of a bullet train line in Taiwan, in addition to the order it landed for the southern 180-km section.
EDITORIALS
Jan 24, 2003

The next BOJ governor

The Bank of Japan's governor, Mr. Masaru Hayami, is to retire in late March when his five-year term expires. At the moment, who will succeed him is a matter of speculation. There is no question, however, that the next governor will face the same difficult challenge that has confronted the outgoing governor:...
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

UFJ, Chinese bank in loan alliance

UFJ Bank said Thursday it has agreed to forge a loan alliance with China Merchants Bank in an effort to expand the supply of yuan funds to Japanese companies operating in China.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Inflation-targeting: facts behind the hyperbole

Academics, central bankers and politicians are divided over the issue currently occupying the center stage of public debate: a monetary policy tool known as inflation-targeting.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Environmentally Friendly Vehicle confab kicks off

The first International Meeting on Environmentally Friendly Vehicles opened Thursday in Tokyo as part of global efforts to develop greener vehicles and fight air pollution and global warming.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

MMC may expand production in North America

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Rolf Eckrodt said Thursday the carmaker is considering expanding its production capacity in North America and will come up with a plan in the next few weeks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Mayor in desperate bid to keep job

The embattled mayor of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, visited the education ministry Thursday and asked the national government to designate a historical school building he recently tried to raze as a nationally important cultural property, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2003

Japanese in Baghdad urged to exit

The Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory Thursday recommending that Japanese nationals in Baghdad leave the Iraqi capital, given the intensifying war rhetoric and apparent preparations around the country.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 24, 2003

Shilingol: From the Mongol steppes to Sugamo

A chill gale of change is gusting through the sumo world, all the way from Central Asia. The demise of the Takanohana era does not, of course, mean we will stop eating chanko nabe. However, in honor of the incipient arrival of the Asashoryu dynasty, we felt impelled to set off in search of Shilingol,...
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Ministry mulls fate of Japanese in South Korea

The Foreign Ministry is studying ways of evacuating Japanese nationals in South Korea amid a tense standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons development program, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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.
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.
Ransomware attacks force companies to take precautionary measures
A growing number of ransomware attacks has forced Japanese firms to take measures to combat computer viruses that encrypt data until a ransom is paid.
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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