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JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

High school students face record low job promises

At the end of November, an all-time low of 60.3 percent of high school students had been promised jobs after graduation, surpassing the previous record low of 63.4 percent registered a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Yahoo eyes new Web site service

Yahoo Japan Corp., the Japan unit of U.S. Internet portal Yahoo Inc., plans to launch a Web site creation service targeting companies and municipalities, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

New bonds to pay 0.09% per annum

The Finance Ministry said Monday it will issue on March 10 the nation's first government bonds targeted specifically at individuals, and the first interest payments of the 10-year floating-rate bonds will be made in September at a coupon rate of 0.09 percent per annum.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

'02 bankruptcies second most on record

There were 19,458 corporate bankruptcies in 2002, the second-highest figure in the postwar period, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 21, 2003

Matsui works out in Kawasaki

Hideki Matsui had his first workout before the media Sunday after being introduced as a New York Yankee last Tuesday following the signing of a three-year, $21 million free-agent deal.
EDITORIALS
Jan 21, 2003

Tasks for the newly opened Diet

Economic revival is the main theme of the 150-day regular Diet session that opened on Monday. One of the first items to be discussed is a supplementary spending package for fiscal 2002 designed to shore up the sluggish economy. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's policy speech, scheduled for delivery...
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Audi Japan unveils sales targets

The Japanese unit of Audi, part of the Volkswagen group of Germany, unveiled its sales goals Monday, shooting for 12,000 units in 2003 and 16,000 by 2006.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Olympus to increase stake in ITX

Olympus Optical Co. said Monday it will purchase 100,200 shares in ITX Corp. from trading house Nissho Iwai Corp. at a cost of 9.32 billion yen.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Footage, photos of actress's 1949 visit to U.S. discovered

Reels of 1949 films and photo negatives of Kinuyo Tanaka, one of Japan's most famous actresses, have been found among the belongings of a late relative, the relative's assistant said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

People in advanced years opting for music lessons

A growing number of middle-aged and elderly people are turning their attention to playing musical instruments in their retirement years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Snow's successor hopes red cartons gain consumers' blessing

On Jan. 7, red milk cartons debuted at stores nationwide, with dairy farmers and retailers hoping the new brand will boost consumption, which has been down since contaminated milk products sickened thousands of people three years ago.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Ex-security guard collared over ATM cubicle blaze

OSAKA -- Police arrested a former security guard Monday on suspicion that he set fire to an automated teller machine cubicle in central Osaka in June, causing an explosion and seriously injuring himself.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Japan backs U.S. plan on North Korea

Japan reiterated its support Monday for a U.S. plan to strike a new deal with Pyongyang that would replace a 1994 U.S.-North Korea agreement for the North to scrap its nuclear development program.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Sales fall again at convenience stores

Sales at convenience stores in Japan fell 1 percent on a same-store basis in December from a year earlier for the 18th consecutive monthly decline, the Japan Franchise Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

NEC set to hand reins to president of firm's IT unit

NEC Corp. on Monday named Akinobu Kanasugi, head of the firm's information technology unit, its next president.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / NOTES FROM THE SMOKE
Jan 21, 2003

A reclaimed city that's for the birds (and bees)

An unintentionally caustic remark on one of the information boards that adorn Rainbow Bridge exposes the Gordian knot resting at the center of the vast Odaiba reclamation project in Tokyo Bay.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Ministry to subject teachers to performance-linked pay

The education ministry plans to evaluate public school teachers and reflect the assessments in pay raises and personnel moves nationwide beginning in fiscal 2007, government officials said.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Wakayama and Hokkaido focus of new mad cow probe

Farm ministry investigators will descend on Wakayama Prefecture and Hokkaido in response to the discovery of Japan's sixth case of mad cow disease, the ministry said Monday.
SUMO
Jan 21, 2003

Kaiho hands Asashoryu first loss of basho

High-flying sumo star Asashoryu failed to impress the sumo world on a day when yokozuna Takanohana retired, falling to his first loss at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at the hands of rank-and-filer Kaiho on Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Firms may team up on paint solvent

Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. and Showa Denko K.K. may team up on the production of the paint solvent ethyl acetate, the firms said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Geothermal heat pump systems to get trial use

The Environment Ministry plans to introduce an experimental program to use a geothermal heat pump system for public facilities as part of Japan's efforts to curb global warming, ministry officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Recovery projection pushed back

Driven by deep recession at home and a cloudy economic outlook abroad, a key government panel said Monday it will postpone the target year of an expected economic recovery by about two years.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 21, 2003

Leaving Japan, getting organized and cash refunds

Being thankful Hello from Tokyo. For all of our complaints, isn't it wonderful to be in Japan? With war, hunger and strife rampant in the world, Japan, with all its problems, is an oasis. It's a good time to be thankful, as we enter the new year, for the simple blessings of peace, trains that run on...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 21, 2003

Gadgets gnaw at polite society

A funny thing happened to me on the train home the other day. I had a conversation with a total stranger.
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Jan 20, 2003

Intellectual alienation spawns hazy polic

WASHINGTON -- The main purpose of my visit to Washington at the beginning of 2003 was to carry out discussions on U.S. perspectives, policies and strategies for the Doha Development Round, in particular, and global economic policy in general. Meetings were held with U.S. government departments, foreign...
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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