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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 17, 2004

Venturing intrepidly to a tropical idyll

As soon as the taxi driver pulled out into Singapore's Orchard Road, he began to talk. Babble, actually.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 17, 2004

A purrfect day out

You're kitted out with Kitty. You have your Hello Kitty toothbrush and pencil sharpener, your little lunchbox and tissue-holder, but still you have this odd impulse to spend some quality time with a real furry, warmblooded feline.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 17, 2004

NHK's five-part drama series, "Nebaru Onna" and more

A famous person once said, "You can't go home again," and for Hazuki (Naoko Iijima), the main character in NHK's five-part drama series, "Nebaru Onna -- Natto nante Dai-kirai (Tenacious Woman: I Hate Natto)" (NHK-G, Monday, 9:15 p.m.), going home is the last thing she wants to do.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 17, 2004

Five years in Japan, a lifetime of influences

ONE HUNDRED SENTENCES WRITTEN ON FANS, by Paul Claudel, translated by Robin Magowan. Blair Atholl: Fras Publications, 2004, 28 pp., £6.50 (paper). Although the Catholic diplomat, poet and dramatist Paul Claudel (1868-1955) lived in Japan for only five years, from 1921-1925, when he was the French ambassador,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 17, 2004

Marianne Faithfull: "Before the Poison"

On her last album, "Kissin' Time," the Swinging '60s most elegant demimonde survivor was feted by a coterie of younger admirers -- Beck, Billy Corgan, Jarvis Cocker -- who fell all over themselves trying to do justice to her delicious rasp of a voice. The results were interesting but had more to do with...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 17, 2004

Revealing true colors of Chinese justice

WHEN RED IS BLACK, by Qiu Xiaolong. Soho Press Inc., 2004, 309 pp., $25 (cloth). Like so many other inventions and contraptions that have filtered down throughout history, fictionalized stories of crime and detection are believed to have originated in China. Whodunits set in the Middle Kingdom have been...
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 17, 2004

Lights! Camera! Action! Let the AV roll ...

It's still early, but at this film set in a rented, two-story house in a Tokyo suburb, "adult video" actor Tetsuya Hatanaka is well ahead of schedule.
Features
Oct 17, 2004

In another language of crime and detection

Qiu Xiaolong, 51, says his first encounter with mystery fiction occurred around age 14 or 15, when he read Sherlock Holmes stories during the Cultural Revolution. "Of course I read the book by stealth at the time," he recalls. Japanese mystery films shown in China years later provided another source...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 17, 2004

Spears tackle Sungoliath to reach top spot in league

Rugby fans in Tokyo certainly got their money's worth on Saturday at Chichibunomiya.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 17, 2004

Drawing on love

She is a Japanese manga artist with a piercingly sharp eye for human traits and foibles. He is an American writer and language buff who can chat with equal ease in four languages. Together, they make for a magnetic -- not to say a "mangaetic" -- couple.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2004

Sumitomo Trust to file suit to halt UFJ merger

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. is considering seeking a court order to halt negotiations between UFJ Holdings Inc. and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. to merge their trust banking business, company sources said Saturday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 17, 2004

It's a taxing job dealing with the two-wheeled barbarian horde

On Sept. 13, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry gave its seal of approval to a local tax that was passed last year by Tokyo's Toshima Ward. Whenever a local government in Japan passes a local tax law, the ministry must check it out before it goes into effect in order to make sure it doesn't...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 17, 2004

Lew Tabackin

With a list of jazz critics' awards as long as his saxophone, Lew Tabackin is a jazzman's jazzman. As a soloist, he redefined the big-band solo, playing both sax and flute with the best big bands in jazz before beginning a lifetime collaborating with pianist, bandleader and wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi. His...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2004

Did Kosovo illuminate Iraq?

One of the curious features of the Iraq war last year was the serious split across the Atlantic. And what seemed to puzzle as much as infuriate Americans was why the major European powers, having signed on to war without U.N. authorization in 1999 against Slobodan Milosevic, "the butcher of Belgrade,"...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2004

Photo seen as abduction evidence

A woman in a photograph smuggled out of North Korea is likely to be Teruko Kase, who disappeared in Chiba Prefecture some 40 years ago, according to a preliminary expert examination.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2004

Election at all costs may cost democracy

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Elections set a new nation or a broken one on a course of renewal. Therefore, the conditions under which they are conducted -- the presence of security and the absence of intimidation, the degree of public participation (or apathy), including the openness to all segments of the...
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2004

Battle for fair competition

Yamato Transport Co., Japan's leading parcel-delivery service, and Japan Post, the provider of "Yu-pack" service, are locked in a legal battle. Yamato claims that JP is setting prices at an unfairly low level while enjoying tax-exempt status and other privileges. It is ironic that some of the basic problems,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Koizumi noncommittal on political-funds control

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday refrained from making a commitment on the issue of tightening controls on political funds as his Liberal Democratic Party remained wary of banning so-called diverted donations.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Execs get suspended terms over Iran deals

The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced the president of a Tokyo machinery manufacturer to a suspended 30-month prison term for illegally exporting equipment to Iran that can be used to build missiles.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Ministry gets tough on owners of Fuso trucks

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has decided to order users of large trucks made by Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. to replace cracked clutch housings, transport minister Kazuo Kitagawa said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Symbolic statue found near scene of murders; cops probe connection

Police on Friday revealed that a symbolic Jizo Buddhist statue was found near a house in which a family of four was murdered in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in December 2000, 100 days after the killings.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Koizumi hails Cambodia's new king

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sent a message to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday, congratulating the country on the selection the previous day of Prince Norodom Sihamoni as its new king, Japanese officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Top court holds state to account for Minamata

The Supreme Court on Friday held the state responsible for the spread of Minamata disease after January 1960.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2004

Daiei chief to resign over rehab fiasco

Daiei Inc. President Kunio Takagi announced Friday he will step down next week to take responsibility for the ailing retailer's decision to ask a state-backed bailout agency to help in its rehabilitation.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 16, 2004

Seibu Lions look to have slight edge in Japan Series

The 2004 Japan Series begins Saturday with the Central League champion Chunichi Dragons of Nagoya facing the Pacific League, playoff-winning Seibu Lions, based in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, in the best-of-seven showdown to decide the No. 1 pro baseball team in this country.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 16, 2004

Island life: gangsters, fish and thieves

If I have led my readers to believe that my island is safe, then I have misled you. Although still safer than the city, island life has its own dangers, not all of which are the natural disasters. We have the human type too.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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