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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 23, 2002

Marketing Cardiff as cultural capital of Europe

This is quite a month for Bet (Elizabeth) Davies. On Nov. 28, she will receive an award from the Japanese ambassador in London on behalf of the government for services rendered to to the Japanese community in Wales, and her work in bridging Japan and the U.K. in general.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Yoshimoto Kogyo profit up 111%

Entertainment house Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. said Friday its half-year group net profit soared 111.3 percent from a year earlier to 1.21 billion yen, despite its group pretax profit and revenues being almost flat.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Snow sees 45 billion yen loss in first half

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Friday it posted a group net loss of 45.36 billion yen for the first half of this business year, due largely to hefty restructuring charges aimed at reviving the ailing dairy giant.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 23, 2002

Angela Bilbao de Infante

Next year, the International Ladies Benevolent Society will celebrate its 50th anniversary of nonstop, wholehearted, generous help to charitable organizations and people in need in Japan. A continuing, major fundraising event is the annual Christmas Fair. This year's chairwoman for the fair is Angela...
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Balance sought in abductee reporting

Korean residents of Japan denounced on Friday the Japanese media for their recent reporting on North Korean issues, saying it has kindled public hatred and prejudice against ethnic Koreans.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 23, 2002

Tigers raise offer

OSAKA -- The Hanshin Tigers held negotiations with Norihiro Nakamura on Thursday, becoming the third Japanese team to pursue the free-agent slugger with a lucrative multiyear contract offer.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Nonlife insurers post increase in interim profits

The nation's nine largest nonlife insurers posted increased net profits, with only one remaining in the red following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to interim earnings reports released Friday.
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JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Pressures of infertility exact toll

The women sit in a circle in a silent room.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Ship in hijack bid now off Hokkaido

A Russian trawler that reportedly repelled a hijack attempt by a pirate ship off Vladivostok on Tuesday is located off Hokkaido in the Sea of Japan, the Japan Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

GSDF finds projectile in parking lot

The Ground Self-Defense Force found what appears to be a projectile Thursday in a parking lot at the GSDF Asaka base straddling the Tokyo-Saitama Prefecture border, following the discovery of a suspected homemade mortar at a nearby park the previous night.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Clinton airs concerns on North Korea

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed concern in Tokyo on Thursday about the geopolitical situation on the Korean Peninsula.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Hayashi damages ruling upheld by high court

OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ordering the publisher of a weekly magazine to pay damages to a woman suspected of murdering four people in 1998 by lacing curry with arsenic, for violating her portrait rights.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

More and more homes going with solar power

Solar panels on roofs and verandas are becoming a more familiar sight in Japan as people acquire the systems with help from subsidies amid government efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions and combat global warming.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Beaujolais Nouveau imports likely to establish new record

Imports of Beaujolais Nouveau are climbing toward a record high this year thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns by importers.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Nicos head to step down over scandal

Yoji Yamada, president of Nippon Shinpan Co., said Thursday he will resign next month to take the blame for the "sokaiya" racketeer payoff scandal rocking the major loan company but will remain involved in the firm's management plans.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2002

Towa Real Estate reports big losses

Towa Real Estate Development Co., which has requested a huge debt waiver, reported on Thursday net losses of 82.51 billion yen for the fiscal first half through September.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2002

Matsumotokiyoshi profit up 22%

Matsumotokiyoshi Co., the nation's largest drug store chain, said Thursday its group pretax profit for the first half to Sept. 30 rose 21.9 percent from a year earlier to 6.8 billion yen.
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BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2002

Automakers launch price war

Automakers are waging a price war in an attempt to lift sales amid the prolonged recession.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Gulliver's Kingdom finally finds a buyer

KOFU, Yamanashi Pref. -- Fuji Gulliver's Kingdom, a failed theme park at the foot of Mount Fuji, was finally auctioned off Thursday to a resort company for 1.48 billion yen, following two unsuccessful rounds since its collapse a year ago.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Nov 22, 2002

A taste of theater with a twist

There's about to be a hanging at Tokyo's Hibiya High School -- and the auditorium is packed with students who've come to see it.
COMMENTARY
Nov 22, 2002

Koizumi deserves more time

The political situation is beginning to show signs of yearend tumult. At the beginning of the fall, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was doing fine. In September he visited Pyongyang and managed to extract an apology from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il for the abduction of Japanese nationals in the...
COMMUNITY / NOTES FROM THE SMOKE
Nov 22, 2002

Iidabashi offers cheap passport to movie heaven

Going to the movies is one of life's great simple pleasures.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Osaka to sell resort, apartments

OSAKA -- The financially strapped Osaka Prefectural Government will sell off all of its 1,185 employee housing units and its seaside resort in a bid to raise cash and narrow its gaping budget deficit, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2002

Mitsui ties with Yoshimoto Kogyo

Trading house Mitsui & Co. said Thursday it has tied up with Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., a leading entertainment production group, to produce and sell "shochu" distilled spirits.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Japan to host donor talks in aid of Aceh peace process

Japan plans to host a donor conference early next month to support the peace process in Indonesia's Aceh Province in light of a forthcoming peace accord between Jakarta and rebels, government sources said Thursday.
Typhoon Ampil lashes eastern Japan with heavy rain and wind
Waves crash ashore amid Typhoon Ampil on Tokyo's Hachijojima Island on Friday. The dangerous storm is brushing by the Kanto region but will not make landfall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
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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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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