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Nov 19, 2002

Tanzanian triumphs in Tokyo race

Tanzania's Banuelia Mrashani knocked almost five minutes off her personal best to edge Japan's Rie Matsuoka for her first-ever victory in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2002

Protectionism threatens global economy

LONDON -- Japan's current row with China over steel exports is symptomatic of a growing retreat from the free trade aims that underpinned international growth in the last two decades of the 20th century. It is now a year since members of the World Trade Organization set themselves the task of reducing...
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Major firms report huge combined loss

Mired in a prolonged economic slump, major companies reported a record combined loss of 16.571 trillion yen over the one-year period through June, the National Tax Agency said Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2002

Questions over industrial revival scheme answered

The government plans to establish an industrial revival mechanism as part of a comprehensive economic package seeking to accelerate the disposal of bad loans.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2002

S&P gives major banks a break on share prices

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Monday it will not revise its ratings on most of Japan's major banks in response to sharp declines in their share prices.
BUSINESS / ON MANAGEMENT
Nov 19, 2002

Seagram's fall from grace is testimony to virtue of stockpiling crown jewels

When Shakespeare wrote, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" he was talking about royalty, but I'm sure the travails of today's business elite would have attracted his attention. The recent demise of the House of Seagram, for instance, might be worthy of a play -- the tale of how a third-generation...
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2002

NTT posts first-ever fall in consolidated revenues

Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. reported Monday that its consolidated sales fell 1.7 percent to 5.37 trillion yen in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30, marking the first-ever decline in revenue since the firm's privatization in 1985.
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LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 19, 2002

Seeking spiritual succah in the Negev desert

The largest natural crater in the world has a past almost as awe-inspiring as its present.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Airfield issue still on Inamine's list

Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine, fresh from a re-election victory, has renewed his call for a time limit on U.S. forces' use of a planned local airfield, but the national government only responded by repeating its earlier position Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2002

Asahi Glass group net profit up 12%

Glass manufacturer Asahi Glass Co. announced Monday that its group net profit for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 was 15.22 billion yen, up 11.8 percent from a year earlier, thanks mainly to the absence of large one-time losses logged the previous year.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 19, 2002

Swallows to name Mac in the baseball draft

The Yakult Swallows plan to name Mac Suzuki in Wednesday's baseball draft after the right-hander finished a disappointing season with the Kansas City Royals, club officials said Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Government mulls abductee assistance measures

The government began consulting Monday with Liberal Democratic Party members on how Japan can take in and support the five known surviving Japanese abducted by North Korea and their immediate families still in the North, government officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Merit evaluation eyed in public service

More than a decade into the continuing economic malaise, corporate Japan's seniority-based wage and promotion system based on the notion of lifetime employment is being threatened as firms increasingly emphasize job performance.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 18, 2002

Reysol whips Verdy

KASHIWA, Chiba Pref. -- Kashiwa Reysol bettered its hopes of surviving in the J. League Division One by beating Tokyo Verdy 4-1, but Verdy's second-stage title chance vanished with the defeat on Sunday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 18, 2002

Reality check in order for 'antideflation' plan

The comprehensive package of so-called antideflation measures spelled out by the government late last month incorporates steps for revitalizing Japan's financial and industrial sectors, stimulating economic activity and bolstering the safety net for workers.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 18, 2002

Matsui exits on low note

"Godzilla" left his old stomping grounds with more of a whimper than a bang Sunday afternoon.
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Nov 18, 2002

Benefits of opening up to foreign labor

HONG KONG -- In the previous article in this series, I asked whether capitalism would be sustainable into the 21st century. In the article before that, I emphasized that never had the world seen so many democracies, but warned that there were risks that the conditions for maintaining the momentum of...
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.
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.
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.
Despite disbandment, factions still loom over LDP leadership race
If two veterans, Toshimitsu Motegi and Shigeru Ishiba, run for the role of Liberal Democratic Party president, the race might come down to a choice between one of former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s allies versus one of LDP Vice President Taro Aso’s allies.
Japan Times revamps iOS mobile app
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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