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BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 30, 2002

Kaneko powers Fighters

Makoto Kaneko, Hiroshi Narahara and Pacific League batting leader Michihiro Ogasawara each drove in two runs and the Nippon Ham Fighters came from behind to defeat the Pacific League-leading Seibu Lions 9-3 Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 30, 2002

A race against cultural oblivion

Like minority groups the world over, the hill tribes of Laos are facing unaccustomed pressures on their traditional way of life. The depletion of protective, life-giving forest and wilderness, the upward migration of more lowland Laotians, growing pressure on the hill tribes to settle closer to accessible...
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Government clamps down on pork imports with tariffs

Japan will raise tariffs on pork for eight months beginning this week in an attempt to slow soaring imports, the government said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Jul 30, 2002

Going slow and easy in a land of plenty

In vino veritas. In wine there is truth. And in Hokkaido there is wine. Living in Hokkaido has its perks, and I set out recently seeking my truth on a long-weekend getaway with my family in central Hokkaido's wine region.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

New law may raise prospects for homeless

In the Kamagasaki day-laborer district of Osaka, news about the soon-to-be passed bill to provide aid for the nation's homeless has been greeted with a mixture of hope and indifference.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Tepco says it cut CO2 emissions by 5.2% in '01

Tokyo Electric Power Co. reduced its carbon dioxide emissions to 87.4 million tons in fiscal 2001, down 5.2 percent from a year earlier, a Tepco official said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

JEITA Web site markets surplus stock in English

An industry group comprising major electronics makers has launched an English-language Web site to market surplus semiconductor manufacturing equipment and facilities, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

METI upgrades industrial activity assessment

The government on Monday upgraded its overall assessment of industrial activity for the first time since April, saying production is on "a slight rising trend," despite figures showing Japan's industrial output in June fell 0.7 percent from a month earlier.
COMMUNITY
Jul 30, 2002

JET membership up in numbers, diversity

For the past 15 years, the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program has greatly helped promote Japan's internationalization.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 30, 2002

Counting the cost of marketing tradition

The archaeologist, picking over the dust of the past, will unearth few items to help him reconstruct a history of the Laotian hill tribes. Here there are no monuments to cultures or civilizations past: no temples, stupas, ancestral halls, foundations of lost villages or images of deities carved into...
LIFE / Travel
Jul 30, 2002

A race against cultural oblivion

Like minority groups the world over, the hill tribes of Laos are facing unaccustomed pressures on their traditional way of life. The depletion of protective, life-giving forest and wilderness, the upward migration of more lowland Laotians, growing pressure on the hill tribes to settle closer to accessible...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Subcontractor mystery clouds airport expansion

OSAKA -- The bulk of subcontract work for the second phase expansion of Kansai International Airport has been given to a group believed incapable of handling airport construction, according to documents on subcontracted work and sources familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Honda sees group net profits grow 20% to 107.6 billion yen

Honda Motor Co. said Monday its group net profit rose 20.4 percent to a record 107.6 billion yen in the April-June quarter from a year earlier on strong sales and a weaker yen.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Osaka phone service disrupted

OSAKA -- NTT West Corp. said Monday that phone services were temporarily disrupted after a massive number of calls were placed by a firm suspected of operating a "wangiri" callback scam.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

U.S. rebound would dispel global gloom

Tokyo stocks, as measured by the Nikkei average of 225 major issues, are hovering around 10,000.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Court sets bail for hijacking suspect's wife at 20 million yen

The Tokyo District Court set bail of 20 million yen Monday for Emiko Akagi, whose husband is wanted in connection with the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea by the Red Army Faction.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Toyota raises outlook for global sales by 5%

Toyota Motor Corp. has raised its 2002 global sales projection from 5.3 million units to 5.5 million, up 5 percent from last year, Toyota President Fujio Cho said Monday.
COMMUNITY
Jul 30, 2002

Learning goes both ways in JET program

I first came to Japan in 1991 as an English instructor with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program and ended up staying twice as long as I originally planned. Here are some recollections from that period.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Imports shunned for domestic food: survey

The overwhelming majority of Japanese consumers tend to buy domestic food products rather than imports, according to a Cabinet Office survey released Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Nippon Steel wins contract to build steel plant in China

Nippon Steel Corp. said Monday it has won an order from major Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. for facilities to produce steel sheet for automobiles.
COMMENTARY
Jul 29, 2002

Chance to engage Pyongyang

In the first meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, foreign ministers and officials will gather in the Brunei capital of Bandar Seri Begawan on Wednesday to discuss tense situations on the Korean Peninsula and between India and Pakistan, plus other regional issues.
COMMENTARY
Jul 29, 2002

Beware the property bubble

LONDON -- These are worrying times for the world economy, and perhaps even more so for the armies of highly paid analysts who failed to predict the current slump in world stock markets.
EDITORIALS
Jul 29, 2002

Putting new wine in a new bottle

Bureaucratic reform, not just political reform, is urgently needed in Japan. In a nutshell, that is the message of the latest annual government report on the civil service. The report, for the first time, includes government employees' thoughts about themselves, their colleagues and their bosses.
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 29, 2002

Marinos keep lead

Extra-time substitute Daisuke Sakata struck a golden goal as nine-man Yokohama F. Marinos clung onto the top spot in the J. League with a 3-2 win over Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2002

Yamasaki cool to extra budget, delay in deposit refund limit

A top Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker said Sunday it is premature to quickly decide whether to compile a supplementary budget for fiscal 2002.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2002

Koo backs expansionary fiscal policy for Japan

Richard Koo appears to be one of the small group of dissenters vocally critical of the economic and fiscal policies of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Cabinet.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 29, 2002

Giants sweep Swallows

Hideki Matsui belted a solo homer in the ninth inning Sunday to give Yomiuri a sweep of their three-game series with Yakult, as the Giants downed the Swallows 4-3 at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Typhoon to force railway closures as it nears Kanto on Friday
A satellite image from Wednesday afternoon shows Tropical Storm Ampil south of Japan
‘Very strong’ Typhoon Ampil set to approach eastern Japan on Friday
A satellite image shows Typhoon Ampil south of Japan on Thursday afternoon.
Japan lifts megaquake alert after no major seismic activity detected
An electronic signboard at Tokyo Station displays information about a megaquake alert last Saturday. The government lifted the alert on Thursday but urged continued vigilance.
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.
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.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Global mindset crucial for reform of Japan's health care, minister says
In the past 11 months, health minister Keizo Takemi has been charting his own path, seeking to make Japan's health care policies more global and digitalized.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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