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JAPAN
Jul 18, 2002

Refugee denied medical care: group

OSAKA -- A Kurdish asylum seeker detained at an immigration facility in Osaka Prefecture is being denied proper medical treatment, although he has symptoms of high blood pressure and heart trouble, a refugee aid group in Osaka said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Toshiba seeking to bolster reactor-dismantling business

Toshiba Corp. will set up a team of nuclear-plant experts to beef up the company's reactor-decommissioning business, company officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Fukuda seeks joint action to shackle yen

The government's top spokesman hinted Wednesday that Japan may intervene in currency markets jointly with foreign monetary authorities to prevent a further surge of the yen against the dollar.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jul 18, 2002

Trees' wondrous ways of turning over a new leaf

Now, at the height of summer, when the fresh green of the spring leaves has darkened, I will start this week's column with a question: "Why is it that northern Japan's Mongolian oak and Europe's common beech retain their rustling brown leaves all winter, while sharing their temperate forest habitat mainly...
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Central bank sticks with rosy outlook

The BOJ on Wednesday said the economy has almost stabilized, thanks to rising exports and production, but overseas share price falls and a weakening dollar threaten the economic outlook.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2002

Brother of Teikyo president fined

The younger brother of Teikyo University President Shoichi Okinaga was fined 150 million yen by tax authorities for failing to declare 300 million yen in taxable income in 1995, sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Profits top highways panel agenda

An advisory panel on the privatization of four road-related public entities will prioritize existing expressway construction plans on the basis of profitability, the panel's chief said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Sony, NEC cut some PC prices

Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. have cut the shipment prices on some of their personal computers by 10,000 yen to 20,000 yen in response to price reductions by other computer makers, company officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

Red-ink firms could face big 'pro forma' tax bills

The implementation of a proposed "pro forma standard tax" would oblige red-ink companies that have been exempt from tax to pay an average of 1.79 million yen every year, four industry bodies said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2002

Group hopes new Web site coaxes children into becoming inventors

A national organization that promotes inventions and works to protect intellectual property will launch an invention Web site for children Saturday in cooperation with General Electric Japan Ltd.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jul 18, 2002

Nikkei weathering Dow drop

The U.S. stock market remains bearish.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 18, 2002

Taking a break in Tokyo and getting to grips with coins

Did you miss me? Hopefully not. Due to stockpiling three columns, I was able to escape the worst excesses of rainy season to the U.K. for five weeks without leaving a gaping hole on the page.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2002

Report is vague on political donations

The amount of money that firms winning public works projects can contribute to politicians should be limited, an LDP advisory panel's final report recommended Wednesday.
COMMUNITY
Jul 18, 2002

Japan's strange brand of (non) nationalism

The subject of 9/11 came up while I had dinner with a group of friends last autumn.
COMMENTARY
Jul 18, 2002

Terrorism exacts a high price

HONOLULU -- The war on terrorism will be with us for a long time; honest observers admit the fight will never end. New technologies have permanently altered the balance of power between states and individuals. It is just too easy to commit terrorist acts. The rising number of incidents and the increasing...
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 18, 2002

'Factory' fishing threatens marine stocks

Ever evening at sunset, Maruyama Keizo, 64, and his brother Motoichi, 54, of Minabe, Wakayama Prefecture, take their boat out and return the next morning at dawn with their catch: either flatfish or sardines, depending on the season. In his 50-year working life, Maruyama has seen shrinking catches, the...
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 18, 2002

'Wrestlemania X8': stone-cold fun

In America, every demographic has its own form of entertainment. For cultured people, there is opera and polo. For the teaming masses, there is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), an entire league of behemoth men and scantily clad women brawling on a nightly basis to thrill and titillate the beer-and-pork...
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2002

NRI buys into publisher Recruit

Nomura Research Institute Ltd. said Wednesday it has acquired a 1 percent equity stake in Recruit Co.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Jul 18, 2002

An oasis beckoning on the shogun's hill

This 1830s woodcut print by the Edo artist Hasegawa Settan shows people chasing fireflies on broad rice paddies early in the evening. Men and boys are swishing around long bamboo brooms trying to catch high-flying males, while women and less nimble hunters are wafting fans around to trap low-hovering...
MORE SPORTS
Jul 18, 2002

Yoshida to take on Royce Gracie

Former world and Olympic champion judoka Hidehiko Yoshida said Tuesday he will fight Brazil's Royce Gracie in a mixed martial arts match at Tokyo's National Stadium in late August.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jul 18, 2002

Net-based control system reality today

"The lights are on but nobody's home" used to be a slur, a criticism of inability, inadequacy, ineptitude. Not any more.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2002

Japan, U.K. to pursue dialogue on Kashmir

Japan and Britain agreed Wednesday to get actively involved in efforts to establish a dialogue on Kashmir and other territorial disputes between India and Pakistan.
EDITORIALS
Jul 17, 2002

Dialogue: Pyongyang's only option

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi's visit to South Korea over the weekend, coming after the naval clash between North and South Korean patrol boats in the Yellow Sea in late June, has served to spotlight the volatility of inter-Korean relations. The diplomatic fallout from the sea battle, in which the...
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2002

Washington sends Pyongyang a message

HONOLULU -- Will the United States and North Korea ever sit down and talk? In all probability, yes. But the odds remain strong that the dialogue, when and if it happens, will largely remain a dialogue of the deaf.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 17, 2002

Hewitt to play in AIG Japan Open

Australian Lleyton Hewitt, who won the men's singles at Wimbledon last week, will take part in the AIG Japan Open tennis tournament this fall, organizers of the event announced Monday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jul 17, 2002

Fulham acquires Inamoto on loan

OSAKA -- Japan midfielder Junichi Inamoto has signed a one-year loan deal with English Premier League side Fulham, officials of his club Gamba Osaka said Monday.
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’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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