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BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Koizumi talks tough on four postal bills

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he has told a key minister that he wants a set of four postal deregulation bills to pass the Diet without amendments -- a move that should provoke further political wrangling over the controversial legislation.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Experts sought to halt loan words

Education chief Atsuko Toyama said Tuesday her ministry will set up a committee of experts in July to propose ways to prevent too many imported words from entering the Japanese language.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Shareholders vent anger at Mizuho

Mizuho Financial Holdings Inc. executives issued a stream of apologies at the banking group's general shareholders' meeting Tuesday, as shareholders demanded explanations for the widespread ATM failures and account mixups that marred the banking group's official launch in April.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jun 26, 2002

Bringing the tabletop into the gallery

On the cover of the catalog for an exhibition now at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo is -- ready for this? -- a shoyusashi (soy-sauce bottle). I find that quite odd, as the museum houses the hallowed arts of painting, sculpture and the like. A shoyusashi? Come on now, it just doesn't seem...
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

MMC to revive Colt model name

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will release a new small car in the fall called the Colt, taking the same name as a sedan made by the automaker between 1962 and 1972, company president Rolf Eckrodt said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jun 26, 2002

Starting off on the right foot (and ending on the left . . .)

The Japanese music biz produces boy-girl pop duos with clockwork regularity -- think Love Psychedelico or EE Jump. The most recent example is Orange Pekoe (that's pronounced "peh-koe," by the way), which comprises Kobe natives Kazuma Fujimoto and Tomoko Nagashima.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Air Do files for court protection

Hokkaido International Airlines Co., the ailing carrier better known as Air Do, filed for court protection from creditors Tuesday after giving up on self-rehabilitation efforts, company officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Ministry takes on sick-building syndrome

The health ministry will seek a limit on the amount of formaldehyde allowable in materials used in the construction of large public facilities in order to reduce instances of sick-building syndrome, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Koizumi rapped over privatization panel

Lawmakers in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party criticized Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and other LDP executives Tuesday for creating a new panel to study the privatization of four road-related public corporations.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

News forum to focus on global coverage

A group of freelance video journalists will hold a symposium to examine TV coverage of international news in Tokyo on July 6.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Group readies for high-tech service

A group of 10 companies, including Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., is planning to launch a next-generation, high-quality communications service via satellites in 2008, company officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 26, 2002

DJ Cheb-i-Sabbah: 'Krishna Lila'

The "Asian Underground" wave of neo-Indian sounds has, for the most part, rarely betrayed much knowledge of its roots. With the exceptions of Talvin Singh and Karsh Kale, much of this music has been little more than drum 'n' bass with an ethnic spin, all hopelessly out-of-tune tabla samples and rigidly...
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Five asylum seekers talk to officials from Japan

Government officials on Tuesday interviewed the five North Korean asylum seekers who successfully made it to South Korea in May after being dragged out of a Japanese consulate in China by Chinese police, according to the Foreign Ministry.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Reduce public utility fees: report

Public utility charges need to be further reduced by introducing more competition into the market, which would in turn revitalize the economy, according to a report on public utility costs unveiled Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 26, 2002

Stanley Smith: 'In the Land of Dreams'

These whiskey-voiced songs of riverboats, New Orleans nights and past loves will speak to you like mellow old friends. None will blow you away the first time through, but many will replay themselves in your head long after you've turned the CD off.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 26, 2002

Finding a style of their own

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vincent van Gogh, popularly regarded in Japan (as elsewhere) as the quintessential artist. Unfortunately, it will be difficult for Japanese galleries to borrow works from abroad to celebrate this event, with insurance costs now three times higher...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 26, 2002

Photo selection offers the whole picture

Before World Cup events kicked off in Japan, there were distressing media reports of how hotels planned to refuse service to foreigners; and of stadium-area restaurants and bars intending to close their doors on game days, from fear of furigan (hooligans).
EDITORIALS
Jun 25, 2002

A problem of corporate ethos

The Financial Services Agency has ordered the Mizuho Financial Group, whose computer system crashed spectacularly on the occasion of its integration last April, to improve its internal management setup so as to prevent any recurrence of the bungle. Mizuho itself has decided to cut the pay of all of its...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 25, 2002

Departing Senegal the pride of Africa

OSAKA -- Senegal's World Cup campaign came to an end on Saturday in the quarterfinals after bowing out to Turkey with a 1-0 extra-time loss at Osaka Nagai Stadium.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2002

Electronic voting should be used for Diet, Koizumi says

The electronic voting system used for the first time in Japan over the weekend in a local election should be used in Diet elections due to its speedy ballot-counting ability, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2002

Afghans again face prospect of detention

Seven Afghan men seeking asylum in Japan are again facing the possibility of detention after the Tokyo High Court earlier this month nullified a lower court decision to release them.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
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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