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EDITORIALS
Jun 19, 2002

More revenue for local governments

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is seeking tax reform to revive economic vitality, but he wants to limit tax cuts to the extent that they do not exacerbate the budget crisis. In other words, he is opposed to stimulating the economy at the expense of fiscal discipline. So no major tax cuts are planned...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Milk sales may be sour but yogurt's on a roll

Yogurt is enjoying brisk sales as makers and the media tout its efficacy as a health and beauty food, despite the sluggishness in business surrounding milk products, according to market sources.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

JAS pilots decide to call off strike

The Japan Air System pilots union called off a strike that had been set to start Tuesday morning.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Youth sex on rise, as are serious infections

Sex education expert Atsuko Yoshida is alarmed by the increasingly decadent lifestyle of youth that has made them more susceptible than ever to sexually transmitted infections.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 19, 2002

Swallows move up

Atsuya Furuta singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and the Yakult Swallows regained third place in the Central League standings Tuesday with a 4-3 win over the Chunichi Dragons at the Nagoya Dome.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Hiranuma repents for comments on Botswana rating

Takeo Hiranuma, head of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, apologized Tuesday for earlier stating that Japan's sovereign bonds are improperly rated because they are ranked below those of Botswana, where a large portion of the population has AIDS.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Computer exec held in subsidy scam

OSAKA — The president of an Osaka computer software developer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of illegally receiving 160 million yen in government subsidies aimed at encouraging information technology research and development.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Mizuho president to take 50% pay cut

Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., plans to take a 50 percent pay cut over a six-month period to take responsibility for the computer fiasco that threw the group's operations into chaos during its April relaunch, informed sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Suzuki denies taking money for favors

Embattled lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on Tuesday denied during his testimony before a Lower House committee session that the money he received from a Hokkaido-based lumber company in 1998 was in return for political favors.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Russia cultural pact to be ratified

The government decided Tuesday to ratify a cultural exchange pact between Japan and Russia that expands on a 1986 treaty to include copyrights and cultural property, Foreign Ministry officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jun 19, 2002

What's the real problem behind music file sharing?

Share and share alike -- that's what we were taught when we were kids.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Omar Faruk Tekbilek: 'Alif'

With the steaming shimmer of a cymbal, Alif magically opens a creaking door, draws aside a heavy curtain and welcomes us into a room thick with the smell of sandalwood incense where revelers recline on silken pillows and smoke from gurgling hookahs, preparing for a night of decadent pleasures.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 19, 2002

PL directors OK Fighters' move

The Pacific League's board of directors on Tuesday approved the move of the Nippon Ham Fighters to Hokkaido for the 2004 season when the team will take up residence at the Sapporo Dome and be known as the "Sapporo Nippon Ham Fighters."
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Marubeni to sell Osaka headquarters

Trading house Marubeni Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its Osaka headquarters to an investment fund run by Nihon Sogo Fund Co.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Rhythm Love: 'The Best of Turntables on the Hudson'

We live in an age of increasingly diverse yet compartmentalized forms of dance music. The original "one" of disco, has fractalized into a "many," yet rare are the labels or parties that allow the genres to mingle. Funky breakbeats rarely intrude into the sets of clinically mixed trance, while the feel-good,...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

China gives permission to salvage 'spy ship'

Beijing gave the go-ahead Tuesday for Japan to salvage a suspected North Korean spy ship that sank in China's exclusive economic zone in December after a running gunbattle with Japan Coast Guard vessels.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Germany poised to displace Japan as world's second-largest aid donor

Japan may be replaced by Germany as the world's second-largest aid donor in 2006, only five years after losing to the United States its long-held status as No. 1, according to a Foreign Ministry document obtained Tuesday by The Japan Times.
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Jun 19, 2002

Japan train stations no longer a sea of black hair

Although not as flashy as the red and golden heads of the Japanese squad in the World Cup, ordinary citizens are sporting brighter hair colors these days, boosting domestic sales of hair dyes.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Spending cuts will finance tax reduction, Shiokawa says

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday that proposed tax cuts for the current fiscal year will be carried out boldly and will be financed by spending cuts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Tom Waits: 'Alice' and 'Blood Money'

On paper, Tom Waits' two new albums, "Alice" and "Blood Money," don't look promising. Without yet listening to them and knowing they were originally written for European theater pieces staged by avant-garde director Robert Wilson, they prompt one of two reactions: Here is obviously another misguided...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Chinese held over alien card fraud

OSAKA — Four Chinese men have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in alien registration card fraud following a search of 22 locations in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture, police said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 19, 2002

Piecing together the picture

There are hundreds of good -- even great -- art spaces in New York's West Chelsea, the world's largest and most important contemporary art gallery district. It's a wonderful place to browse, but this is best done with an open mind. I've often been frustrated when visiting art fairs or gallery districts...
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 19, 2002

G7's rose-tinted glasses not worn by all

The world's financial markets have reacted calmly to the optimistic picture of the global economy painted by financial leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Setagaya leans toward ordinance to publicly subsidize anti-Aum efforts

An ordinance proposed by Tokyo's Setagaya Ward to subsidize a residential campaign against Aum Shinrikyo was approved Monday by a committee of the ward assembly.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 19, 2002

Master of all but his destiny

No dozing in the dark for members of the audience at Yukio Ninagawa's new production of "Oedipus Rex," because the director has assigned us a role, too -- the public gallery of this artistic Theban court.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Asa-Chang and Junray

If melodic instruments are conduits of Venusian emotion, then percussion is their direct Martian counterpart. While a sax can wail and cry its way through a performance, an equally impassioned drum solo is usually described in terms of brute force: ferocious, cataclysmic, tumultuous.
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.

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