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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Heads begin to roll over Mizuho fiasco

The former presidents of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan -- the three components that on April 1 merged into two banks under Mizuho Holdings Inc. -- will step down to take responsibility for the sputtering group's ongoing computer snarls.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Mazda unleashes remodeled minivan

Mazda Motor Corp. on Tuesday released a new version of its MPV minivan, the first of four new or remodeled products that the automaker plans to launch in Japan this year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Apr 17, 2002

Blackalicious: 'Blazing Arrow'

'Who said underground is just one mode?" asks the Gift of Gab (Tim Parker) on Blackalicious' new album, "Blazing Arrow." That question became a rhetorical one when the Bay Area hip-hop duo's label, Quannum Projects, was picked up for distribution by MCA/ Universal. But even if they're underground only...
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

JICA mission to look into Havana Bay cleanup project

After nearly three years of preliminary research, Japan will dispatch a mission of aid experts to Cuba as early as this summer to begin full-scale work on the development of a project to clean up heavily polluted Havana Bay, government sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Lawson reports 11% profit drop

Lawson Inc., the nation's second-largest convenience-store chain operator, said Tuesday its group pretax profit fell 10.9 percent to 35.21 billion yen in the year ended Feb. 28.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Apr 17, 2002

Into the woods today: mourning nature's demise

Japanese cultural life has long revolved around the changing of the seasons, in particular, and nature, in general. Or has it? The differences between Japanese sensibilities toward nature and those generally held by Westerners have been much discussed. Yet it is interesting to note that, when used to...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2002

Working for a safer world

BEIJING -- "Weapons of mass destruction," or WMD, refer to biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. During a recent three-day conference in Beijing, organized jointly by the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs and the Chinese government, it became clear that we have to choose from a menu...
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2002

Japan, United States to sign tourism pact

Japan and the United States will sign a tourism promotion pact Friday in an effort to promote travel and revitalize their sagging tourism industries, which are still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2002

All we know of heaven and need of hell

There may indeed be "more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of" in human philosophy, as Hamlet told faithful Horatio, but when it comes to hell, the human imagination needs little prompting. From Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" to the Bible itself, hell and its tempting concomitant, sin, have...
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Mitsui Asset to target pension business, up consultants' pay

Mitsui Asset Trust & Banking Co. will beef up its pension trust operations while trying to raise the salaries of its pension consultants and other experts to levels seen at foreign banks, its president, Kazuo Tanabe, told Kyodo News.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2002

Yohei Kono undergoes liver transplant operation

Surgeons at Shinshu University Hospital in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, started a transplant operation Tuesday in which former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono would receive part of his son's liver.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Forum to tackle product piracy

A group of companies and industry associations set up Tuesday a forum to tackle what they see as increasing overseas infringement of intellectual property rights, especially in Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2002

Czukay ages well, but who's counting?

The first time Can bassist Holger Czukay came to Japan in 1982, his passport received extra scrutiny. This wasn't so unusual for slightly shaggy looking, middle-aged hippies. Czukay, however, wasn't an undesirable element.
EDITORIALS
Apr 17, 2002

Mr. Chavez's second chance

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has often courted confusion, but even by his standards this has been a tumultuous week. Days after he was overthrown by a military coup and a successor government sworn in, the firebrand leader was restored to power by loyalists within his government and popular protests....
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

National Oil reform plans face hurdle

An agreement seen as a test of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's promised reforms of inefficient government-linked corporations appears to be back on the negotiating table.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2002

March package tours show recovery

The number of travelers participating in overseas package tours at five major travel agencies in March recovered to 83.6 percent of the level achieved the same month last year, an industry body said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 17, 2002

Celebrate the living legacy of Japan's great onnagata

The Kabukiza theater in Tokyo is dedicating its April programs to Utaemon Nakamura VI, the 20th century's most distinguished onnagata (female-role specialist), who died on March 31 last year at age 84. Leading the performances are Utaemon's two adopted sons, Baigyoku Nakamura, 55, a tachiyaku (male lead),...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2002

Musical works in progress

In the world of contemporary rock and dance music, everything old ultimately becomes new again. The plucky three-chord anthems of Green Day are fresh for youngsters exploring safety pins and green hair as fashion statements for the first time, but for many over the age of 30, they are all too familiar....
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2002

As time goes by

From cityscapes to country roads, Edward Levinson captures even the smallest movements of nature through the eye of his pinhole camera.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

LDP lawmakers to oppose taxation of new postal entity

A group of ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers decided Tuesday to oppose the taxation of a new public corporation that will take over postal services, LDP officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Apr 17, 2002

Happy End all over again

British rock band Oasis will be playing live in Tokyo on May 23. But exactly where is a mystery.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Apr 17, 2002

Investors waiting warily to make moves

The Tokyo stock market has been in a wait-and-see mode since the beginning of the fiscal year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 17, 2002

Choreographer dances to a different tune

Choreographer Matthew Bourne, leader of his London-based Adventures in Motion Pictures company, shot to fame when his gay version of "Swan Lake" took the West End and Broadway by storm after being premiered at London's Sadler's Wells theater in 1995.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Japan faces tough sell at G7

Japan is expected to re-emphasize its resolve to achieve structural reforms aimed at revitalizing its economy when finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven major economic powers gather this week in Washington.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

NTT set to select Wada as new president in June

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plans to name Vice President Norio Wada as its next president, replacing Junichiro Miyazu, who is expected to become a senior adviser, sources said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 17, 2002

Fighters' proposed move to Sapporo makes sense

Quite a controversy brewing over the proposed relocation of the Nippon Ham Fighters from Tokyo to Sapporo for the 2004 season. The Pacific League club wants to shift its franchise base from the Tokyo Dome to the Sapporo Dome, but the Seibu Lions are trying to block the move, because that team wants to...
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2002

Japan will fight U.S. curbs with EU: Hiranuma

Trade minister Takeo Hiranuma has reconfirmed that he will make joint efforts with the European Union to fight U.S. import curbs on steel products, a ministry official said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Apr 17, 2002

Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone: 'Virtuosi'

Jazz and classical have long had an antagonistic relationship. Despite the two genres' overlapping affinities, jazz players often see classical as too stiff and intellectual, while classical musicians look down on the casual folksiness of jazz.
Narita Airport runway closed after cargo plane makes emergency landing
An Atlas Air Boeing 747 in January 2023
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Japan is living in the shadow of the megaquake
A man makes his way along an earthquake-damaged street in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in January. With last week's tremors in Kyushu and the nature of the Nankai Trough, some experts believe that the omens of a disaster can be seen.
Singapore Airlines plane brake glitch forces Narita runway closure
Singapore Airlines said a flight landing at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture had "experienced a technical issue with its brakes upon landing."
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
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.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.
Elezo Esprit: A visceral celebration of Hokkaido’s wild game
Moved by an experience with a local hunter, Shota Sasaki has since focused on elevating the image of game meat in Japan.

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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