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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2002

Explosive issues dominate Arab summit

BEIRUT -- Arab summits may deal with any matter of common concern to the 22 member states of the "Arab Nation." The matter may be "ordinary" or "emergency," but in practice the more or less permanent emergency of Palestine has furnished 90 percent of their resolutions. Only occasionally have other issues...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Mar 27, 2002

Stanton Moore: 'Flyin' the Koop'

Stanton Moore has been the drummer for New Orleans' favorite funky jam band, Galactic, since the early '90s. That band earned its following the old-fashioned way, by playing hard and heavy music to make audiences groove. Moore's solo projects, however, lean more toward jazz, but without ever leaving...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Mar 27, 2002

Groove is in the House

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BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Big banks continue to write off bad loans

The nation's 13 major banks are expected to book a combined 7.5 trillion yen in loan-loss charges for the business year to March 31, about 1 trillion yen more than the 6.44 trillion yen previously estimated, banking sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Hiranuma frets over EU plan to curb steel imports

Trade minister Takeo Hiranuma said Tuesday he is worried that a reported plan by the European Union to join the United States in curbing steel imports will hinder the world's free-trade regime.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Kansai No. 2 runway edges forward

OSAKA -- Some 240 airport and construction officials attended a ceremony Tuesday at Kansai International Airport to mark the building of a second runway, projected for completion by 2007.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Mar 27, 2002

Pet Shop Boys: 'Release'

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BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Securities protection funds to merge

Local and foreign funds designed to protect securities investors in the event of brokerage failures are expected to merge by July, industry sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2002

Getting back to where it began

The career of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1919), as it unfolds in a new retrospective at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, is like watching art history run backward. Its culmination -- the glowing colors and dynamic abstraction he made his own -- introduced a whole new visual vocabulary to Western...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Warring factors may lock yen above 130

The yen has given up much of its recent gains and now sits just about where it did earlier in the year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 27, 2002

Humans' distance laid bare in two close-ups on 'intimacy'

Theater Project Tokyo's current, compelling double bill, "TPT Futures 2002," grapples head-on with how, as time and circumstances change, people deal with the eternally fraught business of maintaining or severing their intimate ties with others.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Mar 27, 2002

Putting a 'gloss' on exhibitions

A computer-geek friend of mine recently posed an interesting problem to me: "If you wanted to save a document so that it was easily accessible 100 years from now, what format would you use?"
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Mar 27, 2002

O-Ne: '2624'

I ask Tokyo duo O-Ne why their long-awaited debut album is called "2624." Is that a combination of the ages of the two chicks in the band? Is that when the world's gonna finally end? Or is that the black-market price in pounds sterling for a ticket to see England whip the ass of Argentina in the upcoming...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Mar 27, 2002

Macha: 'The Ride'

After the disbanding of their Gainesville, Fla.-based prog-rock group Emperor Moth, multi-instrumentalist brothers Joshua and Mishco Makay moved to Athens, Ga., where they formed Macha. The shift from one thriving college town to another -- and a backpacking trip through Southeast Asia -- changed their...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2002

Asahi Kasei, Dupont unit ink pact

Asahi Kasei Corp. and a unit of U.S.-based DuPont on Tuesday said they will set up a joint venture in China to produce polyacetal, a resin often used in automobile parts.
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2002

Double-edged law for juveniles

The Liberal Democratic Party is preparing a bill designed to deal with "social conditions detrimental to the sound development of juveniles" -- conditions that induce or encourage sex and violence on the part of children. Although there is no question about the need to promote the healthy development...
COMMENTARY
Mar 26, 2002

Getting tough on bid rigging

Japanese newspapers are awash with scandals over bidding for public works projects. Japan's construction industry, which accounts for more than 10 percent of the nation's employed workers, is the world's largest. It is unconscionable that this important industry has become a hotbed of collusion among...
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

Kyodo photos go online in English

Kyodo News on April 1 will launch an English-language photo data service that will allow customers to search and download photos via the Internet.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

Big banks to slash rates April 1

Japan's four major banking groups plan to cut interest rates on their ordinary deposits to coincide with the April 1 abolition of full government protection of time deposits, banking sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

Hino and Scania sign tieup to boost competitive edge

Hino Motors Ltd. and Scania AB of Sweden said Monday the truck and bus manufacturers have signed a long-term comprehensive tieup to increase their competitive edge in the global market.
SOCCER / J. League / ON THE BALL
Mar 26, 2002

JAWOC puts fans on hold

A commercial running on Japanese TV at the moment shows an astronaut being told to go on a space trip by his boss. He complains, saying that he has tickets for some World Cup games. But his boss insists he has to go. The astronaut reluctantly goes leaving his tickets on the floor. The boss picks them...
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

Nagasakiya wants 16 years to pay back 17.5% of debt

Supermarket chain Nagasakiya Co., currently undergoing court-mandated rehabilitation, has compiled an installment plan to pay some of its debt over 16 years, the company said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

MMC to break even this business year: COO

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will break even in the current business year, which ends Sunday, chief operating officer of the automaker said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

Nation's big retailers see continuing drop in sales

Earnings from sales at Japan's supermarkets and department stores continued their year-on-year fall in February due to price declines and slow winter clearance sales, industry associations said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2002

'Grim' fundamentals to keep new bond issuance flat: S&P

Standard & Poor's Corp. expects Japan's poor economic fundamentals to continue undermining the new issuance of corporate bonds in the coming months.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2002

Bolick lifts Marines

Outfielder Yukihiko Sato drove in three runs and designated hitter Frank Bolick went 2-for-2 Monday as the Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Yomiuri Giants 6-3 in an exhibition game.

Longform

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