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BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

Securities firms slapped over trading violations

The Financial Services Agency ordered four foreign-affiliated securities firms Tuesday to either suspend or improve operations after they were found to have violated new rules on short-selling.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

Kinki Nippon Tourist lands in red

Kinki Nippon Tourist Co. said Tuesday it incurred a consolidated pretax loss of 534 million yen in the year to Dec. 31.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

Nissan unveils first vehicle codeveloped with Renault

Nissan Motor Co. on Tuesday released the new version of its March compact car, the first vehicle to feature a platform jointly developed with its French partner, Renault S.A.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

METI panel holds first meeting on revising corporate taxes

A Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry study panel met Tuesday to discuss revisions to some corporate taxes as part of comprehensive government tax reforms.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

Jakarta urged to show commitment

Takeo Hiranuma, minister of economy, trade and industry, said Tuesday he has urged Indonesian ministers to show commitment when seeking assistance from Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 27, 2002

When the gods come down to earth

Next month, a taste of one of Japan's oldest folk arts comes to Tokyo's National Theater -- a two-day program of Shiiba Kagura, a colorful and profoundly religious dance that hails from a remote region of Kyushu.
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 27, 2002

Learning not to mask their feelings

A good actor, according to director Louis Fantasia, knows how to kiss -- that is, how to K.I.S.S., an aphorism he borrowed from playwright David Mamet, meaning, "Keep it simple, stupid."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2002

Looking longer and seeing more

If you love art, you probably like nothing more than browsing at an exhibition; then perhaps, enthusing with friends that evening about what you saw. Maybe you even indulge in buying the occasional artwork.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Feb 27, 2002

Hanayo and Tenko: through a lens blurrily

Cocky, irreverant and devil-may-care, invariably to be found surrounded by admirers as he holds forth from behind a big fat cigar, the Neo-Pop painter Takashi Murakami has for the last few years been one of Japan's leading international art stars.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2002

Court rejects redress suit for Iranian detainee's death

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by an Iranian man seeking some 93 million yen in compensation from the central government in connection with the death of his son, who was allegedly assaulted by immigration employees in a scuffle while in detention in 1997.
COMMENTARY
Feb 27, 2002

Beware the axis of hubris

WASHINGTON -- As U.S. President George W. Bush wandered across Northeast Asia, it appeared that he thought it was 1942, not 2002. He seemed to believe that the world was engaged in a twilight struggle between good and evil, and only overwhelming American military involvement everywhere could prevent...
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2002

Free-lancers, Web 'media' under bill

A human rights bill being prepared to, in part, protect individuals from excessive media coverage will apply to freelance reporters working in all media -- including the Internet -- as well as reporters employed by news organizations, the government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2002

Daiei bailout now put at 520 billion yen

The three main creditor banks of Daiei Inc. plan to increase their financial support for the troubled supermarket chain to 520 billion yen from the initially planned 420 billion yen, sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002

Soulive: 'Next'

Soulive have dug back into the '60s hard-bop era to resurrect the Hammond B-3 organ-guitar-drum trio combo. Far from being retro, though, they refurbish this jazz staple into a gleaming, hot-burning sound. They can definitely be called a "jam band," with their CDs fitting as comfortably in record stores'...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002

Epoca de Ouro: 'Cafe Brasil'

Brazil has produced more than its fair share of indigenous popular music, but the most basic is choro, which in Portuguese literally means "sobbing." That isn't to say all choro songs are designed to make the listener break down in tears. It has more to do with the ensemble sound, a kind of contrapuntal...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002

Janet Klein: 'Paradise Wobble'

Janet Klein was born in the wrong era. With her warm, lilting voice, flapper dresses and ukulele, she seems more suitable for the Roaring '20s than the world today. On "Paradise Wobble," she gives us a taste of the bygone era she pines for. Together with her Parlor Boys, a group of enthusiastic archival...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002

Angelo Badalamenti: 'Mulholland Drive'

David Lynch has always been one of cinema's most astute directors when it comes to sound. Whether its recycling pop songs in an entirely new context ("Blue Velvet") or pure industrial ambience (the radiator hiss from "Eraserhead"), Lynch has always used the soundtrack deliberately to add another dimension...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Feb 27, 2002

Signs of the times

Is the world ready for Hikki?
EDITORIALS
Feb 26, 2002

Constitutional reform debate low-key

The parliamentary debate on constitutional reform is making little headway two years after it formally began in both Houses of the Diet. The Constitutional Research Committee, created in both Houses in 2000 to make a comprehensive review of the national charter, is expected to submit a report in 2005....
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2002

Mob boss slain while under police guard

A gunman shot and killed a yakuza boss who was under police guard Monday morning in the intensive care unit at Nippon Medical School Hospital in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.
SOCCER / J. League / ON THE BALL
Feb 26, 2002

Concerns grow for Japan's walking wounded

Ryuzo Morioka of Shimizu S-Pulse, Kenichi Uemura of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Naoki Matsuda of the Yokohama F. Marinos, Toshihiro Hattori and Makoto Tanaka of Juiblo Iwata, Atsuhiro Miura of Tokyo Verdy 1969 . . . are just some of the national team players who are suffering an injury or illness at the moment,...
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2002

Hospital must pay over intern's overwork death

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Monday ordered Kansai Medical University Hospital in Osaka Prefecture to pay about 135 million yen in compensation to the parents of an intern who died of overwork in 1998.

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’