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OLYMPICS
Jan 18, 2002

JOC to send 218-member team

said Wednesday it will send 109 athletes and as many officials to next month's Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, cutting back on an earlier plan to send a 224-member delegation. Though still the largest Japanese delegation for a Winter Olympics outside Japan, the number was reduced by six after...
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Ozaki tied to rigged hospital bid

Construction company Kajima Corp. and two political secretaries named in recent scandals competed for work on the same hospital building project in Yamagata Prefecture in the late 1990s, industry sources said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 18, 2002

Shunto's role being tested

Japan's largest labor and management groups have kicked off their annual round of negotiations, with each side releasing a position paper. Basically the two sides agree that under present circumstances protecting jobs is more important than raising wages. That sounds reasonable enough, given that the...
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Tokyo to spend 5% less during next fiscal year

Reflecting the deepening economic slump, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's draft fiscal 2002 budget, revealed Thursday, marks a 4.8 percent decrease from the initial budget for the current fiscal year, coming to 5.907 trillion yen.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Postal trio found guilty in illegal campaigning

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court sentenced three senior postal officials to suspended prison terms Thursday for illegally campaigning for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the House of Councilors election in July.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Powell to meet Tanaka, Koizumi

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, due in Japan for next week's Afghan reconstruction conference, will meet with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka on Sunday and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday, Japanese officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Japan's Afghan pledge awaited: Ogata

The international community has high expectations for Japanese assistance to rebuild Afghanistan, and Japan needs to make an "appropriate" pledge at next week's conference in Tokyo to this end, Sadako Ogata said Thursday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 18, 2002

Japan names Kirin Cup opponents

The Japan national soccer team will host Honduras and Slovakia in the Kirin Cup on April 29 (4 p.m. kickoff) at Tokyo's National Stadium and May 2 (7:20 p.m. kickoff) at Kobe Wing Stadium, respectively, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / PROTOCOL PURSUIT
Jan 18, 2002

Emissions-trading plan put on back burner

Staff writer Until recently, trading in carbon dioxide emissions seemed destined for early introduction in Japan. The launch of such a system, however, is being put off as the government postpones key policy decisions to curb global-warming emissions.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Senior vice foreign minister to visit Seoul to kick off year of exchanges

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake will visit Seoul next week to help kick off a year of friendship exchanges between Japan and South Korea.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 18, 2002

Big-name jumpers to skip Japan

Eight of the top 10 leaders in the ski jumping World Cup standings will skip tour events in Japan later this month to prepare for next month's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Ski Association of Japan (SAJ) said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 18, 2002

Ishii ready to go

Left-hander Kazuhisa Ishii, returning to Tokyo on Wednesday from a short training trip to Hawaii, said he is eager to seal a deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers hopefully before Feb. 2.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jan 18, 2002

Flexing bodies, opening minds

When 24-year-old Elena Davidenko, former gymnast of the Russian national team, returned to Moscow last summer after serving a 2 1/2-year stint as a sports exchange adviser in Akita City, she left a legacy of new ideas for her Japanese students.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Koizumi downplays talk of March economic crisis

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi brushed aside speculation Thursday that Japan may fall into a financial crisis in March, pledging that he would not let that happen.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Produce growers learning to cope with competition

Unlike traditional family farms, 52-year-old Tetsuichi Umezu runs his like a corporation.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Kids' New Year's cash gifts inch down

Children in Japan felt the effects of deflation in their New Year's "otoshidama" monetary gifts, with the average received down 886 yen to 25,538 yen, according to a survey by Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Current account surplus climbed 19.4% in November

The current account surplus rose 19.4 percent in November from a year earlier to 1.125 trillion yen, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Nomura files revised income report

TV personality Sachiyo Nomura, indicted in December for alleged tax evasion, has filed a revised income report with the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2002

Kobe marks quake anniversary

KOBE -- The people of the Kobe area on Thursday marked the seventh anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which resulted in the loss of more than 6,400 lives and left tens of thousands homeless.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / LEARNING BY HEART
Jan 18, 2002

Fostering family togetherness on the rink

As my daughter stepped out onto the ice, I held my breath. Her steps were small. She moved slowly, with focus and balance and seeming assuredness. One -- two -- one -- two.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Labor eyes job security over raises

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), indicated Thursday that companies may ask labor unions to accept pay cuts to prevent job losses in this year's wage negotiations.
COMMENTARY
Jan 18, 2002

War taking U.S. policy hostage

HONOLULU -- The fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan has been greeted with quiet satisfaction. In fact, despite the sudden collapse of the Kabul regime, the tone in Washington has been sober. Washington has reminded us that the U.S.-led "war" against terrorism has three objectives -- the removal...
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Tokyo set to cut the umbilical cord

An aging, even failing, parent still carrying a grown-up child piggyback is about to stave off collapse by finally letting the child walk by itself -- at least for a short distance.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Japan eyes extension of small arms-collection program

Nearly 10 months after launching a "guns for butter" program in Cambodia, Japan is preparing to extend the pilot project to include other conflict-plagued, impoverished countries around the globe, especially in Asia and Africa.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jan 18, 2002

Exhausted dollar consolidating its range

Market participants are now divided over the future of the yen-dollar rate, with some expecting the yen to continue its fall while others believe the opposite.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

Finance minister concerned about stock market slump

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Thursday that he is worried about slumping stock prices as Japan struggles to escape its third recession in a decade.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Jan 18, 2002

Great diving beetle

* Japanese name: Gengorou * Scientific name: Cybister japonicus * Description: This is a large, streamlined water beetle, highly adapted to an aquatic life. It is a powerful swimmer, with hind legs flattened like oars and fringed with long hairs. The body is green or black, with yellow-white bands running...
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.
Tropical Storm Maria set for rare Tohoku landfall from Pacific coast
Officials from the Meteorological Agency and the land ministry hold a news conference on Saturday and urge people in Tohoku to be on alert for Tropical Storm Maria, which is forecast to make landfall in the region on Monday.
Japan finishes third on medal table after strong showing at Paris Olympics
Yuka Kagami celebrates with her medal after winning the women's 76-kg freestyle wrestling event on the final day of the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi secures javelin gold with opening throw
Haruka Kitaguchi competes in the final of the women's javelin on Saturday at the Paris Olympics.
Tohoku on alert as Tropical Storm Maria moves over region
High water levels in the Nagauchi River in the city of Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, on Monday　
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 through 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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