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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2001

Sri Lanka's chance of ending conflict is bigger than ever

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the newly installed Sri Lankan prime minister, has been in a tense struggle to form a government of national consensus.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Death penalty upheld for former cultist

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld the death penalty for one-time senior Aum Shinrikyo figure Kazuaki Okazaki, 41, for his role in the 1989 murders of a Yokohama lawyer, the lawyer's family and a cultist who tried to defect.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Obituary: Kichiro Tazawa

Former Liberal Democratic Party politician Kichiro Tazawa died Wednesday night of esophagus cancer at a hospital in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, his family said Thursday. He was 83.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

MMC contracts IBM to manage its IT system

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will outsource the management and maintenance of its information technology systems to IBM Japan Ltd. in 2002, the two firms revealed Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

30 roadwork firms searched over suspected bid-rigging

The Fair Trade Commission searched the offices of about 30 roadwork firms Thursday in connection with alleged bid-rigging on highway contracts, sources at the commission said.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Current account surplus up 14%

Japan's surplus in the broadest measure of foreign trade rose 14 percent in October from a year earlier to 865.1 billion yen, marking its second consecutive month of increase, the Finance Ministry said Thursday in a preliminary current account report.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Showa Denko to ax 1,000 workers, slash salaries 33%

Comprehensive chemical maker Showa Denko K.K. said Thursday it will cut an additional 1,000 jobs at its group firms and reduce salaries up to 33 percent in 2002 to survive the harsh business environment.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 14, 2001

Motoki inks new pact with Giants

Yomiuri Giants infielder Daisuke Motoki agreed to a four-year deal carrying an annual salary of 120 million yen, a 32 million yen increase from this year.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Japan plans new Chinese import curbs

Japan plans to make legal revisions to impose emergency import curbs that have become possible as a result of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, government officials said.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Clinic offers sleep apnea diagnosis

OSAKA -- An Osaka clinic has started to offer diagnostic services for sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing is interrupted during sleep, causing sleeplessness, according to clinic officials.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Bad loans not only drag

I have often been asked of late whether the disposal of banks' bad loans will be followed by an economic pickup.
SOCCER / THE BALD TRUTH
Dec 14, 2001

Barbie dolls, Muppets battle to bore draw

We all wait with an impending sense of dread to see what South Korean soccer chief Chung Mong Joon and his cronies have got up their sleeves for the opening ceremony of the World Cup next year.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Foreign Ministry officials to give to charity

Five sub-ministerial political appointees within the Foreign Ministry will each donate one month's allowance money to worthy causes as a form of punishment over the latest scandal to hit the ministry, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Court awards redress to four without acquittal

The Tokyo High Court has awarded four people who were charged with assault as minors compensation of about 1.7 million yen each, effectively acknowledging their innocence in the case.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Kagome to buy control in Heinz unit

Kagome Co., Japan's largest manufacturer of processed tomato foodstuffs, said Thursday it will buy a controlling stake in Heinz Japan Ltd., the Japanese unit of H.J. Heinz Co. of the United States, next February to make it a joint venture with the U.S. food giant.
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Dec 14, 2001

Every child gets to be a musician here

My 7-year-old is learning to play a uniquely Japanese instrument. The shamisen? No. The koto? No. Like virtually every other first-grader here, my son is learning to play the kenban hamonika (keyboard harmonica).
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Child abuse deaths post 30% rise

The National Police Agency said Thursday that 56 children died as a result of child abuse in the 12 months after a law against abuse came into force in November 2000.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Sharp considers ditching its one-and-all salary system

OSAKA -- Sharp Corp. is considering introducing different wages according to job types so that some employees may be paid as much as 20 percent more than others, a company official said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Japan Prize awarded to Web inventor, biologists

Two Britons and a Pole have been named winners of the Japan Prize for 2002 for their contributions to science and technology research, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan announced on Thursday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Dec 14, 2001

Moon bear

* Japanese name: Nihon Tsukinowa-guma * Scientific name: Ursus thibetanus japonicus * Description: This is the largest animal in Japan, apart from the Hokkaido brown bear, 110-130 cm tall when standing upright. Also called the Asiatic bear or Japanese black bear, the moon bear gets its Japanese name...
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Lift age for retirement, medical services: proposal

A government strategy drafted with Japan's graying society in mind proposes increasing the mandatory ages for retirement and eligibility for medical services, according to the draft outline obtained by Kyodo News.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2001

Japan to get Xbox console Feb. 22

The chief operating officer of Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that the Xbox game console will be launched in Japan on Feb. 22 as scheduled.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Afghan conference adopts appeal

A three-day conference in Tokyo on the reconstruction of Afghanistan closed Thursday after adopting a comprehensive appeal that local nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan be left in charge of the task.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2001

Device to scan body shape promises better-fitting goods

It takes just under a second for a head -- and less than two for a whole body -- to produce the data necessary to create a precise 3-D model of your shape.
EDITORIALS
Dec 13, 2001

Collapse of a BWC review conference

Despite the perceived threat of biological weapons that has been heightened by the anthrax attacks in the United States, a review conference on the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva broke down in disarray last weekend. To the angry disappointment of its allies, including Japan, it was the U.S....
COMMENTARY
Dec 13, 2001

Challenges to Afghan peace

ISLAMABAD -- Afghanistan's warring factions have finally found common ground on which to build a new government almost two decades after their country was invaded by troops from the former Soviet Union. The civil war that followed the withdrawal of the Soviets has claimed thousands of lives and left...
People urged to avoid panic-buying as megaquake fears spread
A sign says "bottled water is being rationed, with a cap of one case (six bottles) per customer" in a supermarket in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on Saturday.
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.
Japan issues first-ever alert over risk of Nankai Trough megaquake
Naoshi Hirata, chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday evening.
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.
Two hidden gems hint at a path to more diversity in anime
“Ghost Cat Anzu” centers on an 11-year-old girl who travels to hell and back with a walking, talking, moped-driving, human-sized cat.
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.
No sumo tickets? No problem. Here are some other ways to take in the sport.
Wrestlers battle during the national women's championships in Osaka in 2018. Amateur sumo is a great way to experience the sport for tourists who are unable to get tickets to professional tournaments.
The definitive guide to Utagawa Hiroshige's masterwork is a feast for the eyes
Utagawa Hiroshige produced several highly successful series of landscape prints over the course of his career, including “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” — the largest collection of his career.
In sleepy Chichibu, Japan's whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.

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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