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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2001

East meeting with West carves history into wood

Reiko Yamanouchi remembers clearly how wood engraving entered her life. "Soon after joining my husband in Cambridge in 1968 -- he was a research student at the university -- I was given a book to help me get a feeling for the city, a memoir by Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2001

U.S. code said cracked in '41

KOBE -- In mid-1941, as tensions between Japan and the United States mounted, Washington took extreme precautions to protect coded diplomatic messages between the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the State Department from being intercepted by the Japanese.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2001

China starts dumping probe of firms

China began an antidumping probe Friday into imports of raw nylon material from Japan, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2001

Growth forecast at minus 0.3%

The government is likely to set its official growth forecast for fiscal 2002 at minus 0.3 percent in the wake of news that the economy contracted a real 0.5 percent in the July-September quarter, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2001

10,000 Matsushita workers apply for retirement scheme

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Friday that more than 10,000 workers, or over 10 percent of its group workforce, have applied to take part in an early retirement plan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 8, 2001

Kazuko Honjo

When she speaks, Kazuko Honjo sets off an avalanche of words. She has ideas and energy, inborn talent and developed skills, insights and understanding. Now that she is taking stock and formulating plans, she has reached, she says, her turning point.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 8, 2001

Making central heating cool

It's wintertime and I'm huddled under the "kotatsu," the only square meter of heated space in the house. Sitting under the kotatsu is like grilling your limbs under a broiler or sticking your feet inside a toaster oven. I've taken on the two-tone look: blue upper body and red lower.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2001

Diet passes bill to help middle-aged, elderly find work

The House of Councilors passed a bill Friday to help middle-aged and elderly workers who lose their jobs to secure new employment via initiatives such as employer subsidies.
COMMENTARY
Dec 8, 2001

Look of Japan belies reality

LONDON -- A recent, short visit to Japan made me doubt whether there was much sense of an economic crisis threatening Japan's future and how far the recession has affected ordinary people.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2001

Draft of Justice Ministry human-rights plan focuses on vulnerable groups

The Justice Ministry has compiled a draft of the government's basic human rights plan, calling for special efforts to protect the rights of vulnerable groups in Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2001

New bill boosts RCC's bad-loan powers

The Diet passed a bill Friday designed to bolster the functions of the state-run Resolution and Collection Corp. to help banks accelerate the disposal of bad loans by selling them to the RCC.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2001

Breaking with Keynesianism

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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2001

Maoists try to undermine Nepal's ties with neighbors

T he latest Maoist turbulence in Nepal is yet another chapter in the Himalayan kingdom's recent history of bloodshed and carnage, which began with the palace massacre in early June.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 7, 2001

Hara for FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo has named former Urawa Reds boss Hiromi Hara as the team's new manager for next season, officials of the J. League first-division side said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2001

Economy still lagging under 50%

The government said Thursday its key gauge of the economy remained below the boom-or-bust line of 50 percent in October, marking its 10th consecutive month under this line.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Attack response legislation on the way

The government may submit to the next regular Diet session starting in January legislation stipulating how Japan would respond to a military attack, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda hinted Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2001

Japan set to ratify '94 treaty on Soviet energy

In a rather belated move, Japan is set to formally join a key post-Cold War international treaty calling for the liberalization of trade and investment in energy in Russia and the other former Soviet republics.
COMMENTARY
Dec 7, 2001

Koizumi takes aim at public corporations

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi believes the Japanese economy cannot recover without structural reform. As the first step in translating this political philosophy into action, he is working on reforming inefficient government-affiliated public corporations.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2001

No quick-fix seen in China farm trade dispute

Japan and China will begin a new round of bilateral talks over a lingering farm trade dispute in Beijing today, but a top Japanese trade representative indicated any quick resolution is unlikely.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Peacekeeping bill clears final panel

A House of Councilors panel approved a bill Thursday to expand the scope of Self-Defense Forces participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Bush adviser discusses energy policy

OSAKA -- A senior energy policy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday that any proposal submitted by the U.S. as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol would rely on technology and market mechanisms to forge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 7, 2001

MLB won't be opening 2002 campaign in Japan

The office of the commissioner of Japanese baseball confirmed Thursday that Major League Baseball has decided not to open the 2002 regular season with games in Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Former foot-cult deputy gets five years for fraud

A former deputy leader of the Honohana Sampogyo foot-reading cult was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for defrauding 31 people between 1994 and 1997.
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.

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