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BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Oct 25, 2001

Dollar could test higher ground in future

The dollar has snapped out of its holding pattern and now appears poised to gain further ground against the yen in the months ahead.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Support key to Moody's bank ratings

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Wednesday that when it rates financial institutions affiliated with the Japanese government, it emphasizes the level of commitment the state gives them more than the institutions' own financial health.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Fujitsu announces additional job cuts

Fujitsu Ltd. plunged into the red for the first half of its business year as the global slump in information technology dealt a blow to its core communications and electronics businesses.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Supermarkets down, department stores up

Supermarket sales fell in September from a year earlier for the 34th straight month, but department stores saw increased business for the first time in three months, industry groups said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 25, 2001

Swallows a win away from fifth Series title

The big guns drew blanks for the Yakult Swallows on Wednesday, but a role player picked up the slack.
JAPAN / INTERNATIONAL RATIONALE
Oct 25, 2001

Foreign equity funds' ways changing face of Japan Inc.

When hunting for a company to buy out, Kenji Ueda doesn't wait to be introduced. The Ripplewood Holdings LLC executive director makes his phone calls cold.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Asia holds key to GM's outlook, chairman says

The boss of American auto giant General Motors Corp. believes the Asia-Pacific market will dictate the carmaker's global sales outlook.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Tokyo Shogin illegal loan case deepens

The former head of failed credit union Tokyo Shogin, already under arrest on suspicion of embezzlement and extending 1.62 billion yen in illegal loans, provided another 3 billion yen in illegal loans to a Tokyo business group, investigative sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Key panel pushes for 27% cut in public works spending

A key government panel chaired by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi believes spending on public works projects should be cut by 27 percent over the next five years, according to the draft of a fiscal policy proposal obtained Wednesday by Kyodo News.
OLYMPICS
Oct 25, 2001

New president outlines JOC plans

New Japanese Olympic Committee president Tsunekazu Takeda said Wednesday that he would like to send Japanese athletes to the Salt Lake City Olympics in February as long as the Winter Olympic Games go ahead.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Plan for mentally ill criminals criticized

Mental health workers on Wednesday urged the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry to scrap plans to establish special facilities to confine mental patients who have committed serious crimes, arguing the facilities would reinforce prejudices.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Tab swells for Trade Center attack

The nation's 29 nonlife insurers are likely to pay a total of 30.4 billion yen for damages related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, an industry association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

All sellers, no buyers equals no opportunities in Osaka

OSAKA -- The 16th Global Business Opportunities Convention wrapped up in Osaka on Wednesday evening in an atmosphere of disappointment on the part of organizers and participants.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Government mulls thawing loan-freeze against Pakistan

The government began studying Wednesday providing new loans to Pakistan, government sources said.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 25, 2001

Japanese gymnasts will not travel

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BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2001

Fuel cells, IT on stage at motor show

MAKUHARI, Chiba Pref. -- The 35th Tokyo Motor Show opened to the media Wednesday, showcasing concept cars, motorbikes and the latest auto parts at the Makuhari Messe international event hall.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 25, 2001

And the AL MVP winner is . . .

Forget about the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Ichiro Suzuki bagged that puppy back in May with a 23-game hitting streak. The million-dollar question is: Who will win the AL MVP Award? Ichiro has a shot at becoming the first rookie since Fred Lynn in 1975 to garner the honor.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 25, 2001

Tales from the well-made crypt

Fifty years ago, archaeologists used an oil-rig drill to bore 53 meters below the surface of a mound in Gordion, Turkey, the ancient capital of Phrygia. Underneath the limestone-rich earth was the oldest intact wooden structure in the world, a 5 x 6 meter chamber dating from the eighth century B.C. The...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 25, 2001

Cedar cull may still leave pollen victims fuming

This week's column is about air pollution, principally emissions from diesel engines. But first, the forest and cedar trees.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Think tank calls for shift to green economy

Japan should promote "green" taxes, a new global environment policy organization and other innovative policies in the runup to Earth Summit 2002 to be held in Johannesburg next fall, a leading think tank said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Interest in new religions mirrors social change

While the definition of "new religion" varies among scholars and religious groups, the term is generally used for groups founded sometime between the mid-19th century, when Japan started modernizing, and the mid-1970s.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2001

Curbs urged on South Korean DRAM

Four major electronics makers may ask the government to impose punitive duties on what they call unfairly cheap semiconductor imports from South Korea, industry sources said Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 25, 2001

Serendipity in Hokkaido's autumnal air

It was just a bridge, not even a special bridge. The Heiwa Bridge spans the eastern end of Lake Tofutsu in northeastern Hokkaido. To the north there is a narrow neck of wooded land and then the Okhotsk Sea. To the south lies more woodland, then great expanses of farmland. It was just a bridge, but suddenly...
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Oct 25, 2001

Nogiku (Wild asters)

CULTURE / Film
Oct 24, 2001

Escape to Allen's New York

Small Time Crooks Rating: * * * * Director: Woody Allen Running time: 95 minutes Language: English Now showing
CULTURE / Film
Oct 24, 2001

TIFF take 14

Japan has one of the largest film markets in the world. Accordingly, every year the Tokyo International Film Festival serves up world cinema on a grand scale, screening more than 140 films over the course of a week.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 24, 2001

His turn to talk

I interviewed Hideyuki Hirayama in the summer of 2000 at Nikkatsu Studio, after spending a morning inside a dim, dank soundstage, watching him film Riho Makise. Makise was working on an etching and was padding silently about her house -- an early scene in "Turn," but one of the last in the shoot.
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.
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.
Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes Kanto region
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Kanto region on Friday evening.
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.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
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.
From the Bronx to Paris: Breaking set for its Olympic close-up
Shigekix, whose real name is Shigeyuki Nakarai, in action during the world championships in Leuven, Belgium, in September
Kishida looks to constitutional reform to win over LDP conservatives
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party panel on constitutional reform in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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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