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BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2001

Buck to be firm against yen this week

The U.S. dollar is expected to be firm against the yen in Tokyo in the coming week as the Bank of Japan is likely to continue supporting the U.S. currency through market intervention.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2001

Yamasaki pushes for easing SDF weapons-use limits

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Sunday that weapons-use restrictions on the Self-Defense Forces must be eased because the medical and refugee support they will be providing for the United States military in Pakistan will endanger them.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2001

Foreign sand spreading acid: experts

A yellow sand that blows into Japan from deserts in China and Mongolia each spring is carrying massive volumes of acid gases that may cause long-term soil depletion, researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, said Sunday.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2001

Koizumi should follow in Thatcher's footsteps

The infamous terrorist attacks on the United States have done much to alter the global economic landscape. But they have done nothing to change the economic problems Japan needs to tackle.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2001

Lawmaker relents over driver's license

House of Representatives lawmaker Koki Ishii took five months to give police his driver's license after its revocation in April, sources close to the case said Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2001

Olympic champ Takahashi sets record in Berlin marathon

Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi became the first woman to run a marathon under 2 hours and 20 minutes Sunday, winning the Berlin marathon in 2 hours, 19 minutes, 46 seconds.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 1, 2001

Hawks explode in 12-4 bashing of Buffaloes

Koji Akiyama belted a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Daiei Hawks exploded for eight more runs the next frame to trounce the Kintetsu Buffaloes 12-4 at the Fukuoka Dome on Sunday.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2001

World tourism industry predicts swift recovery

OSAKA -- Despite the pall of fear hanging over the travel industry as a result of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States and the likelihood that increased insurance premiums will result in the closure of several airlines, representatives of the international tourism industry have predicted...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2001

Latest passport detectors get nod for early installation

The Justice Ministry has decided to accelerate installation of new equipment that will detect fake passports at all 35 major airports and ports servicing international routes, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2001

GLOCOM to hold information society seminar

The International University of Japan's Center for Global Communication will present a seminar in Tokyo on Oct. 16 on the roles of women and foreigners in an information society, which will compare Japan's situation with those in the U.S. and elsewhere in Asia.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 30, 2001

Kawaguchi heading to Pompey

YOKOHAMA -- After a seemingly endless period of waiting, Yokohama F. Marinos and Japan goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi finally landed a transfer deal with Portsmouth and will join the English Division One side on Oct. 21 after the two clubs reached a provisional agreement on Saturday morning.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 30, 2001

Tuffy held homerless, but Buffaloes win another one in style

CHIBA -- Tuffy Rhodes remained tied with Sadaharu Oh for the Japan pro baseball single-season home run record at 55 after the Kintetsu Buffaloes downed the Chiba Lotte Marines 9-7 in dramatic fashion on Saturday at Chiba Marine Stadium.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Koizumi, Mbeki plan science pact

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South African President Thabo Mbeki will agree at a meeting in Tokyo this week to start negotiations on a science and technology cooperation pact, government sources said Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 30, 2001

Bismarck scores twice as Antlers top Grampus to win seventh straight

Brazilian midfielder Bismarck scored twice for Kashima Antlers as the league leaders kept up the scorching pace at the top of the J. League second-stage table Saturday, beating Nagoya Grampus Eight 4-2 for their seventh straight win.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

A plague upon your house

Insects aren't everyone's favorite animals, especially when it comes to those such as cockroaches, termites and wasps that frighten us as well as potentially harm us and our environment.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Advance Japan team goes to Pakistan

An advance government team left Narita airport for Pakistan on Saturday to prepare for the dispatch of Air Self-Defense Forces aircraft to transport relief supplies to refugees fleeing neighboring Afghanistan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Love, love them do

Ask Kyoshi Matsushita about "Beatlemania" and he's far more likely to wax lyrical about Lucanidae, Silphidae, Scarabaedae and Dorcus titanus than John, Paul, George and Ringo.
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Sep 30, 2001

Holy mackerel! That's quite a fish!

Above the counter of the small kappo-style restaurant where I apprenticed hung a small scroll inscribed with a seasonal poem that was changed at the beginning of every month. In October, the simple verse read, "Aki no saba, Wakasa umare, Kyo sodachi. (The autumn mackerel, born in Wakasa, raised in Kyoto)."...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 30, 2001

Finding redemption under the surgeon's knife

One of the less memorable show biz scandals of 1998 involved the 48-year-old actress Ayako Sawada and her 36-year-old manager/husband Yukihide Matsuno. The pair had been married only a few years, but Sawada wanted out. She accused the dour Matsuno of physical and mental abuse, not only of herself but...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 30, 2001

Postwar Japan finds a voice

SILENCE TO LIGHT: Japan and the Shadows of War, Manoa 13:1, edited by Frank Stewart and Leza Lowitz. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, 217 pp. Manoa, published by the University of Hawai'i, is a twice-yearly journal of Pacific Rim writing and graphic art, with each issue devoted to a particular...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 30, 2001

Book Bites

KODANSHA'S ROMANIZED JAPANESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, edited by Timothy J. Vance, et al. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 2001, 666 pp., 3,500 yen (paper) A completely rewritten and expanded version of Kodansha's 1990 "The New World Japanese-English Dictionary for Juniors," a popular reference work among...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Symbols of the fleeting world

From earliest times, when the country was known as Akitsushima (Island of the Dragonfly), insects have buzzed, skimmed and flitted through the pages of Japanese literature.
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Alien invaders

They arrive in bunches of bananas; they turn up in containers of vegetables; they sneak in hidden inside rattan and wooden furniture; they disembark from among shipped household possessions, industrial and military equipment. They are as pervasive as the computer server virus Nimda, but, in their own...
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Koizumi visits evacuated Miyake

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Saturday visited the island of Miyake, currently uninhabited after its residents were evacuated last year following volcanic activity, for the first time since his inauguration in late April.
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.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
Nankai Trough megaquake concerns become 'real' among locals
Workers remove debris from a damaged house in the city of Miyazaki on Thursday following a major earthquake.
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.
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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