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JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Bosnia-Herzegovina envoy curtails Tokyo assignment

The Bosnia-Herzegovina ambassador is to leave Japan next week, cutting short his assignment following the death of his wife, he told The Japan Times on Tuesday.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2001

Living on songs and a prayer

Duets Rating: * * * Director: Bruce Paltrow Running time: 112 minutes Language: English Now showing
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 26, 2001

Petagine slays Dragons

Roberto Petagine swung the big bat for Yakult, going 4-for-4 with six RBIs to help the Swallows defeat the Chunichi Dragons 9-2 at the Nagoya Dome on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Coalition dodges PKO to empower SDF

The Self-Defense Forces will help refugees under a new law that deals solely with supporting the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism, rather than by revising the peacekeeping operation law, the ruling coalition parties agreed Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Cheaper wireless broadband vowed

Wireless Internet Service Inc. and NTT-ME Corp. announced Tuesday they will launch what they claim is the lowest fixed-rate wireless broadband service of up to 2 megabits per seconds for a monthly charge of 1,980 yen.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

G7 ministers to teleconference

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday that finance ministers from the Group of Seven countries would hold a telephone conference that night.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Koso resigns in wake of election scandal

Kenji Koso of the Liberal Democratic Party tendered his resignation from the Diet on Tuesday in the wake of a vote-canvassing scandal involving several top postal officials.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

G7 finance chiefs to block funds

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries agreed Tuesday to strengthen cooperation on blocking cash flows to international terrorists, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Government's outstanding debt reaches 557.19 trillion yen

The Japanese government's outstanding debt stood at a record-high 557.19 trillion yen at the end of June, up from 538.39 trillion yen at the end of March, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Unemployed face age bias, poll finds

More than half of unemployed people covered in a recent survey have encountered age discrimination in their search for jobs, the poll's organizers said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 26, 2001

Rising stars shine in kabuki's heirloom roles

During the month of September, the Kabukiza Theater and the nearby Shinbashi Enbujo Theater are presenting competing kabuki midori (selections). The Kabukiza's program features such veteran actors as Kichiemon Nakamura, Baigyoku Nakamura and Jakuemon Nakamura, as well as up-and-coming performers in their...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Debate, don't deploy SDF: ex-bureaucrats

Two former top bureaucrats want the government to tell the international community what Japan can do within the limits of its war-renouncing Constitution to help the expected U.S.-led military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Court rejects illegal alien's welfare suit

The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a lower court decision rejecting demands for social welfare by a Chinese man claiming that denying such aid to non-Japanese is discriminatory and violates the Constitution.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 26, 2001

Sigur Ros

Since the worldwide release of their second album, "Aguis Byrjun," last year, Iceland's Sigur Ros has been dogged by more pretentious journalism than any pop group in history. Melody Maker took the cake when it described the group's music as "the sound of God weeping tears of gold in heaven."
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2001

A kiss in the darkroom

When I spoke with curator Michiko Kasahara about the Tokyo Museum of Photography's new exhibition, "A Kiss in the Dark," the first thing she wanted to explain was the show's intriguing title. Her catalog essay expands:
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Health insurance costs face hike

Compiled from wire services The health ministry on Tuesday mapped out a medical reform plan that would increase the burden on employed workers and the elderly. The ministry submitted the plan to the tripartite ruling bloc Tuesday afternoon and hopes to implement it in October 2002. But the plan is expected...
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Tokyo Motor Show to skip pomp

The upcoming Tokyo Motor Show will refrain from holding an opening ceremony or reception on Oct. 26 to express its sorrow for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States, its organizer said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

MSDF won't join Kitty Hawk: Nakatani

Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani on Tuesday denied that Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels would join the USS Kitty Hawk battle group in the Indian Ocean for expected U.S.-led military retaliation against terrorist attacks in the United States.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 26, 2001

Pop to the sixth power

Hermann H. & the Pacemakers are one of Japanese pop music's brightest new hopes. As with the superlative Cymbals spotlighted in last week's column, this six-piece band specializes in the musical genre known as "power pop." But in the case of Hermann (as the band is collectively known), the emphasis is...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 26, 2001

India Express

While it was Ravi Shankar who brought Indian music to the world, it's been left to others to help it sink roots. In Japan, that task has been taken up by Nagoya-based sitarist Amit Roy, who has been imparting the Hindustani tradition to his Japanese students for the past decade.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Ministry names new chief of Asian affairs

The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday named Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the economic affairs bureau, as head of the bureau in charge of Asian and Oceanian affairs.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2001

Revisiting his ancestors' art

Taro Okamoto (1911-96) is perhaps Japan's most famous post-war artist. With his trademark artistic style, his eccentric, media-friendly personality and ready catchphrases, he presented the perfect picture of the inspired artist brimming with original ideas.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 26, 2001

Asian Youth Orchestra brings vigor and virtuosity

Asian Youth Orchestra Aug. 31, Sergiu Comissiona conducting the Asian Youth Orchestra in the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall -- "Russlan and Ludmilla" Overture (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, 1804-57); Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64 (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-47) featuring Leila Josefowicz;...
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2001

Devilishly good young artists

German artists Susanne Ring and Oliver Grajewski are holding a joint exhibition of their works under the title "She-Devil -- Icke Ooch" ("She-Devil -- Whatever") at Gallery ef in Asakusa, Tokyo.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 26, 2001

John Linnel & John Flansburgh: 'Mink Car'

Since their early albums "Lincoln" and "Flood," John Linnell and John Flansburgh, the self-appointed supercilious music nerds of They Might Be Giants, have displayed a remarkable talent for straddling the fence between disdain for and celebration of the pop tune. Usually sweet and upbeat on the surface,...
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2001

Portrait of an enigma

In the broad galaxy of modern French artists, we can easily spot Raoul Dufy's lightly glittering star. He was renowned as a painter of colorful scenes at St. Tropez on the Riviera. The one who designed fashion fabrics. The one who popularized modern art with glamorous subjects and a carefree brush.
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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