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JAPAN
Sep 15, 2001

Stricter security measures ground passenger flights bound for the U.S.

Airlines canceled all passenger flights Friday from Japan to U.S. airports in the face of stricter security requirements to prevent hijackings, Japan Airlines said.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 15, 2001

Kazuko Ogawa

BRIDGEMERE, England -- The garden center in Bridgemere is said to be the largest of its kind in Europe. In the quiet of Cheshire's spreading plains, it is its own world of year-round flowers and plants, trees and garden ideas. It has greenhouses, fish in tanks and rustic furniture. Additionally, and...
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2001

August department store sales up

Sales at department stores in Tokyo rose 2.1 percent in August to 139.91 billion yen for the third consecutive year-on-year increase, the Japan Department Stores Association said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2001

New immigration laws to target organized crime

Legislation to galvanize immigration laws and tackle international organized crime is being prepared for submission to the extraordinary Diet session expected to begin this month, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2001

Arthur Miller among winners of Praemium Imperiale award

Arthur Miller, the American playwright best known for "Death of a Salesman," and Lee U Fan, a South Korean painter living in Japan, have been awarded the 13th Praemium Imperiale, along with three other foreign artists, the Japan Art Association announced Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2001

Mycal seeks bankruptcy protection after main creditor pulls the plug

Mycal Corp. filed for protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court on Friday, after Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, its biggest creditor, decided to cut off further financial support to the supermarket chain.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2001

Mitsubishi revises down profit outlook

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. on Friday revised downward its earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2001, blaming the plunge in global demand for semiconductors and mobile phones.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 15, 2001

On flying futons and other mysteries

I've ushered enough tourists through Japan to become expert on answering strange questions about Japanese culture. Here are some of the most common:
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

Builders searched over bid-rigging

The Fair Trade Commission searched the offices of Penta-Ocean Construction Co. and Wakachiku Construction Co. on Thursday on suspicion of rigging bids for port projects in Nagasaki Prefecture, industry sources said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 14, 2001

'Wave boss Ogi set to step down

Orix BlueWave manager Akira Ogi indicated Thursday that he will step down as skipper of the Pacific League club at the end of this season.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

'Tale of Genji' goes to the opera

An operatic version of the classic 1,000-year-old Japanese court novel "The Tale of Genji" will open in Tokyo next week staged by an American artistic director and a Japanese composer.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

Crimes by foreigners down, heinous acts up

Nonresident foreigners in Japan committed 12,238 crimes between January and June, down 18.2 percent from the same period last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Japan could be key to Asia recovery

Asian countries should cooperate in tackling a looming global recession, and Japan can play a key role in doing so, according to an executive of an international business organization.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

Japan Foundation Awards granted

This year's Japan Foundation Awards are going to Ikuo Hirayama, a prominent painter, and William Beasley, a British historian specializing in the history of the Far East.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Insurers to launch pension fund firm

Eight insurers plan to jointly establish a company Oct. 1 to handle administrative duties related to their corporate pension funds in a bid to cut operating costs.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 14, 2001

Panel opposes selection of JOC president

The administration and coordination committee of the Japanese Olympic Committee on Thursday voiced its opposition to selecting a successor over 70 years old for the late Yushiro Yagi.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Minolta to make parts in Shanghai

Camera maker Minolta Co. said Thursday it has established a joint venture with a local company in Shanghai to manufacture and sell optical components such as lenses and viewfinders for compact cameras.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Japan-U.S. talks are postponed due to attacks

Japan and the United States have decided to postpone sub-Cabinet-level economic meetings initially scheduled for this week due to the terrorist attacks on the U.S., senior officials at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

Koizumi, Arroyo condemn attack

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and visiting Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Thursday jointly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in the United States, pledging their utmost cooperation in helping the U.S. to fight terrorism.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

State maintains dismal view of economy

The government on Thursday left its dismal view of the Japanese economy unchanged for the second straight month but slashed its outlook for the global economy due to the U.S. slowdown.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 14, 2001

Golden orb spider

JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Sep 14, 2001

Helpline launches Web site for U.S. relief efforts

An aid organization has launched a Web site to provide 24-hour assistance to victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Surplus fell 28% in July, ministry says

Japan's current account surplus fell 28.2 percent from a year earlier to 775.6 billion yen in July, down for the eighth straight month, the Finance Ministry said Thursday in a preliminary report.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2001

Coalition discusses giving SDF wider scope

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposed to its two coalition allies Thursday that the law be amended to expand the scope of activities of the Self-Defense Forces, coalition officials said.
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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