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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Sep 9, 2001

Katsuya Takasu, holding back the years

Katsuya Takasu regards his body as a vehicle to carry his mind. So what he had done to his face two years ago was, as he puts it, "just like fixing an old jalopy."
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 9, 2001

Choi tallies twice as JEF tops Reds

South Korea forward Choi Yong Soo scored two goals in the first half as JEF United Ichihara downed the Urawa Reds 2-1 at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday night.
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Sep 9, 2001

Home is where the harvest is

If you yearn to glimpse a vineyard in autumn, consider visiting one in Japan. In several prefectures, quality-minded vintners are exploring the grape varietals, cultivation techniques and microclimates needed to produce first-class wines.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Official says he padded bills for 20 years

An assistant director of the Foreign Ministry who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of defrauding the state out of some 423 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings in 1995 has admitted padding accommodation fees for the past 20 years, investigative sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Cabinet to start on extra budget

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday instructed his Cabinet to begin work on a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year after official data confirmed that the nation's economy shrank in the second quarter of 2001.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 8, 2001

Urawa's Okano moves to Kobe

Urawa Reds forward Masayuki Okano will move to Vissel Kobe on a 5-month loan, the Reds announced Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

South African president to visit

South African President Thabo Mbeki will begin a three-day visit to Japan on Oct. 1 to deepen ties between the two countries, Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Norio Hattori announced Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 8, 2001

Minamoto to retire after season

Olympic bronze-medalist and 50-meter freestyle national record-holder Sumika Minamoto said Thursday she will retire at the end of the current swimming season.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Natural gas station still standing

Almost six months have passed since a natural gas fuel station was opened on the premises of the metropolitan government complex in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward as part of a public campaign to reduce vehicle exhaust pollution in the capital.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Asahi, Daiwa mull joining to form No. 5 bank group

Tokyo-based Asahi Bank and Osaka's Daiwa Bank said Friday they are considering integrating to form Japan's fifth largest banking group.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 8, 2001

Martial arts in Roppongi? Meet the Karate Bros.

Some interviews are straightforward and others are not. And some are just plain funky. I believe I'm meeting two brothers. In fact I meet an extended martial arts family, all of whom have something to say. It's more like chairing a meeting -- or a succession of meetings.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Criticism mounting over planned bond issue limit

Senior Cabinet members broke ranks Friday to criticize Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to limit government bond issues to 30 trillion yen for this fiscal year.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Steel firms drop earnings outlook

Five major steelmakers on Friday revised downward earnings forecasts for the year to March due to decreased profitability springing from flagging demand and product prices.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Defense chief heads to East Timor

Defense Agency Director General Gen Nakatani left Friday for the United States, Indonesia and East Timor, government officials said.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Shiokawa leaves for APEC talks

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa on Friday departed for China to attend a meeting of finance chiefs from the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, scheduled to be held in Suzhou this weekend, ministry officials said.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 8, 2001

Misako Fedorowicz

SHREWSBURY, England -- This country town of Shropshire in the British Midlands is characterized by its crowding, crooked, black-and-white 16th century houses, clustered within a horseshoe loop of the River Severn. Narrow passages known as shuts link winding streets that keep distinctive names acquired...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 8, 2001

Make mine the tow roll floor tortillas

It's time for another column about funny English! This time I bring you an honest-to-goodness menu from a restaurant called Skegs, which specializes in Mexican food. Following the menu items I have inserted explanations.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Koizumi wins Singaporean plaudits

Tony Tan, deputy prime minister and defense minister of Singapore, voiced optimism Friday regarding the structural reform policies of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a Foreign Ministry official said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 8, 2001

Hawks bash way past Buffs

Daiei top guns Hiroki Kokubo, Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Kenji Jojima all hit homers as the Hawks downed the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-1 at the Osaka Dome to take the Pacific League lead Friday night.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Oil driller fails to reach deal with Kuwaiti government

Arabian Oil Co., a state-backed Japanese oil developer, and the Kuwaiti government failed to reach agreement on Arabian Oil's bid to continue operating in the Khafji oil field, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Banks stay net sellers for fifth month in row

With the industrial web of cross-shareholdings unraveling, major commercial banks remained net sellers of stocks for the fifth straight month in August.
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.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes Kanto region
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Kanto region on Friday evening.
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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