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Japan Times
JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
Sep 28, 2002

Clock museum shows passage of time

For Edo Period Japan, knowing the precise time was more a status symbol than an everyday necessity.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 28, 2002

Farshid Moussavi

LONDON -- In private life, Farshid Moussavi is Mrs. Alejandro Zaera-Polo. Professionally, she keeps her maiden name. As a couple, the two work together in their own London-based company, Foreign Office Architects Ltd. They are young and ambitious, both high-speed workers, effective and efficient. Through...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 28, 2002

Drugstores spread queasy headaches

I'm afraid to go to the doctor in Japan. If I did, he might bring up the bread crusts. You know, those mammoth slices of bread in Japan with crusts that take forever to chew all the way through? If the doctor looked down my throat, he might see into my stomach and say, "Look at all those bread crusts...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2002

Relatives demand details on abductees, rap Koizumi

The families of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea met for the first time with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday and demanded that the government confirm the information from the Stalinist state regarding the fates of the missing people.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Safety agency wants standards for allowable reactor defects

Voluntary inspections by nuclear plant operators should be regulated and standards introduced for allowable defects to prevent further coverups of structural faults like the scandal now rocking the industry, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Marubeni, MHI win generator order

Marubeni Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have jointly won a 6 billion yen contract to build a power generator for major Brazilian ironworks Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarao, the trading house said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Japan may be spared G7 wrath

For once, Japan may not be singled out for lagging behind when finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of Seven economic powers get together Friday to discuss global trends.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Obituary: Hiromasa Seki

Hiromasa Seki, honorary chairman of Hakuhodo Inc., died of heart failure at his home in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 18, the company said. He was 98.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

FTC clips ANA's wings with warning over cuts to Kyushu flight fares

Faced with a warning from the Fair Trade Commission, All Nippon Airways Co. said Thursday that it will withdraw its plans to offer new discount fares for flights between Tokyo and the three Kyushu airports of Fukuoka, Miyazaki and Kagoshima.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Mitsui execs take pay cuts over scandals

Shoei Utsuda, who is to become the new president of Mitsui & Co. next week, said Thursday he and seven other senior executives will go without part of their pay for three months to take responsibility for a series of scandals that have rocked the major trading house.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Canada program offers help to isolated parents

A group of child-care experts is offering help to mothers in Japan via a Canadian parent-education program aimed at building self-esteem and creating a supportive network of friends, families and experts.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Signs of export-led recovery fading amid uncertainty

Recent signs of economic recovery have begun to fade in some areas of Japan as uncertainty mounts over the export-driven pickup, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Thursday in a quarterly report.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 27, 2002

Outlook grim for Sunderland's Reid

LONDON -- If the grapevine is to be believed, Sunderland manager Peter Reid will be fired should his team lose to Aston Villa on Saturday, making the former England midfielder the ignominious winner of the Premiership sack race.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Private-sector salaries decline for fourth year

The average annual salary for workers in the private sector was 4.54 million yen last year, posting a decline for the fourth consecutive year, the National Tax Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Banks may get another injection of state funds

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Thursday the government is studying "every possible step" that would help banks accelerate bad-loan disposal -- an indication the government is thinking of injecting them with a fresh tranche of public funds to avert a potential crisis.
EDITORIALS
Sep 27, 2002

Mr. Schroeder's postelection dilemma

Germany's center-left ruling coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens won a narrow victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, bucking the rightist trend in France and elsewhere in western Europe. It was also a Pyrrhic victory earned at the expense of the German-American relationship....
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Seniors' Net clubs give elderly way to reach out, enhance life

With more than 40 percent of Japanese now using the Internet, an increasing number of elderly people have found a new way of enjoying life by opening their own home pages or establishing Net clubs for seniors.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Cops to search Nippon Food sales offices

OSAKA -- Police in Hyogo, Ehime and Tokushima prefectures plan to search three sales offices of Nippon Food Inc. and related locations next week in connection with their investigation into a beef-mislabeling scam, police sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Arimoto may have written her last letter under duress

A letter from Keiko Arimoto to her parents sent from Copenhagen in 1983 suggests she may have been forced to write it, and it was not posted until after she was abducted to North Korea, police sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Container security plan gets go-ahead

Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to launch a pilot project to mutually dispatch customs officials to prevent bombs and other dangerous items from being shipped to their countries in cargo containers.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 27, 2002

Moon jellyfish

* Japanese name: Mizukurage * Scientific name: Aurelia aurita * Description: Moon jellyfish are soft-bodied, transparent animals that swim by gently undulating their bell-shaped bodies. They range in size from 5 cm to 40 cm in diameter. Unlike what you may have expected, size is not an indication of...
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Sep 27, 2002

It really is sink or swim in Japanese schools

Life is never dull when your children attend local school in a foreign country. My kids have been in Japanese school for two years, but things still catch me by surprise. My daily thrill, if you can call it that, is reviewing the stacks of purinto (handouts) from the school. I never know quite what I'm...
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

MMC issues recall of minivehicles

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Thursday it will recall 164,514 minivehicles to fix two manual transmission defects.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2002

Matsushita, Toshiba in CRT venture

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toshiba Corp. said Thursday they have agreed to consolidate their cathode ray tube business into a single joint venture.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Takaichi leads first ministerial meeting on policies regarding foreign residents
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a ministerial meeting on policies regarding foreign nationals and immigration on Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office.
ChatGPT nickname and Trump tariffs nominated for Japan’s buzzword of 2025
Women hold toys depicting Myaku-Myaku, the official character for the 2025 Osaka Expo, during a media day ahead of the event's public opening day in Osaka in April.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 slumps 4%, led by losses in tech sector
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock average index briefly tumbled more than 2,000 points on Wednesday morning following a downbeat session on Wall Street fueled by fears of a bubble in the artificial intelligence sector.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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