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CULTURE / Music
Oct 28, 2001

He's not just your average Joe

By the time I finally managed to contact Joe Strummer for a phone interview, The Mescaleros were in Los Angeles. It was the last port of call on the American leg of their tour to promote their second album, "Global A Go-Go." They had already played the first of four gigs at the Troubadour in West Hollywood,...
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Oct 28, 2001

Despite tech advances, mature sake still worth the wait

Finally things are beginning to cool down as we segue into autumn. As well as being the time of turning leaves, cooler breezes and better food, autumn is when sake brewed the previous season traditionally goes on sale. Two types of sake you may come across in your autumnal perusing are aki-agari and...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 28, 2001

Politics in entertaining TV shocker

Though the Koizumi revolution has yet to yield anything substantial in terms of fiscal policy, the prime minister's enormous popularity has certainly brought politics closer to the average person, which, considering how apathetic most Japanese were about government a year ago, is a notable achievement....
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Japan to lift sanctions on Pakistan, India

The government announced Friday it will lift a three-year-old moratorium on financial aid to Pakistan and India in an effort to help stabilize the region adjacent to war-torn Afghanistan.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Japan, U.S. to discuss planned support by SDF

Japan and the United States will hold security talks in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss logistic support to be offered by the Self-Defense Forces for the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan, a top Defense Agency official said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Kin of Fujimori's alleged victims urges justice

A woman whose husband and son were killed by Peru's military under former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said Friday that Tokyo should help bring to justice the disgraced president, who is now living in Japan.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Orix's interim net profit up 17.5%

Leasing firm Orix Corp. said Friday it chalked up consolidated net profit of 20.04 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2001, up 17.5 percent from a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Foreigners become net sellers again

Foreign investors sold more Japanese stocks than they bought on the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stock exchanges in the third week of October, the Tokyo Stock Exchange said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Posts chief to lose month's pay

The posts minister said Friday he will return one month's salary to take responsibility for a scandal in which a former Upper House lawmaker resigned after postal officials were accused of soliciting votes in his election campaign.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Honda notches up 15% increase in midterm domestic sales

Honda Motor Co. scored the largest domestic sales growth of the nation's top five automakers for the April-September first half, marking a 15.2 percent gain from a year earlier to 422,255 vehicles, according to reports released Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Chuo Mitsui looks for lifeline

Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. announced Friday it will reorganize its trust operations and seek capital injections of between 60 billion yen and 70 billion yen from other members of the Mitsui group.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Fence-mending over, friendship committee goes to work

Taking its cue from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's largely successful fence-mending trip to China, Japan will formally inaugurate a blue-ribbon troupe to prepare for an extravaganza commemorating the 30th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Sanyo sees first-half earnings fall

Sanyo Electric Co. said Friday its group net profit declined 68.4 percent in the April-September period from a year earlier to 6.40 billion yen amid economic deterioration worldwide.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Human cell strains net 160 million yen in auction

The first auction of human cell strains in Japan was held Friday at a Tokyo hospital.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Technology aids creation of new peace activism

Helmets, chanted slogans and clashes with police -- a common scene in Japan during demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Those days may be long gone, but after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States a new style of peace activism using the Internet and other technology has quietly been created....
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Obituary: Father Thomas Immoos

Father Thomas Immoos, a Swiss scholar who taught German literature and other disciplines at various Japanese universities for 50 years, passed away on Oct. 19 in Immensee, Switzerland. He was 83.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Questionable beef may be destroyed

The farm ministry is rethinking its plan to freeze and later resell all beef not certified safe in testing for mad cow disease that began Oct. 18. To allay consumer fears, the ministry said Friday the beef may now be destroyed.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Effect of mad cow scare shows in latest consumer price index

The key gauge of Tokyo consumer prices shed 0.1 percent in October from the month before, including a drop in beef prices stemming from the nation's first case of mad cow disease, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

DaimlerChrysler to take advantage of present Asian alliances

MAKUHARI, Chiba Pref. -- After establishing a strong foothold in the European and North American markets, DaimlerChrysler AG is ready to increase its presence in Asia by taking advantage of its alliance with Japanese and South Korean partners, according to executives of the German-American auto giant....
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Stock price falls, bad-loan disposal hit regional bank earnings

Stock price falls and the disposal of bad loans are forcing many regional banks to cut earnings projections for the fiscal first half.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Girl unlikely to have nvCJD: panel

A panel of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said it is unlikely that a teenage girl in a Tokyo area hospital has contracted new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), a fatal brain-wasting illness linked to mad cow disease.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

JETRO pulls out of Iraq trade fair

The Japan External Trade Organization has canceled plans to participate in an international trade fair to start in Baghdad on Thursday, as a result of last month's terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Imperial family holds rite for safe birth by princess

The Imperial family held the traditional "obi wearing" ceremony on Friday at Togu Palace in Tokyo to pray for the safe delivery of the baby the Crown Princess is expecting in late November or early December.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Abe of HIV fiasco loses libel case against daily

Takeshi Abe, the former vice president of Teikyo University, lost a 40 million yen damages suit against the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Friday over articles in which he was accused of improper conduct in connection with the HIV scandal.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Toshiba, NEC report losses for first half of business year

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. on Friday reported consolidated net losses for the first half of fiscal 2001, hit by the global slump in information technology and the worldwide economic slowdown.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Market slump damages Daiwa's interim earnings

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. said Friday its group pretax profit for the first half of fiscal 2001 plunged 98.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.18 billion yen.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

Podcast

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

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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