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JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Tokyo film festival kicks off Oct. 27

The 14th Tokyo International Film Festival, featuring 140 movies from 24 countries and regions, starts Oct. 27 in Shibuya Ward.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Passenger's hijack hoax scares officials

OSAKA -- Airline security officials were given a scare Wednesday after a woman called to say she had received e-mail from a friend indicating his Japan Airlines flight had been hijacked -- a message that later turned out to be a prank.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Matsushita to make digital movies

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it will launch a company Monday to produce digital movies and another one to distribute them, possibly by the end of this year.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

TSE approves move to go private Nov. 1

The Tokyo Stock Exchange formally adopted a plan Wednesday at an extraordinary general meeting of TSE member brokerage houses to transform the world's second-largest bourse into a stock company.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Will dollar fall from favor?

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sounded a somewhat optimistic note on the prospects for the U.S. economy last week.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

S&P expects little change for Asia-Pacific ratings

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Wednesday it does not expect to make substantial changes to its ratings on bonds issued by 16 Asia-Pacific nations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 27, 2001

Counting down to environmental doom

An English friend, teasing, once asked whether Americans have a sense of irony. We certainly do, I replied, though perhaps less so than the English who, for generations, never saw the sun set and now live in darkness much of the year.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 27, 2001

Ozaki calls it quits

Two-time Japan Open champion Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki said Tuesday he has decided to quit the U.S. PGA Tour after eight years on the world's toughest circuit.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Demonstrators stage antiwar rally

OSAKA -- Around 500 people marched through the city here Wednesday evening to voice their opposition to the possible use of violence by the U.S. during its likely retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Economic forum set for next month

Japan and the United States plan to hold the inaugural meeting of a deputy ministerial-level economic forum in Washington early next month, government sources said.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 27, 2001

Can God damage your health?

On Sept. 15, the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a piece in The Guardian called "Religion's misguided missiles." With customary antireligious zeal, the Charles Simonyi professor for the Public Understanding of Science gave his explanation for the attacks on New York and Washington,...
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Government clears the way to begin digital radio trials

The Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry issued a license Wednesday allowing a consortium of 38 companies to begin trial broadcasts of digital radio. The Tokyo-based consortium plans to begin broadcasting news and educational programs to around 8.55 million households...
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Sep 27, 2001

Medicinal ornaments

Last year, while searching the southern part of the Kii Peninsula for the elusive yellow-flowered toad lily (Kii joro-hototogisu, Tricyrtis macranthopsis), I came across an unusual tree, a "new discovery" that made my day.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Ministries approach budget deadline

Fiscal 2002 budgetary requests under the seven strategic areas outlined in the structural reform blueprint of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi currently total 1.38 trillion yen, the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Caution urged on backing U.S. forces

Japan should think twice before moving to support U.S. military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a volunteer aid worker said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Web site goes after foreign investors

The quasi-governmental Japan External Trade Organization said Wednesday it plans to launch an English-language Web site containing Japan-related investment information in an attempt to attract overseas investors.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Vodafone denies rumor of selloff

The chief of Vodafone Group PLC strongly denied Tuesday a recent British media report that the company is planning to sell off Japan Telecom Co.'s fixed-line business.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

NASDA clears second woman for space travel

The National Space Development Agency of Japan formally certified Naoko Sumino as an astronaut Wednesday, paving the way for her to go to the International Space Station, due to be completed in 2006.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Tokyu Land raises profit outlook

Tokyu Land Corp. Wednesday raised its group net profit projection for the first half of the current business year to 2.5 billion yen from 500 million yen.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

SDF, economic reforms top Diet session agenda

With a 72-day extraordinary Diet session convening today, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his government face two major challenges: seeking consensus on Japan's support for expected U.S.-led military operations against terrorists and on steps to help the flagging economy.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Auto production up 1.7%; first rise in eight months

Auto production rose 1.7 percent in August from a year earlier to 706,613 units, the first increase in eight months, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Wednesday.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
At first summit with Trump, Takaichi pledges 'new golden age' for alliance
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi raises her fist as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in front of U.S. Navy personnel on board the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier at the American naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Abe shooting suspect Yamagami pleads guilty to murder
Members of the media gather outside the Nara District Court in the city of Nara on Tuesday hours before the start of the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
Takaichi buys time and builds trust with ‘near-perfect’ Trump summit
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JPYC, world’s first yen stablecoin, is issued
Noritaka Okabe, head of Japanese startup JPYC, at a news conference for the first yen stablecoin in Tokyo on Monday
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."
Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.

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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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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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