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JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Law to bolster banks with public funds takes effect

A new law intended to strengthen the nation's financial system by allowing the government to inject public funds into financial institutions in a preventive manner took effect Sunday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Antinuke group aims at North Korea

A major antinuclear group began a series of campaigns Sunday in Tokyo ahead of the 59th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with its focus on North Korea's nuclear program and denuclearization in Northeast Asia.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Media scrutinized over coverage of NPA-chief shooting case

Major news media outlets are once again taking heat for depending too much on information from investigative authorities in their reporting, this time over recent incidents surrounding the 1995 shooting of the National Police Agency chief.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Heat takes record toll in Tokyo

A record 628 people suffering heat exhaustion and heatstroke had to be taken to Tokyo hospitals by ambulance in July, the Tokyo Fire Department said Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 2, 2004

Ishii cracks first homer

SAN DIEGO -- Phil Nevin's infield single drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the San Diego Padres edged the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Saturday night.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

DPJ's Fujii calls on Hashimoto to quit over scandal

Hirohisa Fujii, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, said Sunday that former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto should resign from the Diet for allegedly receiving an undeclared 100 million yen donation from a dentists' group.
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2004

Thirsting for just a trickle

John Maynard Keynes established a theory about why a government's fiscal and monetary policies of manipulating the official discount rate, tax rates and public works investment were a highly effective means of economic management.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Aug 2, 2004

Supply of safe beef large enough to ignore odd U.S. trade demands

The question of whether to lift the import ban on U.S. beef is being closely watched, especially in terms of how it relates to another issue of high public interest -- when will people be able to eat "gyudon (beef bowls)" again?
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Law to bolster banks with public funds takes effect

A new law intended to strengthen the nation's financial system by allowing the government to inject public funds into financial institutions in a preventive manner took effect Sunday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Ministry urges caution on health book ads

The health ministry has taken the unusual step of urging major media to exercise caution before running ads for books promoting certain health foods, saying they could violate a law banning excessive or false advertising.
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2004

Global warming remains the deadliest foe

LONDON -- Perhaps philosophers have a name for it -- this modern phenomenon of continuing to enjoy life in a way that we know is leading to destruction because we feel that there is nothing we can do about it anyway.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

1950s-era plutonium showing up near Japan

Plutonium particles scattered by a series of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the 1950s have been accumulating in seas close to Japan, a research team has found.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2004

Media scrutinized over coverage of NPA-chief shooting case

Major news media outlets are once again taking heat for depending too much on information from investigative authorities in their reporting, this time over recent incidents surrounding the 1995 shooting of the National Police Agency chief.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2004

Japan, U.S. may hold 'kampo' talks

Japan and the United States are considering holding talks in Tokyo around Aug. 20 on the privatization of the government-run "kampo" life insurance program, sources from the two governments said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2004

Bill to enable overseas deployment

The government has decided to compile a bill to enable it to deploy the Self-Defense Forces overseas any time it deems necessary, aiming to submit it to the Diet next year, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2004

Local areas to get help attracting more tourists

The transport ministry will provide assistance to prefectural governments in attracting foreign tourists, including designating historic areas and hot spring resorts as priority areas, ministry officials said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2004

Priorities at Camp Cropper

Somewhere near Baghdad International Airport is a U.S.-run prison with the stern designation "High Value Detention Site" and the jaunty name of Camp Cropper. It was in the news last week following reports of a visit by Iraq's new minister for human rights, Bakhtiar Amin, to the prison's most highly valued...
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2004

Government working to join IAEA team in North Korea

Japan has been working with the United States to join a U.N.-led nuclear inspection team in North Korea, assuming Pyongyang agrees to accept the inspectors, according to sources close to Japan-U.S. relations.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2004

Privatizing Japan Post could lead to profit hike

Splitting up and privatizing Japan Post into four independent units could increase profits by up to 900 billion yen a year, according to a recent estimate presented to the government's postal privatization preparatory office.
Japan Times
Features
Aug 1, 2004

Violin maestro with many strings toher bow

Violinist Midori Goto was only 14 when, in 1986, she played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the late maestro Leonard Bernstein at the annual Summer Festival at Tanglewood in rural Massachusetts. That was remarkable enough, but what made Goto world-famous was not simply that she...
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
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.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion
GranTokyo South Tower (center). East Japan Railway has bought the 14th to 18th floors of the office building at a price of more than ¥50 billion from Goldman Sachs Group.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
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.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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