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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2004

First female ANA executive acts as liaison

As the first female executive officer of All Nippon Airways Co., Junko Yamauchi believes her mission is to improve communication between management and flight attendants.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 22, 2004

Drive-in kitsch delivers big

What do American's know about monsters and monster movies?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2004

The brush never lies

Girl With a Pearl Earring Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Peter Webber Running time: 100 minutes Language: English Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] What's in a gaze? It's impossible to view Johannes Vermeer's most beloved work, "Girl With a Pearl Earring" (aka...
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

10% of abused elders imperiled: poll

A government survey has found that about 10 percent of abused elderly people in Japan have been in a life-threatening situation while being abused.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

SDF troops staying in Iraq, vows Tokyo

Japan on Tuesday downplayed plans by Spain and Honduras to withdraw their troops from Iraq in the coming months, insisting that its own Self-Defense Forces units will remain in the Mideast country.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2004

The director's stand-in

In many ways, Remy in "Les Invasions barbares" is director Denys Arcand's alter ego. Says the 63-year-old director, "I suppose he was a way of facing my life and my crimes, you know."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2004

A universe far beyond manga as we know it

Realism no Yado Rating: * * * 1/2 (out of 5) Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita Running time: 83 minutes Language: Japanese Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] Foreign manga fans are always praising manga's scope as compared with that of American comics stuck in a narrow superhero...
OLYMPICS
Apr 21, 2004

Miki, Yamada earn tickets to Athens

Jiro Miki booked his ticket to his summer's Athens Olympics when he powered home to win the men's 400 meters individual medley final in a national record time on the first day of the swimming national championships Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2004

Wanted: an honest broker

An Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement is looking more like a will-o'-the-wisp as a cycle of retaliatory violence continues unabated. Last week's assassination by the Israeli military of the new Hamas leader, Mr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi -- less than a month after the killing of the Hamas founder and spiritual...
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

Coalition dumps plan to ban travel to perilous countries

The ruling coalition on Tuesday abandoned the idea of introducing a bill to ban Japanese nationals from traveling to dangerous countries, fearing that a law of this kind could violate the Constitution, coalition officials said.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Waseda gives doctorate to Stiglitz

Waseda University on Tuesday conferred its honorary doctorate of laws on Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor who won the 2001 Nobel economics prize.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Foreign-exchange policies unlikely to be focus of G7 finance meeting

An upcoming financial meeting of the Group of Seven major economies in Washington will probably not focus on foreign-exchange policy amid the current stability in major currencies, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Mitsubishi Fuso vice president becomes chairman

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. has appointed Vice President Michio Hori as chairman, effective Tuesday, the firm said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 21, 2004

Back injury sidelines Lions' Toyoda

Seibu Lions closer Kiyoshi Toyoda will be taken off the active roster due to a lower back injury, officials of the Pacific League club said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

LDP panel eyes changes to Constitution preamble

A constitutional research panel of the Liberal Democratic Party has decided to prioritize the compilation of draft revisions to the preamble of the country's war-renouncing Constitution, LDP sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

Thriving Kyushu bullet trains boost local business

Since partial service started on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line on March 13, passenger numbers have surged, resulting in economic spinoffs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 21, 2004

A balancing act of inspiration

"Othello" director Gregory Doran, 45, has been hailed by London critics as "the redeemer of the RSC." He joined the company in 1987 as an actor, but soon turned to directing and often works in collaboration with his partner, Antony Sher. Last year he received Britain's top theater honor, an Olivier...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

Hostages released into storm of criticism

Two days before her daughter was freed Thursday night by her captors in Iraq, 65-year-old Kyoko Takato was apologizing to the public, using words more befitting of the parent of a criminal.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Domestic shipments of electronics climbed 11.6% in March

Domestic shipments of consumer electronics goods in Japan grew 11.6 percent in March from a year earlier to 221.6 billion yen, marking a fourth consecutive monthly rise.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Sony revises projections upward

Sony Corp. on Tuesday revised upward its projections for group profits and sales for fiscal 2003 due to greater profits in the United States and foreign-exchange gains.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
Prince Hisahito concludes his his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
Japan's $550 billion investment pledge outlined in MOU
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, sign trade agreements on Thursday in Washington.
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.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.

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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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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