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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 10, 2004

Is Iraq really safe for anyone?

Over 20 years ago, in 1983, a foreign military force arrived in a recently invaded Arab country promising to carry out humanitarian activities and protect the locals.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

Sumitomo Chemical posts profit

Sumitomo Chemical Co. reported Monday a group net profit of 23.42 billion yen for the April-December period, attaining about 70 percent of its target for the full fiscal year to March 31.
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JAPAN
Feb 10, 2004

Diet OKs SDF dispatch to Iraq

The Diet on Monday gave its final approval for the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq on the strength of the ruling coalition's majority in the House of Councilors.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

NTT union opts against raise bid

The labor union of NTT Corp. formally announced its decision Monday not to seek -- for the fourth straight year -- an across-the-board pay-scale hike in spring wage talks.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 10, 2004

Used books, furniture sales and clothes

More readers have been writing to say that they have lost columns cut out for future reference, so could we please relay the same information again. Happy to do so from time to time. Note, however, that that you can find back columns on The Japan Times Web site at www.japantimes.com
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2004

McNamara's lesson for today's politicians

NEW YORK -- A recent film, "The Fog of War," directed by Errol Morris -- about former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's recollections of his political life -- should be required viewing for politicians worldwide. His testimony is valuable in several aspects. As a historical document, it provides...
COMMENTARY
Feb 10, 2004

'Next big thing' key to growth

During Japan's bubble-economy years of fiscal 1987-1990, consumer spending grew at an annualized 5.5 percent in real terms. But during the Heisei recession of fiscal 1991-2001, consumer-spending growth slowed to an annualized 1.0 percent. Most experts agree that the slowdown in consumer spending, which...
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2004

State to keep mum on terror targets

Which takes precedence: freedom of the press or the safety of potential targets of terrorist attacks?
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

Shinsei Bank sets IPO price at 525 yen for listing on TSE

Shinsei Bank said Monday it will make an initial public offering at 525 yen per share when it lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Feb. 19.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

Japan Tobacco increases pretax profit forecast

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Monday it has raised its group pretax profit forecast for fiscal 2003 to 197 billion yen from 187 billion yen, due to cost cuts in its domestic tobacco operations.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 10, 2004

Sugiyama moves up in world rankings

Japanese No. 1 Ai Sugiyama moved up to eighth in the world rankings released by the WTA tour Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2004

Don Quijote chief made loan to stock suspect

The Don Quijote Co. discount store chain disclosed Monday that its president, Takao Yasuda, provided loans to a former Cats Inc. executive who has been arrested on suspicion of manipulating that company's share price.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

Zoellick set to discuss beef ban, WTO talks

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is to arrive in Japan on Tuesday, according to Japanese officials.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2004

Diet clears bill to hit North Korea with sanctions

The Diet cleared a bill Monday that will allow the government to impose unilateral economic sanctions on North Korea to "maintain Japan's peace and security."
MORE SPORTS
Feb 10, 2004

Davenport powers to fourth Toray title

Lindsay Davenport cruised to her fourth Toray Pan Pacific Open with a convincing 6-4, 6-1 victory over Bulgarian Magdelena Maleeva on Sunday. Davenport needed less than an hour to walk away with the $189,000 first prize, exhibiting a crushing display of groundstrokes behind a consistently dominating...
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JAPAN
Feb 10, 2004

Court rejects former sex slaves' plea for damages, government apology

The Tokyo High Court on Monday rejected an appeal by seven women from Taiwan for an official apology from the government and a total of 70 million yen in damages for being forced to provide sex for the Japanese military before and during World War II.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2004

Unison Capital eyes Kanebo cosmetics

Venture capital firm Unison Capital Inc. said Monday it has proposed taking over Kanebo Ltd.'s cosmetics operations, challenging Kao Corp.'s bid for the operations.
EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2004

Over-exposed in Houston

Say this for U.S. President George W. Bush: He might have wrong-footed the question of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but he struck just the right note when asked to comment on the flap over singer Janet Jackson's risque performance in the Super Bowl halftime show in Houston the night before. Mr....
Events
Feb 8, 2004

KANSAI: Who & What

Aquarium to bring snow to Osaka's children: Kaiyukan Aquarium, in Osaka's Minato Ward, is inviting people to a snow festival that features a field covered by natural snowflakes from Hyogo Prefecture today, Wednesday and Feb. 14 and 15.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2004

More back SDF dispatch to Iraq

More Japanese now support the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq than oppose the move, despite a fall in the approval rate for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet, according to a Kyodo News survey conducted Friday and Saturday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 8, 2004

"Bakusho Osupi Mondai" on Fuji TV and more

Princess Tenko, the beribboned, gothic-wardrobed Japanese magician who made her name in the United States, has recently been doing a lot of Japanese talk shows, mainly as a result of her reputation as Kim Jong Il's favorite magician.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 8, 2004

Less confusion on Confucian: Time to redfine 'tradition'

WOMEN AND CONFUCIAN CULTURES IN PREMODERN CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN, edited by Dorothy Ko, Jahyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 338 pp., 35 illustrations and tables. $24.95 (paper). It is often thought that Confucianism is somehow discriminatory toward...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2004

Koizumi awaits progress in Russia-held isles row

With Russian President Vladimir Putin expected to consolidate his political position with a victory in next month's presidential elections, it is more likely that Russia will try to solve a long-standing territorial dispute with Japan, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Saturday.
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Features
Feb 8, 2004

Horror on the high seas

Russia held out one hope for turning the tide of the war against Japan -- that a mighty armada, under Adm. Zinovii Rozhestvensky, would relieve the siege of Port Arthur and wrest command of Far Eastern waters from Adm. Heihachiro Togo's fleet.
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Features
Feb 8, 2004

Dawn of a tragic era

Across a waterfront park in the Shirahama district of Yokosuka, beyond a bronze statue of Admiral Heihachiro Togo, the 15,000-ton Mikasa, his flagship in the Battle of Tsushima (1905), is anchored in concrete -- its chrysanthemum figurehead golden in the winter light, the Rising Sun snapping at the stern....
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.

Podcast

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

Longform

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