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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 8, 2003

Butoh: Dance in a surreal realm

We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurches from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts waltz to Edith Piaf; a forest hag dressed for a Versailles ball strikes wild kabuki poses. Fear turns frolicksome...
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2003

Key points of Koizumi-Roh summit

The following are the key points of a joint statement released Saturday by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun after talks in Tokyo.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 7, 2003

Tigers extend lead

Shinjiro Hiyama led off the eighth inning with a tie-breaking solo homer and added a run in the ninth with another roundtripper as the front-running Hanshin Tigers whipped the Yakult Swallows 7-4 at Jingu Stadium on Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Police chief eyed for security job

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara plans to name the Hiroshima Prefectural Police chief as one of his vice governors in charge of security issues, sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Official denies fiddling with text of Koizumi-Bush talks

Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka denied Friday that he attempted to delete the word "pressure" from documents prepared to brief reporters on the outcome of last month's Texas summit between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush.
EDITORIALS
Jun 7, 2003

Economic anxieties ignored at Evian

The world economy remains mired in the doldrums. The outlook has hardly improved in spite of an optimistic economic assessment from the Group of Eight summit in Evian, France. Two specters loom over the horizon: global deflation and a weaker dollar. Leaders of the world's top industrialized nations,...
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Official denies fiddling with text of Koizumi-Bush talks

Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka denied Friday that he attempted to delete the word "pressure" from documents prepared to brief reporters on the outcome of last month's Texas summit between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Police chief eyed for security job

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara plans to name the Hiroshima Prefectural Police chief as one of his vice governors in charge of security issues, sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Official denies fiddling with text of Koizumi-Bush talks

Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka denied Friday that he attempted to delete the word "pressure" from documents prepared to brief reporters on the outcome of last month's Texas summit between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Ainu teen's legacy reprinted to fete her 1903 birth

To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Yukie Chiri, an Ainu who was instrumental in putting her people's oral history on paper, a new edition of her famous story collection has been published.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 7, 2003

England still too selfish about international calendar

LONDON -- On the day England captain David Beckham made a televised plea to England supporters to behave at last Tuesday's friendly against Serbia and Montenegro and the Euro 2004 qualifying tie against Slovakia next Wednesday, UEFA rewarded Manchester City with a place in Europe for 2003-2004 as England...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Ainu teen's legacy reprinted to fete her 1903 birth

To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Yukie Chiri, an Ainu who was instrumental in putting her people's oral history on paper, a new edition of her famous story collection has been published.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Chino Shoho's quirks pose no threat: cultist

On a quiet hill dotted with summer cottages in the village of Oizumi, Yamanashi Prefecture, with Mount Fuji soaring above the southern Alps, a pair of geodesic domes are going up.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Ainu teen's legacy reprinted to fete her 1903 birth

To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Yukie Chiri, an Ainu who was instrumental in putting her people's oral history on paper, a new edition of her famous story collection has been published.
COMMENTARY
Jun 7, 2003

Do G8 summits have value?

LONDON — The Group of Eight summit in Evian, France, cost a great deal in terms of time, effort and money. Was it worth it? Critics argue that nothing worthwhile emerged from the summit, that the communiques that had been drafted in advance were generally platitudinous and flatulent.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Diet enacts legislation for war contingencies

The Diet on Friday enacted a set of laws that defines the rules under which Japan can respond to attacks by a foreign enemy, a development with serious implications for Japan's national security policy and its war-renouncing Constitution.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Diet enacts legislation for war contingencies

The Diet on Friday enacted a set of laws that defines the rules under which Japan can respond to attacks by a foreign enemy, a development with serious implications for Japan's national security policy and its war-renouncing Constitution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INTERNATIONAL RATIONALE
Jun 7, 2003

As assets begin to shift overseas, investors latch on to bonds

One of myriad brochures offering trips to Zurich, Geneva and Luxembourg aimed at Japan's well-to-do offers the provocative call "Now is the time to evacuate your assets!"
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Upper House passes bill on mentally ill offenders

The House of Councilors approved a bill Friday granting judicial authorities a say in whether people suffering mental problems who have committed serious crimes, including murder, need to be hospitalized.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Diet enacts legislation for war contingencies

The Diet on Friday enacted a set of laws that defines the rules under which Japan can respond to attacks by a foreign enemy, a development with serious implications for Japan's national security policy and its war-renouncing Constitution.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2003

Upper House passes bill on mentally ill offenders

The House of Councilors approved a bill Friday granting judicial authorities a say in whether people suffering mental problems who have committed serious crimes, including murder, need to be hospitalized.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 7, 2003

Freelance photo-journalist follows way of dragon

When you have made your name in photo-reportage with the Los Angeles Times, where the hell do you go next?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 7, 2003

Robin Maynard

Next Thursday, June 12, Robin Maynard will celebrate his 59th birthday. In October he will mark 25 continuous years of living and working in Japan. Recently he secured permanent residence here. Next year, he said, after 26 years, "I will be the longest-serving-ever insurance expat Englishman in Japan."...
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
European leaders to join Zelenskyy for key meeting with Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the tarmac after they arrived for a meeting on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
Trump shifts stance on road to Ukraine peace after meeting Putin in Alaska
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a news conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way'
Rintaro Sasaki hits a home run during a game against Duke at Stanford's Sunken Diamond on March 16.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling
In a region more associated with art, Keirin Hotel 10 takes a decidedly more athletic approach to attracting tourists.
Reading the Japanese clock: Are times a-changin'?
People walk past a time board at Hakata Station in Fukuoka. Luckily for those trying to catch a train, reading a clock is universal.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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