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BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2003

Shiokawa to talk shop with Snow

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Wednesday he will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow on the sidelines of international meetings in Washington later this week.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Apr 10, 2003

Field cricket

* Japanese name: Enma korogi * Scientific name: Teleogryllus emma * Description: The field cricket is a black to dark-brown insect, about 25 mm long. Crickets are orthopterans, in the same group as grasshoppers. They have large heads and wings that are folded flat against the back, except when the...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 10, 2003

Immune system linked to mating habits

David Beckham might wear a sarong and Takuya Kimura of SMAP may sometimes wear lipstick, but in humans, most males are dull compared to the females. In other animals, of course, the opposite is true: it is the males that are showy, brightly colored, flashy.
LIFE / Digital / NETWISE
Apr 10, 2003

Sifting online study aids

Just a few years ago, I was certain I could never get by without Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary and the venerable Nelson close at hand. Today, however, these and other weighty tomes gather dust on a nearby bookshelf, banished to obsolescence by my favorite desktop reference, the Web.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 10, 2003

Addiction rages blindly on

Too bad the Iraq war is not just about oil. It would be much easier to fathom if it were.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 9, 2003

Dragons outlast Tigers in 11

Motonobu Tanishige hit a bases-loaded single off Lou Pote (0-1) for the game winner as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-4 in 11 innings on Tuesday night at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 9, 2003

Athletes have forum for complaints

A Japanese court of arbitration for sport (JSAA) was officially launched Monday, with the organization holding its first board meeting in Tokyo.
SOCCER / World cup
Apr 9, 2003

Zico names experimental squad

Without seven of his first team regulars, Japan manager Zico on Tuesday named an experimental 18-man squad for next week's friendly against archrival South Korea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2003

Toyoda takes step up Toyota ladder

Akio Toyoda will be promoted to senior managing director of Toyota Motor Corp. in June -- a year after becoming the automaker's managing director, the firm said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

Bank client to get stolen funds back

The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned decisions by lower courts and ordered Shinwa Bank to repay 8 million yen to a customer who had money withdrawn from his account via an automated teller machine after his bankbook was stolen.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

DPJ's Kan to meet with Hu in Beijing

DPJ President Naoto Kan will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao on April 16 in Beijing, an executive lawmaker of the party said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

Diet begins debate on watered-down privacy bills

The House of Representatives on Tuesday began debating a package of controversial bills the government says will protect individuals' private information, as well as a counterproposal jointly submitted by four opposition parties.
Japan Times
JAPAN / GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS '03
Apr 9, 2003

Parties kept at distance in Kanagawa race

YOKOHAMA -- The last-minute candidacy of Yoko Tajima, a former House of Councilors lawmaker and celebrated feminist scholar, in the April 13 Kanagawa gubernatorial election has added a new wrinkle into an already crowded field.
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2003

Details of Iraq's reconstruction seen unlikely to be broached at G7 meet

When finance chiefs and central bankers from major industrialized countries meet in Washington later this week, they probably won't discuss specifics of the rebuilding of Iraq, senior Japanese officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

Obituary: Maki Ishii

Composer Maki Ishii died Tuesday of thyroid cancer at a hospital in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, his family said. He was 66.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

SARS behind hospital reshuffle

The government will upgrade the classifications of some medical institutions that have low air-pressure sickrooms to deal better with any outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, health minister Chikara Sakaguchi said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / INTERNATIONAL RATIONALE
Apr 9, 2003

Domestic firms missing out on slice of medical device market

Dr. Kiyoshi Namba is a hard-core believer in medical technology. A breast cancer specialist, Namba has invested heavily in state-of-the-art medical equipment at his two clinics in Miyazaki Prefecture, claiming this provides exactly what he needs to counter the killer disease -- the earliest detection...
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2003

Pasona, Randstad forge alliance

Staffing agency Pasona Inc. said Tuesday it has launched joint marketing activities with Randstad Holding N.V. of the Netherlands to provide multinational clients with a global network.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2003

Delayed flights get Haneda option

Aircraft on international flights will be allowed to land at Haneda airport beginning April 25 if they are unable to use Narita airport due to unforeseen circumstances, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 9, 2003

Sino-Japanese cooperation is key

Over the past two years, relations between Japan and China have been a little awkward because of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which is seen by Chinese as a symbolic legacy of Japanese militarism. Now, however, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi's three-day visit to China...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Apr 9, 2003

Sun, sea, sand and . . . ceramics

The Izu Peninsula, just an hour out of Tokyo, has some of the finest scenery in all of Japan. Rugged coastlines, clear views of Mount Fuji, pristine forests with rivers and waterfalls, not to mention the many soothing hot-spring resorts dotting the land, shape Izu into a very attractive destination....
COMMENTARY
Apr 9, 2003

Outsiders neglectful as China hid SARS

HONG KONG -- Chinese officialdom continues to both avoid reality and to invent it. The Chinese people still suffer because of the absence of freedom of information. Ironically, Hong Kong residents are still receiving phone calls from friends and relatives in Guangdong, asking them what is going on in...
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2003

Takenaka cautious over accounting change

Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka remained cautious Tuesday about a Liberal Democratic Party proposal to freeze the mark-to-market accounting method on corporate securities holdings to limit the damage from stock market falls.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person