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BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Nomura eyes management reshuffle

Kyodo News
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

EU envoy advocates talks on North Korea

OSAKA -- The European Union's ambassador to Japan voiced support Friday for efforts to resolve the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear arms program via negotiations involving the United States, Japan, China, North Korea and South Korea.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Oil imports up 13.8% in January

Kyodo News
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Inmate abuse draws reprimands

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama punished 11 ministry officials on Friday, including Vice Minister Keiichi Tadaki, in connection with the death and serious injuries of two Nagoya Prison inmates last May and September.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Prosecutors get case against spy, 73

Kyodo News
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Railway firm admits lying about sleepy train driver

The bullet train driver who fell asleep at the controls earlier this week continued to operate the train without supervision for more than 20 minutes after leaving Okayama Station, where he was shaken from his slumber, transport ministry officials revealed Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Pension plan could lead to sales tax hike

The Liberal Democratic Party's committee on public pension reform will study the possibility of raising the 5 percent consumption tax as a means to finance a proposed increase in the government's contribution to the national pension program, the panel's head said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Scholars fear dangers of igniting patriotic fervor

Scholars from Japan, South Korea and China warned against a resurgence of nationalism in Japan when they gathered at a symposium on history textbooks and related issues this week in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Hello Work job centers a hotbed of false listings

An increasing number of bogus job listings and unscrupulous employers are exploiting the government-run Hello Work job centers as high unemployment continues to grip the country.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Mar 1, 2003

Kumamoto citrus in Ginza air

Shoppers on Sotobori Street, in Tokyo's fashionable Ginza shopping district, may have been surprised by a sweet scent of citrus hanging in the air.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 1, 2003

Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo

During the Gulf War in 1991, Shun Akiba was one of only two foreign journalists reporting from Baghdad, along with Peter Arnett of CNN. With such experience and expertise, it would be reasonable to imagine him in great demand right now. Wrong.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 1, 2003

Mary Kilgarriff

Mary Kilgarriff says she grew up in a service-minded family in Ireland. "When I moved to Japan in 1990, I was struck by the absence here of the type of community service that I took for granted. I approached the Irish ambassador at that time, Jim Sharkey, and his wife, Sattie, and with their support...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Rotary-powered RX-8 to hit the streets in April

HIROSHIMA -- It was the technology that created Cosmo Sports, the world's first dual rotary engine car, and shot Mazda Motor Corp. into the global spotlight in 1967.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Industrial production rose 1.5% in January

Industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent in January from a month earlier, marking the first monthly increase since August, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday in a preliminary report.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 1, 2003

Tips on teaching yourself sumo at home

The sumo world is being turned upside down, so to speak, with the recently retired yokozunas (grand champions) and the proliferation of foreigners reaching high ranks in the sport. The first foreign-born yokozuna was Akebono (born in Hawaii), followed by Musashimaru (born in Hawaii) and Asashoryu, from...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2003

Pull unwanted U.S. troops out

HONOLULU -- As a tsunami of anti-Americanism circles the globe from Seoul to Jakarta and on to Paris and Berlin, a focal point of protest is the visible presence of U.S. military forces.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Japan to rethink KEDO program

Japan is reconsidering its commitment to building light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea now that Pyongyang has reactivated nuclear facilities linked to its weapons development program in violation of a 1994 accord.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Dialogue urged to bridge East-West gaps

Dialogue is crucial to preventing conflict and promoting mutual understanding in a world where people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds must coexist, according to Delfin Colome, executive director of the Asia- Europe Foundation.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Jobless rate returns to record high 5.5%

The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in January returned to the record high 5.5 percent posted in October as beleaguered companies continued to shed jobs, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Doctors revolt against LDP over loss of outpatient income

The Japan Medical Association, one of the most powerful supporters of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party, has turned against the LDP over its plan to require salaried workers to pay more in outpatient fees and intends to try to topple the government.
COMMENTARY
Mar 1, 2003

Chirac remains on the attack

PARIS -- French Finance Minister Francis Mer has at last acknowledged that there is no chance the government will achieve its target of 2.5 percent growth in GDP this year. A steady increase in unemployment, a massive fall in stocks and plummeting car sales all indicate that France has not escaped the...
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Viable Asian bond markets pushed

Staff report
China’s unbeatable new production model export
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
Extreme heat in Japan set to peak this week
People shield their eyes from the sun as they walk through a street on a hot day in Tokyo on July 26.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Italy's fast fashion hub becomes Chinese mafia battlefield
Signs for fast-fashion factories in Prato, Italy, on Friday. Chinese crime groups in the district thrive on the "Prato system" rife with corruption in the fast-fashion sector.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.

Podcast

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

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
By Elizabeth Beattie

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