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JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

New Year's poetry-reading ceremony held at Imperial Palace

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Tuesday attended the annual New Year's poetry recital at the Imperial Palace, where poems by members of the Imperial family and the general public were recited in traditional style.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

State aims to boost female civil servant pool

The National Personnel Authority has unveiled plans drawn up by 31 government ministries, agencies and related institutions to improve the recruitment and promotion of female civil servants.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

Koreans' appeal for redress rebuffed

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal filed on behalf of two South Korean women demanding 60 million yen in damages and official apologies from the Japanese government over their forced labor during World War II.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

Experts push government to protect intellectual property

A group of experts has called on the government to adopt a set of 100 drastic reform steps to protect intellectual property rights as part of efforts to make Japan a world leader in the knowledge-oriented economy by 2010.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Taiwan FamilyMart to go public

FamilyMart Co. said Tuesday its Taiwanese convenience store subsidiary will go public over the counter Feb. 25.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Daihatsu Diesel in South Korea tieup

OSAKA -- Daihatsu Diesel Mfg. Co. said Tuesday it has formed a technical tieup with South Korea's HSD Engine Co. in the field of medium-speed marine diesel engines.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Sumisei fund becomes first listed on OSE venture market

OSAKA -- A fund managed by Sumisei Global Investment Trust Management Co. on Tuesday became the first investment trust to be listed on a new market for venture funds set up by the Osaka Securities Exchange in December.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

More BOJ credit-easing steps soon: experts

Seventy-five percent of economists and financial analysts surveyed by Kyodo News believe the Bank of Japan will take additional credit-easing measures within three months, amid an increasingly gloomy economic outlook.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 16, 2002

Dhafer Youssef: 'Electric Sufi'

Sufism, the mystical side of Islam, is the inspiration of a musical style that emphasizes repetition and a trance-like intensity approaching ecstasy. Its most prominent style is qawwali, which developed in India and Pakistan and whose most famous practitioner was the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jan 16, 2002

Tales of innocence and odd experience

Through the opening party crowd ran Sam Taylor-Wood's adorable little daughter, Angelica, done up in a fairy costume with a papier-ma^che star floating above her head and a magic wand in her hand. It was a delightful moment that sent a ripple of good old warm-hearted smiles through the well-attended...
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

NGOs protest resumption of work on Isahaya project

Three nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday lodged a protest with the farm ministry over a controversial land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

Red Army passport forger gets suspended term

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a member of the Japanese Red Army to a suspended 30-month prison term for forging passport documents in 1974 to help a colleague flee the country.
SUMO
Jan 16, 2002

Musashimaru handed second defeat, drops out of New Year tournament

Yokozuna Musashimaru dropped out of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday, the Japanese Sumo Association announced.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 16, 2002

Cambodian aid raises concern

Through its involvement in Cambodia since the U.N. peacekeeping process began in 1991, Japan has played a positive role in attempting to bring peace and development to Cambodia. Japan's generous aid program has brought some significant benefits to Cambodians over the past 10 years. These include a glistening...
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

UFJ Bank makes shaky debut

UFJ Holdings Inc. decided Tuesday to dip into its reserves to the tune of 1 trillion yen to make dividend payments, indicating that the group's new bank, which officially began operations the same day, is already desperately low on capital.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jan 16, 2002

If at first you don't succeed

Teen idol Ami Suzuki is apparently on the verge of making a comeback after disappearing from the J-pop radar more than a year ago.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Mobile phone shipments down again

Domestic shipments of mobile phones and personal handy-phone handsets dropped 24.2 percent in November from a year ago to 3,229,000 units, marking a sixth consecutive month of decline, an industry group said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 16, 2002

All-out attack

Visionaries, alleged pornographers, artists of enduring repute -- Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele both died in 1918. With them ended the first flowering of the Vienna Secession, an artistic movement that declared war on the Establishment in the cause of liberty and modernity. "Der Zeit ihre Kunst (Art...
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Core machinery orders up 14.9%

Core private-sector machinery orders, rose a seasonally adjusted 14.9 percent in November to 908.8 billion yen in reaction to falls in September and October, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 16, 2002

John Medeski with Robert Randolph: 'The Word'

Until a year ago, Robert Randolph's only regular gig was playing sacred steel on Sundays for the parishioners at his New Jersey church.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2002

Dentsu obtaining rights to air Disney films

Dentsu Inc. said Tuesday it and Tohokushinsha Film Corp. have signed an agreement with Walt Disney Co. to purchase exclusive rights to broadcast Disney films in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jan 16, 2002

Eternal vessels and dreams of clay

Machiko Ogawa's creations are like ancient memories wrought from clay and buried centuries ago, waiting to be discovered today. Like scenes long lost in the maze of the mind, the ceramic artist's work reappears as if emerging from a dream -- a dream formed of clay.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 16, 2002

Getting to work with words

Installations by Suzumi Noda that integrate everyday words into the fabric of everyday items are on show till Feb. 12 at Tepco Art Gallery in Ginza.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2002

Launch of H-IIA faces likely delay

The National Space Development Agency of Japan said Tuesday the launch of an H-IIA rocket originally scheduled for Jan. 31 will probably be delayed until early February.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.
A furever friend: Tips for responsible dog ownership in Japan
Dog ownership may seem daunting in Japan, but with the right tools and logistical knowledge, you can ensure a healthy, happy life for your pet.

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