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COMMENTARY
Apr 15, 2003

Koizumi still Japan's best hope

The publicity given to the quarreling between members of the Japanese Cabinet, including accusations of lying, the resignation of the minister of agriculture and the difficulty Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apparently had in finding a suitable successor suggest that his government cannot last much...
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2003

Yahoo to heed personal data ruling

Yahoo Japan Corp. will not appeal a court ruling ordering it to identify a person who posted an allegedly slanderous message on a Yahoo Internet bulletin board, company sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2003

Japan lauds North Korean olive branch on arms talks

Japan on Monday welcomed what appeared to be a softening in North Korea's stance toward multilateral talks on its suspected nuclear weapons program.
BUSINESS
Apr 15, 2003

Business groups seek a freeze on capital gains tax

The nation's three major business lobbies, hoping to bolster stock prices from their 20-year lows, called Monday for a freeze on the tax on capital gains from the sale of shares.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2003

Privacy debate held in Diet despite opposition boycott

The ruling coalition defied an opposition boycott to hold on Monday a question-and-answer session over a new set of privacy-protection bills and a counterproposal lodged by the opposition.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Party faithful and unaffiliated voters rally behind Tokyo incumbent: poll

Shintaro Ishihara, re-elected as Tokyo governor in a landslide in Sunday's election, was supported by nearly 70 percent of unaffiliated voters and 90 percent of supporters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, according to a Kyodo News exit poll.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Court upholds ruling on Nanjing defamation case

The Tokyo High Court has upheld a ruling ordering the author and publisher of a book on the Nanjing Massacre in China to compensate an 84-year-old Chinese woman who said it defamed her.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Japan lags behind in e-government programs: report

Japan still lags behind in terms of the maturity of e-government programs for the implementation of online services by state agencies, according to a recent survey by U.S. consulting firm Accenture.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 14, 2003

Tigers move into first after humbling Giants

Akihiro Yano singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth as the Hanshin Tigers pounded out 17 hits to beat the Yomiuri Giants 7-3 at Tokyo Dome on Sunday and claim first place in the Central League standings.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Kan voices concern over aiding Iraq via U.S. body

Naoto Kan, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, expressed reserve Sunday about sending Japanese officials to the U.S. Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance to assist in the reconstruction of post-conflict Iraq.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Site of toxic gas find to be probed

The Environment Ministry will determine assessment methods by the summer and begin an examination of land where beer bottles containing toxic gas were found buried recently in Kanagawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Real test for Ishihara lies ahead

Despite his resounding re-election victory in Sunday's vote, Shintaro Ishihara's real test as Tokyo governor lies in the four years ahead, experts say.
COMMENTARY
Apr 14, 2003

Implications of the Iraq war

HONOLULU -- Why diplomacy failed in Iraq remains a subject of intense debate. Even Baghdad's supporters could not argue that Iraq had fully complied with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, which found Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime in material breach of numerous earlier resolutions and promised...
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Subways come up short of fire standards

Some 40 percent of subway stations in Japan fail to meet one or more fire-prevention safety standards, mainly because the stations are old, according to a transport ministry study released last week.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Confident Ishihara plots even more radical course

Emboldened by an easy win in Sunday's gubernatorial election, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara indicated he will pursue even more eyebrow-raising policies during his second four-year term.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 14, 2003

Still in Love woos filly first crown

TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Pref. -- Still in Love braved a blistering pace in the Okasho on Sunday at Hanshin, and succeeded in putting sufficient distance between herself and slow-breaking race favorite Admire Groove to claim the first jewel in the fillies' triple crown series.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Apr 14, 2003

Take heart! Japan can beat deflation, create jobs through 2010: JBF

People are becoming increasingly wary of the condition of the Japanese economy and uncertain of its future. Some media commentators and economists speak as if the economic slump is going to continue for another decade, or even another century.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Data disclosure requests climbed to 59,880 in 2002

Ministries and central government agencies received nearly 60,000 requests for information to be disclosed in fiscal 2002, the second year after the law on information disclosure took effect, according to the public management ministry.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Ishihara wins in landslide as gubernatorial elections close

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara was re-elected in a landslide in Sunday's nationwide local elections to choose governors and members of prefectural and municipal assemblies.
COMMENTARY
Apr 14, 2003

China stumbles on SARS and Pyongyang

LOS ANGELES -- Mistake-making is a common occupation of governments everywhere, but lately the Chinese government has made two monster blunders that uncomfortably reopen the question of whether China has made all that much progress after all. The issues concern North Korea and severe acute respiratory...
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2003

Concern mounts over Iraq money claims

Japan is getting increasingly worried about whether it will be able to collect some $5 billion in claims against Iraq now that the government of President Saddam Hussein has effectively collapsed.
EDITORIALS
Apr 14, 2003

Easing cash flow for small firms

Small businesses in Japan are having severe cash-flow difficulties, even though the Bank of Japan is pumping plenty of money into the banking system. This is because debt-burdened banks are following restrictive lending practices. In an unprecedented move to help those cash-strapped companies, the central...
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
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