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COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Jun 20, 2002

Politics of homeland security

WASHINGTON -- The specter of terrorism that has hung over America since Sept. 11 has created an enormous public demand for security. Homeland security has become a massive governmental program, a political issue, a growth industry, a rationale for all sorts of governmental spending and constitutional...
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2002

Financial giant announces punishment for its top staff

Financial giant Mizuho Holdings Inc. on Wednesday officially announced punitive measures for 117 senior employees responsible for the massive computer glitches that marred the April launch of two new banks under the banking group.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 20, 2002

One blunder and it's all over for Japan

RIFU, Miyagi Pref. -- A single goal put an end to Japan's World Cup campaign but the way it was conceded is likely to haunt the cohost for a long time.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jun 20, 2002

'Morrowind' ups RPG ante

"Elders Scrolls III: Morrowind" is a role-playing game (RPG) for PC and Xbox in which players roam a seemingly endless countryside enlisting in minor quests as they fulfill a greater destiny.
COMMENTARY
Jun 19, 2002

Key South Asia concern being ignored

HONOLULU -- Senior American envoys like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage deserve praise for their seemingly successful efforts to move India and Pakistan back from the brink of war once again. As history has brutally demonstrated, even a conventional armed...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 19, 2002

Japan out as Koreans stun Italy

MIYAGI -- Cohost Japan's 2002 World Cup run ended Tuesday with a disappointing 1-0 loss to a stubborn Turkish side in a Round of 16 game at Miyagi Stadium, but South Korea pulled off a stunning 2-1 upset over Italy in Taejon to advance to the quarterfinals where it faces Spain.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 19, 2002

Kitajima picked for Asian Games

Kosuke Kitajima and Tomoko Hagiwara were among the swimmers named Monday by the Japan Swimming Federation (JSF) as representatives for the Pan Pacific championships and the Asian Games.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Rural areas boast higher employment for women in 30s

Women in their 30s who live in rural prefectures are more likely to have jobs than their counterparts in metropolitan areas, according to a government white paper on gender equality released Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 19, 2002

More revenue for local governments

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is seeking tax reform to revive economic vitality, but he wants to limit tax cuts to the extent that they do not exacerbate the budget crisis. In other words, he is opposed to stimulating the economy at the expense of fiscal discipline. So no major tax cuts are planned...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Milk sales may be sour but yogurt's on a roll

Yogurt is enjoying brisk sales as makers and the media tout its efficacy as a health and beauty food, despite the sluggishness in business surrounding milk products, according to market sources.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

JAS pilots decide to call off strike

The Japan Air System pilots union called off a strike that had been set to start Tuesday morning.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Youth sex on rise, as are serious infections

Sex education expert Atsuko Yoshida is alarmed by the increasingly decadent lifestyle of youth that has made them more susceptible than ever to sexually transmitted infections.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 19, 2002

Swallows move up

Atsuya Furuta singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and the Yakult Swallows regained third place in the Central League standings Tuesday with a 4-3 win over the Chunichi Dragons at the Nagoya Dome.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Hiranuma repents for comments on Botswana rating

Takeo Hiranuma, head of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, apologized Tuesday for earlier stating that Japan's sovereign bonds are improperly rated because they are ranked below those of Botswana, where a large portion of the population has AIDS.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Computer exec held in subsidy scam

OSAKA — The president of an Osaka computer software developer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of illegally receiving 160 million yen in government subsidies aimed at encouraging information technology research and development.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Mizuho president to take 50% pay cut

Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., plans to take a 50 percent pay cut over a six-month period to take responsibility for the computer fiasco that threw the group's operations into chaos during its April relaunch, informed sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Suzuki denies taking money for favors

Embattled lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on Tuesday denied during his testimony before a Lower House committee session that the money he received from a Hokkaido-based lumber company in 1998 was in return for political favors.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Russia cultural pact to be ratified

The government decided Tuesday to ratify a cultural exchange pact between Japan and Russia that expands on a 1986 treaty to include copyrights and cultural property, Foreign Ministry officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jun 19, 2002

What's the real problem behind music file sharing?

Share and share alike -- that's what we were taught when we were kids.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Omar Faruk Tekbilek: 'Alif'

With the steaming shimmer of a cymbal, Alif magically opens a creaking door, draws aside a heavy curtain and welcomes us into a room thick with the smell of sandalwood incense where revelers recline on silken pillows and smoke from gurgling hookahs, preparing for a night of decadent pleasures.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 19, 2002

PL directors OK Fighters' move

The Pacific League's board of directors on Tuesday approved the move of the Nippon Ham Fighters to Hokkaido for the 2004 season when the team will take up residence at the Sapporo Dome and be known as the "Sapporo Nippon Ham Fighters."
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2002

Marubeni to sell Osaka headquarters

Trading house Marubeni Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its Osaka headquarters to an investment fund run by Nihon Sogo Fund Co.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 19, 2002

Rhythm Love: 'The Best of Turntables on the Hudson'

We live in an age of increasingly diverse yet compartmentalized forms of dance music. The original "one" of disco, has fractalized into a "many," yet rare are the labels or parties that allow the genres to mingle. Funky breakbeats rarely intrude into the sets of clinically mixed trance, while the feel-good,...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

China gives permission to salvage 'spy ship'

Beijing gave the go-ahead Tuesday for Japan to salvage a suspected North Korean spy ship that sank in China's exclusive economic zone in December after a running gunbattle with Japan Coast Guard vessels.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

Podcast

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

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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