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JAPAN
Apr 29, 2002

Nonpublic officials take more honors

The government on Monday announced recipients of its biannual awards, with nonpublic officials accounting for a record high 35 percent of the 4,624 Japanese honored.
COMMENTARY
Apr 29, 2002

The virtue of keeping mum on Taiwan

LOS ANGELES -- From Beijing's perspective, the only acceptable U.S. public statement on Taiwan is no statement at all.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2002

Possibility of Osama's escape haunts U.S.

WASHINGTON -- Was Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in the first half of December? And did the U.S. decision to rely on Afghan militias and Pakistani troops, rather than American forces, to seal off escape routes from those mountains permit bin Laden to escape during the intensive bombing...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Apr 29, 2002

G7 needs developing nations' help as trend of globalization continues

The Group of Seven conference held April 19 to 20 in Washington highlighted negative as well as positive aspects of the world economy.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2002

Hansen's patients oppose society chair candidate

Former Hansen's disease patients have informed a national society for the disease of their opposition to having a controversial head of a sanitarium take the position of society chairman in the next election to be held in May, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2002

Kabukicho fumes hospitalize four

Four people were rushed to a hospital early Sunday after inhaling fumes in a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2002

America's own 'rogue state'

BEIRUT -- Since the Taliban's defeat in Afghanistan, the United States has been focusing on that long-standing "rogue state" and newly anointed member of the "axis of evil," President Saddam Hussein's Iraq, as the next target of its "war on terror."
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 28, 2002

JEF upsets Marinos as Nabisco Cup starts

ICHIHARA, Chiba Pref. -- JEF United got off to a good start in its Nabisco Cup campaign by beating the Yokohama F. Marinos 2-0 at Ichihara Seaside Stadium on Saturday, the opening day of the annual tournament.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Apr 28, 2002

Scientist's conscience prevents him from toeing institute line

Hoisting banners with the single Chinese character for "damnation," victims of the mercury poisoning outbreak known as Minamata disease rallied in Tokyo in 1971 to draw national attention to their plight.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2002

Latest Chinese puzzle has experts baffled

HONG KONG -- For China-watchers, the puzzling China contrast is between a nation that sends the capsule Shenzhou 3 into space and one that drags a seemingly useless rusty hull halfway around the globe. China's first aircraft carrier has finally arrived in port, but the mystery remains as to what conceivable...
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 28, 2002

Shinjo-mania begins to wear thin with Giants teammates

CHICAGO -- When the San Francisco Giants arrived at Wrigley Field on Tuesday for a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs, Tsuyoshi Shinjo was batting a depressing .168. Considering how much attention he was receiving from the Japanese media, you'd think he was batting 1.000.
COMMENTARY
Apr 28, 2002

Can Musharraf stabilize what he wins?

ISLAMABAD -- Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, is set to position himself for a five-year term following Tuesday's referendum, but questions are mounting over his ability to give much needed stability to South Asia's second-largest country. Pakistan remains under the global spotlight...
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2002

Labor unions rally to urge Koizumi to focus on jobs

Labor unions staged daylong rallies across Japan on Saturday to mark May Day with a call on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to safeguard their jobs in the face of near-record unemployment.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2002

UNICEF urges child focus at Cup

Nane Annan, wife of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, said Saturday that the well-being of children throughout the world should be a focus during the World Cup 2002.
SOCCER / World cup
Apr 28, 2002

Not all Cup tickets to have names

The Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC) said Friday it will not print individual names on the tickets allotted to the official sponsors for the upcoming tournament.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2002

Mizuho fiasco worries Lawson

Japan's second-largest convenience-store operator, Lawson Inc., is considering delaying a plan to directly hook up its automated teller machines with Mizuho group banks' ATM network due to the banks' computer troubles.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002

Change was in the air

For Peggy Hayama, recalling the Occupation brings to mind a secret affair with the radio. Each night, the Tokyo teenager would listen to the armed forces station and the seductive sounds of jazz and big band swing. She was entranced by Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002

They came, they saw, they democratized

"Bataan," the C-54 transport carrying Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers (SCAP), landed at Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, at 2:05 p.m. on Aug. 30. The general, wearing sunglasses and puffing on a corncob pipe, struck a dramatic pose near the top of the ladder for the more than...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Apr 28, 2002

A familiar story but with a sincerely new spin

Sometimes hard times can turn out to be the best of luck. There is nothing like a little parental abuse -- or substance abuse -- to burnish an artist's street credibility. Everyone from Eminem to Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor to, more locally, DJ Krush has a rough past.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Apr 28, 2002

Japan's 'long-awaited spring'

In the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun, Monday, April 28, 1952, there was a front-page editorial titled "A New Start for Japan." The Occupation, Asahi opined, had been "almost akin to colonialism," resulting in people becoming "irresponsible, obsequious and listless . . . unable to perceive issues...
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2002

Asahi Mutual eyes net profits in '01

Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. will likely secure the equivalent of a stock company net profit in the year to March 31 despite its plan to write off some 400 billion yen in latent stockholding losses, company sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002

The unsung heroine of women's rights

Beate Sirota Gordon was born in 1923 in Vienna and moved to Japan with her parents as a child. After going to college in the United States, she joined the Occupation forces as a researcher, and in December 1945 she took up a job in the political affairs division of the Occupation's General Headquarters...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002

Where history was made

As supreme commander of the U.S. Occupation of Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his share of faults. His temper rattled members of his staff and an open disdain for authority enraged his boss, President Harry S. Truman.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 28, 2002

A suck-up, a thumbs up

Ever since SMAP-man Goro Inagaki returned from self-imposed exile, during which he supposedly reflected on his heinous parking infraction, he seems to be everywhere, as if he were making up for lost time. Perhaps as a spoof on his capacity to demonstrate self-effacement, he's currently starring in his...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002

Stop the presses

At 7 p.m. on Oct. 11, 1946, it was quiet in The Japan Times newsroom in central Tokyo. The deadline for the next day's first edition had passed, and day-shift editors were ready to pack up and leave. Then, with no prior warning, a surprise visitor appeared in their midst.
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
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.
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.
Japan ranked one of the most peaceful places in Asia as global tensions rise
Visitors look at paper cranes hung at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, a day ahead of the 80th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing of the city.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
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.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.

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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