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BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Nagasakiya to close about 30 stores

Failed supermarket chain Nagasakiya Co. will close around 30 of its 84 outlets as part of a rehabilitation program, according to company sources.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Economic slide eats into scholarships

Scholarship grants and loans provided by regional bodies, schools, foundations and other entities fell 25 percent between fiscal 1995 and 1999, according to a recent education ministry survey.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Kansai airport to boost capital base

OSAKA -- Kansai International Airport Co. said Tuesday it will increase its capital base by 34.65 billion yen by floating new shares for third-party subscriptions to help finance operations planned for the current fiscal year.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 7, 2001

Hosoya serves up some excellent cheese

OK, let's play Guess The Filmmaker. Here's the flick: it's called "Home Sweet Hoboken," it's set in a New Jersey neighborhood, and it features two jobless young slackers who live with their grandmother while subsisting on pizza and beer. Their foul-mouthed dialogue is along the lines of "S***, I gotta...
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Nov 7, 2001

Investors play it safe in perplexing market

The recent developments on the Tokyo stock market have been perplexing.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Bank bosses to testify about FSA lending pressure

The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Affairs will summon two bank presidents to give unsworn testimony on reports that a top Financial Services Agency official pressured the banks to favor specific borrowers, officials said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 7, 2001

Disturbing signals from distant Planet Y

All About Lily Chou ChouRating: * * * 1/2 Director: Shunji Iwai Running time: 146 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Takeda Chemical notches 45% net profit increase in first half

Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. said Tuesday its consolidated net profit in the first half of the 2001 business year increased 45.3 percent from a year earlier to 130.85 billion yen, due mainly to an increase in overseas sales of medicine.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 7, 2001

Between the real and the surreal

A whiff of the absurd was in the air at the closing ceremony of the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival, held Sunday at Orchard Hall in Shibuya. It wasn't necessarily the presenters' hairdos and breathless patter, nor the new formal dress code imposed on the attending filmmakers. It wasn't even the...
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Sluggish sales sink Shiseido's profits

Cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. said Tuesday its consolidated pretax profits for the first half through Sept. 30 plunged 42.9 percent from the same period a year ago to 9.90 billion yen.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 7, 2001

Troussier says Japan is ready

SAITAMA -- A day before Wednesday night's friendly against Italy at Saitama Stadium, Japan coach Philippe Troussier on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with his team's World Cup preparation.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Sony expects rebound from resurgent mobile-phone division

Sony Corp.'s earnings will probably rebound in the second half of the business year after an anticipated improvement in the performance of its mobile phone division, Sony President Kunitake Ando said in a recent interview with Kyodo News.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Basic energy plan one step closer

A basic national energy policy moved a step closer to fruition Tuesday as the ruling coalition agreed to submit a relevant bill to the Diet during the current session.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 7, 2001

MLB contraction: Say it ain't so, Bud

Just about the time you are reading this, officials of Major League Baseball should be discussing an issue that has never come up before in our lifetime: contraction. You know the story; MLB commissioner Bud Selig has said folding two franchises, rolling back the majors from 30 to 28 teams, may be a...
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Household spending continues to decline

Average household spending declined an inflation-adjusted 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier to 283,390 yen for the sixth consecutive monthly fall, the government said Tuesday.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 7, 2001

Chung wants Emperor at World Cup

South Korean World Cup Organizing Committee co-chairman Chung Mong Joon stressed the significance of a visit by Japan's Emperor to South Korea for the opening ceremony of next year's World Cup.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 7, 2001

CL and PL to open on March 30

The Central League will kick off its regular season for 2002 on March 30, holding its season opener on the same day as the Pacific League for the first time in eight years, the league said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Toyota tops, Honda No. 2 in Japan sales

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. dominated the list of best-selling vehicles on the domestic market in October, with Toyota's Corolla model taking the top spot for the 14th straight month, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Nov 7, 2001

Art in the midst of 'iniquity'

I live in Kabukicho -- the infamous tangle of sex clubs and mahjongg parlors located just north of Shinjuku Station's East Exit. There are a number of reasons why I live where I do: the hundreds of wonderful all-night Asian restaurants and supermarkets; the fact that I can walk from my apartment to the...
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2001

Putting the regions back in the spotlight

There is cultural life thriving outside Kanto and Kansai. As proof of this, if proof were needed, the new Iwate Museum of Art in Morioka City opened to the public last month. Its core collection -- of 20th-century prints, paintings and sculptures by artists born, trained or resident in the region --...
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2001

In search of simplicity

In turbulent times, we turn to the simple things of life with relief. But in fine art, simplicity is not easy, and it is a brave painter who spends his life depicting pots and pans, apples and pears.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Nov 7, 2001

Here, there and everywhere

Even though you may not recognize the name Tamio Okuda, you've probably heard his music. Okuda is the Svengali behind the extraordinarily successful female duo Puffy, and his love for and deep knowledge of '60s and '70s rock comes through loud and clear with every Beatles riff and classic chord pattern...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Ogata pushes aid for Afghanistan

Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, called Tuesday for Japan's financial support to help rebuild Afghanistan and stabilize neighboring countries.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Lower House eases stock option law

The House of Representatives approved at a plenary session Tuesday an amendment to the Commercial Code aimed at easing regulations on granting and exercising stock options.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001

MC Solaar: 'Cinquieme As (Fifth Ace)'

In order for something to be exotic, there must first be an accepted cultural standard. In the case of the music of MC Solaar (Claude M'Barali), a Senegalese musician who relocated to Paris in 1990 and has since become the best-selling Francophone rapper in the world, the standard is American hip-hop....
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Nakatani instructs SDF chiefs to dispatch 700 to East Timor

Gen Nakatani, director general of the Defense Agency, told the heads of Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces on Tuesday to send some 700 service members to East Timor in March to assist with United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001

Empire State: 'Eternal Combustion'

If necessity is the mother of invention, then boredom is its long-lost uncle. Having grown bored with the present state of indie music, the experimentalist, postrock three-piece Empire State found inspiration by building their own instruments. Dr. Seuss-like contraptions such as "whirling xylo-cans"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2001

Iberian artist's intuition

An exhibition of silk-screen prints by Portuguese artist Jose de Guimaraes is showing till Nov. 22 at the Portuguese Embassy in Kojimachi.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Hiranuma to pitch unified antiterror stand

Takeo Hiranuma, minister of economy, trade and industry, said Tuesday he plans to call for world unity to combat terrorism in a speech at the upcoming meeting of the World Trade Organization starting Friday in Qatar.
Britain’s Prince of Wales aircraft carrier makes Japan debut
HMS Prince of Wales arrives into the Port of Darwin, Australia, in July during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.
Japanese students who want to study abroad looking at options in Asia
The number of Japanese students who applied to the National Taiwan University in Taipei in 2025 is more than 60% higher than last year due partly to affordability and proximity.
Controversial theories continue to swirl around 1985 JAL jet crash
Kimi Ozawa, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, prays in front of his memorial marker on Tuesday in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Taiwanese drama 'Zero Day Attack' on Chinese invasion to stream in Japan
A scene from the Taiwanese television drama "Zero Day Attack," which will stream in Japan from Friday.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.

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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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
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