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BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Budgetary funds may hold off job insurance hike

Labor minister Chikara Sakaguchi said Friday that the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry may shelve its plans to raise employment insurance premiums if it secures extra funds under the proposed supplemental budget for fiscal 2002.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 23, 2002

Dodgers closer Gagne would rather be chasing a hockey puck in NHL

Eric Gagne is a 25-year-old pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After three rather unspectacular years as a starting pitcher with the Dodgers, the Montreal native was converted to a closer prior to this past season.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Imperial family mourns for prince

Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and other Imperial family members paid their respects Friday morning at the residence of Prince Takamado, the Emperor's cousin, who died of heart failure the previous night. He was 47.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

South Korean minister warns North not to rely on threats

North Korea's brinkmanship with the United States will not work and it will have to dismantle its nuclear development program due to its heavy dependence on outside energy and food, South Korea's Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Tiny gain seen in gender equality

One in four members of national government councils and boards as of the end of September were women, a slight increase of 0.3 percentage point from the same period last year, according to a survey by the Cabinet Office's Gender Equality Bureau released Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Road official arrested in bid-rigging probe

OSAKA -- A senior official of Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. and two senior officials of a construction company in Osaka Prefecture were arrested Friday in connection with an alleged bid-rigging case in 2000, police said.
EDITORIALS
Nov 23, 2002

A time bomb at the sea bottom

The Spanish coast is now threatened by the biggest oil spill in history. Predictably, as much time is being spent on figuring out who is to blame as is being spent on cleanup efforts. At issue are the "flags of convenience" that allow ships to be registered in countries with which they have only a marginal...
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

ACCJ: Don't cut guaranteed yields

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan on Friday urged the government not to allow life insurance companies to cut their guaranteed yields on outstanding individual life insurance policies.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Inflation targets discussed at BOJ October meetings

During meetings Oct. 10 and 11, the Bank of Japan Policy Board discussed the validity of introducing inflation targets in an effort to combat deflation, according to minutes released Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Ad slump eats into TV Asahi profit

Asahi National Broadcasting Co., better known as TV Asahi, said Friday its group net profit for the first half of the 2002 business year dove 73.1 percent to 1.46 billion yen due to a decline in advertising revenues.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Nov 23, 2002

Pier serves up Tokyo's balmy isles

They are part of Tokyo in name only.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Koizumi pushes hard for additional tax cuts

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday instructed the Cabinet to start work on the specifics of a supplementary budget for fiscal 2002 and pushed for further tax cuts to revitalize the economy.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 23, 2002

How to coax warmth out of Japanese food

In Japan, since there is no central heating, there is a sincere attempt to warm the body from the stomach out. And since this is Asia, where the stomach is considered the body's Command Central, it bodes well to keep your stomach happy, and above all, warm.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2002

A vital role for Japan in Asia

SINGAPORE -- As Japan becomes mired in its own political, economic and financial problems and grapples with serious geostrategic concerns on the Korean Peninsula, there is great temptation for it to look inward. Such a shift, however, is to the detriment of the region, which is experiencing one of its...
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

RCC to help with salvageable firms

The government announced Friday a new plan to establish schemes to help small and midsize companies rebuild their businesses by utilizing the trust function of Resolution and Collection Corp., the government's loan collection entity.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Meeting opens in Kobe to raise public awareness of AIDS

KOBE -- Africans with the human immunodeficiency virus stressed to participants of an international symposium here Friday the importance of considering the issue their own and listening to the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 23, 2002

Marketing Cardiff as cultural capital of Europe

This is quite a month for Bet (Elizabeth) Davies. On Nov. 28, she will receive an award from the Japanese ambassador in London on behalf of the government for services rendered to to the Japanese community in Wales, and her work in bridging Japan and the U.K. in general.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Yoshimoto Kogyo profit up 111%

Entertainment house Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. said Friday its half-year group net profit soared 111.3 percent from a year earlier to 1.21 billion yen, despite its group pretax profit and revenues being almost flat.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Snow sees 45 billion yen loss in first half

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Friday it posted a group net loss of 45.36 billion yen for the first half of this business year, due largely to hefty restructuring charges aimed at reviving the ailing dairy giant.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 23, 2002

Angela Bilbao de Infante

Next year, the International Ladies Benevolent Society will celebrate its 50th anniversary of nonstop, wholehearted, generous help to charitable organizations and people in need in Japan. A continuing, major fundraising event is the annual Christmas Fair. This year's chairwoman for the fair is Angela...
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Balance sought in abductee reporting

Korean residents of Japan denounced on Friday the Japanese media for their recent reporting on North Korean issues, saying it has kindled public hatred and prejudice against ethnic Koreans.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 23, 2002

Tigers raise offer

OSAKA -- The Hanshin Tigers held negotiations with Norihiro Nakamura on Thursday, becoming the third Japanese team to pursue the free-agent slugger with a lucrative multiyear contract offer.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2002

Nonlife insurers post increase in interim profits

The nation's nine largest nonlife insurers posted increased net profits, with only one remaining in the red following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to interim earnings reports released Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Pressures of infertility exact toll

The women sit in a circle in a silent room.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2002

Ship in hijack bid now off Hokkaido

A Russian trawler that reportedly repelled a hijack attempt by a pirate ship off Vladivostok on Tuesday is located off Hokkaido in the Sea of Japan, the Japan Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
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.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

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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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.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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