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COMMENTARY
Feb 5, 2002

Aftershock risk to Koizumi

Late at night on Jan. 29, exactly nine months after the formation of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government, a great seismic tremor struck the Japanese political landscape, as he dismissed Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami, and forced Muneo Suzuki, a Liberal...
Japan Times
Events
Feb 5, 2002

Schoolgirls' soccer project exemplifies NPO's work

KOBE -- Three 12-year-old girls in Nagata Ward here are videotaping their classmates' soccer practice on the playground of their elementary school.
Japan Times
Events
Feb 5, 2002

Artificial jellyfish find niche market with aquarium hobbyists

NARA -- Jellyfish swimming up and down inside a water tank may be a comforting sight to see, but keeping them alive is another matter entirely. Help, however, is on the way, said Hideaki Okuda, a maker of artificial jellyfish.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2002

Japanese living overseas in record numbers: survey

A record 839,138 Japanese nationals were living overseas on a long-term basis as of Oct. 1, up 3.4 percent from the previous high posted a year earlier, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Japan and Peru together again -- for FEALAC talks

It may appear ironic that Japan and Peru are key partners in a working group on economic and social issues under the guise of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation, given the fact that their bilateral relationship remains soured.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Business leaders forecast contraction

Japanese business leaders expect the domestic economy to contract a real 0.6 percent on average in fiscal 2002, according to a survey released Monday by the influential Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren).
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2002

Exec of Jichiro affiliate denies 80 million yen graft

Yoko Hasegawa, 59, a former managing director of UBC Corp., pleaded not guilty Monday to embezzling 80 million yen from the data-processing firm between 1994 and 2000.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Moody's cuts debt ratings for Toshiba, NEC amid IT slump

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Monday that it has cut the senior unsecured debt ratings of Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp., Japan's second- and third-largest electronics makers, citing decreased profitability and the ongoing slump in the information-technology industry.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 5, 2002

Pats stun Rams in Super thriller

NEW ORLEANS -- Against all odds, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WORKING IT OUT
Feb 5, 2002

Are 'freeters' result of slump, source of next one?

Tomoko Noguchi, 22, got her first bar hostess job about three years ago, while studying to become an aesthetician at a vocational school.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Feb 5, 2002

Where past and present tracks cross

Stepping off the shinkansen at Okayama Station and crossing over to the iron rails and worn stone of the city's aged streetcar system, you experience an abrupt transition in time and space.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 5, 2002

Ichiro returns to United States

Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, last season's Most Valuable Player in the American League, left for the United States on Sunday after a two-month break in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Kinki Nippon, Nippon Travel part ways

Kinki Nippon Tourist Co. and Nippon Travel Agency, the nation's second- and third-largest travel agencies, announced Monday that they have canceled a merger plan for January 2003 due to ramifications of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

SAS route expansion plan halted

Scandinavian Airlines System has suspended a plan to extend its routes in Asia in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, but it will go ahead with a plan to introduce bigger airplanes to the region, Jorgen Lindegaard, president and CEO of SAS Group, said in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

JT cuts earnings projection, citing costs of reform

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Monday it has lowered its projection of 52 billion yen in group net profit to 30 billion yen for fiscal 2001 due to an extraordinary loss of 41.5 billion yen in restructuring costs.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2002

Groping reporter gets eight months

A reporter for the Washington Post was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for groping a high school girl in November while riding a subway train in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Feb 5, 2002

Healthy firms' stocks best

Tokyo stocks could remain in a consolidation phase until early next month, with the 225-issue Nikkei average moving between 9,500 and 11,000 and the broader-based Topix between 950 and 1,100.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Shiokawa wants quick budget OK

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa on Monday called for swift passage of a 81.23 trillion yen general-account budget for fiscal 2002, designed to accommodate structural reform measures pursued by the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

KDDI ties with Chinese telecom trio

KDDI Corp., the nation's second-largest telecom firm, said Monday it has formed alliances with three regional Chinese telecommunications firms.
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Feb 5, 2002

Where past and present tracks cross

Stepping off the shinkansen at Okayama Station and crossing over to the iron rails and worn stone of the city's aged streetcar system, you experience an abrupt transition in time and space.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2002

Asian, Latin American officials ready to roll up their sleeves

A fledgling forum of 27 East Asian and Latin American countries will get down to business early next month on drafting a package of specific proposals to shore up nascent trans-Pacific cooperation in economic and social areas.
Japan Times
Events
Feb 5, 2002

METI scrutiny, idle shipment cloud Kepco's plans for MOX

OSAKA -- The future of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plans to use mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel is now in doubt following a decision late last year to cancel an order of French-made MOX fuel as well as uncertainty over when, and under what security conditions, a shipment of British-made MOX fuel could...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 5, 2002

Faith in a tropical Gethsemane

When the Spanish arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, they found a lush tropical garden ripe for replanting. King Philip II had commanded his soldiers, administrators and religious zealots that there were to be no repetitions of the atrocities committed in the name of the cross throughout...
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2002

Topix closes at new 17-year low

The Tokyo Stock Price Index closed Monday below 950 for the first time since April 1985 as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's policy speech to the Diet failed to ease investors' worries over a possible delay in structural reforms.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2002

Doing right by Doha

Without a lot of fanfare, trade negotiators formally began the Doha Round of trade talks last week in Geneva. That the talks are being held at all is a victory; the original attempt to launch them unleashed "the battle of Seattle," when antiglobalism protesters turned that peaceful city into a riot zone....
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2002

Price of pure market reform

"Kozo kaikaku"(structural reform) is the buzzword these days. But it isn't clear exactly what it means. Yet it is the "clincher" in newspaper articles, economic journals and TV comments by economists. The common belief here is that structural reform is in and by itself good. It is held as an article...
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
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.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

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
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