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JAPAN
Jan 9, 2002

Heavy snow to hit Sea of Japan coast

Heavy snow is expected to blanket parts of the nation today, particularly areas of the Sea of Japan coast from northern to western Japan, the Meteorological Agency said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 9, 2002

metalwood: 'the recline'

Every self-respecting Canadian jazz enthusiast should have metalwood's latest on their shelf. How many jazz bands can Canada claim, after all? Clearly, not enough. But all that joking about the frozen northern land should melt under the heat of "the recline," on which metalwood takes a sophisticated...
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 9, 2002

Cerezo honored

Kashima Antlers coach Toninho Cerezo has been named as the Asian Football Confederation's Manager of the Month for December after leading his side to a second successive J. League title.
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2002

Moody's assigns Baa2 rating to NYK

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Tuesday it has assigned a Baa2 issuer rating with a stable outlook to Nippon Yusen K.K.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 9, 2002

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a terrorist, let there be no question about that. Slide one of his records onto your grandmother's gramophone while she's making a cup of tea and then, on lowering the needle, watch her writhe in agony until she can take no more and commits seppuku with a knitting needle. Then again kids,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 9, 2002

Basement Jaxx

What most people respond to when they first hear Basement Jaxx aren't so much the recognizable references -- the Prince and P-Funk nods, the Latin rhythms, the beats-per-minute rules of late-'80s house music -- but the even more basic stuff, like song structure. Even if you're a champion of electronica...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jan 9, 2002

Two looks back and three worth looking forward to

Akemashite, etc. . . . Before I do anything else, I'd like to thank NHK for providing me with my yearly dose of enka on the 2001 edition of "Kohaku Utagassen (Red and White Song Contest)."
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2002

Foreigners stay net sellers

Foreign investors were net sellers of Japanese stocks for the second consecutive week during the third week of December.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jan 9, 2002

The next best thing

Happy New Year to one and all. I'm just back in Tokyo after spending the holidays in Bangkok, where, you might be interested to know, Project 304, About Art Space and the city's four or five other contemporary-art players got together to celebrate the finale of a successful video and film program that...
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2002

Ministry to help protein researchers succeed in global race for patents

The science ministry will form a team of experts in April to help research bodies obtain international patents and beat the competition in protein research linked to new drugs, ministry officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2002

North Korean ship searched after refusing to be boarded

Coast guard personnel and police inspected an uncooperative North Korean freighter Monday in Chiba Prefecture but found nothing unusual and believe a tip about suspicious men in wet suits that led to the search was a hoax, a senior Japan Coast Guard official said.
Events
Jan 8, 2002

Kansai / Who & What

Talk-no-kai holding two discussion sessions Talk-no-kai, a Nara-based citizens' group, is going to hold two English discussion sessions in Nara on Saturday.
Events
Jan 8, 2002

Therapist uses dance to access link between body and mind

KYOTO -- With opera music playing in the background, around 30 middle-aged and elderly women perform a series of stretches led by instructor Mariko Takayasu.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2002

Fund drive seeks to restore graves in Uzbekistan

A group of 40 lawmakers and business executives has launched a fundraising drive aimed at restoring Japanese graves in Uzbekistan and erecting a monument in honor of those who died as forced laborers on foreign soil.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2002

Behind the scenes with Phnom Penh's 'orange girls'

PHNOM PENH -- In central Phnom Penh, at one end of a semiderelict building, is a tiny lean-to shack. Its walls are made of scavenged wood planks and its roof of corrugated iron. The ground around it is a swamp of sewage and mud due to the daily monsoon rains. To get to the shack, you have to hop along...
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2002

New Year's temple, shrine visits dip

About 84.91 million people visited Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples across Japan during the first three days of the year, down 3.84 million from last year, the National Police Agency said Monday.
BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Jan 8, 2002

Sense of crisis means steps are in the offing

The Tokyo stock market finds itself in a do-or-die situation at the beginning of the new year.
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2002

Two potential replacements named as buzzards circle Hayami

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami has little more than a year left in his term, but speculation is already brewing over who will succeed him.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2002

Japan's business leaders see growth elusive in fiscal 2002

The leaders of Japan's four most powerful business groups said Monday that Japan's economy will continue to be sluggish in fiscal 2002, predicting an annual growth rate of between 0.5 percent and a contraction of 1 percent.
Events
Jan 8, 2002

Contractors seek green image, recycling

OSAKA -- Amid rising environmental awareness across the business spectrum, the construction sector is often hit for lagging in this regard.
COMMENTARY
Jan 8, 2002

India set to keep full press on Pakistan

NEW DELHI -- The biggest question now is whether war will break out between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. Although no right-minded citizen in either country wants war, many forget that Pakistan has thrust an undeclared war on India for years, bleeding India noticeably. Thus the aim is not...
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2002

Japan, China to begin talks on setting up trade panel

Japan and China will hold working-level talks Tuesday and Wednesday in Beijing on setting up a consultation panel for "orderly trade" in three farm products, the Japanese farm ministry said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2002

Mycal to launch 80% discount sales

OSAKA -- Failed supermarket chain operator Mycal Corp. said Monday it will sell some 10 billion yen worth of stock at discounts of up to 80 percent at its Saty retail outlets and Vivre apparel stores.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2002

Defense asks Takuma to describe his thinking

OSAKA -- Lawyers for the man accused of murdering eight children at an elementary school in Osaka Prefecture last year urged the defendant in court Monday to describe his state of mind and the way it was formed.

Longform

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