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JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

More environmental staff on way for 2002

The Environment Ministry will get 58 extra staff for fiscal 2002, but it will still be understaffed, Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told a news conference on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Nine state lenders draw FSA inspections

The government decided Tuesday to allow the Financial Services Agency to conduct inspections of nine governmental financial institutions beginning in fiscal 2003, according to government officials.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Green tax on carmakers proposed

A tax policy advisory panel to Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara proposed Tuesday that the metropolitan government introduce a new tax on automakers reflecting the environmental impact of their products.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

Three arrested in bank robbery

OSAKA -- Three men were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of robbing a bank of 25 million yen earlier in the day at a Kinki Osaka Bank branch in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, police said.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 26, 2001

Best of times, worst of times

The ominous statistics had been news for some time, but, being a slippery freelancer, I never thought Japan's worsening economic situation would affect me directly. The year 2001, however, proved this assumption wrong, as the mean old cutback beast reared up and hit me where it hurt the most -- right...
Japan Times
JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK
Dec 26, 2001

Reforms shake higher education's foundations

Scholars at Japan's universities have long been criticized for enjoying "splendid isolation" within their ivory towers.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 26, 2001

Bireli Lagrene: 'Gipsy Project'

When Bireli Lagrene burst onto the scene at the age of 13, many felt he was the reincarnation of Django Reinhardt, the famed Gypsy jazz guitarist.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

BOJ briefly entertained plan to buy foreign bonds

The Bank of Japan Policy Board at its mid-November meeting rejected a proposal that the central bank purchase foreign bonds, but some members nevertheless entertained the idea as a way to further ease credit, according to minutes of the meeting released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Four MTFG securities houses to merge

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. said Tuesday its four group securities companies -- Kokusai Securities Co., Tokyo-Mitsubishi Securities Co., Tokyo-Mitsubishi Personal Securities Co. and Issei Securities Co. -- have agreed to merge on July 1. Kokusai Securities will be the surviving entity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

Ministers reach accord on Hansen's settlement

Health chief Chikara Sakaguchi said Tuesday he and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama have agreed to compensate former Hansen's disease patients who were not forced into sanitariums under the government's now-defunct quarantine policy.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Sales at supermarkets fall 4.5%

Sales at Japan's supermarkets fell 4.5 percent on a same-store basis in November from a year earlier to 1.26 trillion yen, the 36th monthly drop in a row, the Japan Chain Stores Association said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

IHI raises forecast after land sales

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. said Tuesday it has revised upward its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year as it will book an additional extraordinary profit from the sale of real estate holdings.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

Koizumi wants ship in shootout salvaged

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he thinks the unidentified ship that sank in the East China Sea on Saturday after a shootout with Japan Coast Guard patrol ships should be salvaged for investigation purposes if possible.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 26, 2001

Nepal opens 103 more peaks

Nepal said on Monday that in March it will open 103 more mountain peaks in the Himalayas for international climbing.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Dec 26, 2001

At last, Congress tackles election reform

WASHINGTON -- It was just a year ago last week that the Supreme Court elected George W. Bush our 43rd president. The mess of the elections in 2000, from the faulty voting machines in Florida to the long counts in western states (remember it took almost a month to declare a winner in the Senate election...
CULTURE / Art
Dec 26, 2001

Still F.A.B. after all these years

Almost four decades after taking off on the TV screen, "Thunderbirds are go" once more.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Matsushita group firms to become wholly owned

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. plans to transform some of its group firms into wholly owned subsidiaries as part of efforts to reorganize its group businesses and make operations more efficient, company sources said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 26, 2001

'Jazzin' ' with UFO

It is a rare trick to be both popular and cutting-edge, a trick that the DJ unit United Future Organization has pulled off with aplomb. In the quicksilver world of club music, it is even more unusual for a dance event to last one year, much less ten. "Jazzin' " celebrates its 10th anniversary this month...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 26, 2001

Nathaniel Merriweather: 'Lovage'

Makeout music is as old as the phonograph (older, if you believe that Bach really wrote the "Goldberg Variations" to help Herr Goldberg get Frau Goldberg in the mood), but Barry White was the first recording artist who made a conscious effort to emphasize only those musical and lyrical elements that...
CULTURE / Art
Dec 26, 2001

Eyesaw unites artists' scene

"It was an accident. All I wanted to do was meet people." With these words, Julia Barnes explains the origin of Eyesaw, a rapidly expanding organization now becoming a focus for up-and-coming contemporary artists in Japan.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 26, 2001

Tuesday Weld: 'At the House of Clerkenwell Kid'

For film buffs, the name Tuesday Weld evokes memories of the blonde bombshell who starred in 1960s and '70s films like "Sex Kittens Go to College," "Pretty Poison" and "I Walk the Line." Stephen Coates, aka (The real) Tuesday Weld, must have been a fan. His music encapsulates her work: sumptuous and...
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

Yen-negative remarks send dollar soaring past 130

The U.S. dollar surged above 130 yen to hit a three-year high in thin Tokyo trading Tuesday. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 130 yen.74-77, compared with 129 yen.85-95 at 3 p.m. Monday in New York and 129 yen.37-40 late Friday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2001

Asahi Bank to be wholly owned unit

Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc. will make Asahi Bank a wholly owned subsidiary on March 1 through a share-swap scheme, the banks announced Tuesday.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 26, 2001

Borderless beauty of ink art

An exhibition of sumi art (ink art), a style combining calligraphy and painting, by Byakko Kashiwagi is running from today to Jan. 14 at Gallery ef in Tokyo's Asakusa.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 26, 2001

Primary sources breathe life into history

Onl the dates are fixed. Otherwise, history is a hotbed of debate -- and original documents, from edicts to secret diaries, contain a sea of information that historians trawl at their peril.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Dec 26, 2001

Tower's pop fire flickers?

A lot of people in the music biz -- not to mention regular music fans -- were shocked by reports that surfaced last week to the effect that all or part of Tower Records' Japanese operations will be sold.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

Octopus tax evasion probe entangles Kanbe

Tokyo Customs on Tuesday filed criminal complaints with prosecutors against an Osaka-based seafood company and two senior officials of the firm's Tokyo branch office on suspicion of evading duties on imported octopus.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 26, 2001

Nishioka pulls out of boxing doubleheader

World Boxing Council bantamweight top-ranked challenger Toshiaki Nishioka on Monday pulled out of a planned world title doubleheader in March due to injury, officials of his gym said.
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.
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.
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.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
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’

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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