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BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Web site goes after foreign investors

The quasi-governmental Japan External Trade Organization said Wednesday it plans to launch an English-language Web site containing Japan-related investment information in an attempt to attract overseas investors.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Vodafone denies rumor of selloff

The chief of Vodafone Group PLC strongly denied Tuesday a recent British media report that the company is planning to sell off Japan Telecom Co.'s fixed-line business.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

NASDA clears second woman for space travel

The National Space Development Agency of Japan formally certified Naoko Sumino as an astronaut Wednesday, paving the way for her to go to the International Space Station, due to be completed in 2006.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Tokyu Land raises profit outlook

Tokyu Land Corp. Wednesday raised its group net profit projection for the first half of the current business year to 2.5 billion yen from 500 million yen.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

SDF, economic reforms top Diet session agenda

With a 72-day extraordinary Diet session convening today, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his government face two major challenges: seeking consensus on Japan's support for expected U.S.-led military operations against terrorists and on steps to help the flagging economy.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Auto production up 1.7%; first rise in eight months

Auto production rose 1.7 percent in August from a year earlier to 706,613 units, the first increase in eight months, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Japan, U.S. signals mixed over SDF deployment

Japan and the United States are split over the planned deployment of a destroyer and other vessels from the Self-Defense Forces to the Indian Ocean ahead of a U.S.-led military strike expected to be made in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., sources familiar with the plan said Wednesday....
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Sep 27, 2001

Hagi (Bush clover)

CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2001

Woodstock: three days of . . . whatever

My Generation Rating: * * * * Director: Barbara Kopple Running time: 104 minutes Language: English Now showing
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2001

Asia's best shine at cinema showcase

Film festivals are addictive, especially if you've got that magical piece of laminated paper called a press pass. Volunteers smile at you, directors schmooze with you and theater doors swing open for you at the flash of a badge. Best of all, you can spend all day watching movies with no guilty feelings...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Environment ministry to open regional offices

The Environment Ministry will expand its nationwide reach Monday with the opening of nine regional offices to be manned by squads of local inspectors.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Koizumi's letter on way to Pakistan

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura departed Tuesday for Pakistan to deliver a letter from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf asking him to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Firms turn to time-sharing in bid to increase revenue

Amid record-high unemployment and spiraling deflation, some leisure-related businesses are offering time-share deals for the right to share villas, luxury cars or pleasure boats in an attempt to lure customers.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 26, 2001

Izawa, Maruyama to take on Woods, Duval

Japanese duo Toshimitsu Izawa and Shigeki Maruyama will take on top-seeded American pair Tiger Woods and David Duval on the opening day of the World Cup golf competition in Shizuoka Prefecture, organizers said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Bosnia-Herzegovina envoy curtails Tokyo assignment

The Bosnia-Herzegovina ambassador is to leave Japan next week, cutting short his assignment following the death of his wife, he told The Japan Times on Tuesday.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2001

Living on songs and a prayer

Duets Rating: * * * Director: Bruce Paltrow Running time: 112 minutes Language: English Now showing
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 26, 2001

Petagine slays Dragons

Roberto Petagine swung the big bat for Yakult, going 4-for-4 with six RBIs to help the Swallows defeat the Chunichi Dragons 9-2 at the Nagoya Dome on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Coalition dodges PKO to empower SDF

The Self-Defense Forces will help refugees under a new law that deals solely with supporting the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism, rather than by revising the peacekeeping operation law, the ruling coalition parties agreed Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Cheaper wireless broadband vowed

Wireless Internet Service Inc. and NTT-ME Corp. announced Tuesday they will launch what they claim is the lowest fixed-rate wireless broadband service of up to 2 megabits per seconds for a monthly charge of 1,980 yen.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

G7 ministers to teleconference

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday that finance ministers from the Group of Seven countries would hold a telephone conference that night.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Koso resigns in wake of election scandal

Kenji Koso of the Liberal Democratic Party tendered his resignation from the Diet on Tuesday in the wake of a vote-canvassing scandal involving several top postal officials.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

G7 finance chiefs to block funds

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries agreed Tuesday to strengthen cooperation on blocking cash flows to international terrorists, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Government's outstanding debt reaches 557.19 trillion yen

The Japanese government's outstanding debt stood at a record-high 557.19 trillion yen at the end of June, up from 538.39 trillion yen at the end of March, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Unemployed face age bias, poll finds

More than half of unemployed people covered in a recent survey have encountered age discrimination in their search for jobs, the poll's organizers said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 26, 2001

Rising stars shine in kabuki's heirloom roles

During the month of September, the Kabukiza Theater and the nearby Shinbashi Enbujo Theater are presenting competing kabuki midori (selections). The Kabukiza's program features such veteran actors as Kichiemon Nakamura, Baigyoku Nakamura and Jakuemon Nakamura, as well as up-and-coming performers in their...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2001

Debate, don't deploy SDF: ex-bureaucrats

Two former top bureaucrats want the government to tell the international community what Japan can do within the limits of its war-renouncing Constitution to help the expected U.S.-led military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers