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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 6, 2001

Evolution: Who's responsible?

The human impact on earth has been well-documented: There's climate change, environmental destruction and pollution. Today an American scientist says that humans are driving another, more subtle change that may have consequences that are just as damaging: Evolution in other species is speeding up, and...
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2001

Staffing imbalance reaches 15-month high, poll shows

Companies with excess labor outnumbered those with shortages in August by the widest margin since May 2000, according to a government survey.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2001

Yes! Super film, hurrah!

Bridget Jones's Diary Rating: * * * 1/2 Japanese title: Bridget Jones no Nikki Director: Sharon Maguire Running time: 97 minutes Language: English Opens mid-September at Shibutoh Cine Tower and other theaters
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Koizumi pledges to stay course for reform

Amid increasing pressure on him to compromise, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated Tuesday that he will stick to his plan to cap the annual issuance of government bonds at 30 trillion yen starting this fiscal year.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2001

Truly, madly, but not too deeply

Zeitaku na Hone Rating: * * * 1/2 Director: Isao Yukisada Running time: 107 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2001

What's age got to do with it?

27 Missing Kisses Rating: * * * 1/2 Japanese title: Sybill no Itazura Director: Nana Djordjadze Running time: 96 minutes Language: Georgian Now showing
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Lethal gases blamed for Shinjuku inferno deaths

Most of the 44 people who died from a fire in a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward at the weekend are believed to have died less than two minutes after inhaling carbon monoxide or hydrocyanic acid gas, investigators said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Uniqlo to open first U.K. stores

Uniqlo casual clothing will open four of its first overseas stores in and around London on Sept. 28, the operator of the chain said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Tainted I.V. drip claims elderly man

A male patient in his 70s has died from blood poisoning after being infected with intestinal bacteria at a hospital in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, hospital officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Tanaka plans to visit Ehime Maru team

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka will pay a weekend visit to Honolulu on her way back from San Francisco to encourage the salvage crew attempting to move the Ehime Maru, the Japanese fisheries training vessel sunk by a U.S. submarine in February, according to ministry officials.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Ruling parties question bond cap

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi came under pressure Tuesday from ruling bloc lawmakers to abandon his pledge to limit fresh government bond issuance to 30 trillion yen.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Consumers divided over towel curbs

Consumers are evenly divided over whether to slap emergency curbs on towel imports from China and Vietnam, according to a government opinion poll released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Koizumi's son to promote light 'happoshu'

Suntory Ltd. on Oct. 10 will launch a new "happoshu" -- a low-malt, beer-like alcoholic beverage -- that has about half of the calories of its other happoshu products.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Nippon Steel expands ties with POSCO to include IT

Nippon Steel Corp. has said its strategic business alliance with South Korea's Pohang Iron & Steel Co., or POSCO, will be extended into such areas as information technology and resource development to strengthen their presence in the global market.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Close and personal

An exhibition of photographs by Miyako Ishiuchi is on show until Nov. 24 at Gallery Deux in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, showing the nails, hands, fingers and feet of men of various nationalities, ages and occupations.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Changing defense role raises questions

By far the most important relationship to the United States in the Asia-Pacific region is that with Japan, and Washington hopes to strengthen these ties, a former deputy secretary of defense said.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to wonderland

The Yokohama Triennale, a grand-scale international art exhibition four years in the making, debuted last weekend with a gala party attended by the everyone who is anyone on the Japanese art scene, a sparkle of the global art illuminati, and even Prince Takamado. The 10-week-long exhibition, running...
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to the 'real' world

"Utada Unplugged" -- it has a nice ring to it. Hikaru Utada is the latest artist to get the MTV Unplugged treatment, and this correspondent was one of a small group of media folk invited to the taping of the diminutive diva's MTV Japan "Unplugged" special.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Sep 5, 2001

Weakening of dollar debated but unlikely

Debate is heating up in the United States over the pros and cons of the current foreign exchange policy being pursued by the U.S.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 5, 2001

Space Shower

Space Shower TV, the homegrown version of music television, has been instrumental in promoting what might be best called Japanese pop, as opposed to J-pop. These groups may not make the upper reaches of the chart -- they are either too raw or too offbeat -- but they are also too accessible or too popular...
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Ota flies Kansai privatization kite

OSAKA -- Osaka Gov. Fusae Ota said Tuesday the operator of Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture could be fully privatized, either on its own or via a merger with another corporation.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Meaning of life found around us and within

Shinjuku Nikon Salon is currently hosting two photo exhibitions offering viewers an opportunity first to delve deep into the living world through the lens of Kusamushi Afuba and then to take a wider view courtesy of Hidetoshi Hamada.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Ministry to examine risk of eating contaminated whales

The health ministry has decided to examine the health risks associated with consuming contaminated whale meat from small whales captured along Japan's coast, ministry sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Hitachi receives debt-rating warnings

Moody's Investors Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Corp. issued warnings Tuesday on their debt ratings for Hitachi Ltd. following the major electronics maker's downgraded fiscal 2001 earnings forecast announced last week.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
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