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BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2003

Ministry panel calls for only limited drug reform

A health ministry study panel called on the government Tuesday to give the green light to the sale of about 350 kinds of over-the-counter drugs at convenience stores and other retailers as part of deregulation efforts, but cold and pain medications will not be among them.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2003

Ministry gets warmer in search for arsenic contamination source

Three locations around an arsenic-contaminated well in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, have the highest levels of the poison ever found in the area, the Environment Ministry said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2003

More Americans ditch the lingual desert

SANTA MARIA, California -- Although America is a land of immigrants from all over the world, when it comes to language fluency one could easily say we suffer from monolingualism. An old joke goes something like this:
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

Review of arms export ban sought

Some ruling bloc lawmakers and Defense Agency officials have been calling for a review of Japan's self-imposed ban on weapons exports.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2003

Adequate emergency care could have saved 40 percent of patients' lives

About 40 percent of the people who died at emergency medical centers across Japan could have been saved if they had received adequate emergency care, according to a recent study by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Events
Oct 5, 2003

KANSAI: Who & What

British Council offers info on studying in U.K.: The British Council Osaka is hosting an education fair for people who wish to study in Britain between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Oct. 13 at Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka Kokusai Kaigijo) in the city's Kita Ward.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2003

Japan-South Korea FTA talks urged

A bilateral study group said Thursday that Japan and South Korea should launch full-scale negotiations over a free-trade agreement, according to Japanese officials.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 25, 2003

Peeved monkeys reject unequal pay on the job

Philosophers as diverse as Plato, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill tried hard to argue that there is a rational basis for fair and just behavior. However, the best philosophy in the world is only worth so much when there is the chance to make bucket-loads of cash.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 17, 2003

Taking shape: Prehistoric art and us

In the 19th century, scientists finally junked the Biblical idea of a seven-day divine Creation -- with man, at the pinnacle of the process, being fashioned from clay on the sixth day.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2003

Political donations to get murkier?

The ruling coalition's new proposal on corporate donations to political parties would probably conceal the identities of most donors, according to a recent Kyodo News study.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2003

Mice bring alien pathogens into ports

Mice carrying alien pathogens have taken up residence in Japanese ports, apparently after arriving inside freight containers from foreign countries, according to a three-year study by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2003

U.S.-style law schools to offer practical approach

More than five years of study -- at cram schools, not universities -- has been the norm to pass Japan's extremely competitive bar exam.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2003

Japan, Indonesia to set up FTA panel

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and visiting Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri have agreed to set up a working group tasked with studying the possibility of concluding a bilateral free-trade agreement.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2003

Poll confirms gender gap

Japanese men want to earn qualifications related to information technology, while women are more interested in learning a foreign language, according to a Web-based survey conducted by a Tokyo-based private education institute.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2003

Ishiba won't rule out upgrade for Patriot defense system

Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba refused Friday to rule out the possibility of Japan deploying the Patriot PAC-3, the latest version of the U.S.-developed air-defense missile system.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2003

High school kids to be sent abroad

The education ministry unveiled a plan Monday in which 10,000 high school students will be sent overseas each year to study and 100 high schools will be selected to provide advanced English education by the 2005-2006 academic year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 15, 2003

Renato Brandao

"Theater is and has always been the most important force in my life," said Renato Brandao. "It has a life-transforming, mystical power. It says that you can improve yourself, you can enlarge your horizons, you don't have to be bound by today's limits. I felt victimized when I was young, and it gave me...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 9, 2003

Kissaten culture still on the boil

At 3 p.m. precisely, a staffer in meikyoku kissa Lion in Shibuya quietly announces the start of today's "concert." Silence descends as she places a record on the player. A gray-haired customer puffs on a cigarette at his corner table.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 27, 2003

How much pain can your brain take?

Japanese TV became famous abroad in the 1980s and created an image of Japan for outsiders that still lingers. The shows were the gaman taikai (endurance contests), where members of the public carried out tasks in which they suffered pain: The winners were the ones who endured the most.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 2, 2003

How the 'modern' code was cracked

The headless body of a woman in her 50s was laid on a straw mat inside a hut at Kotsukahara in Edo's Senju area. Born in Kyoto and nicknamed "Aochababa," sketchy court records indicate the woman had been convicted of killing her adopted children. She had been executed by beheading that very morning,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 11, 2003

Luigi Cerantola

It is unusual to meet someone so unconventional as professor Luigi Cerantola. He has impeccable credentials in his publications of poetry, art and literary criticism, and in his collaborations with musicians for opera librettos. He presents himself with whimsy as a maverick who has a nonconforming wry,...
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

World Bank to hold free East Asia symposium

The World Bank will hold a free symposium on innovation and development in East Asia on Jan. 16.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 4, 2003

Junko Okura

Last month the Junior Group of the Japan-British Society held a traditionally British Christmas party. In the revelry of a Tokyo British pub, participants enjoyed roast turkey and stuffing, and mince pies with cream and brandy sauce.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THROUGH THE DOOR
Nov 27, 2002

Education for some refugees is ray of hope

The men in uniform white shirts and dark shorts sitting in the classroom looked too old to be junior high school students; some had gray hair, close-cropped.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 23, 2002

Angela Bilbao de Infante

Next year, the International Ladies Benevolent Society will celebrate its 50th anniversary of nonstop, wholehearted, generous help to charitable organizations and people in need in Japan. A continuing, major fundraising event is the annual Christmas Fair. This year's chairwoman for the fair is Angela...

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