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JAPAN
Oct 8, 2001

Children's center provides haven for teenagers

Teenage boys with long dyed hair and guitar cases saunter into the lounge, passing a group of high school students playing mah-jongg. By 5 p.m., teenagers have taken over this "jidokan," or children's center, in Suginami Ward, Tokyo.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Oct 7, 2001

Make punk rock, not war

While I was in Britain, the world went mad. A puppet, Bob the Builder, beat French disco kings, The Supermen Lovers, to No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart; across the Atlantic, a puppet, George W. Bush, was not an idiot anymore, but a national hero; and, after 10 years, I'd suddenly become allergic to my...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2001

American dies in gangsters' attack

A 26-year-old American resident of Kanagawa Prefecture died early Saturday after allegedly being assaulted by a group of men who looked like gangsters, police officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2001

Aegis destroyer to stay until new law enacted

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday said Japan will not dispatch its Aegis destroyer to the Indian Ocean until enactment of a new law allowing it to provide rear-area support for U.S.-led military action that could take place in Afghanistan.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2001

Diet receives bill for SDF to support U.S. action

The Cabinet approved a bill Friday to combat terrorism that will allow Japan's armed forces to support U.S.-led operations against terrorist suspects in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2001

Japanese, ASEAN execs mull China, terror attacks

The annual meeting between business leaders from Japan and six of the 10 ASEAN countries began Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2001

Nissan, MMC in parts alliance

Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have agreed to jointly develop and produce automatic transmissions, continually variable transmission systems (CVT) and other auto parts, officials of the two companies said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2001

Aso pushes to give SDF extra firepower

The Self-Defense Forces should be allowed to use heavy firearms to protect troops participating in any U.S.-led antiterrorism operation, the LDP's top policymaker said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

NPA says assault team braced for terrorism

The National Police Agency is prepared to mobilize its special counterterrorism unit in the event that U.S. facilities and other designated locations in Japan come under threat of terrorist attack, NPA officials said Wednesday. Should concrete information about a potential attack become known, the Special...
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2001

Japan faces a balancing act

The global economic woes triggered by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States will probably put Japan in the dilemma of trying to reconcile reform with growth, when finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven major economic powers gather Saturday in Washington.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 3, 2001

Seagulls send Skylarks backward

Nachi Abe caught a 25-yard pass for the winning touchdown with 10 seconds remaining in the third quarter as the Recruit Club Seagulls (2-0) defeated the Onward Skylarks (1-1) 34-17 Monday at the Tokyo Dome in the X League's Central Division.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2001

UNICEF envoy opposes U.S. attack, Japanese support

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a television celebrity and goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Children's Fund, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News that she is opposed to a violent retaliatory campaign by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan.
Events
Oct 2, 2001

Nara Station spared wrecking ball

NARA -- After three years of fuss, Haruyuki Chichibu felt relieved -- the Nara Prefectural Government announced last month that it would not demolish the 67-year-old JR Nara Station building.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2001

Civil servant union finds it is missing 50 million yen

Around 50 million yen withdrawn in 1998 by a firm affiliated with a prefectural and municipal employee union is missing, sources familiar with the case said Monday.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2001

World tourism industry predicts swift recovery

OSAKA -- Despite the pall of fear hanging over the travel industry as a result of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States and the likelihood that increased insurance premiums will result in the closure of several airlines, representatives of the international tourism industry have predicted...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

A plague upon your house

Insects aren't everyone's favorite animals, especially when it comes to those such as cockroaches, termites and wasps that frighten us as well as potentially harm us and our environment.
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Sep 30, 2001

The reluctant politician reflects on a life less than ordinary

NAGOYA -- Toichiro Kuno is as ordinary a person as can be.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Tanaka to return 250,000 yen over latest ministry scandal

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Friday she will return 50 percent of one month's salary, or 250,000 yen, to the government to take responsibility for the latest scandal involving a former ministry official in a fraud case.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 29, 2001

Peter Wain

Three years ago in London, Peter Wain held an exhibition of "qianjiang" painting on Chinese porcelain. Under the title "Awaiting Spring," the exhibition was acclaimed as "the first to be held anywhere in the world that is devoted entirely to qianjiang porcelain painting." At the time, Wain explained...
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Peace protesters stage sit-ins outside Diet

Citizens' and student groups staged sit-ins and demonstrations Thursday near the Diet to protest Japan's involvement in the likely U.S.-led military retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Full text of Koizumi's policy speech to Diet

Following is a provisional translation of the policy speech delivered by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to an extraordinary Diet session that opened Thursday for a 72-day session.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 28, 2001

Troussier names squad for tour

Japan manager Philippe Troussier on Thursday called up all of the overseas-based Japan players and recalled four home-based players to his 25-member squad for Japan's European tour starting next week.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Tokyo film festival kicks off Oct. 27

The 14th Tokyo International Film Festival, featuring 140 movies from 24 countries and regions, starts Oct. 27 in Shibuya Ward.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

TSE approves move to go private Nov. 1

The Tokyo Stock Exchange formally adopted a plan Wednesday at an extraordinary general meeting of TSE member brokerage houses to transform the world's second-largest bourse into a stock company.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Demonstrators stage antiwar rally

OSAKA -- Around 500 people marched through the city here Wednesday evening to voice their opposition to the possible use of violence by the U.S. during its likely retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Economic forum set for next month

Japan and the United States plan to hold the inaugural meeting of a deputy ministerial-level economic forum in Washington early next month, government sources said.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb