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JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Japan Highway, other firms to be raided over bid-rigging

Prosecutors will raid offices of bridge builders and Japan Highway Public Corp. on Wednesday on suspicion of rigging bids for Japan Highway bridge construction projects, investigative sources said Monday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 26, 2005

New book offers interesting retrospective on Japanese game

Remembering Japanese Baseball, an Oral History of the Game is the title of a new book by Robert K. Fitts, the creator of RobsJapanese Cards.com, the world's largest Web site dedicated to Japanese baseball cards and memorabilia.
Japan Times
Features
Jun 26, 2005

What price is heritage?

Landmark one day, parking lot the next -- that is the fate that seems about to befall an early 20th-century stone building in the heart of historic Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 25, 2005

Agents continue making huge sums for doing very little work

LONDON -- The following story is, I promise, absolutely true, but you will understand why I have not used the names of the player, agent, club or manager concerned.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Jun 25, 2005

No easy fix for reapportionment wrongs

WASHINGTON -- Among the issues that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will take to a special referendum election next fall is that of reapportionment. Specifically, the Gubernator wants to change the way California draws its district lines for representation in the state legislature and in the Congress....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 25, 2005

Tom Tsui

Three years ago Tom Tsui came to Tokyo to fill the position of deputy special representative of the World Bank.
EDITORIALS
Jun 25, 2005

A mind to reduce waste

Two jointly announced government white papers -- one on the environment and the other on the establishment of a recycling society -- are the first such annual reports since the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty on global warming, went into effect in February following ratification by Russia in...
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2005

Tertiary index climbed 1.8% in April

Japan's service industry activity index jumped 1.8 percent in April from the previous month to mark the first rise in three months, the government said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2005

Secret data on reactor inspections leaked to Internet

Confidential information on nuclear power plant inspections was posted on the Internet recently by a virus in the computer of an employee contracted to do the inspections, Mitsubishi Electric Co. said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2005

Putting the Vietnam War to rest

Ten years after the two countries normalized relations, and three decades after the end of the Vietnam War, a leading Vietnamese official is visiting the United States for the first time. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's trip holds out hope that the two countries will put the war behind them. The vocal...
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2005

DVD makers refuse to bury hatchet in format war

The two corporate sides headed by Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. remain bogged down in a battle over a unified standard for next-generation DVDs, with no sign of yielding.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2005

Osaka 'curfew' plan rife with problems

OSAKA — It's a Saturday evening in early 2006, and four Osaka-area 15-year-old friends, Kenji, Taro, Yoko and Yuka, show up at a theater to see the latest movie. The time is 6:45 p.m., 15 minutes before the movie starts.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Swindler Inagaki found guilty, avoids prison

Jitsuo Inagaki, a former state minister for Hokkaido and Okinawa development, was sentenced Monday to a suspended two-year prison term for illegally selling investment products that promised high returns and guaranteed the principal.
COMMUNITY
Jun 21, 2005

Should we hunt whales?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for shooting whales. Get a bunch of tourists, put them on boat, send it out to the North Pacific and let them fire off some rounds for an hour or two. Of course the ammunition used would be Kodak and Fuji stock, but it's a lot more humane than blowing them up. And it doesn't...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 21, 2005

Are you for or against whaling?

Yuka Saito Finance, 23 Anti, because I don't think we need whale to eat. I've never eaten whale, but I've heard that it doesn't taste too good. There are lots of other things that we can eat besides whale, I think.
JAPAN / A GENERATION CLOCKS OUT
Jun 21, 2005

Baby boomers poised to turn pensioners en masse

A mass exodus looms in 2007 when baby boomers begin reaching retirement age, and the implications — both positive and negative — will be far-reaching.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 19, 2005

Man bites dogs like never before

Meeting Takeru Kobayashi is like coming face-to-face with someone who has slept with Julia Roberts or had a near-death experience: You long to ask what it felt like. How does it feel to cram 4 kg of food into your stomach in less time than it takes most people to walk to the pub?
Japan Times
Features
Jun 19, 2005

Tomb raver

Teenage years are often a time of confusion. But for one 37-year-old who goes by the pen name Kajipon Maruko Zangetsu, it was a time of torment due to family problems and a majorly broken heart.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2005

McDonald's cuts forecast due to 'value strategy'

McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan on Friday announced a sharp downward revision of its earning forecast for the six months ending in June, dragged down by a steeper-than-expected drop in average sales per customer.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

Top Aum figure, two others arrested over temp business

Tokyo police arrested Shigeru Sugiura, a top-ranking member of Aum Shinrikyo, and two other cult figures Thursday for allegedly sending group members to temporarily work at companies without a government license.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

NPO chief, cohorts held over investment swindle

Police arrested the former head of a Tokyo nonprofit organization Thursday on suspicion of swindling group members through an investment scheme.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2005

Canon invests locally with new factory in Oita

Canon Inc. will build a large-scale factory in the city of Oita, where it will manufacture cartridges and ink for use in printers and photocopiers, a Canon spokesman said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

Tsutsumi accepts guilt as trial starts

Former real estate and resort tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi pleaded guilty Thursday to insider trading and falsification of financial reports concerning Seibu Railway Co. shareholdings.
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2005

Spam scams net suspension for connected Kyoto firms

Two Kyoto firms have been ordered to suspend business for three months because they failed to identify themselves or the nature of their e-mail when transmitting unsolicited commercial missives, a government official said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2005

Kirin, Yakult make healthy tieup

Kirin Brewery Co., Kirin Beverage Corp. and Yakult Honsha Co. said Wednesday they agreed to form a business alliance to jointly develop health foods and drinks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 15, 2005

The art that rocks the boat of war in Iraq

If you don't like U.S. President George W. Bush -- particularly if you don't support his war in Iraq -- then there is a new gallery exhibition in Tokyo that you will relish.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

People taking shorter domestic trips

Japanese travelers spent fewer than two nights on domestic trips on average last year, according to an annual government report on tourism released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Shareholders' meetings poised for takeover debates

The season for general shareholders' meetings is just around the corner, and a growing number of companies plan to use them to propose measures against hostile takeovers.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Ex-Mitsui officials held in diesel filter scam

Tokyo police on Tuesday arrested two former Mitsui & Co. employees and a former executive of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Yamato undercuts Japan Post price

Yamato Transport Co. will offer overseas delivery of printed material in the same amount of time Japan Post promises , but at a lower rate, company officials said Tuesday.
Japan's jobs-to-applicant ratio falls to 1.22 in June
Japan's seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio dipped to 1.22 in June, down 0.02 point from the previous month, according to the labor ministry.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Japanese students struggle with description-type tests
The average correct answer rate for description-type questions in the Japanese-language section of the fiscal 2025 national achievement test for third-year junior high school students was as low as 25.6%, according to the education ministry.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
From Osaka to the NHL: Jordan Spence hopes to inspire young Japanese hockey players
Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence helps lead the Dreamskate Japan hockey camp in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 5.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.

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