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BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2005

World Cup berth has travel agents, TV sellers purring

Japan's win Wednesday over North Korea, which secured its berth at the 2006 World Cup soccer finals in Germany, is a source of delight for travel agents and consumer electronics stores nationwide.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2005

Ministry touts perks of growing prison system workforce

Need workers? Japan's penal system has the answer: prison labor.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2005

Health experts alarmed by surge in AIDS

The rapid spread of AIDS in the past decade has reached a level that has confounded and alarmed the health establishment in Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2005

LDP eyes law to protect gas-drilling ships

The Liberal Democratic Party may draft a new law to protect Japanese vessels that drill for gas in the East China Sea, where the exclusive economic zones of Japan and China are in dispute, a senior LDP member said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2005

Fujita gets Goldman Sachs-Mori aid

Fujita Corp. said Wednesday a fund led by Goldman Sachs and Mori Trust Co. agreed to inject 41 billion yen in fresh capital, making the U.S. investment bank and its partners the troubled construction firm's largest shareholder.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2005

Hiring of disabled people lagging

Disabled people employed in the private sector made up only 1.46 percent of the national workforce last year, falling short of the minimum rate of 1.8 percent set by the government, according to a white paper released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2005

Yokogawa Bridge chief to resign over bid scandal

Yokogawa Bridge Corp. said Monday that President Yasuo Harada will resign June 20 to take the blame for the company's role in rigging bids for public bridge construction projects.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2005

Getting Japan off their back

SYDNEY -- Japanese whalers are coming and there appears no way of stopping them. Worse, their harpoons are about to slaughter more of the ocean mammals than ever.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 6, 2005

Income gap among Japanese expanding, but not by much

Traditionally, the income gap between the rich and the poor has been rather small in Japan, creating what has become known as the "all-Japanese-as-middle class" mentality.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 5, 2005

"Charisma housewife" gives her secret on NHK's "Eigo de Shabera-Naito," and more

Since English is the lingua franca of the international business community, it follows that anyone who really wants to make a global impression should be able to communicate in English.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2005

Startup seeks cell-phone capital

IP Mobile Inc., a data communications startup, has asked several firms for fresh capital to help it enter the cell-phone business, company officials said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 5, 2005

Seiji Hirao: Mr. Rugby

At the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong in March, a group of eminent rugby journalists were talking about Japan's bid to host Rugby World Cup 2011.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 4, 2005

Jon R. Greiner

"The Book of Lists" ranks public speaking as the foremost fear of people around the world, double that of fear of dying.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Narita offers to cut landing fees by 20% but add new charges

Narita International Airport Corp. said Thursday that it has submitted a proposal to the International Air Transport Association to cut its landing fees by an average of more than 20 percent.
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2005

Sumitomo card unit in China tieup

Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co. said Thursday it has forged a tieup with China UnionPay Co. that will allow Chinese travelers to use UnionPay credit and cash cards in Japan, beginning in the current fiscal year.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Burglary-slaying suspect extradited

Police said Thursday they have arrested a South Korean man handed over to Japan under a bilateral extradition treaty in connection with a series of burglaries in Tokyo in 2003 and his possible involvement in a robbery-murder.
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 2, 2005

Del Piero's goal helps Juventus edge past fighting Marinos

YOKOHAMA -- Juventus beat Yokohama F. Marinos 1-0 in a well-contested friendly match at Nissan Stadium on Wednesday, Italian superstar Alessandro Del Piero scoring for the visitor with a left-foot shot in the 42nd minute.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2005

Asahi fails to declare 1.18 billion yen

Asahi Shimbun Co. said Tuesday it failed to declare about 1.18 billion yen in taxable income during the seven years through March 2004 due to inappropriate accounting.
COMMUNITY
May 31, 2005

Write back

Community Page readers respond to Satoko Kogure's article on gender equality in Japan (May 3) and Vanessa Mitchell's piece on the lack of aid resources for sex crime victims (May 17) in Japan
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 31, 2005

Residency, repairs, finance and printing

Permanent Residency You've probably addressed this question before, but if you could enlighten me once again, I'd be grateful, indeed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 29, 2005

Diva sings hot and cold on solo debut

It is 11 on a Sunday morning and Roisin Murphy has just arrived back at her London flat. Another big night out in the city's kinetic clubland?
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 29, 2005

In the spirit of humanism

THE CINEMA OF GOSHO HEINOSUKE, by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005, 243 pp., with photographs, $27.95 (paper). Though Heinosuke Gosho (1902-1981) is remembered in Japan where his films are still occasionally shown, he is all but unknown abroad. This neglect is not due...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 28, 2005

Tokyo Families, Fun House maker gets fine start

Why does it come as such a surprise to find Carin Smolinsky with an Audi TT Roadster? Certainly it suits her driving personality -- the bubbling nature of her entrepreneurial spirit. For her own part, it's perfect for nipping ("sedately," she insists) through Tokyo traffic and slides into the smallest...
BUSINESS
May 28, 2005

Toyota ponders new China plant

NAGOYA (Kyodo) Toyota Motor Corp. is thinking of building a factory in Tianjin, China, to produce small cars beginning in 2007, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

Heavy industries ink Boeing 787 deal

U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co. signed a deal Thursday with Japanese manufacturers for work on the new 787 jetliner, marking the biggest involvement of this nation's companies in a Boeing project.

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji