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COMMUNITY
Nov 18, 2001

Charting a route through the obstacle course

Whoever said "It's a jungle out there" must have been talking about Tokyo. Or perhaps it's more of a gigantic maze, with buildings squashed together, and stations with stairs and escalators going in every direction -- all filled with crowds of irritated people.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 18, 2001

The long road to a barrier-free Japan

Compact size. Lightweight. High-speed. Extra new features. Appealing design. Competitive price. Manufacturers have long focused on criteria like these in their quest for successful product lines. In the single-minded pursuit of profits, though, consumers unable to adapt themselves to standardized products...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 18, 2001

Book translations breaking language barriers

While the book publishing industry is feeling the pinch of Japan's economic recession, shelves in major bookstores that sell foreign publications are still filled with best-selling titles.
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2001

Sony plans major Vaio push in China

In a bid to break into China's rapidly growing market, Sony Corp. will produce and market a range of its popular Vaio notebook computers there starting next month, company officials said Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 17, 2001

BayStars taken over by NBS

The heads of Japan's 12 professional baseball clubs on Thursday approved a move that will make Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. the top shareholder of the Yokohama BayStars Baseball Club Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2001

CD industry aims at aging music buffs

The Japanese compact disc market is finally showing signs of recovery, but only after manufacturers set their sights on a different demographic -- those aged between 30 and 60.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2001

Ichiro helps Sky Perfect cut losses

Sky Perfect Communications Inc., operator of the Sky PerfecTV digital broadcasting service, said Wednesday it incurred a consolidated net loss of 4.64 billion yen in the first half of this business year, compared with a loss of 15.89 billion yen a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2001

Casio Computer to delete 3,000 jobs

Casio Computer Co. said Wednesday it will chop 3,000 jobs, about 17 percent of its group workforce, by March, after falling into the red in the first half of the business year.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2001

Miyazaki film sets new box-office record

Innovative animation director Hayao Miyazaki has set a new Japanese box-office record with his latest film "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" ("Spirited Away"), according to film distributor Toho Co.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2001

Ichiro helps Sky Perfect cut losses

Sky Perfect Communications Inc., operator of the Sky PerfecTV digital broadcasting service, said Wednesday it incurred a consolidated net loss of 4.64 billion yen in the first half of this business year, compared with a loss of 15.89 billion yen a year earlier.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2001

Two crew in JAL near miss suffer posttraumatic stress

Two of the 12 cabin crew on a Japan Airlines jetliner involved in a dramatic near miss with another JAL plane in January have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, company officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2001

Two crew in JAL near miss suffer posttraumatic stress

Two of the 12 cabin crew on a Japan Airlines jetliner involved in a dramatic near miss with another JAL plane in January have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2001

Prime minister, finance chief want to keep bond cap

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Monday the government should maintain its self-imposed policy of capping the issuance of new government bonds at 30 trillion yen a year.
Japan Times
Events
Nov 13, 2001

Abandoned pets a sign of the slump

NOSE, Osaka Pref. -- The economic malaise is affecting not only humans, but animals as well. Indirectly, pets -- especially older ones -- have become casualties of the protracted downturn, according to an Osaka nonprofit organization.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2001

Tokyo official held for bribery over work on Miyakejima

Police arrested a Tokyo Metropolitan Government official Sunday on suspicion of accepting some 3 million yen in cash in exchange for favors in connection with erosion control work on the evacuated volcanic island of Miyakejima.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 11, 2001

Taking things one moment at a time

Monday night, the Nippon TV documentary series "Super TV" (9 p.m.) chronicles the last six months of a man with terminal cancer. Last year, the show's producers received a letter from the man's children, who explained their father's situation and asked them "to record his life right up until the last...
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges reforms push

The U.S. business community is urging Japan to pursue reforms that will help the economy and attract more American investment, the visiting chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

Hitachi promises faster DNA chip

Hitachi Software Engineering Co. plans to launch a next-generation DNA chip that promises to increase the speed and accuracy of the sequencing and mapping of the human genome, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges reforms push

The U.S. business community is urging Japan to pursue reforms that will help the economy and attract more American investment, the visiting chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 10, 2001

Eiko Todo

Eiko Todo says there are "thousands of children in Japan suffering from unrecognized dyslexia. Even after it is recognized, the children have practically no support from teachers, nor local education authorities."
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2001

Takefuji logs first-half leap in net profits

Takefuji Corp. said Thursday its consolidated net profits in the first half of the 2001 business year rose 9.9 percent from a year earlier to 66.19 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2001

Kyocera another victim of IT downturn

Kyocera Corp. said Thursday its consolidated net profit in the first half of the business year to Sept. 30 fell 64.1 percent from a year earlier to 19.1 billion yen due to sluggish demand for information technology products.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2001

Sony's Ohga has stroke in Beijing

Sony Corp. Chairman Norio Ohga collapsed Wednesday night apparently due to a cerebral hemorrhage while conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at a music festival in Beijing, Sony said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2001

FTC authorizes steelmakers' tieup

The Fair Trade Commission said Thursday it has authorized a plan by NKK Corp. and Kawasaki Steel Corp. to integrate their operations next October under a joint holding company.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2001

Sharp, Taiwan firm agree on tieup

OSAKA -- Sharp Corp. said Thursday it has agreed with Taiwanese microchip maker Winbond Electronics Corp. to jointly develop next-generation flash memory chips in a deal aimed at slashing development costs.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2001

Alternative energy empowering consumers

With increasing demand for cost-efficient and environment-friendly energy, a growing number of hotels, hospitals and major industrial facilities are adopting cogeneration -- a system that makes more efficient use of heat and electricity generated from the same source.
JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK
Nov 8, 2001

Japanese firms urged to better protect patents

Having lost its edge as a mass-production base, Japan's future economic prosperity depends on its innovativeness in offering high value-added products and services.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

Moody's may downgrade Softbank

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Tuesday it will review and may downgrade Softbank Corp's Ba3 senior unsecured long-term debt ratings.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Nov 7, 2001

Here, there and everywhere

Even though you may not recognize the name Tamio Okuda, you've probably heard his music. Okuda is the Svengali behind the extraordinarily successful female duo Puffy, and his love for and deep knowledge of '60s and '70s rock comes through loud and clear with every Beatles riff and classic chord pattern...
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
Israel protests after Kyoto inn seeks war crime declaration from tourist
A street in Kyoto in March 2023. An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting a response from Israel's ambassador.
U.S. and Ukraine sign resources deal after fraught negotiations
The United States and Ukraine signed a minerals deal on Wednesday, offering a measure of assurance to officials in Kyiv.
Puzzling decisions and opaque rankings are all part of sumo's charm
Chiyoshoma (right) battles Churanoumi during the New Year Basho in Tokyo in January. The Mongolian's drop down the sumo rankings ahead of the May tournament was one of the biggest surprises of the latest banzuke.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.
CDP submits bill proposal on separate surnames, but challenges remain
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers speak to reporters in parliament on Wednesday after submitting a bill in the Lower House to allow married couples to retain different surnames.
Puzzling decisions and opaque rankings are all part of sumo's charm
Chiyoshoma (right) battles Churanoumi during the New Year Basho in Tokyo in January. The Mongolian's drop down the sumo rankings ahead of the May tournament was one of the biggest surprises of the latest banzuke.
North Korea's Kim sets sights on nuclear-armed navy
An unidentified weapons system is fired from the deck of North Korea's latest destroyer, the Choe Hyon, during two days of tests on Monday and Tuesday in this undated photo released Wednesday.
Single, or not? Japanese dating app launches relationship verification system
Tapple, one of Japan's most popular dating apps, has launched the nation's first feature to verify a user's single status via their My Number card.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
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