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Nov 8, 2002

Takahashi doubtful for Tokyo race

Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi has sustained a stress fracture in her left rib and could sit out the upcoming Tokyo International Women's Marathon, her management company said Wednesday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 8, 2002

F.A. in free fall as Premier League clubs make play for power

LONDON -- It was Ron Saunders, the former Aston Villa manager, who once said: "If you're going to commit suicide, do it yourself."
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2002

Sky Perfect fortunes take a dive over World Cup

Sky Perfect Communications Inc., operator of satellite broadcaster Sky PerfecTV, said Thursday its group net losses quadrupled in the first half.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2002

Locals start fund to stop demolition

A group of local residents said Thursday they will start raising money to buy the former family home of Empress Michiko to prevent it from being torn down by the government this month.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2002

Oriental Land reaps bounty from DisneySea

Oriental Land Co., the operator of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, said Wednesday its group net profit in the first half through Sept. 30 surged 386.6 percent to 9.19 billion yen from a year earlier, thanks mainly to the popularity of DisneySea.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2002

JT's first-half profit expands 46.1%

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal-half group net profit grew 46.1 percent from a year earlier to 52.06 billion yen, thanks to cost cuts and brisk overseas sales of higher-end cigarettes.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2002

'Muneo House' bid-riggers get suspended terms

Two construction company employees were handed suspended prison terms after being found guilty Wednesday of interfering in the bidding process for a government-funded building on Kunashiri Island connected to scandal-tainted former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2002

Empress' house faces wrecking ball

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa on Tuesday rejected calls to preserve the former Tokyo home of Empress Michiko, wife of Emperor Akihito, and said it will be torn down as scheduled.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2002

Osaka man slain in a parking lot close to his home

OSAKA -- A man was found dead of apparent stab wounds Tuesday morning in a parking lot in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, police said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 6, 2002

Blanche the tormented focus of a fractured world

In this production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," the classic Tennessee Williams drama of human relationships, gone are all the hues and shades of human relationships bar one -- the relationship of its "heroine," Blanche DuBois, to the fragmented and fragmenting world she inhabits. As staged by director...
COMMENTARY
Nov 5, 2002

Testing Koizumi's commitment to change

Last week was likely the most important in the tenure of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Three events -- by-elections, the unveiling of his economic plan and the start of normalization talks with North Korea -- tested his commitment to bringing about change in Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2002

Road entity raided over bid rigging

OSAKA -- Police searched on Sunday the headquarters of Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. for evidence to support allegations that the company illegally favored a particular bidder for road-related work.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2002

Society launched to study, develop computer games

OSAKA -- Japan's first academic society to conduct research on computer games held its commemorative opening on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Nov 3, 2002

Writer draws on own experiences to overcome adversity

Up to his ears in debt and with absolutely no money, Ichiriki Yamamoto made a bold prediction to his wife.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Nov 3, 2002

Joy and pain falling in love again

"We're girls too nasty/We're girls too hot/We're punky girls so you can't stop us.'' Complete lyrics to Anadorei's 40-second-long "Girls Anthem"
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2002

Chiyoda Ward smokers start coughing up fines

A young man near JR Kanda Station on Friday became the first person to be fined under a smoking ban on some streets in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Nov 2, 2002

Miyagi serves up a healthy bounty in Tokyo -- and it's not just 'natto'

Department store basements and chic organic food shops are not the only places to get natural products: Miyagi Prefecture's pilot shop in Tokyo, for people in the know, is a good health-food shop with reasonable prices.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2002

Targets for debt ratios to be part of rescue deal

The government is considering setting debt-ratio targets that companies in danger of folding will be required to meet before getting government help securing further financing, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2002

Union official arrested over coercion

A former railway union official from Saitama was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening and harassing a member into quitting the union and ultimately the company.
COMMUNITY
Nov 2, 2002

Design consultant draws on stores of good sense

If you see a conservatively dressed Englishman pop a plastic bag over his head as it begins to rain, it's most probably Tim Toomey: "I'd rather turn up for a meeting dry and comfortable than arrive sopping wet in some misguided attempt to preserve my image."
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2002

MMC to offload 1.7% stake in Hyundai

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Friday it has signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor Corp. to sell a 1.71 percent stake in the South Korean automaker to Hyundai Mobis, another company within the Hyundai conglomerate.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2002

Suntory to sell E&J Gallo wines

Suntory Ltd., Japan's biggest wine seller, said it will distribute three brands of the California-based E&J Gallo Winery in Japan. Suntory in March will import and sell River Crest and two other brands of the world's biggest winemaker, Suntory spokesman Ikuo Tamura said. The Japanese beverage maker expects...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 1, 2002

Bean me down, Scottie, bean me down

"I don't think the human race will survive the next 1,000 years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 1, 2002

Japan goes from clunky typewriter to waapuro

I wonder how many readers have ever experienced typing on an old-style Japanese typewriter. I tried my hand at it, just once. It was around 1973, and afterwards I was relieved that my clumsy effort was merely done out of curiosity and not necessity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 30, 2002

Psyched up

Members of Keiko Takeya's Dance 01 company rehearse for "Psyche," to be presented in collaboration with Italy-based Iranian artist Hossein Golba. "Psyche" (meaning "breath, life and soul" in Greek) will employ the language of dance to evoke the fluid, metaphysical world of the intellect, says Golba....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 27, 2002

Romantics, reporter go far away, so close

In Japan, there's a commonly held romantic notion that people who really want to pursue certain kinds of ambitions have to go abroad to do so. Only by immersing oneself in an environment that offers no distractions from the goal can one truly master a discipline.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 27, 2002

The long goodbye

Without a traditional funeral, common thinking goes, the departed souls of Japanese would aimlessly wander the earth for all eternity. The ritual occupies the very core of the Buddhism practiced in Japan today, and the fees charged for it -- as high as the price of a luxury car -- are a main source of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 27, 2002

Passionate Cortes back with live 'flashback'

Joaquin Cortes -- the "dancer of passion" -- has cast his spell on audiences around the world with his exotic moves and the passionate Latin personality he oozes while in the spotlight. In November, he is back on stage in Japan to perform his most recent creation, "Live."

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