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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...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2001

Better living through recycling

In the world of haute couture, it is generally the design ideas that get recycled, not the clothes themselves. Barely has one decade ended before its trends resurface as retro chic: new clothes, same old look.
BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2001

Power utilities go overboard with water contract

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and another utility firm have signed a contract to buy industrial water from the Ibaraki Prefectural Government for use at two power plants they are building, but the actual amount supplied covers four power plants, company officials said Monday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 4, 2001

And that's all she wrote, folks

In addition to being the author of the oldest novel in the world, Murasaki Shikibu has the distinction of being the first woman whose image has ever graced Japanese currency. You can be forgiven if you've never noticed her, since she's on the back of the relatively new 2,000 yen note, which seems to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Nov 4, 2001

The quiet return of Riesling

Wine and hemlines are both susceptible to the whims of fashion. In recent years, the Riesling grape suffered from a dowdy reputation. During the big red wine boom of the '90s, it was shunned as a pale wallflower.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2001

French antinuclear protesters visit Kepco

OSAKA -- Representatives from a French group opposed to a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in the port city of Le Havre visited Kansai Electric Power Co. Thursday to protest the firm's business with the French plant. They said the Le Havre plant is the cause of recent outbreaks of cancer and leukemia...
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2001

FSA tells Nippon Life to stop slurring rivals to sell policies

The Financial Services Agency on Thursday ordered Nippon Life Insurance Co. to change its sales practices after finding that the company slanders competitors to encourage individuals to switch firms.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2001

Eight insurers to pay out over quake-related fire

OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court on Wednesday ordered seven nonlife insurance companies and an insurance group to pay a total of 12.15 million yen to 19 people whose homes were damaged in a fire caused by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2001

Nomura teams up with U.S. bank

Nomura Holdings Inc., the parent firm of Nomura Securities Co., said Wednesday it has formed an alliance with U.S. investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners Group LLC to coordinate cross-border mergers and acquisitions activity between Japan and the United States.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 31, 2001

The nail that sticks out -- defiantly

Go Rating: * * * * Director: Isao Yukisada Running time: 122 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing

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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