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BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2005

GameCube fall halves Nintendo profit

Nintendo Co. said Thursday its group operating profit for the six months to Sept. 30 dived 51.0 percent on smaller sales of its GameCube video console and ballooning development costs for its next-generation Revolution console.
LIFE / Language
Nov 22, 2005

TV shows confront decline of Japanese language

Beginning this fall, four of the major commercial television networks began broadcasting variety programs aimed at rehabilitating Japanese television viewers' inability to correctly utilize their native language. Why the sudden flood of kokugo (national language) programs?
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Nov 20, 2005

Revealing times on a girls' night out

The bare back of a man shines like a beacon in a dark empty street below an expressway in Tokyo's Tamachi district. The brightly lit mural points the way inside to one of the only male strip shows in town catering to women.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2005

TBS expected to reject merger with Rakuten

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc., a TV and radio broadcaster, will reject a proposal by Rakuten Inc. to integrate their managements under a holding company, sources have said.
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2005

Braking illicit drug use

Police statistics show that the number of people taken into police custody on narcotics-related charges is on the decrease. Still, optimism about drug use in Japan is not warranted, as recent arrests or indictments have involved a former lawmaker and members of the Self-Defense Forces.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 12, 2005

Satoya apologizes for incident

Nagano Olympic moguls gold-medalist Tae Satoya apologized to Japanese skiing officials Friday for her role in a nightclub brawl and pledged to focus more on her career as an active athlete. Satoya, who also won bronze at the Salt Lake City Olympics four years later, visited the Ski Association of Japan...
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

JAL profit caught in fuel-cost downdraft; wage cuts planned

announces Monday at the Tokyo Stock Exchange that the carrier fell into the red in the first half of this year.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 6, 2005

Maki, JEF United shoot down Gamba to win Nabisco Cup

Seiichiro Maki bounced back from the heartache of seeing his goal disallowed in the last minute of normal time to fire in the winning spot-kick as JEF United Chiba beat Gamba Osaka after a penalty shootout to win the J. League Nabisco Cup on Saturday afternoon.
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2005

Household spending rises 1.0%

Average household spending in September scored a real 1.0 percent rise from a year earlier to 288,978, yen the first year-on-year increase in six months, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 2, 2005

Once-lovable prince goes medieval

Like any other entertainment medium, it isn't hard to point out certain qualities that suggest whether a game was developed in Japan or abroad. Japanese games tend to be very character driven, boast a more artistic visual style and are often a part of a long-standing series. ("Final Fantasy XII" rings...
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2005

Sex industry law revised to curb human-trafficking

A law regulating the sex industry was revised Friday to help curb human-trafficking and to rein in advertising and other activities used to solicit customers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2005

Studios launching old-style hunts for star actresses

Backed by a resurgent film industry, major studios are holding auditions to find their next leading ladies.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2005

Strengthening public safety

Sixty years after the end of World War II, Japan has attained a high level of affluence and convenience. On the other side of the coin, though, concern is spreading about the safety of our daily lives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 30, 2005

Gang of Four: "Return the Gift" (V2/Columbia)

Gang Of Four's decision to mark their first full reunion in 20 years with an album of past triumphs re-done exactly the way they were done originally smacks of a stunt, like Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of "Psycho." But as the band has said, they never felt the original recorded versions conveyed...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Sep 23, 2005

Still best buzz in shitamachi

Any address that begins 1-1-1 is, by my reckoning, pretty impressive. It means that the building located there was the first one on the first block developed in the first district of that area. Kamiya Bar, a legendary bar and restaurant, secured the 1-1-1 address in Asakusa when it opened 125 years ago....
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Sep 18, 2005

Block-rockin' beats hit town

Few things were as emblematic of 1980s America as "breaking," the inner-city dance style whose head-spinning and somersaulting acrobatics became a world sensation.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 17, 2005

Premier clubs playing not to lose, instead of trying to win

LONDON -- Last Sunday I watched the penultimate day of what has been an enthralling series between England and Australia when the Aussies, the best cricket team in the world for two decades, were finally beaten by their oldest rivals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

Fujitsu's 6 million yen robot enon set to help the lost

Lost in a store? Let electronics maker Fujitsu's robot help guide your way.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 8, 2005

Could chimp genome answer Plato's question?

In the 1960s, Toshisada Nishida, of Kyoto University, set up a long-term research project in the Mahale Mountains of Tanzania. His aim was to study our closest relatives in the wild. His work, and that of Jane Goodall, whose field site was some 170 km north, in Gombe, transformed the way we view chimps....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 4, 2005

NHK's "Dramatic Earth" offers a history of New York City and more

It's generally agreed that New York City is the most dynamic and important metropolis in the world. A global center of economics, entertainment, media and sports, as well as being the home of the United Nations, the Big Apple is peerless as a center of attention.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 4, 2005

For the love of Bollywood

BEHIND THE SCENES OF HINDI CINEMA. Edited by Johan Manschot and Marijke de Vos. With contributions by P.K. Nair, Deepa Gahlot, Gayatri Chatterjee et al. Foreword by Amitabh Bachchan, Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2005, 160 pp., profusely illustrated (cloth). The subtitle of this beautifully produced, lavishly...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 4, 2005

Once more, with feeling

With a mane of wild hair and the darkly circled eyes of the sleep deprived, one could easily mistake Kieran Hebden for a grad student up too late at the lab. There is little evidence in his striped polo shirt and khaki shorts that he is one of the more sought after electronica producers and performers....
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 21, 2005

Hoshino, the next manager of the Giants? Not so fast!

The Nikkan Sports paper claimed in back-to-back front pages on Aug. 11-12 that former Chunichi Dragons and Hanshin Tigers manager Senichi Hoshino has been offered the job to head the Yomiuri Giants in 2006.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2005

Rallying round home-grown sounds

It's the final day of this year's Rock in Japan festival, which took place Aug. 5-7. Holding court in the HMV DJ booth is entertainer Yoshiaki Umegaki. He's a late fortysomething transvestite sporting a tall blue wig and playing with his plastic breasts under a fetching blue sequined number while pouring...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 17, 2005

Police file charges against Olympian Satoya

Police sent papers to prosecutors Tuesday on Tae Satoya, a Nagano Winter Olympics gold medalist for moguls, and a male employee of a Tokyo night club, both on suspicion of assault, they said.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Investor funds flourish, but caveat emptor

Ranging from hip-hop music to premium wines and a ramen court, funds are emerging in myriad fields to whet the appetites of investors tired of the minuscule interest on regular bank deposits and eager for a taste of adventure.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 17, 2005

Artists' works join the EU

In the last 30 years, the central eastern European nations of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary have experienced tumultuous times. Under communism, state control and censorship forced artists to be regional and nationalistic, but since the soft slides into capitalism and democracy epitomized...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2005

Korea Herald, Japan Times deepen ties

The publishers of The Japan Times and The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspapers in Japan and South Korea, agreed Monday to exchange stories and background information in various fields.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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