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JAPAN / 60 YEARS,AND ONWARD
Aug 3, 2005

Youth here yet to pick up the peace torch

Their appearances belied the seriousness of their gathering on a hot Friday night last month in Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 27, 2005

Make'em laugh (if you can)

As with many traditional Japanese arts, aspiring owarai comedians once had to apprentice themselves to popular comedians to learn their craft.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 24, 2005

NHK's "Sono Toki — Rekishi ga Ugoita," TV Asahi's " Kikujiro and Saki" and more

On Wednesday, NHK will explain one of the great ironies of the Pacific War on its history series, "Sono Toki -- Rekishi ga Ugoita" (That Time -- History was Changed; NHK-G, 9:15 p.m .). On Apr. 7, 1945, the Yamato, the biggest battleship ever built by the Japanese Imperial Navy, sank in the South Pacific...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 20, 2005

Shock & awe: hotshots wow Shibuya

Two leading contenders to the throne of the contemporary drama world, now long occupied by Yukio Ninagawa, are certainly Suzuki Matsuo, 42, founder of the Otona Keikaku theater company, and the Asagaya Spiders' 30-year-old founder, Keishi Nagatsuka. Currently both of these rising stars happen to be staking...
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

NPA finds 51 trafficked women

The National Police Agency said Thursday that 51 women were trafficked into Japan and forced to work in the adult entertainment industry in the first half of 2005, the highest figure on record for the first six months of a year.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2005

Bots engage in pitch battle as RoboCup kicks off

OSAKA -- Excitement ripples through the onlookers as the players take their positions on the pitch. The whistle blows, and the match begins. But just as one player clears the ball and starts racing toward the goalposts, the referee blows a whistle.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2005

Bots engage in pitch battle as RoboCup kicks off

OSAKA -- Excitement ripples through the onlookers as the players take their positions on the pitch. The whistle blows, and the match begins. But just as one player clears the ball and starts racing toward the goalposts, the referee blows a whistle.
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2005

Tokyo CPI continues slide as prices of veggies, PCs fall

Consumer prices in Tokyo continued falling in June as vegetable prices plunged and deflation continued to dog telecommunications fees and computer prices, according to preliminary government statistics released Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 1, 2005

Sekirei: In a beer garden of heavenly delights

The grass is as closely mowed a croquet lawn. In the distance, conifers jut into the early evening sky. The air is sultry, the city traffic just a far-off hum. A waiter wearing a black bow tie delivers a tall glass of frothing beer to your table. You sink back in your armchair. Summer's here, and there...
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2005

Sony faces 4.5 billion yen in back taxes

Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has been notified by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau that it failed to declare 21.4 billion yen worth of taxes for five years to March 2003.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 29, 2005

World Press prizewinning photos get to the heart of the story

Every year the Dutch-based non-profit organization World Press Photo sifts through thousands of news photographs from around the world in search of images that "represent an event, situation or issue of great journalistic importance and demonstrate an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity."...
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2005

Confidence up among large firms

Business confidence among large companies in Japan improved for the first time in three quarters in the April-June period, spurred by a pickup in personal spending, the government said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2005

Sony shareholders give nod to Stringer's team

Shareholders of Sony Corp. on Wednesday approved a new management team led by Howard Stringer, who pledged to turn around the company's struggling consumer electronics business.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 19, 2005

Media conspiracy of concealment costs social progress dear

What do these Japanese people have in common: A neighbor of people whose house has burned down; an uncle or aunt of someone who has been the victim of a crime; a person who has had food poisoning?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 15, 2005

A new cherry for a new theater

Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya is renowned for staging some of the best contemporary drama in Japan, whether from established masters such as Yukio Ninagawa and Hideki Noda, or young blades like Suzuki Matsuo.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 14, 2005

Do you think violent entertainment leads to real-life violence?

Naomi Kutsuna Art teacher, 32 Yes -- to get ideas, or just to get used to violence. It looks so easy in video games. But it doesn't make people more violent -- people still have their own decision-making abilities.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 11, 2005

Eyes of rugby world on New Zealand as Lions fans fly in

Even though the final decision as to who will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup will not be made until November, the next few weeks will be crucial for the three countries hoping to host sport's third biggest event.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 7, 2005

Have you heard the one about . . ?

'And then, when he saw the other side of the car, where his date had been sitting not 15 minutes earlier, on the door handle, hung . . . a bloody . . . HOOK!"
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 4, 2005

Puppets build spirit and release pent-up feelings

Speaking from personal experience, Heather Goodwin believes that puppets can speak for human beings in ways that lead to improved health and confidence -- indeed, improvement all round. Heather teaches puppetry at Emerson College in Sussex, south of London in the U.K., and she will be in Tokyo this month...
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Nihon Keizai hit for dodging income tax on 840 million yen

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has found that business newspaper publisher Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. failed to declare about 840 million yen in income for three years to December 2003, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

High court upholds 14-year sentence for gang-rape leader

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court-imposed 14-year prison term for a former Waseda University student who led a group that gang-raped three college students.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2005

Dental chief gets suspended jail term for payoff to LDP

Sadao Usuda, former president of the Japan Dental Association, was handed a suspended three-year prison term Tuesday for providing an undeclared 100 million yen donation in 2001 to the Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction.
Rugby
May 26, 2005

Brave Blossoms fell Romanian Oaks to set up rugby final against Canucks

Daisuke Ohata may well be the pin-up boy of Japanese rugby but 19-year-old Ayumu Goromaru is the face of the future and the two combined on Wednesday to send Japan into the final of the Toshiba Super Cup as the Brave Blossoms beat the Oaks of Romania 23-16 at Tokyo's National Stadium.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 25, 2005

Stage plays restore your faith in comedy

"Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith," wrote the English playwright Christopher Fry in Time magazine in 1950. These days the moment you switch on television in Japan, you are likely to be assailed by gales of laughter as young comedians talk frantically,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
May 19, 2005

Big names, big games, big show

The real "Bond . . . James Bond" is coming to video games. Electronic Arts has signed Sean Connery to reprise his role as British agent 007 in the video game version of "From Russia with Love."
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2005

Sony net profit skyrockets 85%

Sony Corp. said Wednesday its consolidated net profit for fiscal 2004 surged 85.1 percent to 163.84 billion yen, thanks to a strong performance by its movie unit.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Japan alerting consumers to cash-on-delivery problems
In fiscal 2024 through March this year, the National Consumers Affairs Center received inquiries and gave advice on problems associated with cash-on-delivery services.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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