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JAPAN
Dec 23, 2001

Fertility panel rejects use of eggs, sperm from third parties

A health ministry panel deliberating over a fertility treatment has agreed to prohibit use of an egg fertilized with sperm provided separately by a third person when both members of a couple are sterile.
JAPAN / Media / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 23, 2001

Remembering the year that was

It's the penultimate week of the year, which means regular variety shows get to save a bit of money by looking back at the year's highlights. "Sanma's Karakuri TV" (tonight at 7, TBS), a mix-and-match assembly of out-of-studio comedy skits hosted in-studio by Osaka funnyman Sanma Akashiya, presents an...
Japan Times
JAPAN / INTERNATIONAL RATIONALE
Dec 19, 2001

Foreign retailers relying on adaptability to survive

When French retailer Carrefour and U.S.-based Costco Wholesale Corp. opened their outlets in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture, a year ago, many saw the foreign stores as a threat to domestic supermarkets.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2001

Pediatrics strained to breaking point

It was just after midnight one recent weekend in the emergency room of Showa University Hospital in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Pediatrician Katsura Sugihara was treating his 12th patient of the night, when the phone rang.
COMMUNITY
Dec 16, 2001

From 'shashin' to snapshots

Shashin, the Japanese word that came to mean "photograph," was used quite differently when it first entered everyday language here. Derived from the two characters for "reflect" and "true," it arrived in the early Edo Period from China, where it was used to refer to portraits that were thought to express...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2001

Asylum seekers' fates hang in balance

Refugees in danger of persecution, or migrants seeking work and wealth?
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Dec 13, 2001

Global warming: WWF expert tells it like it is

Have difficulty getting your head around global warming? Join the club.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2001

Experts offer solutions for Japan's malaise

Is there going to be a simple solution to Japan's prolonged economic problems? Experts from U.S.-based think tanks taking part in a recent symposium in Tokyo discussed a variety of prescriptions for both the long- and short-term illnesses that the country faces.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2001

Aid in works for hibakusha living abroad

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is considering earmarking about 500 million yen from the budget to help hibakusha living overseas come to Japan for treatment beginning in fiscal 2002, ministry officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Extremism fills intellectual void?

The profiles of the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States remind scholar Hiromi Shimada of senior Aum Shinrikyo members.
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 6, 2001

Soft touch advised with unruly fans

The key to controlling English soccer fans at the World Cup will be to understand the cultural differences in behavior of fans from different countries and to not put too much pressure on the English fans, an English security expert said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2001

Mad cow probe turns to fish in cattle-feed mix

Livestock farmers widely gave cows a type of feed made from a mixture of powdered fish meal and meat-and-bone meal until the government prohibited the use of meat-and-bone meal in September because of its suspected link to mad cow disease, industry sources said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Dec 6, 2001

Bush scores high leadership marks

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush continues to enjoy the support of the American people for his prosecution of the war against terrorism. His job rating on the war effort remains just under 90 percent, where it has been since it all began. The military successes in Afghanistan have quelled concerns...
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2001

Management buyouts find favor as restructuring tool

Management buyouts, a form of corporate acquisition in which management teams invest in the acquisition financing, have exceeded 100 billion yen so far this year, eclipsing the record of 40 billion yen set in 2000.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 1, 2001

Patrick Carroll

From the sea to the sky: When he was living in southeast England, Patrick Carroll joined the Royal Naval Reserve, the "part-time navy." He served on small vessels, such as minesweepers and patrol vessels. When he came to Japan, he volunteered his services to the Royal Naval Association Japan Branch....
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2001

Japan may wane as China's star rises: regional expert

Japan should be aware of the quickly changing economic environment in Asia, where China is fast emerging as an economic power and Southeast Asian countries are starting to doubt Japan's ability for regional economic leadership, the visiting chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs...
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2001

Japan, Thailand to explore free trade

Visiting Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came up with a new approach Tuesday to get his country and Japan on the road toward a free-trade agreement.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Nov 18, 2001

You might think it's crazy, but this upstart is serious

With all the cultural treasures that Kyoto offers, perhaps few people would have wine in mind when planning their itinerary. After all, in a city with such richness of tradition, wine is a mere arriviste.
SOCCER / THE BALD TRUTH
Nov 13, 2001

Kafka dreams end happily for Troussier's Japan

Japan goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi must have thought he was stuck in some weird Kafka dream when he let in a goal just 26 seconds into his Portsmouth debut on Nov. 3.
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...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 11, 2001

Helping sisters do it for themselves

BEING A BROAD IN JAPAN: Everything a Western Woman Needs to Survive and Thrive, by Caroline Pover. Alexandra Press, 2001, 518 pp., 2,858 yen (paper) "Being A Broad in Japan: Everything a Western Woman Needs to Survive and Thrive" is a chatty and compendious handbook, covering topics from beauty care...
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2001

Expert on Afghanistan to support U.N. special envoy

Japan and the United Nations are making final arrangements to appoint a Japanese diplomat to support the U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, government sources said Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2001

Expert on Afghanistan to support U.N. special envoy

Japan and the United Nations are making final arrangements to appoint a Japanese diplomat to support the U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, government sources said Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2001

Quick-stop face-lifts pull the lunch crowd

A new kind of plastic surgery that requires no scalpels or stitches and can be performed in mere minutes is becoming increasingly popular -- particularly with young women -- due to the relative ease in obtaining treatment.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2001

Five pioneers to receive Order of Culture awards

Social anthropologist Chie Nakane and four others will be conferred this year's Order of Culture by the Emperor, the government announced Tuesday.
COMMUNITY
Oct 30, 2001

Hosts with the most, ma'am, at your service

BANGKOK -- Bangkok may be the sex capital of the world for men, but what do Thai women do for kicks? It's Saturday night and I am in an underground parking garage in central Bangkok trying to find out. It is damp and somewhat desolate, but across the ill-lit tarmac I see a promising neon sign that reads...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 28, 2001

Engagement or isolation?

KOREAN SECURITY DYNAMICS IN TRANSITION, edited by Park Kyung-Ae and Kim Dalchoon. New York, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001, 209 pp., $45.00 (cloth) The euphoria that followed the historic inter-Korean summit in June 2000 has worn off. North Korea's peek-a-boo diplomacy -- now you see us, now you don't --...
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Abe of HIV fiasco loses libel case against daily

Takeshi Abe, the former vice president of Teikyo University, lost a 40 million yen damages suit against the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Friday over articles in which he was accused of improper conduct in connection with the HIV scandal.

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