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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Mar 24, 2006

Chic 'n' sweet and right on the bull's eye

For many commuters, Yoyogi-Uehara is simply the name of a station at which they change for an express train home. It is also the kind of upmarket address which, if you live there, means you have arrived.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 23, 2006

Japan's WBC team receives hero's welcome

Japanese team members made a triumphant return to their country Wednesday evening after winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic title with a victory over Cuba in the final.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 23, 2006

A sense of van Meene

Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene, accompanied by her husband Frank, is visiting Japan for the fifth time. Sipping on an orange juice inside the smoked glass walls of Montauk cafe on Omotesando's busy shopping strip, she tells how the Japan Foundation invited her to contribute to the nation's pavilion...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 21, 2006

The doomsday doctor

Japan is officially shrinking. Last October's census found 19,000 fewer Japanese than the previous year; the first time, barring the catastrophic year of 1945 that the population has dropped since censuses began in 1920.
SOCCER
Mar 21, 2006

JFA to lobby for Club World Cup berth for J. League champions

Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi said Monday he will continue to lobby for world governing body FIFA to reverse a decision not to allow J. League champions to play in the Club World Cup.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 20, 2006

Wenger out of Japan's price range, says Kawabuchi

Japan Football Association chief Saburo Kawabuchi has admitted that Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is out of Japan's price range and has not ruled out the possibility of turning to homegrown talent for a successor to Brazilian coach Zico after the World Cup finals.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2006

Colonization obstructs peace

PLAINS, Georgia -- For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had...
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2006

Obituary: Misoji Sakamoto

Misoji Sakamoto, a former chief Cabinet secretary in the government of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, died of stomach cancer Sunday at a hospital in Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture. He was 83.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2006

Absentee counsel chided in triple-jeopardy appeal

The Supreme Court has ordered two defense lawyers to attend an April 18 session on an appeal by prosecutors seeking the death penalty for a man sentenced a man to life for killing a woman and her 11-month-old daughter in 1999, court sources said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 16, 2006

Justice for Milosevic's victims

In death as in life, former Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic was contemptuous of the world. The heart attack that claimed his life while being tried for war crimes may have kept a tribunal from declaring him guilty, but there was no doubt about the eventual outcome. Mr. Milosevic was wrong -- and on...
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2006

Quarter GDP revised to 1.3%

The economy grew by a real 1.3 percent from October to December 2005 from the previous quarter, revised downward from the 1.4 percent rise reported initially, as capital spending declined, particularly among businesses, the government said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Japan submits plan to level U.N. dues

Japan proposed to the United Nations on Friday that the five permanent U.N. Security Council members shoulder a minimum of 3 percent or 5 percent of the total U.N. budget, a concept that would force China and Russia to pay more to support the international organization.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Machinery orders suffer first drop in four months

Japan's core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent in January from the previous month to 1.059 trillion yen, the first fall in four months, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Wholesale prices score 16-year high

Wholesale prices rose 2.9 percent in February from a year earlier for the 24th consecutive monthly rise, marking the highest growth in 16 years, the Bank of Japan said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Domestic violence reports ballooned to record in 2005

A record 16,888 cases of domestic violence were reported to police across Japan last year, up 17.2 percent from 2004, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Employees dislike new pay system

Fujitsu Ltd.'s company Web site is being flooded with angry e-mails from unhappy workers, especially young people.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Trial opens in Nishimura lawyer scandal

OSAKA -- Shingo Nishimura, the ultraconservative Diet member arrested last year for allowing a nonlawyer employee to illegally represent clients in his name, formally owned up to the charges as his Osaka District Court trial opened Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2006

BOJ lifts ultraloose policy

The Bank of Japan on Thursday ended its five-year-old ultraloose monetary policy, brushing aside concerns in the Cabinet and the ruling coalition that the nation has not yet overcome years of deflation.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2006

Red Army founder appeals ruling

Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu filed an appeal Monday against the 20-year prison sentence she received for her role in the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974 as well as two counts of violating passport laws, her lawyer said.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2006

Ailing radio broadcasters see promise in podcasts

Podcasting, a new type of Web broadcasting via digital music players like the Apple iPod, might prove a boon for businesses that are increasingly catching on to its novel commercial potential.
COMMENTARY
Mar 6, 2006

Heavyweight media visionary of the times

LOS ANGELES -- This will be a simple column about a relatively simple man who himself believed in keeping things simple. His name was Otis Chandler, surfer, champion weight-lifter, newspaper-builder. Last week, he died, at 78 years of age. He will go down in U.S. media history as a great man.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 5, 2006

A few bows too many for shamed DPJ lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata

One picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words, and the one that graced the front page of the Feb. 24 Asahi Shimbun is worth more than all the kanji expended on the Democratic Party of Japan's e-mail fiasco.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Most women born from '71 to '74 childless at 30

More than half of the women born during Japan's second postwar baby boom from 1971 to 1974 had not had any children by age 30, according to statistics released Friday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Private surveillance cameras on the rise

Is it neighborhood watch or Big Brother?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 4, 2006

Mong-Lan

Although she was only 5 when, with her family, she was evacuated from Saigon, Mong-Lan thinks the events of war and suffering in her early life traumatized her. Thirty years later, critics find in her poetry "the tectonic force of history, beauty and despair." Poetry, giving release to her emotions,...
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
Drinks produced by Asahi at a liquor store in Tokyo. Retailers in Japan are warning customers of possible Asahi Super Dry beer shortages after a cyberattack paralyzed production and distribution at the major brewer.
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Den-en-toshi Line trains collide, halting service
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.

Podcast

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

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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