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JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Private surveillance cameras on the rise

Is it neighborhood watch or Big Brother?
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2006

Reshaping the welfare state

LONDON -- A market economy is efficient, but it is not just. Because wages are determined by the law of scarcity, some people cannot earn enough money to live a decent life.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 3, 2006

Final hurdles cleared

All that's left for Team Japan to do is come out of the dugout and play China on Friday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 3, 2006

Unselfish Matsunaka putting it all on the line for 'Hinomaru' in WBC

Team Japan cleanup hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka doesn't care how he swings the bat. Numbers are subordinate in the mind of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star, especially in the World Baseball Classic.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

MUFG ending some ATM fees

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. in late May will abolish money transfer charges between its group banks for customers using cash cards at its automated teller machines, sources at the group said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

IC-tagged produce coming to a grocer near you

Supermarkets are following department stores in introducing integrated circuit tags for their goods, believing that easing the payment process will make shopping more convenient for customers and help increase profits.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2006

DJ gatecrashes VIP party

One of the biggest names in Japanese dance music, Mondo Grosso, returns to Club Yellow in Roppongi, Tokyo, on March 3 as a guest DJ for "Cyberjapan presents VIP Club."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2006

Access to comic noh drama gets easier

Setagaya Public Theatre's next program in its kyogen (comic drama) series, "The Kyogen Theatre Vol. 3.," runs March 2 through March 12.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

World must allow Iran's uranium program: Mottaki

Iran will not stop its uranium enrichment efforts and other countries should ensure it has the right to have a nuclear program for "peaceful purposes," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Obituary: Richard Poole

Richard Poole, one of the Americans who helped draft Japan's Constitution, died Sunday at his home in Virginia, his family said. He was 86.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2006

The worst is over

The "worst is behind" for Japan's once moribund economy, but neighboring China must do more to balance its breakneck growth rate and allow its currency to become more flexible, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Tim Adams warned Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2006

JR East gives fastest train on rails test run for media

East Japan Railway Co. unveiled its newest model shinkansen, the Fastech, to the media during a test run Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2006

Seaweed quota set

Japan will expand import quotas for edible seaweed starting in April by 46 percent from the previous year to 585 million sheets, covering 6 percent of domestic consumption, the Fisheries Agency said Tuesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 1, 2006

Nintendo scores with consumers and then almost squanders its edge

Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3, Microsoft vs. Sony, DVD vs. Blu-ray -- there's a glimpse into the world of the hardcore game community. Tech talk and brand loyalty create enough static to scare away normal people who just want to play some games in their free time.
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

Yang to follow with donation

TURIN, Italy (AP) Inspired by American speedskater Joey Cheek's example, Chinese short track Olympic medalist Yang Yang said Sunday she'll donate her $10,000 bronze-medal bonus to a charity that helps children in areas ravaged by conflict. The donation helps push the charity, Right to Play, close to...
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

Merkel hails German team

TURIN, Italy (AP) Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Germany's Olympic team Sunday on a performance that saw it once again top the medals chart. "You have achieved a series of great successes on which I congratulate you heartily," Merkel wrote in a message released by her office in Berlin. "All...
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2006

U.S. tech to correct nearsightedness finds favor

A U.S. technology that improves nearsightedness by just getting some shut-eye is catching on around the world and has moved into the clinical testing stage in Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2006

Support drops a bit for female-line succession

The percentage of people who support allowing a child of a female monarch to ascend the Imperial throne fell 7.8 percentage points from December to 64 percent, following news that Princess Kiko, the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son, is pregnant.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2006

Single seniors find way to meet day of reckoning

A 67-year-old Tokyo woman intends to stipulate in her will that she wants her ashes to be thrown away after she is cremated.
EDITORIALS
Feb 28, 2006

Fueling trust in rocket science

In the short span of one month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has successfully launched three rockets, each carrying a satellite. This success has increased trust in JAXA's technological capability, raising Japan's hopes of entering the commercial rocket business.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 28, 2006

Invisible minority

Misrepresented, misunderstood and mysterious, a group of women fight a dual struggle, compelled to speak up for their rights, yet fearing the consequences of a life made visible in an oppressive world.
LIFE / Language
Feb 28, 2006

To learn the Japanese language, get pod-agogical

With Internet blogs beginning to challenge traditional print media, it was only a matter of time before a new medium broke radio's traditional choke hold on free audio programming. Enter podcasts, the downloadable MP3 audio files that feature mixes of music and chatter created by amateurs worldwide....
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2006

Deepening crisis in Nepal

The political situation in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal grows increasingly chaotic. Local municipal elections recently called by King Gyanendra, who assumed direct rule after sacking the prime minister and his Cabinet a year ago, had a voter turnout of just 22 percent, abnormally low for that country....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 26, 2006

Carp ace Kuroda out of WBC

FUKUOKA -- Japan lost Hiroshima Carp ace Hiroki Kuroda for the World Baseball Classic after a finger injury sustained in Friday's 7-0 win over the NBP All-Stars.
EDITORIALS
Feb 26, 2006

Justice for a Holocaust doubter

Of all the people whose misfortunes made news this past week, few inspire less sympathy than David Irving. The British historian who has fashioned a career out of questioning the Nazis' slaughter of millions of European Jews was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for violating Austria's ban...
Japan Times
Features
Feb 26, 2006

Dateline: Xinjiang

Our plane looked new and well maintained, but as we headed off into the void on the atlas far, far to the northwest of Shanghai, I still wondered if I had made a mistake by not buying some of the "Air Unexpected Insurance" on offer at the airport.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes