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BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 11, 2001

Ichiro returns to Japan

American League MVP Ichiro Suzuki returned to Japan for the first time in 11 months on Sunday after ending his stellar rookie season with the Seattle Mariners.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Bush praises Japan for war on terrorism

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush praised Japan's cooperation in the campaign against terrorism Friday, the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 9, 2001

And they call it puppy love

H igh on the cuteness scale this week is TBS's "Dobutsu Kiso Tengai (Unbelievable Animals)" (tonight, 8 p.m.), a variety-cum-quiz show that covers animals both wild and domesticated.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Kazakstan envoy hands over details of postwar detainees

Kazakstan Ambassador to Japan Tleukhan Kabdrakhmanov submitted to Japan on Friday a list of the names of 2,585 Japanese people who were detained in Kazakstan after World War II, health ministry officials said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 9, 2001

Mardi Gras: Ample reason to celebrate

Over the last couple of years, one of our favorite watering holes in Ginza has been the curiously named (and hard to find) Grape Gumbo, a down-to-earth wine bar with a no-frills, izakaya ambience and Euro-bistro trencherman fare to match. So when we heard that the head chef there, Touru Wachi, had left...
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 9, 2001

Waste disposal: Not just a load of rubbish

If extreme global warming is the headline-making environmental disaster on the world's horizon, then waste disposal is its ugly domestic step-sister that's already here.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Dec 9, 2001

It used be the case for all kinds of sake

You don't hear much about the tanks used for brewing or storing sake. In many other beverages, the type, age and source of the wood used for the tanks often contributes a major component to the flavor. Although sake is now independent of these factors, this was not always the case.
EDITORIALS
Dec 8, 2001

A first step toward Afghan peace

Afghan factions and the United Nations have managed to sign an agreement stipulating the composition of an interim administration, or Cabinet, to replace the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The official inauguration of the interim administration on Dec. 22 -- after the Ramadan month of fasting ends --...
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2001

Women in business eye support base

KYOTO -- Business leaders from 11 countries agreed Friday to create a network to help women entrepreneurs around the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2001

Defending the Khmer cultural heritage

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- When discussion involves Cambodia, a natural reaction is to recall horrendous images of ruthless genocide. While this is true, one should nonetheless not exclusively equate this small country with immense suffering and torment. Cambodia is also home to a precious cultural heritage...
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2001

East meeting with West carves history into wood

Reiko Yamanouchi remembers clearly how wood engraving entered her life. "Soon after joining my husband in Cambridge in 1968 -- he was a research student at the university -- I was given a book to help me get a feeling for the city, a memoir by Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2001

Breaking with Keynesianism

The government's economic and fiscal report released Tuesday focuses on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's program to resuscitate Japan's moribund economy. No wonder its writers -- selected public economists -- have made a great effort to rationalize the prime minister's "no reform, no growth" agenda....
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2001

Maoists try to undermine Nepal's ties with neighbors

T he latest Maoist turbulence in Nepal is yet another chapter in the Himalayan kingdom's recent history of bloodshed and carnage, which began with the palace massacre in early June.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2001

Japan set to ratify '94 treaty on Soviet energy

In a rather belated move, Japan is set to formally join a key post-Cold War international treaty calling for the liberalization of trade and investment in energy in Russia and the other former Soviet republics.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Treaty on deadly chemicals to go before Diet soon

The government will submit a landmark international treaty banning the production and use of the world's most toxic and harmful chemicals to the Diet for ratification early next year, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2001

Japan to go to work on its image as a looter of cultural treasures

After years of foot-dragging, Japan is taking its first significant step toward shedding its reputation as a looter of cultural assets.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 7, 2001

Takahashi hospitalized for problem with colon

Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi has pulled out of Sunday's national women's corporate ekiden championship after being hospitalized with intestinal problems, officials of her Sekisui Chemical team said Thursday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / LEARNING BY HEART
Dec 7, 2001

New b-boys and b-girls on the block

The hippest of hip-hop dancers perform pure magic. They do somersaults, cartwheels and flips. They're dramatic, eccentric, funny and highly creative. They slide in any direction, send electric shock waves through their limbs, glide across the ground like moonwalkers and twirl into body-punishing spins....
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Dec 6, 2001

Dollar-positive factors may push yen down

The failure of U.S. energy giant Enron Corp. has rattled corporate bond markets around the world, prompting the Bank of Japan to inject trillions of yen into the banking system to offset liquidity concerns.
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...
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2001

Women call on Crown Princess to do it her way

The 37-year-old Crown Princess, who gave birth to a girl Saturday, should be free to raise her child in any manner she sees fit, according to several of her female contemporaries across the country.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2001

Israeli occupation spawns cycle of death

AL-BIREH, West Bank -- In the 48 hours following the horrific suicide bombings in Israel, hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addressed the nation while simultaneously increasing, by yet another step, Israel's part of the violence in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Sadly, no end...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 6, 2001

Female langurs get empowered

Humans are remarkable in many ways. Most of us, for example, have sex in private. Compare that to most other mammals, who will copulate in clear view of their fellows.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2001

Ministry mulls changes to travel advisory system

The Foreign Ministry may change its five-scale travel advisory system due to criticism that the information is vague and causing undue harm to tourism worldwide, a senior official said.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2001

Egypt: a mirror of what is wrong with U.S.-Arab relations

CAIRO -- In a workshop in the Khan Khalil bazaar in the heart of medieval Cairo, Atef Hamid unwraps three beautifully crafted copper plates, each with designs taken from ancient and famous mosques, on which his grandfather has been laboring.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 5, 2001

Face to face with Imperial evil

Japanese Devils Rating: * * * * 1/2 Director: Minoru Matsui Running time:160 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing
CULTURE / Film
Dec 5, 2001

Wrong side of the tracks

The Yards Rating: * * * * Japanese title: Uragirimono Director: James Gray Running time: 115 minutes Language: English Now showing
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2001

Taiwan's transformation

The historic evolution of Taiwanese politics continued last weekend as the Nationalist Party, the KMT, lost control of the legislature, its last political stronghold. In a landslide vote, the Democratic Progressive Party, headed by President Chen Shui-bian, emerged as the island government's strongest...

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What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji