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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 17, 2007

Amy Katoh

Champion of Japan's disappearing traditional crafts, longtime Tokyo resident Amy Katoh is an author and businesswoman. Her famous shop Blue & White testifies to her vision and imagination.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 16, 2007

Darvish looks for ways to keep baseball popular

In the absence of players like Daisuke Matsuzaka, one of Japanese baseball's rising stars says its time to pull together to keep the game attractive to fans.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2007

Tokyo gets set for weekend marathon

Despite the brutal traffic and jostling crowds that will accompany Sunday's inaugural Tokyo Marathon 2007, Takaaki Hirai sees the event as an occasion for celebration and remembrance.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2007

GDP grows at annualized 4.8%

Japan's economy expanded at an annualized 4.8 percent in real terms during the October-December period of last year, beating economists' average forecast of 3.8 percent, a government preliminary report showed Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2007

Archaic child registry law bio-illogical

A recently remarried woman who gave birth two months ago has become ensnarled by an outdated Civil Code that says she must register her baby as the child of her ex-husband, who is not biologically related.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 16, 2007

People power decides best film shorts

The world's largest international video contest, Tokyo Video Festival, opens its doors to the public from Feb. 24-28 to screen a wide variety of video shorts made by professionals and amateurs from around the world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 16, 2007

The Format, Yo La Tengo

The Format, an Arizona-based pop collective centered around vocalist Nate Ruess and multi-instrumentalist Sam Means is a misunderstood band, even by people who seek to profit from them. In 2005, Atlantic dropped the duo after they delivered their sophomore album, "Dog Problems," saying it wasn't the...
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 15, 2007

World Cup defender Nakazawa makes Osim's training-camp squad

Ivica Osim on Wednesday called up Yuji Nakazawa to his 28-man training-camp squad ahead of the Mar. 24 friendly against Peru.
Reader Mail
Feb 14, 2007

Quenching the thirst for energy

The main hurdle in the development of our world is the lack of affordable and environment-friendly energy sources. If billionaires and millionaires don't come forward now to share their dreams about the universal development of mankind, there will be no chance of human civilization going forward. If...
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2007

Nikko vows better internal controls

Scandal-tainted Nikko Cordial Corp. announced on Tuesday measures to boost the group's internal controls to prevent accounting irregularities, including creation of a new section to prevent fraudulent deals involving affiliated companies.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 14, 2007

From rackets to real estate, yakuza multifaceted

The yakuza have long played a powerful, if often unseen, role in society. Romanticized in literature and film as noble outcasts replete with punch-perms, extensive tattoos and severed pinkies, the underworld is one of archaic language and secretive rituals and customs as well as extreme violence and...
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ENVIRONMENT
Feb 14, 2007

Eyewitness to slaughter in Taiji's killing coves

Almost every day, pods of dolphins ply their way across Hatagiri Bay near the whaling town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan. It's a scenic, serene area on the beautiful Kii Peninsula. But death haunts two pristine coves adjacent to Taiji's whale museum.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2007

Aussie book on Crown Princess draws official wrath

The Foreign Ministry came to the defense of the Imperial family on Tuesday, saying it had lodged formal protests with the author and publisher of a new book about Crown Princess Masako that it called "contemptuous" and "insulting."
COMMENTARY
Feb 12, 2007

Still the clean-growth model

In terms of economic development, Japan, South Korea and China have achieved in two or three decades what it took Western countries more than a century to accomplish.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Feb 11, 2007

Murry relishing shot at pro ball

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league -- Japan's first professional basketball circuit -- which is in its second season. Point guard Nile Murry of the Toyama Grouses is the subject of this week's profile.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 11, 2007

Remarkable return: Hingis happy with comeback

Former world No. 1 Martina Hingis won a record-breaking fifth Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo last Sunday, adding the title to the ones she won in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002. It was her third Tier 1 title since returning to the WTA Tour in January 2006 after coming out of a three-year retirement because...

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
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