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CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 26, 2006

Fuji TV presents Yoshi's romances in the series "Angels With Broken Wings" and more

Anovelist who simply goes by the name of Yoshi has sold more than 2.7 million volumes in his "Deep Love" series of Harlequin-like romances. This week, Fuji TV will present four 45-minute Yoshi-penned dramas on the same days that they are published in book form.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 26, 2006

It was downhill all the way in Japan's media coverage of Olympics

Were the Turin Winter Olympics really that boring or was it just the Japanese television coverage?
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Winny strikes again: Clerk's PC leaks court info

Internet file-sharing software Winny wreaked havoc in Japanese authorities' computers for the second straight day Friday, with the Tokyo District Court's internal information on public auctions leaked onto the Internet.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Number of arrests for Web crimes hits record

The number of people arrested for Internet-linked crimes in Japan rose almost 52 percent last year to a record 3,161, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2006

Grocers, retailers suffer fall in sales

Sales at supermarkets fell 2.5 percent in January from the year before on a same-store basis while department store sales dipped 0.4 percent, industry groups said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 25, 2006

David Hewett

In 1990, then Tokyo resident Va Maughn served as special project director of Refugees International Japan's first Art of Dining Charity Exhibition here. It was her idea to feature personal table settings as "art on tabletops."
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

Confidential MSDF info leaked on Internet via Winny

Confidential information from the Maritime Self-Defense Force has been leaked on the Internet via the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Winny, the MSDF said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

OhmyNews to hit Japan through Softbank tieup

Softbank Corp. has announced it will contribute 693 million yen to form a joint venture with South Korea's OhmyNews Co. in Tokyo in March to publish a Japanese edition of the online news service.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2006

What is Livedoor's future on TSE?

With the Wednesday arrest of Livedoor Representative Director Fumito Kumagai and fresh warrants served on founder Takafumi Horie and three former executives for alleged accounting fraud, Livedoor's delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange may be inevitable. Below are answers to some questions about what...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 24, 2006

Independence-D

Everyone has to start somewhere. That's the concept behind Independence-D, a three-day festival with the noble-sounding aim of bringing together the very finest bands from the very best independent labels to give us lucky people a glimpse of the future. Under the ambitious slogan, "From the world to...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Feb 24, 2006

Psychedelic radar 02.24

Saturday, Feb. 25
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 24, 2006

You can't get too much snow up here

Glaciers are in retreat, global weather patterns are going haywire and the Earth's climate is the warmest it's been in a millennium. Nonetheless, every winter, as regular as clockwork, winds from Siberia howl across the Sea of Japan, siphon up moisture, and dump it on Hokkaido as some of the world's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 24, 2006

McGowan speeds into town

Canadian-born Michael McGowan is a filmmaker and writer, but long before that, he had been a runner.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

'Takeshima Day,' rhetoric just Shimane affair

MATSUE, Shimane Pref. -- Shimane Prefecture on Wednesday celebrated its first "Takeshima Day" by declaring that the tiny islets controlled by South Korea are part of Japan and calling on the government to pressure Seoul to hand them over.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

Prison system hit with data leak

Personal information on about 3,400 convicts or detainees and some 2,300 prison employees was leaked onto the Internet after a prison officer's computer was infected by a virus, Justice Ministry officials said Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Feb 23, 2006

Sweden-Slovakia game monitored

TURIN, Italy (AP) International hockey's governing board closely monitored Sweden's 3-0 loss to Slovakia in Olympic preliminary play Tuesday after Swedish coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson suggested his team might be better off losing. The loss meant Sweden will play Switzerland instead of Canada or the Czech...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 22, 2006

S. Korean wetland faces doom

For those readers long ago numbed to the fraud, waste and environmental abuse that accompanies public works projects in Japan, here's one that might jump-start your ire: A project by the South Korean government to landfill and develop 40,100 hectares (almost 100,000 acres) of coastal waters and wetlands...
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Devotion to job a recipe for retiree divorce

Many middle-aged couples are filing for divorce upon arriving back in Japan after traveling overseas to celebrate the husband's retirement.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Takebe may file slander suit over e-mail allegation

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe refused Monday to rule out the possibility of suing Hisayasu Nagata, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party of Japan, over his allegation that Takebe's second son had shady financial connections with jailed Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

47% of nursing homes fail fire code

Nearly half of all nursing homes for senile elderly people do not have proper fire protection measures, according to a government report released Monday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 20, 2006

New demands, more delays

Japan and North Korea made little progress toward solving their problems in five days of bilateral talks that ended early this month in Beijing. The only agreement was to continue to talk.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2006

Japanese whale institute attacks U.K. claims

LONDON (Kyodo) A Japanese research institute is disputing claims by British environmentalists that whale meat is being used in pet food.

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