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JAPAN
Mar 9, 2006

Japan rejects China's Senkaku gas offer

Japan on Wednesday rejected a Chinese proposal to jointly develop two gas-rich areas in the East China Sea, one of which is on the Japanese side of the median boundary near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2006

Another architect fakes design strength

Five Sapporo condominium complexes have been confirmed to have been built with faked earthquake-resistance data, the land ministry said Tuesday, and the city is investigating 28 more buildings the architect who compiled the data has said are not sufficiently quake-proof.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 8, 2006

New signals abound of our genetic evolution

Good news this week for believers in common sense, opponents of intelligent design, and, incidentally, for writers of columns about natural selection.
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.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2006

CPI registers third increase in a row

In a move expected to push the Bank of Japan to start specific debate on ending its ultraeasy monetary policy next week, the government said Friday the January core consumer price index rose 0.5 percent from a year before, marking the third consecutive year-on-year increase and the biggest jump since...
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

DPJ figures e-mail fiasco is over; LDP begs to differ

The Democratic Party of Japan hopes to pick a new Diet affairs chief soon because it believes the uproar over the e-mail allegation has been settled with the apology by lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata and executives of the main opposition party, members said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2006

Strife-ridden JAL removes Shinmachi from its helm

Japan Airlines Corp. announced Wednesday that JAL President Toshiyuki Shinmachi will be relieved of his post and be replaced by Senior Vice President Haruka Nishimatsu.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2006

Russian mayor confirms talks with Nissan on factory

NEW YORK (Kyodo) The mayor of St. Petersburg, Russia, Valentina Matvienko, said Monday in New York that her city is talking with major automakers, including Nissan Motor Co., to encourage them to locate factories there, confirming a recent Interfax report.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 26, 2006

Will Barry Bonds play his last game at Tokyo Dome?

News came last week that San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds announced he would be retiring at the end of the 2006 season. The next day, he said he may play several more years. Typical for a guy who often changes his mind, but there's nothing wrong with that.
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 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.
Japan Times
Features
Feb 19, 2006

An innocent abroad brings his twisted genius to Japan

I first heard about Momus, the alter-ego of the Scottish musical maverick Nick Currie, in 2002, when a writer friend directed me to an article that Currie had written on the coolness of Tokyo's up-and-coming Nakameguro district.
EDITORIALS
Feb 18, 2006

What right to torment?

Muslim furor in the Middle East and other parts of the world touched off by the appearance of cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad has led to diplomatic rows, embassy burnings and violent protests. It now begs serious thought about how the media should exercise the rights to freedom of the press...
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Mitutoyo unaware exports illegal?

High-tech precision instrument maker Mitutoyo Corp. issued a qualified denial Tuesday of knowingly engaging in the illegal export of machinery that could be converted for use in nuclear weapons production.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Sompo hits staff for padding contracts

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said Tuesday it punished 527 people, including sales staff and their supervisors, last month for illegally padding the number of new contracts they sold to meet internal sales goals.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 15, 2006

Japan Times wins award for animal rights coverage

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) today announced that The Japan Times is this year's winner of its prestigious International Genesis Award, given in recognition of its Nov. 30, 2005 "breakthrough expose" headlined: " 'Secret' dolphin slaughter defies protests."
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2006

Livedoor chief says firm could be sold

Backpedaling from his previous position, Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu said Monday the firm is preparing for any eventuality, including possibly selling itself to a willing buyer.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 12, 2006

Building scandals expose society's uncaring foundation

Japan is in the throes of two scandals that highlight a stunning flaw in the social order. For all its much-trumpeted national cohesion and the lip service paid in Japan to the people's sense of nasake (compassion, sympathy, mercy), these scandals are stark reminders that public welfare and the common...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2006

English abusers finally get their day in the sun

"Please be careful to forget valuables" has received the Sign Language Award at the Amazing English Hunt 2005 awards, the English-Speaking Union of Japan, a nonprofit organization to promote international exchanges through English, and eigoTwown.com, which runs a Web site offering English education information,...
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

Abe denies secret pact for Okinawa

Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on Thursday denied a news report that Japan had secretly shouldered $4 million in costs for Okinawa's reversion to Japan from U.S. occupation in 1972.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2006

Weeping Toyoko boss pledges to right wrongs

Toyoko Inn Co. President Norimasa Nishida said Monday the firm will retrofit all the hotels that it illegally modified after they were approved by municipal governments as meeting barrier-free codes, and will hire disabled people to promote their employment.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2006

Violations found at 70 Toyoko inns

Toyoko Inn Co. illegally renovated 70 of its hotels in 25 prefectures, according to a Kyodo News tally based on findings by local authorities through Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2006

Family delighted film on abductee wins prize

The relatives of victims of North Korea's abductions expressed their joy Monday after a U.S. film on Megumi Yokota has won the best documentary award at the U.S. Slamdance Film Festival in Utah.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2006

More hotel violations revealed

The Yokohama Municipal Government on Saturday inspected two hotels operated by Toyoko Inn Co. and found that a total of 31 rooms had been added illegally, city officials said.
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2006

Much ado about an old Chinese map

A little squall ruffled the staid world of historical scholarship earlier this month after a Beijing lawyer and amateur collector produced a tattered, bamboo-paper map that at first glance appeared to undermine an axiom of Western history. The map, which Mr. Liu Gang said he bought in a Shanghai bookshop...
Trump’s wake-up call for India’s foreign policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13. Trump’s coercive use of trade threats against India during the Pakistan military crisis has undermined trust in the U.S.-India partnership and exposed Washington as an unreliable security ally.
Toyota considers making tiny trucks for U.S. market as demand booms
Toyota executives say the automaker is listening to U.S. dealer requests for a truck smaller than the brand’s best-selling Tacoma midsize and Tundra full-size pickups.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
Shinjiro Koizumi takes farm ministry reins after predecessor's rice gaffe
Agriculture minister Taku Eto (left), who resigned on Wednesday, and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
Railguns, missiles and lasers: Japan uses massive defense event to highlight shift
A mock-up of Japan's state-of-the-art railgun, which is currently undergoing testing, is displayed at the three-day DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.
Ishiba doubles down on weapons cooperation, says no country can go it alone
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba walks past members of the Philippine Coast Guard at the coast guard's headquarters in Manila on April 30.
Nippon Ishin grapples with poor governance ahead of Upper House election
Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Seiji Maehara speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.
Beware of dubious websites offering cheap rice, consumer watchdog warns
Questionable websites appear to be taking advantage of consumers looking for cheaper rice online amid the high prices of the staple grain in the nation.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa
Teru Hasegawa, Esperanto name Verda Majo, wrote leftist political essays during WWII.

Podcast

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

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb
By Alex K.T. Martin

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