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JAPAN
Oct 21, 2003

Ex-Duskin chairman out on bail

The Tokyo District Court has allowed former Duskin Co. Chairman Koji Chiba, currently being tried on charges of misappropriating the firm's money, to be released on bail, court officials said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 21, 2003

Japan still bazaar for the bizarre

It's not news that Japan is a vast emporium for some of the weirdest products ever retailed on the planet. We've all read the stories about high-tech toilet seats, used schoolgirls' underwear, million-yen pet beetles, canned whale blubber, and so on.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2003

Inmates claim assaults common

More than one-third of Japan's prison population has been assaulted, intimidated or bullied by prison guards, the Justice Ministry's first extensive nationwide survey of inmates showed Monday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 20, 2003

'Swing vote' could usher in two-party system for Japan

A brewing political drama could open the way for a two-party system in Japan. Already the ruling and opposition parties are bracing for the Nov. 9 general election in which a transfer of power between two major parties looms as a real possibility for the first time since the end of World War II.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 20, 2003

Zuleta's bat adds volume to Fukuoka Dome noise

FUKUOKA -- Game 2 of the Japan Series at the Fukuoka Decibel Dome.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2003

Scandal-hit Suzuki pulls out of election

Scandal-tainted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki said Saturday that he will not run in the upcoming general election due to health reasons.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2003

Ministries at odds over pension age in 2004 reforms

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is not planning to raise the age of eligibility for the public to start receiving pensions in its reform of the pension system for 2004, ministry sources said Saturday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 19, 2003

Unconvincing France struggles by upstart Japan

TOWNSVILLE, Australia -- Japan may have lost its second game in the 2003 Rugby World Cup but the Cherry Blossoms produced a performance against France that surpassed even their heroics of last week when they lost to Scotland, but won over a nation.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 19, 2003

The gangsters that just keep coming back

THE YAKUZA MOVIE BOOK: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films, by Mark Schilling. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2003, 336 pp., $19.95 (paper). When Mark Schilling was interviewing veteran filmmaker Seijun Suzuki for this book, the director suddenly asked the author: "Why are you interested in yakuza movies?"...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 19, 2003

Tigers players hope to win one for the skipper

I knew I was on my way to a special Japan Series Saturday when several people on my jam-packed Japan Airlines flight were wearing Hanshin Tigers jerseys. There was one Hiyama 24, a couple of Imaoka 7s and several Igawa 29s.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2003

Doi down on two-party system

Rarely a day goes by without a newspaper article focusing on whether the Nov. 9 general election will usher in an era of two dominant political parties.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2003

Erotic art, cartoon flowers await visitors to Mori museum

A painting of a Chinese baby holding an Oreo cookie and giant figures of a bear talking with a police officer are among the works being shown at a new museum devoted to modern art, which is opening Saturday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2003

Cops targeted loan sharks in September crackdown

Authorities across the nation handled 125 cases of loan-sharking in September, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 17, 2003

English guilty of double standard regarding Turkey's Alpay

LONDON -- The lynch mob arrived with xenophobia in abundance.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2003

Spacecraft technicians tutored in art of soldering

Japan's space agency is giving special soldering iron training to technicians who manufacture parts for H-IIA rockets to help them improve the quality of their work.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2003

China to get funds for poison gas leak

Japan will settle China's demand for damages following the leakage of poison gas left behind in Heilongjiang Province by Japanese forces at the end of the war by offering a several hundred million yen "cooperation fund," government sources said.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2003

Emperor faces further cancer concerns: doctor

Recent blood tests suggest there is a "slight" possibility that Emperor Akihito may still have some cancerous tissue, despite having undergone prostate cancer surgery in January, his chief health official said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 17, 2003

Sushi-bun: An altar in the temple of fresh fish

Why does sushi have to be so expensive? Granted, a modest meal at your neighborhood sushiya shouldn't involve too great an outlay. And when it comes to the mass-produced offerings that chug around conveyor belts on color-coded plates, you will never want to eat enough of them to seriously dent your...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2003

Earthquake gives Tokyo a good jolt

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 hit Tokyo Wednesday afternoon, briefly disrupting train and air services.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2003

Settling for less than peace

The Israeli government's recent announcement that it planned to build more than 600 homes in West Bank settlements is another stake through the heart of the "road map" for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. There is no reason to expand this construction -- other than a desire to create "facts on...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

When three women are company, not a crowd

After a one-month break, I got back to my old haunts last weekend and was delighted to encounter -- by pure chance -- two "three-women" plays on Tokyo stages.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Returnees frustrated over kin-reunion impasse

Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korea but returned to their homeland last year voiced frustration Tuesday over the government's lack of progress in effecting a reunion with the children they left behind in Pyongyang.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2003

DPJ gains ground on LDP ahead of November election

Nearly 38 percent of Japanese voters support the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, although the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan was gaining in a Kyodo News poll released Saturday, less than a month before a general election on Nov. 9.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 12, 2003

Livin' la vida loca

Charles Darwin must have been a regular at whatever passed for a bar on the HMS Beagle. During the ship's five-week stop at the Galapagos, the scientific superstar-to-be got his kicks from riding the trunk-size tortoises that give the islands their name -- galapago is Spanish for "saddle." Despite the...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Oct 12, 2003

Keeping score on first ladies

MOSCOW -- Throughout the past 60 years or so, the problem-ridden relations between the White House and the Kremlin have been burdened with one more factor: the rivalry of the first ladies.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 12, 2003

Paradise maintained

In 1959, to mark the centenary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species," the Ecuadorean government declared the Galapagos a National Park. In 1979, UNESCO proclaimed the archipelago a World Heritage Site.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 12, 2003

Telling 'The Tale of Genji' through its forgotten poetry

A STRING OF FLOWERS, UNTIED: Love Poems from The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Jane Reichhold and Hatsue Kawamura. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2003, 238 pp., $18.95 (paper). Threaded throughout the 1000-page length of the "Genji Monogatari" (The Tale of Genji) are some 800 poems....
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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