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EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2004

Romance by the numbers

You have to hand it to Singapore: It is doing its best to lose its longtime image as the nanny state of Asia. In fact, with the launch earlier this month of the now annual "Romancing Singapore" campaign, it is behaving less like a nanny and more like a madam.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 15, 2004

"Nandemo Kanteidan" on TV Tokyo and more

One of the most popular shows on television is the antique appraisal show "Nandemo Kanteidan," where people have items they own appraised by experts. On Monday, Feb. 16, TV Tokyo will broadcast a special two-hour edition of "Kanteidan" at 9 p.m.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 14, 2004

Kitajima wins MVP award again

The Japan Swimming Federation named Kosuke Kitajima as the 2003 Most Valuable Player on Friday, granting him the top distinction for the second year in a row.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2004

Embryo stem cell research OK'd

Japan approved Friday its first medical research project using domestically created human embryo stem cells.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2004

Official data suggest evidence of bid-rigging

Fiscal 2002 saw roughly 5,500 cases in which the winning bidders for public works and other government contracts clinched the deal at a price that was exactly the same as the upper limit set by the government, according to an official document released Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2004

Over-exposed in Houston

Say this for U.S. President George W. Bush: He might have wrong-footed the question of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but he struck just the right note when asked to comment on the flap over singer Janet Jackson's risque performance in the Super Bowl halftime show in Houston the night before. Mr....
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2004

Toyota on course for annual net profit of record 1 trillion yen

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its group net profit in the October-December quarter jumped 59.7 percent from a year earlier to 286.4 billion yen due to brisk global sales and cost-cutting efforts.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 4, 2004

It's now or never for new Giants catcher

The story made headlines on the front page of several Japanese sports newspapers Jan. 25: The Yomiuri Giants in a money trade bought the contract of catcher Katsunori Nomura from the Hanshin Tigers, and just why would the transfer of a back-up backstop who, in fact, did not play a game at the varsity...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2004

Language panel says children need more talk, less TV

Less television and more conversation at home are important first steps in improving children's language proficiency, a council tasked with discussing how to improve young people's command of Japanese said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2004

Colony Capital to build 'perfect' resort complex

Colony Capital LLC will create a comprehensive resort complex that is less dependent on baseball as part of moves to rebuild the operations it takes over from debt-ridden retailer Daiei Inc.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2004

Key figure in Sagawa Express scandal dies

Hiroyasu Watanabe, former president of Tokyo Sagawa Express Co. and a central figure in the 1992 political donation scandal involving its parent firm, Sagawa Express Co., died Jan. 11, sources said Saturday. He was 69.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2004

Panel proposes career education for kids

An education ministry panel proposed Wednesday a system to encourage children to begin thinking about possible careers at an early age.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2004

Japan to offer compromise on ITER fusion project, but only up to a point

Technology minister Takeo Kawamura said Wednesday that Japan is ready to compromise in the battle to host an international nuclear fusion project -- but said it will stick to its position that the reactor itself should be based in Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2004

Students' academic ability below ministry's expectations

The academic ability of high school seniors in mathematics and science is significantly below the education ministry's expectations.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2004

Doctors paid to 'lend' names to other hospitals

Doctors paid to 'lend' names to other hospitals
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2004

Slim majority of schools have held intruder drills

Some 51.7 percent of kindergartens and elementary, junior high and high schools nationwide have conducted drills against possible intruders, according to an education ministry survey released Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2004

Rules eased for Brazilian students

The education ministry on Monday eased the rules on Japanese university entrance exams for graduates of 19 Brazilian schools in Japan.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 16, 2004

Role of Ferguson's son in Howard transfer doesn't look good

LONDON -- The Football Association's bung-busters are in action again, this time investigating if an alleged £139,000 commission on goalkeeper Tim Howard's £2.3 million summer move from the New York MetroStars contravened any transfer regulations.
SUMO
Jan 12, 2004

Tochiazuma upset on opening day

Ozeki Tochiazuma's bid for promotion to grand champion got off to a rocky start Sunday with a loss to komusubi Wakanosato on the opening day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 11, 2004

Japan's 'Seabiscuit' shows losers can be winners too

There are few cliches as dubious as "Everybody loves a winner." Does everybody love a winner? The fans of the Hanshin Tigers certainly don't love the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2004

Yomiuri's Watanabe assumes chair

Tsuneo Watanabe, president of Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, became chairman of the newspaper company Friday, taking over from Kenya Mizukami following shareholder approval, the company said.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 9, 2004

Morioka vs. Major League Baseball: Not a pretty picture

In the beginning it seemed like a dream, the opportunity of a lifetime, but it ended up being more like a nightmare.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jan 8, 2004

"The Legend of Spud Murphy," "Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby"

"The Legend of Spud Murphy," Eoin Colfer, Puffin Books; March 2004; 90 pp. If you have no clue why your older siblings rave about author Eoin Colfer, you're probably too young to have read about the wild escapades of Colfer's hero, Artemis Fowl. But his latest book, "The Legend of Spud Murphy," is your...
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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