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JAPAN / Media
Jun 12, 2015

Times advisory board meets, offers recommendations

JAPAN / Politics
Jun 19, 2014

Female Your Party member interrupted by sexist heckles

The sexist nature of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is revealed after a member is verbally harassed by her male colleagues while addressing the national birthrate problem.
COMMUNITY
Jul 22, 2008

Diet member Fujita responds to reader's criticisms on 9/11

L ast week the Community Page published a selection of readers' responses to to John Spiri's June 17 Zeit Gist article on Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yukihisa Fujita. Following is Mr. Fujita's response to one reader's criticisms of the Diet member's stance on the Sept. 11 attacks.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2006

Trust banks should handle assets, new BOJ member says

Newly appointed Bank of Japan Policy Board member Tadao Noda said Monday that entrusting stockholdings with trust banks is one way to boost the transparency of senior BOJ officials' financial assets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2006

BOJ member Suda wants public to know finance

Miyako Suda doesn't think of her job on the Bank of Japan's Policy Board as only talking to economists and crunching numbers.
BUSINESS
Apr 20, 2005

Fuji TV plans to send member to Livedoor board

Fuji Television Network Inc. is considering dispatching a member to Livedoor Co.'s board, sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2004

Aum member's 10-year prison sentence upheld

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld an Aum Shinrikyo member's 10-year prison sentence for crimes that include the murder of a fellow member.
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2002

Lower House member's ex-aide involved in construction scandal

A company connected to the former secretary of a senior politician received more than 10 million yen from construction companies in return for introducing local government heads and major contractors, industry sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 14, 2001

Taiwan deserves to be a U.N. member

NEW YORK -- The United Nations admitted Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific island state, as its 189th member last fall, but not Taiwan despite the latter's efforts for the past decade. The U.N.'s action seems incongruous even by a simple comparison.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1999

BOJ member's monetary idea rejected

A member of the Bank of Japan policy board suggested expanding the monetary base to provide more funds to the money market during a Feb. 12 board meeting, according to the minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 31, 2023

NATO launches Arctic drills, vowing to protect newest member Finland

Nearly 1,000 allied forces from the United States, Britain and Norway, and also from neighboring Sweden, joined some 6,500 Finnish troops for the exercise.
JAPAN
May 5, 2023

Member of riot squad dies in an apparent suicide at Prime Minister’s Office

The officer appeared to have taken his own life with the gun he was carrying, an official at the Metropolitan Police Department’s Kojimachi Police Station said.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

BOJ likely to raise interest rates gradually, former board member says

Makoto Sakurai, who has known Bank of Japan governor nominee Kazuo Ueda for decades, sees little chance of a big policy shift at Ueda’s first policy meeting.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 2, 2023

Having a woman in BOJ’s top brass would help Japan's diversity push: ex-board member

Economists increasingly expect a female candidate to be in one of the BOJ’s most senior positions this spring after the central bank undergoes a leadership change.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 18, 2023

CDP to expel member over planned switch to ruling LDP

The CDP's Gifu prefectural chapter is calling for Lulu Imai to return funds totaling ¥6.5 million it provided for her political activities.
Former Self-Defense Forces member Rina Gonoi
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2023

Ex-SDF member Rina Gonoi makes BBC's 100 Women list

The broadcaster commended Gonoi for speaking out about her experience of sexual abuse and launching "a public campaign calling for accountability."
Reporters gather in front of the Upper House parliamentary building on Thursday in Tokyo. Prosecutors raided LDP lawmaker Yasutada Ono's office, which is located in the building, the same day.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2023

Second LDP member’s office raided over political funds scandal

Upper House member Yasutada Ono became the second lawmaker to have his offices searched by prosecutors in connection with the scandal.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 1, 2024

Wanted gang member Shigeyuki Kin held by Nagano police

The suspect in a 2020 attempted murder was alone at the time of the arrest and did not resist, admitting to the police that he was indeed the fugitive.
Former lawmaker Tomohiro Konno has been arrested for allegedly lending his name as a lawyer to other people to do legal work in violation of the attorney law.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 13, 2024

Ex-Japan Lower House member Konno arrested over name-lending

Konno allegedly lent his name to have other people do legal work to recover special fraud damage for five victims, with virtually no cases of damage recovery.
A by-election to fill the vacancy left by Megumi Hirose's resignation is expected to take place on Oct. 27.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2024

Former LDP member Megumi Hirose resigns as Upper House lawmaker

Her resignation comes amid allegations that one of her secretaries had fraudulently received a salary using state funds.
Typhoon Halong to cause windstorms, heavy rain and high waves on the Izu islands
Typhoon Halong is moving north near the Izu Islands, with strong winds, high waves and heavy rain expected as it passes early on Thursday, prompting warnings from the weather agency.
Japan to move toward five-year integrated bachelor's-master’s programs
Japan plans to introduce nationwide five-year bachelor's-master's programs to raise graduate school enrollment and train more highly skilled professionals amid a shrinking workforce.
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
After 26 years, Komeito may be showing signs it will break with LDP
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito (left) and LDP counterpart Sanae Takaichi meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Bear injures two in Japan supermarket; man killed in separate attack
A bear seen in security camera footage taken Tuesday inside a supermarket in Numata, Gunma Prefecture
Tokyo named world’s best big city for second straight year
Tokyo was ranked the world's best large city for the second year in a row in the Conde Nast Traveler's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
With nuclear sub proposal, Japan faces array of political and tech challenges
The Jingei, the third of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Taigei-class submarines, was commissioned in March last year. It is equipped with lithium-ion batteries, enabling it to have a longer diving time and cruising distance than older models with lead-acid batteries.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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