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EDITORIALS
Jun 16, 2003

Controversial bill reaches Diet floor

There is no question that Japan should do what it can to help bring stability and democracy to Iraq. Although the world remains divided over whether the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was justified, rebuilding the country is an international undertaking that should be supported by as many nations as possible...
COMMENTARY
Jun 16, 2003

They impeach murderers, don't they?

NEW YORK -- U.S. President George W. Bush told us that Iraq and al-Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction....
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2003

Fish fingered for mercury content out of favor

The health ministry is trying to prevent damage to the fisheries industry after prices of broadbill swordfish and alfonsin, a sea bream-like species, plummeted following a ministry advisory to pregnant women to limit consumption of the fish due to their mercury content, according to ministry officials....
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2003

Fish fingered for mercury content out of favor

The health ministry is trying to prevent damage to the fisheries industry after prices of broadbill swordfish and alfonsin, a sea bream-like species, plummeted following a ministry advisory to pregnant women to limit consumption of the fish due to their mercury content, according to ministry officials....
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2003

Fish fingered for mercury content out of favor

The health ministry is trying to prevent damage to the fisheries industry after prices of broadbill swordfish and alfonsin, a sea bream-like species, plummeted following a ministry advisory to pregnant women to limit consumption of the fish due to their mercury content, according to ministry officials....
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Jun 16, 2003

St. Petersburg may rule again

MOSCOW -- St. Petersburg, the former capital of Russia, has turned 300. Founded in a Baltic swamp at a frightening cost by the only outstanding Romanov reformer, Czar Peter the Great, it remains the architectural wonder of the nation. The "Venice of the North," as St. Petersburg was labeled in the 18th...
COMMENTARY
Jun 16, 2003

Averting a nuclear disaster

The international community is joining forces to prevent North Korea from escalating its nuclear threat. The Group of Eight summit (June 1-3) at Evian, France, adopted a declaration on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, criticizing North Korea and Iran for its development of WMDs.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 16, 2003

Stocks won't recover unless regulators get serious about oversight

Tokyo share prices are on shaky ground. While the Nikkei 225 Stock Average has managed to recover from the deep slump it was in from March to mid-May, spending the whole time below 8,000 but trading in the upper half of the 7,000 range -- the key index remains far below 14,000, the level it was at when...
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2003

Group to make lawyers explain fees more clearly

Reacting to long-standing criticism of lawyers' obscure fee-setting practices, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations has decided to ask its members to give prospective clients a written estimate of the cost before rendering a legal service.
Events
Jun 15, 2003

KANSAI: Who & What

Big shoes on sale in Kobe's Nagata district: A sale of large shoes is being held until Tuesday at Shoes Plaza in Nagata Ward, Kobe.
Events
Jun 15, 2003

KANSAI: Who & What

Big shoes on sale in Kobe's Nagata district: A sale of large shoes is being held until Tuesday at Shoes Plaza in Nagata Ward, Kobe.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2003

Yahoo breaks new ground with ad

Yahoo Japan Corp. will for the first time have a full-screen advertisement for a new product on its Web site from Monday, sources close to the company said Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 15, 2003

'Campo' fires from the hip

As a rugby player, David Campese was the epitome of a free spirit.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2003

Yahoo breaks new ground with ad

Yahoo Japan Corp. will for the first time have a full-screen advertisement for a new product on its Web site from Monday, sources close to the company said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 15, 2003

Home of conspicuous construction

It is hardly news that Prada spent a lot of money on their new flagship store in Tokyo's swish Aoyama district. The real surprise is what they got for it.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 15, 2003

Hard balls from the dugout

Professional athletes are a tight-lipped bunch, and even those who are relatively voluble rarely step outside the usual collection of bromides about "doing my best" and "taking one day at a time."
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2003

Trust in tatters

We've known all along we shouldn't believe everything we read in the newspapers, but this is getting ridiculous. First came the double blow to the credibility of the New York Times -- America's oft-proclaimed "paper of record" -- by disgraced reporters Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 15, 2003

Shades of good sense

Parasols are peculiar things. Meaning "to ward off the sun" in Latin-based languages, these lightweight umbrellas were long ago the height of coquettish fashion in Europe. Until recently though, in Japan they were the preserve of its distinctly uncoquettish obasan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 15, 2003

Life, in 22 million forms, in a bottle

Goggling out of its jar with dead, bulbous eyes, stained a ghastly yellow by its embalming alcohol, is a mutated octopus. Just behind it is another octopus, also in a jar. To its left is a bottled shoal of sea bass.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 15, 2003

Expressing pathos amid alienation

A GESTURE LIFE, by Chang-rae Lee. Hew York: Riverhead Books, 2000, 356 pp., $14 (paper). UNDERKILL, by Leonard Chang. Hew York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003, 356 pp., $24.95 (cloth). THE INTERPRETER, by Suki Kim. Hew York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003, 294 pp., $24 (cloth). For most Americans, until fairly...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 15, 2003

Sunshine: It's enough to make you blanch

An extinction of sorts has taken place in Tokyo's Shibuya district over the last couple of years. The area was once a happy hunting ground for herds of skimpily clad young girls with tans so deep they were known as the ganguro (black-faced) girls. But go to Shibuya today and you'll hardly find any trace...
COMMENTARY
Jun 15, 2003

'Propaganda' effort reflects U.S. image

HANOI -- I just wrapped up a 10-day speaking tour for the U.S. State Department after participating in the department's Public Diplomacy (PD) program, which sends folks to speak to universities, think tanks and public forums. The trip took me to the Russian Far East (Vladivostok and Sakhalin) and Hanoi,...

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