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SOCCER / World cup
Jun 26, 2002

Inamoto gets offer from Perugia

Italian club Perugia has made a formal offer to Japan midfielder Junichi Inamoto, the player's agent Nobuaki Tanabe said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2002

Salvaging the truth

It has been six months since an unidentified armed vessel, presumably a spy ship from North Korea, sank in the East China Sea off Amami Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, following a gun battle with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats. An operation to salvage the ship finally began on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Teikyo University units failed to declare income

Several affiliates of Teikyo University have been penalized more than 2 billion yen by tax authorities for failing to declare about 6.5 billion yen in taxable income over several years, according to sources.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Most Japanese cheering for South Korean cohosts

Fifty-nine out of 100 Japanese were cheering for World Cup cohosts South Korea after its historic advance to the semifinals, according to a Kyodo News survey.
COMMENTARY
Jun 26, 2002

International consensus needed on asylum-seekers

HONG KONG -- The latest dispute between South Korea and China, in which more than 20 North Koreans sought asylum in Seoul's embassy, does no credit to either country. Fortunately, the meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sung Hong on June 19 appears...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 26, 2002

Rivaldo targets more goals

OMIYA -- Brazilian forward Rivaldo is aiming to improve his scoring tally in Wednesday's semifinal against Turkey to help his team win and make this World Cup one to remember for himself and his country.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 26, 2002

BOJ may have to go it alone against dollar

Japan tried to keep a low profile at the recent meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers in Halifax, Nova Scotia. However, the United States insisted that Japan take more steps to revitalize its economy.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Baby born from frozen seed of dead husband

A woman has given birth to a baby through artificial insemination using sperm from her husband that was kept frozen after his death, it was learned Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Shareholders vent anger at Mizuho

Mizuho Financial Holdings Inc. executives issued a stream of apologies at the banking group's general shareholders' meeting Tuesday, as shareholders demanded explanations for the widespread ATM failures and account mixups that marred the banking group's official launch in April.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jun 26, 2002

Bringing the tabletop into the gallery

On the cover of the catalog for an exhibition now at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo is -- ready for this? -- a shoyusashi (soy-sauce bottle). I find that quite odd, as the museum houses the hallowed arts of painting, sculpture and the like. A shoyusashi? Come on now, it just doesn't seem...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jun 26, 2002

Starting off on the right foot (and ending on the left . . .)

The Japanese music biz produces boy-girl pop duos with clockwork regularity -- think Love Psychedelico or EE Jump. The most recent example is Orange Pekoe (that's pronounced "peh-koe," by the way), which comprises Kobe natives Kazuma Fujimoto and Tomoko Nagashima.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Air Do files for court protection

Hokkaido International Airlines Co., the ailing carrier better known as Air Do, filed for court protection from creditors Tuesday after giving up on self-rehabilitation efforts, company officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Ministry takes on sick-building syndrome

The health ministry will seek a limit on the amount of formaldehyde allowable in materials used in the construction of large public facilities in order to reduce instances of sick-building syndrome, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

News forum to focus on global coverage

A group of freelance video journalists will hold a symposium to examine TV coverage of international news in Tokyo on July 6.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 26, 2002

DJ Cheb-i-Sabbah: 'Krishna Lila'

The "Asian Underground" wave of neo-Indian sounds has, for the most part, rarely betrayed much knowledge of its roots. With the exceptions of Talvin Singh and Karsh Kale, much of this music has been little more than drum 'n' bass with an ethnic spin, all hopelessly out-of-tune tabla samples and rigidly...
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Five asylum seekers talk to officials from Japan

Government officials on Tuesday interviewed the five North Korean asylum seekers who successfully made it to South Korea in May after being dragged out of a Japanese consulate in China by Chinese police, according to the Foreign Ministry.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 26, 2002

Stanley Smith: 'In the Land of Dreams'

These whiskey-voiced songs of riverboats, New Orleans nights and past loves will speak to you like mellow old friends. None will blow you away the first time through, but many will replay themselves in your head long after you've turned the CD off.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 26, 2002

Finding a style of their own

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vincent van Gogh, popularly regarded in Japan (as elsewhere) as the quintessential artist. Unfortunately, it will be difficult for Japanese galleries to borrow works from abroad to celebrate this event, with insurance costs now three times higher...
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2002

Afghans again face prospect of detention

Seven Afghan men seeking asylum in Japan are again facing the possibility of detention after the Tokyo High Court earlier this month nullified a lower court decision to release them.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2002

Shenyang highlights bilateral problems

BEIJING -- Although the furor raised by the two-week dispute over the Shenyang incident has died down, it has not entirely dissipated -- particularly in Japan. The incident highlighted Japan's sensitivity toward China's growing power, and demonstrated that if frictions in this area are not effectively...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2002

Nuclear taboo remains strong

Recent comments by leading Japanese politicians have raised international concern about Tokyo's nuclear intentions. Those fears are misplaced: Japan's nuclear taboo remains as powerful as ever. The comments do signal growing frustration within Japan's policy community over the need for a long-delayed...
BUSINESS / ON MANAGEMENT
Jun 25, 2002

Nosy bosses foul up

Every CEO needs to know how to strike a balance between staying aloof from the nitty-gritty of his company's operations and getting too involved in the day-to-day details of those employees and divisions far from the corner office.

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