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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 29, 2001

Online: Buddhist perspective on the new holy war

David Loy is a professor of philosophy and religion in the faculty of international studies at Bunkyo University in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is American, and proud to be so. He is also a practicing Zen Buddhist.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Minister says Okinawa is safe for travel

Minister for Okinawa Koji Omi said Friday that Okinawa Prefecture is as safe as other parts of Japan.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

HIV ruling opens bureaucratic can of worms

The decision Friday by the Tokyo District Court to hand Akihito Matsumura, a former senior health ministry official, a suspended prison term for professional negligence resulting in the death of a patient from AIDS underscores the difficulties in trials involving the criminal liability of bureaucrats....
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

50-50 odds on big quake in central Japan by 2031

There is a 40 percent to 50 percent likelihood that magnitude 8 earthquakes will hit regions of central and western Japan causing damage to the Pacific belt zone -- the center of the nation's economy -- in the next 30 years, according to a government report released this week.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

50 million yen stolen from cash car

OSAKA -- Two men robbed a cash-delivery car of some 50 million yen Friday morning in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, but left cases containing 180 million yen more in the vehicle, police said.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

Mitsubishi financial group to post 70 billion yen first-half loss

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. said Friday it will post a first-half group net loss of 70 billion yen for the period to Sept. 30.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 29, 2001

Overwork, undersleep fatigue Nappon

You don't get the feeling insomnia is a problem in Japan. As a matter of fact, in Japan, a nation plagued by sleep, I'd say most people have the opposite -- "ainmosni," or the overability to sleep. In fact, one of the most common expressions in Japan is "Tsukareta!" (I'm tired!).
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Lawmakers plan beef-eating gathering

Lawmakers from the ruling coalition parties are planning a beef-eating gathering Tuesday to dispel mounting fears over mad cow disease, a Liberal Democratic Party official said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

Industrial output logs 0.8% rise

The nation's industrial output in August grew 0.8 percent from the previous month, marking the first increase in six months, according to a preliminary report released Friday by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

Mycal chief quits after two weeks

The failed supermarket chain Mycal Corp. announced Friday that Kazuo Urano, a director, has taken over the presidency from Kozo Yamashita, who only held the post for two weeks.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Fifth Foreign Ministry official fired

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday fired an official who had been indicted earlier in the day for allegedly padding hotel bills and swindling the government out of public money, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Kyoji Komachi said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 28, 2001

Matsui clubs three HRs but Giants lose

Yomiuri slugger Hideki Matsui slammed three homers in three straight at-bats to tie Roberto Petagine of the Swallows for the Central League home-run lead at 36, but the Giants fell short, losing 11-10 to the Hiroshima Carp at the Tokyo Dome on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 28, 2001

Sesame Street for better English learning

The creators of "Sesame Street" are developing new content and materials to make the highly successful children's television program more useful for Japanese children learning English.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Osaka High Court upholds mobster's death sentence

OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court upheld the death sentence Thursday for a former mob boss over the 1991 robbery and murder of a wealthy Kobe company president and his daughter.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Koizumi pushes crisis readiness

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a fresh vow Thursday to support the United States and actively take part in international efforts to combat terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Full text of Koizumi's policy speech to Diet

Following is a provisional translation of the policy speech delivered by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to an extraordinary Diet session that opened Thursday for a 72-day session.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 28, 2001

Blue admiral

JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Backing of U.S. revives debate on SDF

A senior Defense Agency official looked excited as the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk prepared for its Sept. 21 departure from the Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture with an escort of Maritime Self-Defense Force ships.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 28, 2001

Troussier names squad for tour

Japan manager Philippe Troussier on Thursday called up all of the overseas-based Japan players and recalled four home-based players to his 25-member squad for Japan's European tour starting next week.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 27, 2001

Arsenal's Inamoto adapting to quicker pace

It's an uphill battle for Junichi Inamoto.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Will dollar fall from favor?

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sounded a somewhat optimistic note on the prospects for the U.S. economy last week.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 27, 2001

Counting down to environmental doom

An English friend, teasing, once asked whether Americans have a sense of irony. We certainly do, I replied, though perhaps less so than the English who, for generations, never saw the sun set and now live in darkness much of the year.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 27, 2001

Can God damage your health?

On Sept. 15, the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a piece in The Guardian called "Religion's misguided missiles." With customary antireligious zeal, the Charles Simonyi professor for the Public Understanding of Science gave his explanation for the attacks on New York and Washington,...
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Sep 27, 2001

Medicinal ornaments

Last year, while searching the southern part of the Kii Peninsula for the elusive yellow-flowered toad lily (Kii joro-hototogisu, Tricyrtis macranthopsis), I came across an unusual tree, a "new discovery" that made my day.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2001

Caution urged on backing U.S. forces

Japan should think twice before moving to support U.S. military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a volunteer aid worker said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. reach tariff deal with ‘reciprocal’ rate at 15%
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday, saying the agreement would create "hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Ishiba denies reports he will resign next month, leaving his fate unclear
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks on after meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
Induction of Ichiro has Cooperstown fretfully preparing
Ichiro Suzuki will soon become the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.

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