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JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Britain probes Blackman case 'con artist'

British police are investigating the man who claimed to be offering a 77 million yen reward in last year's search for hostess Lucie Blackman on suspicion of fraud.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Tokyo price index falls 1.2%

The key gauge of Tokyo's consumer prices fell 1.2 percent in August from a year earlier for a record 23rd consecutive month of decline, the government said Friday in a preliminary report.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 1, 2001

Prize-winning poet and the Japanese connection

By today, Ken Taylor will be back in his native Australia after a month in France and three weeks in Japan. He says he always learns something from his trips here -- 17 to date -- but at our time of meeting has no idea what that is. "The process can take a long time, or I may know when I step off the...
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Islanders' concerns over cash grow

More than half of the people evacuated from Miyake Island following the eruption of Mount Oyama a year ago are experiencing economic difficulties, according to a recent survey by Kyodo News.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Dirty waters surround Kenya dam plan

A group of lawmakers will arrive in Kenya on Sunday for a two-day inspection tour that is likely to end up endorsing a controversial hydroelectric dam project.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2001

Reform timetable necessary: Koizumi

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday that it is necessary to draw up a specific timetable for reform initiatives to promote understanding and support.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2001

NTT union members slam transfer, wage-cut plans

Around 150 members of a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. workers union took part in a sit-in and rally Friday morning in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward protesting planned restructuring moves by the company.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 1, 2001

In Dog Heaven, pee on the Pearly Gates

There is much talk these days about the first tourists to the moon and Mars. Everyone wants to be the first to go. Except me. I'm not interested in going to the moon or Mars. I have a hankering to go someplace much farther away and much more exciting. I want to be the first person to go to Dog Heaven....
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2001

Debt collector handed license to speed up bad-loan disposal

The Financial Services Agency granted a trust services license Friday to Resolution and Collection Corp. to enable the state-run debt collector to speed up efforts to help banks dispose of bad loans, FSA officials said.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2001

Spending by wage-earning households continues to fall

Japan's wage-earning households spent 0.4 percent less in real terms in July than they did a year earlier, the fourth straight month of decline, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Evacuated Miyake islanders get to grips with urban jungle

Motome Miyazawa's voice booms across rows of taro plants at a farm in Hachioji, western Tokyo.
COMMENTARY
Aug 31, 2001

New approach for N. Korea

HONOLULU -- It's time for Washington and Seoul to try a new approach with North Korea. It's time to do . . . absolutely nothing!
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

AP boss looks back on eight-year stay

For foreigners who have never been to Japan, news wire services and other media often provide their only view of this country.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Arrests of rightwing extremists jump 30%

The number of rightwing extremists arrested by police in the first half of this year jumped about 30 percent to reach 1,017, up 232 from a year earlier and exceeding the 1,000 level for the first time since the National Police Agency began keeping records in 1994, the agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Vehicle-free streets to be reopened

Three streets in Tokyo that have barred vehicle traffic on holidays will be opened to traffic on such days beginning next month, police said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Government to build extra shelters for homeless

To cope with the steadily growing number of homeless people, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will build seven more shelters in fiscal 2002, raising to 12 the number of facilities the government will build in two years.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Kyocera to shed 20% of workforce amid IT slump

The Kyocera Corp. group will cut about 10,000 jobs from its global workforce of 51,000, possibly within this year, to deal with the worldwide slump in the information technology sector, company officials said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2001

Fish stocks may resolve whaling debate

The International Whaling Commission recently completed its 53rd annual meeting. For the media, highlights included: false accusations of vote buying; the illegal withholding of Iceland's right to vote, decided by a majority when by international law it should not have been a subject for the commission...
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Public works budget favors urban projects

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Wednesday announced a budget request of 7.918 trillion yen for fiscal 2002.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

MSDF eyes special anniversary drill

The Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to host the nation's first multinational marine search-and-rescue exercise and an international naval review at Tokyo Bay in October 2002, according to budget request plans unveiled Wednesday.
JAPAN / History
Aug 30, 2001

A half-century of media pigeonholing

Japan is a nation of children who were led astray by their military, re-educated under the benevolence of the United States, and rose to become America's important ally. It became a nation of salaried men and office ladies gaining, for a few brief years, through international trade what it had failed...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 30, 2001

We can't stay young forever, but why not age gracefully?

Following recent reports of a mammal able to regenerate after injury, science continues to imitate fiction, with a discovery in Boston that recalls the search for the philosopher's stone. The stone, the subject of the first Harry Potter book, was long sought after by medieval alchemists, who believed...
COMMENTARY
Aug 30, 2001

A bleak forecast for France

PARIS -- As always at this time of year in France, planes and trains are overcrowded and the highways are blocked by traffic jams. The French, who enjoy the longest vacations in the world -- an average of five weeks per year -- have begun returning home from their summer holidays.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Study links care needs with age, income

Elderly people with little or no income tend to require more nursing care than those with higher incomes, according to a recent joint study by Japanese and British researchers.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
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.
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.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
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.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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

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