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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 11, 2004

China takes no chances in Hong Kong poll

HONG KONG -- It is now clear that China is quietly tearing up the fine promises it made in 1984 that Hong Kong would be permitted a high degree of autonomy when China resumed sovereignty over the city after 150 years of British colonial rule. Beijing is going to great lengths to ensure that prodemocracy...
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2004

Shinsei Bank to buy Showa Leasing

Shinsei Bank might buy Showa Leasing Co. possibly this year, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 1, 2004

Teenager kicks against family

Igby Goes Down Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Burr Steers Running time: 98 minutes Language: English Opens Sept. 11 [See Japan Times movie listings] Watching "Igby Goes Down," I couldn't help thinking how I had wasted my youth on petty things like college and waitressing when I...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 1, 2004

Shaking it up on Sado

SADO ISLAND, Niigata Pref. -- Step one: right leg forward, left leg back.
COMMENTARY
Sep 1, 2004

Animal rightists or terrorists?

LONDON -- The threat of attacks by Islamic extremists is not the only terrorist threat to our society. Animal-rights extremists have been threatening firms that carry out experiments on animals. Animal rightists do not regard as justification for the research the fact that most initial tests are conducted...
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2004

Dental officials hit with new warrants

Prosecutors served new arrest warrants Monday on two arrested former senior officials of the Japan Dental Association over alleged hidden donations to the Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2004

Dental officials hit with new warrants

Prosecutors served new arrest warrants Monday on two arrested former senior officials of the Japan Dental Association over alleged hidden donations to the Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2004

Rewriting history

The ancient kingdom of Koguryo, traditionally believed to have been founded in 37 B.C., ruled a vast region extending from Manchuria (northern provinces of China) to the Korean Peninsula until 668. Tumulus wall paintings in Nara, which was the capital of Japan in the 8th century, are said to reflect...
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2004

Refighting the Medicare budget battle

WASHINGTON -- Medicare, which offers health-care coverage for America's elderly, faces trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities. Unfortunately, legislators are constantly tempted to increase benefits and thus spending. They should resist their inner darkness as the Bush administration attempts to...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 28, 2004

Words to live by . . . like it or not

Searching for that perfect word to express your truest, dearest, innermost special feelings? Well . . .
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Wife of JAL hijacker faces 18-month term

Prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison term Thursday for the wife of a Japanese hijacking fugitive charged with ignoring a Foreign Ministry order to surrender her passport.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Entertainers face visa crackdown as ministry targets prostitution

The Justice Ministry plans to tighten its visa screening of foreign women entering Japan as dancers and singers in an effort to prevent crime syndicates from forcing them into prostitution, ministry officials said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2004

Clarifying the cyber-crime fight

Japan is set to become an active party to an international treaty designed to combat computer crime. The Diet, which earlier this year approved the Convention on Cyber-crime, is in the process of debating a set of revision bills for related domestic laws, including the Criminal Law. Given the rapid rise...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 26, 2004

Shedding light on Doom 3

There's a slight glitch in the instantaneous transport system that Union Aerospace Corp. (UAC) is developing in its Mars labs -- it opens the portals of Hell.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 24, 2004

Pension system a riddle wrapped in an enigma

Help, police! For foreigners staying in Japan for more than three and less than 25 years, there is only one word for the Japanese pension system -- ROBBERY! -- Bhupesh
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2004

Scandal-wracked Mitsubishi Motors struggling to survive

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is struggling to overcome its severe financial and management troubles as its rivals speed ahead.
EDITORIALS
Aug 16, 2004

North Korea must move first

It is deeply disappointing that last week's working-level talks in Beijing between Japan and North Korea produced no substantial progress on the question of whether Japanese abductees remain in North Korea. Pyongyang should reverse its backward-looking attitude and sincerely work to settle this issue....
COMMUNITY
Aug 15, 2004

Lanvin cuts a new dash

Only a couple of years ago, no self-respecting fashionista would have been caught dead in Lanvin. A brand stuck in the past, it had plenty of pedigree -- but was about as chic as white socks and sandals.
Japan Times
Features
Aug 15, 2004

Lanvin cuts a new dash

Only a couple of years ago, no self-respecting fashionista would have been caught dead in Lanvin. A brand stuck in the past, it had plenty of pedigree -- but was about as chic as white socks and sandals.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 15, 2004

A pair of terrifying glances back in time

THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS, by Soji Shimada, translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie. Tokyo: IBC Publishing, 2004, 252 pp., 2,400 yen (cloth). THE SPECIAL PRISONER, by Jim Lehrer. New York: Random House, 2000, 230 pp., $23.95 (cloth).
OLYMPICS
Aug 13, 2004

Murofushi poised for shot at glory in hammer throw

Four years after cracking under pressure in Sydney, Japanese hammer thrower Koji Murofushi has grown in confidence and experience and is heading for Athens as an undisputed medal contender.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2004

Tokyo, Pyongyang to huddle in Beijing to review summit

Japan and North Korea will hold working-level talks beginning Wednesday in Beijing to review the May 22 summit between their two leaders.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2004

Tokyo, Pyongyang to huddle in Beijing to review summit

Japan and North Korea will hold working-level talks beginning Wednesday in Beijing to review the May 22 summit between their two leaders.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Japan Post faces four-way split under compromise plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top policy panel unveiled plans Friday to split Japan's mammoth postal operations into four separate entities by 2017 at the latest.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Worker shortage forcing home care providers to turn away clients, survey finds
A survey by a labor union of home care business operators and care managers found that nearly 90% of facility managers had turned down service requests at least once during the past year, citing insufficient staffing.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

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