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JAPAN
Feb 18, 2006

Supplements for pets selling despite doubts

Sales of supplements for dogs, cats and other pets are on the rise, but veterinarians are starting to take a closer look at some of the products.
OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2006

Olympic opposition a different class, says Narita

Domu Narita admitted Japan's snowboarders still have a long way to go before they can hope to seriously challenge the world's top riders after returning home empty-handed from the Winter Olympics on Thursday.
SOCCER
Feb 17, 2006

J. League champion to play in Club World Cup

Soccer's world governing body FIFA on Thursday gave the green light for this season's Japanese club champion to play at the Club World Cup in Japan in December.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Feb 17, 2006

Tokyo's major drag . . . redefined

Labeled the Champs Elysees of Tokyo, tree-lined "brand boulevard" Omotesando is one of Japan's most treasured strips. Acting as a conduit between the posh Aoyama district and youth mecca Harajuku, it houses a wealth of highly original retail experiences.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2006

Kobe airport seeking business travelers

With the opening of the new Kobe airport Thursday, air carriers are set to wage a battle against railways, especially for business travelers, between Tokyo and Kobe.
SOCCER
Feb 15, 2006

FIFA to allow Japanese team to play in Club World Cup

Soccer's world governing body FIFA will allow a host team to play at this year's Club World Cup in Japan, Japan Football Association chief Saburo Kawabuchi said on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Bill in works for arriving foreigners' fingerprints to go on state database

The government has drawn up a bill requiring foreigners aged 16 and older to register their fingerprints in a government database when entering Japan as part of its campaign against terrorism, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Trio deemed space shuttle-worthy

Three Japanese astronauts have been certified as U.S. space shuttle mission specialists, officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Point man on N. Korea takes academic post

Japan's former top negotiator with North Korea, Hitoshi Tanaka, will become a guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo in April, school officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2006

Horie, three execs charged with violating securities law

Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie and three of his former executives were charged Monday with spreading false financial information about the takeover of a publisher in 2004, prosecution sources said.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 2006

Socialists declare SDF unconstitutional

The Social Democratic Party declared Saturday at its party convention that the existence of the Self-Defense Forces violates the pacifist Constitution, reversing a 12-year-old stance on the legality of the SDF.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2006

English abusers finally get their day in the sun

"Please be careful to forget valuables" has received the Sign Language Award at the Amazing English Hunt 2005 awards, the English-Speaking Union of Japan, a nonprofit organization to promote international exchanges through English, and eigoTwown.com, which runs a Web site offering English education information,...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2006

Toshiba suspected of falsifying more reactor flow meter data

Electronics maker Toshiba Corp. might have again falsified data on three coolant flow meters for a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., in addition to one at the utility firm's Fukushima No. 1 power plant, government nuclear safety inspectors said...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 11, 2006

Michiko Kohga

Ask Michiko Kohga what she wanted when she was a little girl, and she answers promptly, "I wanted to eat." She was a child during the early postwar years, when all Japan was hungry. She remembers her family receiving a food package from relatives in Sao Paulo. "The candy in it was like jewelry to me,"...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2006

Myanmar woman, stateless daughter, 11, get year here

Immigration authorities Friday granted a woman from Myanmar and her Japanese-fathered daughter, who is stateless, special one-year permits to stay in the country, their supporters said.
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2006

Metalworker unions seek pay hike

Labor unions at steel and heavy machinery makers and shipbuilding companies presented their pay demands Friday to begin this year's expected monthlong round of wage negotiations.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

LDP sends inspectors to U.S.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday sent an inspection team to visit U.S. beef processing facilities after beef parts banned under an agreement that partially reopened the Japanese market to U.S. exports were discovered last month in a shipment from New York.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

Abe swings back at comment by Chinese official

Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe criticized a high-ranking Chinese official Thursday by calling his reported remarks about Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi "inappropriate" for someone of his political status.
OLYMPICS
Feb 10, 2006

Upset-minded duo looking to end 50-year drought

If Japan is to have its say in any share of upsets and surprises at the Winter Olympics in Turin, slalom specialists Akira Sasaki and Kentaro Minagawa are arguably the best bet.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

Suginami citizens tell court to block revisionist text

Eight residents of Tokyo's Suginami Ward filed a lawsuit Thursday demanding that the ward rescind its adoption of a contentious, revisionist history textbook for junior high schools, citing considerable irregularities in the selection process.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

North's abduction charge irks NGOs

Members of nongovernmental organizations trying to help North Koreans who have fled their impoverished country find safe haven lashed out Thursday over Pyongyang's claim this week that they were kidnapping its people.
SUMO
Feb 9, 2006

Bulgarians get sumo equipment

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso on Wednesday presented popular Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu with a collection of sumo loin clothes and sumo equipment that Japan is donating to the Bulgarian Sumo Federation to upgrade the country's sumo infrastructure.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2006

Schieffer asks Iwakuni voters to consider the big picture

OSAKA — The U.S. ambassador to Japan on Wednesday urged voters in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, opposed to the realignment of the U.S. forces to put national and regional needs ahead of local concerns.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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