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BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2005

Temp firm eyes Chinese IT workers

A Tokyo temp agency has started offering job placement services for Chinese information technology engineers in Japan who want to go home and work for a Japanese firm there, the company said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 20, 2005

The aesthetics of the Korean noblewoman

Korean aesthetics can be summed up in one word, mot. Used frequently in casual conversation, the term refers to stylishness, elegance and the state of being chic.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2005

Furuta agrees to become player-manager for Yakult

Yakult Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta came to agreement with his Central League club Tuesday on a two-year deal that will make him the first player-manager in 29 years in Japanese professional baseball.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

Small cargo distribution to get boost

The government plans to strengthen Japan's small cargo distribution system in East Asia by 2009 to make it more globally competitive and environmentally safer, officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2005

Cabinet waffles on Yasukuni visit

Cabinet members differed Tuesday in their views on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest visit to Yasukuni Shrine, with some praising it, some expressing concern over its diplomatic effects and many refraining from making a judgment of any kind.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2005

Dominican emigrant tells court of plaintiffs' plight

A Japanese immigrant to the Dominican Republic, at the final trial session of a damages suit against the government, stressed Monday how he and his fellow immigrants have suffered as a result of a government-sponsored emigration program in the late 1950s.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

Oil costs to hurt for 'some time': Greenspan

The recent sharp increase in oil prices, triggered by the devastating hurricanes that hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in August and September, will adversely affect the global economy over the long term, U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said Tuesday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

Seven named to postal reform firm

The government on Tuesday named Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta and six others as the founding members of a company that will be set up in January to plan the details of the postal system's privatization under laws enacted last week.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

50 years of showcasing cars: You've come a long way baby

No one could have imagined the remarkable advances of Japanese automakers 50 years ago, when owning a car was only a dream for most people.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 16, 2005

Havin' a talk with 'God' and his Oval Office cronies

U.S. President George W. Bush has apparently declared, in a program to be aired next week on the BBC, that God instructed him to "fight the terrorists" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 16, 2005

Unconventional and unorthodox, but still fun to read

LAST SEEN IN SHANGHAI, by Howard Turk. Hong Kong: Asia 2000 Ltd., 1998, 286 pp., $18 (paper). INSPECTOR MORIMOTO AND THE SUSHI CHEF, by Timothy Hemion. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, Inc., 2005, 222 pp., $25.95 (cloth). THE TIGER'S GOLD by Donald G. Moore. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, Inc., 2005, 214...
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 16, 2005

UNEAR THING FACT IN CLASSIC FICTION

'Robinson Crusoe" has fascinated explorer Daisuke Takahashi ever since his elementary school days, when he first read the classic adventure tale about a British sailor who lived on a desert island for 28 years. Imagining that he, too, was marooned on an isolated island, the young Takahashi would roast...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Indian minister seeks more tourists

The Indian government has designated 2007 "Japan-India Friendship Year" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a cultural-exchange agreement between the two countries, a visiting Indian minister said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 15, 2005

The 'Winter Sonata' blues -- revisited

He's baaack. Not that he ever went away.
COMMENTARY
Oct 15, 2005

Asia's tough but not impossible journey

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps the prospects of would-be Asian political unity can best be described as a "pipe dream." But even that description might be too optimistic, unless you imagine a water pipe filled with wildly psychedelic substances that are imbibed in huge amounts!
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 15, 2005

Learn to live and love consciously in workshop

Katie (Kathlyn) Hendricks sounds as clear as a bell on a three-way line between California, to which she has just returned from Colorado, and Japan. "I was in Boulder, Colo., facilitating a workshop not dissimilar to the three-day foundation training in conscious living and loving that is being arranged...
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2005

Reining in medical expenditures

The Japanese spent 31.4 trillion yen for medical services in fiscal 2004, or about 246,000 yen per person, an increase of 2 percent from the previous year. The figure of 2 percent may be a small and acceptable growth, requiring no stricter lid on the rise of the nation's medical spending. But Japan's...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

TBS set to fight Rakuten's bid

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. may take countermeasures against online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc., which has suddenly emerged as the TV station's biggest shareholder and takeover threat, market sources said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 14, 2005

Nuclear program raises issues

The Atomic Energy Commission is expected to adopt a long-term nuclear program by the end of the month. In its draft, the commission has stated its desire to continue its policy of establishing a nuclear-fuel cycle that reprocesses all the spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium for future use as nuclear...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Iraqi police to get $3.3 million in aid

Japan said Wednesday it will give $3.3 million to local police where Self-Defense Forces troops are stationed in Iraq-- ahead of a possible pullout from the region by British and Australian soldiers.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

FamilyMart expanding

Convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. will open some 40 stores in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture in the business year through February 2007, becoming the second convenience chain with a nationwide network after Lawson Inc., its president said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Jenkins hopes book helps settle abduction cases

how they handle the abductions . . . they are doing everything they can do," he said. In his memoir, Jenkins says he met or witnessed many people in North Korea who he believed were definitely abductees from Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong and other parts of Southeast Asia.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2005

Swallows' Aoki first in CL to top 200 hits

Norichika Aoki hit a leadoff single to right field in the first inning of the Yakult Swallows' 5-0 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday night, making him the second player in Japanese baseball history to reach 200 hits in a single season.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2005

Postal bills fly through Lower House

got what he wanted by fair means or foul," Kamei said after the vote. "It seems as if the 'age of civil wars' has been revived in modern society and I fear that democratized Japan will disappear."
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Two Japanese nationals shot dead in Manila
Commuters cross the street through traffic in Manila.
Osaka fire kills two firefighters and leaves four injured
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka on Monday.
Trump’s peace-deal demands leave Ukraine's Zelenskyy with only bad options
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president in Brussels on Sunday.
Japan watches nervously as Trump ramps up pressure on Zelenskyy
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes part in an online meeting focused on Ukraine, with leaders from the "coalition of the willing," a group of nations that have pledged support for Kyiv against Russian aggression, late Sunday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.
Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way'
Rintaro Sasaki hits a home run during a game against Duke at Stanford's Sunken Diamond on March 16.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling
In a region more associated with art, Keirin Hotel 10 takes a decidedly more athletic approach to attracting tourists.

Podcast

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

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
By Tomoko Otake

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