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Apr 3, 2005

Hamaguchi set to return to court

Former Japan international basketball player Noriko Hamaguchi is set to come out of retirement and restart her career in a domestic league next season, sources close to her said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Apr 2, 2005

Domestic auto sales off 2.2% in '04

Sales of new domestic cars, trucks and buses in Japan fell 2.2 percent in fiscal 2004 from a year earlier to 3,939,734 units, marking the second consecutive yearly decline, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2005

Yokota air force HQ may move to Hawaii, not Guam

Japan believes the U.S. Air Force might move the 5th Air Force headquarters from the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to Hawaii instead of Guam as expected, according to Japan-U.S. relations sources.
COMMENTARY
Apr 2, 2005

India-China rivalry sharpens

NEW DELHI -- When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in India next week, the rhetoric of cooperation between the two Asian giants will intensify. But one has only to scratch the surface to know the extent of the embedded mistrust and competition between the two.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2005

Alleged al-Qaeda link seeks vindication

A Bangladeshi businessman who was incorrectly alleged by police and the media last year as being linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network is seeking vindication.
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2005

Tokyo wants safety assurances for soccer team

Japan said Thursday it wants Japanese soccer players and fans to have their safety guaranteed when the national team plays a World Cup qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang on June 8.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Apr 1, 2005

Pining for things past

The accompanying 1830s woodcut print depicts Shirahige-jinja Shrine nestling in a pine grove beside the upper reaches of the Sumida River. In the center of the print is an embankment where pilgrims would descend the stone stairway on the left to a torii gate and then pray at the modest shrine to the...
BUSINESS
Apr 1, 2005

Mac back on the attack with wide price cuts, growth plans

McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. unveiled a new menu Thursday that cut prices for many of its core products.
BUSINESS
Apr 1, 2005

End to deposit guarantee: How will it affect you?

The nearly decade-old blanket guarantee on bank deposits is to end Friday, reflecting an improvement in the creditworthiness of banks due to active bad-loan disposal efforts.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 31, 2005

Magazines asked to lay off Ando

The Japan Skating Federation has asked a magazine publishing group to refrain from "overheated" coverage of popular teenage figure skater Miki Ando, one of Japan's medal hopefuls for next year's Winter Olympics, JSF officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Mar 30, 2005

Asia week sees debut show of a famous celadon potter

New Asian art becomes the talk of the town each spring -- not just in Tokyo or Beijing -- but in New York City where its annual Asia Week is now in full sway. Exhibitions abound in the Big Apple with some of the world's top dealers offering their treasures to collectors who visit from around the world....
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Nippon Oil hikes price of gas by 5.1 yen per liter

Nippon Oil Corp. announced Tuesday its largest wholesale price increase in 14 years for gasoline and other petroleum products for April.
COMMENTARY
Mar 29, 2005

The price of a clean project

On March 28, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the United States would pull out of the Kyoto Protocol for two reasons: The protocol was imperfect because it did not require developing countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, and it was detrimental to U.S. economic interests....
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2005

Quicker domestic farm reform

Japanese agriculture is beleaguered. Farmland keeps shrinking as aging farmers retire. Collective farming is all but stalled as prospective partners stay on the sidelines. The domestic market faces strong pressure for liberalization. For all this, structural reform is making little headway. No wonder...
COMMENTARY
Mar 28, 2005

Positive media shock waves

Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie has sent shock waves reverberating through the Japanese media industry with his hostile takeover bid for Nippon Broadcasting Co., a member of the Fujisankei media conglomerate.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 27, 2005

Free tickets for Diamondbacks Day on April 17 at Tokyo Dome

The Pacific League Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters will continue their tradition of holding Arizona Diamondbacks Day at one of their home-away-from-home games at Tokyo Dome.
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2005

Harnessing the power of dreams

Aichi Expo 2005, which opened Friday, differs significantly from previous world expositions. Its theme, "Nature's Wisdom," is the reason why. The six-month fair embodies two overarching principles: environmental friendliness and civic participation. The original construction plan was criticized for its...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 26, 2005

On catching your spouse's culture

There's this lady I know who has one major gripe about life in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 26, 2005

Dr. Tutu & Tame Iti project paints cultural theft

When Lisa Salmon was introduced to Jeff Root by an old high school friend in California, they found they had Japan in common. Jeff taught here in the early 1990s, and was then head-hunted out of Chicago in 2001; Lisa came initially on the JET program in 1996.
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2005

Costs chill large firms' confidence

Business confidence among large companies in Japan plummeted in the January-March quarter.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 25, 2005

All fired up for ceramics central

Despite having saddled itself with the dire name of Centrair Airport, Japan's newest air facility, which opened last month near Nagoya, looks to have started off well enough.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2005

Beef safety dialogue to be bilingual

Japan will provide an English-language summary of the deliberations of its expert panel on beef safety to obtain U.S. understanding of Tokyo's position, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2005

Carmaker pushes hybrids as key environmental technology

The launch Tuesday of two sport utility vehicles featuring hybrid engines highlights Toyota Motor Corp.'s keenness to spread the hybrid system as a core environmental technology.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Mar 23, 2005

Duty calls

Special to The Japan Times In the United States, it's said that the Vietnam War was lost on TV. As the first armed conflict to receive graphic coverage on nightly news shows, the war seemed closer than it was. Consequently, questions surrounding its legitimacy eventually came to the fore and, for many...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 20, 2005

Who says you can't teach old baseball teams new tricks?

"New" is the watchword for Japanese baseball in 2005.

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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