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BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 16, 2004

Nagashima to be registered as skipper

Former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima, who has been hospitalized since suffering a stroke two weeks ago, will be registered as the skipper of Japan's Olympic baseball team as scheduled, baseball officials said after a staff meeting on Monday.
Japan Times
Features
Mar 14, 2004

Roots

Have you ever considered making your family tree?
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2004

More visas proposed for Chinese tour groups

A Liberal Democratic Party panel came up with a proposal Friday to expand the number of visas it gives to Chinese tour groups.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2004

Key business lobby floats FTA panel

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) proposed Friday the creation of a strategy panel headed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and a special ministerial post to promote economic collaboration with East Asian economies, including the conclusion of free-trade agreements.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 13, 2004

Walking the talk about West Papua emergency

"I am free now," says Jacob Rumiak, having just flown from London to Tokyo under the protection of a United Nations travel document. "But if I return to West Papua, I'm a dead man."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

Plants built amid digital gadget boom

With more and more Japanese households using digital appliances that can be monitored and controlled via the Internet and mobile phones, many firms are planning to build more plants in Japan to make components for these smart products.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Lawmaker says Tokyo should prod Pyongyang

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda urged Foreign Ministry officials Wednesday to press North Korea to come up with a date for a further round of bilateral talks.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2004

JAL group to slash 4,500 jobs in next three years

Japan Airlines System Corp. will reduce its workforce by about 8 percent, or 4,500 employees, by the end of March 2007, with net losses expected amid sluggish demand.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Tokyo suit seeks site of Korean school

A nondescript appendage of central Tokyo would seem an unlikely place for a showdown, but for the Korean community shunted off during the war to the man-made island in Koto Ward, the canal surrounding their enclave is like a moat for a castle under siege.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2004

Mercedes-Benz vehicles recalled

DaimlerChrysler Japan Co. said Tuesday it will recall about 12,000 Mercedes-Benz cars due to problems in their fuel-supply system that could cause fuel leakage.
COMMENTARY
Mar 10, 2004

No easy answers to immigration issues

LONDON -- A fundamental principle of the European Union has been freedom of movement within it and the right to work in any member country. This principle has, however, been undermined by the decision of some EU founder states to limit immigration from the new member countries in Eastern Europe for varying...
COMMENTARY
Mar 9, 2004

Perilous drop in readership

One long-standing trend in Japan has been the "shift away from print" -- an aversion to serious reading. For example, in the past four years, book sales have continued to decline. Compared with other countries, the books being read woefully lags in quality and quantity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2004

Takada farm has H5N1 strain of avian influenza

The bird flu virus detected at a second bird flu-hit poultry farm in Tanba, Kyoto Prefecture, is of the highly contagious H5N1 strain, the National Institute of Animal Health said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2004

Initial test indicates nation's 11th case of mad cow disease

A dairy cow from a Hokkaido farm has tested positive for mad cow disease, making it Japan's 11th case of the brain-wasting disease if formally confirmed, farm ministry officials said Sunday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2004

Weather satellite could go up as early as November

Japan plans to resume use of its H-IIA rocket and launch a new weather satellite as early as November to replace an aging satellite, as the investigation into a failed launch last year is almost finished, government sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
Features
Mar 7, 2004

Cheers! Ganging up in pursuit of fine pints

On a Friday night in Tokyo, there's no place livelier than Shibuya. But on Friday, Feb. 20, four pubs there were far busier than usual thanks to a crowd of revelers on a pub crawl called "Beer Gang" -- the inaugural event of the Good Beer Club, a newly formed group already with more than 150 members...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 7, 2004

Being thrifty on TV Tokyo's "Sunday Big Variety" and more

On March 3, the 83-year-old actress Mitsuko Mori played the part of the Showa Era writer Fumiko Hayashi for the 1,700th time at the Chunichi Gekijo in Nagoya. Mori has been playing the part in the play "Horoki" for 43 years all over Japan.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2004

EU's false trilateral dreams

LONDON -- The idea that the European Union should be run and managed by a hard core of countries, meaning France, Germany and -- if it can be coaxed along as well -- Britain, is once again doing the rounds.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Upstart KDDI backs DoCoMo into a communications corner

NTT DoCoMo Inc. is at a crossroads.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 6, 2004

'Tokyo Stories' wittily points up the expat scene

Two years ago, as a balance to researching and writing up projects for financial institutions in the U.S. and preparing reports for fund managers in Japan, Christine Cunanan-Miki began a novel -- a series of interrelated tales about expats in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Talks on FTA with Mexico close on pessimistic note

Japan and Mexico made little headway toward signing a free-trade agreement during the latest round of talks that ended Friday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 6, 2004

Steve Tootell

"You have got to see it. It is really amazing. It has pushed all my technical knowledge to the limit."

Longform

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