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LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Oct 16, 2003

Lessons in the field yield unexpected harvests

Call me a coward, but I get nervous when surrounded by rowdy youths carrying sharp blades.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 16, 2003

Jojima best choice for PL MVP

In my Sept. 17 column, I asked the question: Who will be the Hanshin Tigers (and Central League) MVP for 2003?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Plastic surgery makeovers luring the insecure

Risa Arato never liked her hooded eyes -- even her friends said she had a perpetually stony gaze. And she hated the way her sunglasses slipped down her nose. But the clincher was meeting her estranged father for the first time since childhood and being told she hadn't turned out very cute.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Fujii demands an open hearing

Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii has requested that an administrative hearing, scheduled for Friday, be opened to the public.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

CWAJ print artists and scholars create a good impression

This week sees the College Women's Association of Japan print show approach its half century, as the 48th annual selection of prints goes up at the Tokyo American Club Oct. 17-19. The print show, inaugurated in 1956, began as a fundraiser to send Japanese students abroad; today it's bringing the best...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Oct 15, 2003

Shopping site Rakuten thinks empire

The nation's largest online shopping mall operator appears to be building an empire, or what its president calls a new zaibatsu in the world of Internet retail.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2003

Ishihara alleges Fujii tried to blackmail him

Land minister Nobuteru Ishihara charged Sunday that Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii tried to blackmail him by indicating knowledge of shady land deals involving influential politicians.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2003

Antiterror debate deserved better

The Upper House of the Diet on Friday passed a key bill extending by another two years the special antiterrorism law. The debate proceeded without a hitch by skirting an essential discussion. The central question -- what roles Japan should play in the international fight against terror -- was not thoroughly...
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

Guidant fined for hiding income

failed to declare about 4.4 billion yen in income in the four years to 1998 in Japan and has been ordered to pay 1.9 billion yen in unpaid taxes and punitive surcharges, industry sources said Friday. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau determined that GNBV, a subsidy of U.S.-based Guidant Corp., the world's...
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

Clothing boutiques become a promising arena for shoe sales

At a boutique in the trendy Harajuku district of Tokyo, a young woman picked out a black pleated miniskirt and went into a fitting room to try it on. Soon after, a saleswoman brought her a pair of long white boots.
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

BOJ further loosens easy monetary stance

In a furious attempt to keep interest rates down while simultaneously acknowledging signs of economic growth, the Bank of Japan said Friday it will increase the maximum amount of money it means to pump into banks.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 11, 2003

Peter Miller

Peter Miller's becoming an original photogravure print artist was, he says, a gradual development. "It didn't come to me in a flash. I taught myself through trial and error, mostly error," he said. "There is no limit to it, and I am still learning. I etch and print the plates myself, as the entire process...
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

Homegrown chopsticks pitched in project to boost forest-thinning

"Waribashi," or disposable wooden chopsticks, are usually hated by environmentalists as a symbol of deforestation.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2003

Ito-Yokado profit plunges 71.2%

Ito-Yokado Co., Japan's largest retailer, on Thursday became the latest chain to report dismal first-half results due to the cool summer.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2003

Pesky spammers sneer at the law

The arrest of a man accused of sending millions of ads for an Internet site is raising questions about the legal boundaries of spam e-mail, which Japan's bombarded public has dubbed "nuisance mail."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2003

Kamakura Period scroll, 1607 book found in Kanda store

A study by the Cultural Affairs Agency has confirmed that a book on Christianity and a scroll section depicting an ox that were found at a used books store in Tokyo's Kanda district are cultural assets of national importance.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2003

Latest mad cow find puts 604 cattle into quarantine

Japan has quarantined 604 cows to prevent the spread of mad cow disease after authorities found a 23-month-old bull with a possible new strain of the illness, a farm ministry official said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2003

The first tripartite declaration

In their first-ever joint declaration, the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on Tuesday pledged to promote security dialogue to maintain peace and stability in all of East Asia. The statement, signed on the sidelines of ASEAN summit talks in Bali, Indonesia, also calls for trilateral cooperation...
LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC
Oct 9, 2003

Kanji tattoos are primarily for Western eyes

Tattoo culture in Japan, especially among Japan's gangster element, has a rich history. While some young Japanese are breaking the traditional taboo and obtaining discreet tattoos, they almost never opt to have Chinese characters etched permanently on their bodies. Kanji tattoos are a Western phenomenon....
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2003

Fukuda condemns 'North Korea's selfish' ban

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda on Tuesday condemned North Korea's declaration that Japan would be barred from participating in the next round of six-way talks over Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2003

'Sufficient,' more flexible education urged

In a bid to stem the widely perceived decline in Japan's academic standards, an education ministry panel recommended Tuesday that teachers be allowed to deviate from government-set curriculum guidelines and cater more to student abilities.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2003

Early round would test North Korea's credibility

In all probability, freezing North Korea's nuclear development activities will be the key to finding a diplomatic solution because time is running out for preventing the actual production of nuclear weapons. Pyongyang's most recent claim that it had finished reprocessing spent fuel rods into plutonium...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2003

Ibaraki bull confirmed as having mad cow disease

A Holstein bull slaughtered in Ibaraki Prefecture last month was confirmed Monday to have been infected with mad cow disease.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 7, 2003

Do you think the foreign population in a major contributor to the rising crime rate?

Arisa Yokoyama Real Estate, 28
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2003

DPJ adds five pledges to election manifesto

Pledging to take power in the upcoming general election, the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Party celebrated their merger Sunday at a national convention in Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2003

Soga reveals depth of sadness over her divided family

Hitomi Soga, who returned to Japan last year for the first time since being abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, has revealed her loneliness in a letter sent to Kyodo News.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Japanese star convicted of indecent assault in Hong Kong
J-pop idol Kenshin Kamimura leaves the West Kowloon Law Courts on bail in Hong Kong on Wednesday, after he was found guilty of indecent assault of a woman who worked as his interpreter at a restaurant in Mong Kok district in March this year.
Tens of thousands left stranded at Osaka Expo by train service interruption
Visitors rest inside the Osaka Expo venue early Thursday morning
Welcoming foreign residents benefits Japan, three quarters of economists say
The streets of Tokyo's Ginza district in April. The number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record high at 3.76 million as of the end of last year, comprising just over 3% of the population.
Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Will Ishiba's critics be able to garner enough support for a leadership race?
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's political survival likely hinges on whether a leadership race will take place within the Liberal Democratic Party following its decision to have its election committee canvass the opinions of party members and prefectural chapters on the subject.
Hidden rosters and the legacy of Japan’s germ warfare
Katsutoshi Takegami, 77, in his storehouse attic where he discovered his father's Unit 1644 documents
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.

Podcast

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

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
By Tomoko Otake

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