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JAPAN
Oct 16, 2005

Compromise on Futenma impasse could be near

Japan and the United States have entered a final stage of negotiations over the stalled plan to relocate Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, as Tokyo has come up with an alternative plan, U.S. and Japanese sources said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

Renault recalls vans

Renault Japon Co. said Friday it will recall 1,839 Renault Megane station wagons due to a defective brake disk.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 15, 2005

The 'Winter Sonata' blues -- revisited

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

U.S. realignment talks set for Oct. 29

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday that Japan and the United States have begun arrangements for a top-level security meeting on Oct. 29 in Washington.
COMMENTARY
Oct 14, 2005

Missile defense will define Japan-U.S. security alliance

The impasse about the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps air station at Futenma in Okinawa caused U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to cancel his forthcoming visit to Japan. So Rumsfeld, fed up with Japanese foot-dragging for more than a decade, will be going to China and South Korea, but not to...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 14, 2005

Divine island in watercolor

"Scenes of Miyajima" is Matthew Phinn's second solo exhibition in Hiroshima this year. After completing a three-month artist-in-residency in 2003 in Akiyoshidai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Phinn is now in his second year at the secluded Noro San Art Village near Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.
COMMENTARY
Oct 12, 2005

New authoritarian ways cross the line

LONDON -- At the recent Labour Party Conference, Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the British criminal justice system. He said it needed toughening and called for "a radical extension of summary powers to police and local authorities" to deal with antisocial behavior and prevent terrorism.
Japan Times
Features
Oct 9, 2005

Building a bridge to forgiveness

Takashi Nagase still breaks down when he remembers the young British man he helped torture. "I couldn't bear his pain," he says, choking back tears. "He was crying 'Mother! Mother!' And I thought: What would she feel if she could see her son like this? I still dream about it."
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

U.S.-favored Futenma base relocation plan gets OK

The government is set to yield to a U.S.-preferred plan for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa to break the deadlock in talks over the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, government sources said Friday.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 7, 2005

Surreal Vietnam imaginings

Hovering 200 meters above ground in the Caretta Shiodome skyscraper in Tokyo, Milanese restaurant BiCE has been making a name for itself not just through its veal scaloppini with lemon sauce, but also as a venue for contemporary art, like the recent "Antelope Canyon Painting with Light" exhibition by...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 7, 2005

Kumazawa Brewing Company: Brews worth the trip

Drink locally, eat bountifully: It's a rule of thumb that has served us very well over the years in Japan. Places that specialize in good nihonshu invariably serve food of similar quality. So it would stand to reason that, if a brewer of fine jizake were to open its own restaurant, then the results would...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2005

Futenma talks in final stage: Ono

Japan-U.S. talks on a relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa have entered the final stage, Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2005

Sad drumbeats in the wilderness

I made several visits to the Aichi Expo this year and met a lot of interesting people. But one person above all left an indelible impression. Soft-spoken, modest, and wearing traditional northern buckskin, his name was Michael Cazon -- a Dene drummer, teacher and healer from Fort Simpson in the Northwest...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2005

Sides still stuck on Futenma relocation site

Japan and the U.S. failed to agree on where to move the helicopter operations of the U.S. Marines Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa during senior working-level talks between the two nations that just ended in Washington, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2005

Goldman to invest 25 billion yen in eAccess' cell phone business

U.S.-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will invest some 25 billion yen in eMobile Ltd., the cell phone unit of Japanese broadband services firm eAccess Ltd., the cell phone company said Thursday.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 30, 2005

Classical piano

The 16th Annual Kishiko International Concert, which features contemporary piano music from China, South Korea and Japan, will be held Oct. 7. Over the past 15 years, concerts have taken place in Seoul, Beijing and Los Angeles, but this year the performance returns to Tokyo for the second successive...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 30, 2005

Cosmopolitan city comes to life

Before Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki was best known for its churches, Chinatown and a tasty noodle dish called champon, and but for heavy cloud cover that day over the nearby city of Kokura -- which was slated to be the world's second atom-bombed city -- it would still likely be that way. However, moments after...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 30, 2005

A diet of sex and bad poetry

For their latest production, Tokyo International Players present "Arcadia." Written by Tom Stoppard ("Shakespeare in Love,") "Arcadia" spans two centuries in a single room at the Coverley family's country estate.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 30, 2005

The Yokohama Jazz Promenade

The Yokohama Jazz Promenade is the best weekend of the year for jazz lovers, and shows you just what a city arts foundation can do if they put their music-loving minds to it. On Oct. 8 and 9, nearly a hundred groups will perform at 10 halls and 20-some jazz clubs sprinkled around the city -- and that's...
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2005

Noguchi gets science ministry award

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi was presented with a special award Wednesday by the science ministry for giving the Japanese people "courage, hope and encouragement" by completing his mission on the space shuttle Discovery.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 25, 2005

Help the disabled, but don't deny them

Several years ago, the government discussed state-sponsored care for people with disabilities. The idea was to assist mentally and physically disabled people in leaving publicly-funded facilities and entering society; or, at least, that was how it was presented.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
Ishiba to quit as prime minister amid LDP discontent
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his decision to step down, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Race to become next LDP president kicks off again
Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday became the first to enter the race to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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