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BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Sep 12, 2001

Is the greenback poised to ravage the yen?

Having fallen below 120 yen in recent weeks, the dollar has bounced back and now appears poised to gain further ground.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 12, 2001

Little forget-me-nots

"I Don't Mind, If You Forget Me" is the rather bold title of Yoshitomo Nara's current exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art. But Nara can easily feign indifference, knowing full well that his warped yet archetypal children will have the opposite effect on viewers. With their enlarged heads and bean-shaped...
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2001

Mad cow scare deals blow to beef issues but lifts fish shares

Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease shook stock markets Tuesday, prompting investors to dump shares of beef-dish restaurant chains, meat processors and milk makers while snapping up seafood firms.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Memorial erected for downed B-29 crew

INA, Ibaraki Pref. -- Before dawn on March 10, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber crashed into the woods outside a rural village some 45 km northeast of Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

15-year term sought for '70 JAL hijacking

Prosecutors on Monday sought a 15-year prison sentence for former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka, who is on trial at the Tokyo District Court for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jet and other charges.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Mad cow disease suspected to have hit Chiba dairy farm

CHIBA -- A dairy cow in Chiba Prefecture is suspected to have contracted mad cow disease, government officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

More students to be offered taste of diplomatic life

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COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Still healthy, after all these years

FUKUOKA -- Passing your twilight years in Japan used to entail long days of contemplation and an austere diet of tofu. Sound dull? The good news is that doctors these days recommend an active social life for a happy, healthy old age. The bad news is, according to medical practitioner Magoe Ando, you'll...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 9, 2001

This is the season of our national discontent

Last week's edition of Aera (Sept. 3) looked at the current "Age of Discontent," while Bungei Shunju published a special issue in August on ways to find happiness. Both themes currently feature on the shelves of Japanese bookstores as well.
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

To hide or not to hide - the balding man's dilemma

For most men, the mere mention of going bald provokes a quickened pulse-rate and the onset of hyperventilation. To say the thought of hair loss scares most males is to dramatically understate the case.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Sep 9, 2001

Katsuya Takasu, holding back the years

Katsuya Takasu regards his body as a vehicle to carry his mind. So what he had done to his face two years ago was, as he puts it, "just like fixing an old jalopy."
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 9, 2001

Choi tallies twice as JEF tops Reds

South Korea forward Choi Yong Soo scored two goals in the first half as JEF United Ichihara downed the Urawa Reds 2-1 at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday night.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2001

Cabinet to start on extra budget

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday instructed his Cabinet to begin work on a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year after official data confirmed that the nation's economy shrank in the second quarter of 2001.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 8, 2001

Martial arts in Roppongi? Meet the Karate Bros.

Some interviews are straightforward and others are not. And some are just plain funky. I believe I'm meeting two brothers. In fact I meet an extended martial arts family, all of whom have something to say. It's more like chairing a meeting -- or a succession of meetings.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Japanese, Chinese towel firms link to fight import curbs

A group of 10 Japanese towel makers with production bases in China said Friday it has linked up with a Chinese group of textile traders in an effort to prevent Japan from slapping a restriction on towel imports from China.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2001

Russia records sharp increase in Japanese tourists

The number of Japanese tourists to Russia has risen sharply due mainly to better accommodations, according to the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2001

Imported auto sales up 4% in August

Sales of imported vehicles rose 4 percent in August from a year earlier to 18,890 units, increasing for the second month in a row, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2001

Yen rides doom, gloom of U.S. outlook

Despite a steep fall in Tokyo stock prices, the yen has remained under upward pressure in recent weeks.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2001

Gartner reports steady server sales

Gartner Japan Ltd. said Friday that domestic demand for servers during the first half of this year remained steady despite a slump in the global information technology market.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Ruling parties question bond cap

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi came under pressure Tuesday from ruling bloc lawmakers to abandon his pledge to limit fresh government bond issuance to 30 trillion yen.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to wonderland

The Yokohama Triennale, a grand-scale international art exhibition four years in the making, debuted last weekend with a gala party attended by the everyone who is anyone on the Japanese art scene, a sparkle of the global art illuminati, and even Prince Takamado. The 10-week-long exhibition, running...
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to the 'real' world

"Utada Unplugged" -- it has a nice ring to it. Hikaru Utada is the latest artist to get the MTV Unplugged treatment, and this correspondent was one of a small group of media folk invited to the taping of the diminutive diva's MTV Japan "Unplugged" special.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2001

Ministry to examine risk of eating contaminated whales

The health ministry has decided to examine the health risks associated with consuming contaminated whale meat from small whales captured along Japan's coast, ministry sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

LAN trial set for Tokyo Station

Japan Telecom Co. and East Japan Railway Co. later this month will launch a joint experiment providing Internet service over a wireless local-area network at JR Tokyo Station.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped