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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 25, 2004

Rugby fans send JSports to sin bin over Bledisloe Cup fiasco

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JAPAN
Jul 25, 2004

Illegal foreign labor worries Japanese

More than 70 percent of Japanese are worried that an increase in the number of illegally employed foreign workers could undermine public safety and result in human rights abuses against the workers themselves, according to a government survey released Saturday.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2004

Visa curbs eased for Chinese groups

Japan will relax its visa restrictions on Chinese tourists to allow group tours from more areas beginning Sept. 15, top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2004

'Mock El Nino' culprit behind heat wave, floods: professor

The heat wave and floods in various parts of Japan are being caused by an El Nino-like phenomenon in the Central Pacific Ocean, a Japanese researcher said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2004

Postal privatization may see end to guarantee on deposits

The government might strip Japan Post workers of their public-servant status and might end the guarantee on ordinary deposits in 2007, when postal service privatization is phased in, according to government sources.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

BSE report set to please beef exporters in U.S.

Japan and the United States compiled a report Thursday stating that blanket testing for mad cow disease has limitations in terms of detecting whether young cows have been infected with the brain-wasting illness.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

Portable digital-audio player market heating up

Competition is intensifying in Japan over a new breed of portable digital-audio players that allows music lovers to carry around a vast library of their favorite tracks.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2004

Rabies regime to target import pets at source

Japan plans to require cats and dogs that are being brought from areas with rabies to undergo a new double-vaccination regime outside the country, according to farm officials, a move that will drastically cut the imports of such animals younger than 10 months.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 18, 2004

"NHK Special" traces Japanese garbage to China and more

July 19 is a national holiday, "Umi no Hi (Day of the Sea)" to be exact, and Nippon TV will celebrate large bodies of water with a special afternoon travel program (4 p.m.) about the Amazon River, specifically where it meets the ocean.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 18, 2004

Straight out of North Korea

In the strange case of U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins, four seemingly obscure people have been caught up in diplomatic maneuvering among the United States, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, China and Indonesia.
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2004

Homeless team heads for Sweden to battle in second futsal world cup

Thirty years of ups and downs -- the last five of which he has spent living in a park -- have not rusted Takashi Ito's ball-control skills as much as he had thought they would.
BUSINESS
Jul 17, 2004

Health chief cool to ending blanket BSE tests of beef

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi voiced caution Friday about a possible end to blanket tests for mad cow disease in Japan, saying a policy change of this kind needs to be based on scientific grounds.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2004

Kurdish asylum-seekers stage sit-in in Shibuya

Two Kurdish families are staging a sit-in outside the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward over the Justice Ministry's rejection of their applications for refugee status.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2004

Young delegates at symposium stress value of peace

Young people across the globe need to better appreciate the value of peace, which they so often take for granted, foreign students who are studying Japanese said during a symposium in Tokyo earlier this week.
EDITORIALS
Jul 16, 2004

A functional defense and more

Japan's Self-Defense Forces, which came into existence 50 years ago, was described at the time as "armed forces with no war potential." Although that remains essentially true, the SDF is no longer a "passive" organization devoted only to national defense. As this year's defense report, issued earlier...
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2004

Extra squadrons pitched for U.S. Yokota Air Base

The United States has informally proposed integrating a U.S. air base on Guam into the U.S. Yokota Air Base outside Tokyo, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2004

U.S. won't seek immediate handover: Baker

Washington plans to pursue a case against accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins, though it may not demand his immediate handover if he comes to Japan, the U.S. ambassador said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2004

Struggling UFJ pursues merger deal with MTFG

Ailing UFJ Holdings Inc. on Wednesday asked rival Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. to merge with it in a deal that would create the world's biggest banking group, with 190 trillion yen in assets.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2004

U.S. presence in grillings unfair scrutiny?

In late May, a 24-year-old U.S. Navy sailor at the Yokosuka Navy Base in Kanagawa Prefecture was arrested for drunk driving after bumping his car into another outside the base, slightly injuring a child inside the vehicle that was hit.
COMMENTARY
Jul 15, 2004

Prepare for post-Koizumi era

HONOLULU -- Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro took a beating in last Sunday's Upper House elections. While his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost seats, the real blow seems to be the prime minister's loss of rapport with voters. The magic is gone, and that means his leverage within the party is shrinking....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jul 14, 2004

A diamond in the rough

During the 20th century, Japanese studio pottery made by individuals came to the fore. Up until then, many potters worked for large kilns or were artisans involved in a production-line method; one man molded the pots, while another decorated and so on.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2004

Koizumi to meet Roh on South Korean island of Cheju

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will visit South Korea's resort island of Cheju next week to meet with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2004

LDP setback could deal a blow to Koizumi's diplomacy efforts

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's diplomatic policies on Iraq and North Korea could take a knock due to the setback experienced by his dominant Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's House of Councilors election.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2004

Singer, skier, Korean win seats

Okinawa singer and peace activist Shokichi Kina, one of the celebrity hopefuls who ran in Sunday's House of Councilors election, won a seat in the Diet.
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2004

Gyukaku operator to buy controlling stake in am/pm

Restaurant-chain operator Reins International Inc. said Friday it will buy a controlling 62.6-percent stake in convenience-store operator am/pm Japan Co. through a third-party share allotment scheme.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2004

Hunger-striker returns to cell after hospital visit

IBARAKI, Osaka Pref. -- A 37-year-old Iranian who has been held at the West Japan Immigration Center here since February 2003 and has been on a hunger strike for over a month, was briefly hospitalized Friday, according to his supporters.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2004

Is Pyongyang trying to win the election for the coalition?

North Korea's surprise live broadcast Friday of Hitomi Soga's kin at Pyongyang airport may constitute another indication that the country is apparently trying to back Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration ahead of Sunday's House of Councilors election, government officials claimed.
Luxury Tokyo penthouse sold for over $65 million in new record
Sales of luxury properties in Tokyo, like Azabudai Hills’ Aman Residences, have pushed up average real estate prices in the capital.
Bags of rice at half price will hit stores by early June, Koizumi says
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a supermarket to check the prices of rice on Friday in Koto.
Lessons from India-Pakistan war: Were China's arms overrated?
A Chinese J-10B fighter jet is put on display at the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, China, in October 2016. The short May conflict between India and Pakistan became a live trial for Chinese arms, exposing vulnerabilities in its fighter aircraft and air defense systems.
U.S. Marine arrested for Okinawa hit-and-run that injured four
Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Police and the U.S. military conduct a joint patrol in the city of Okinawa in April. Prefectural police arrested a U.S. Marine for an alleged hit-and-run case on Sunday.
Ukraine's key allies no longer limiting range of weapons, Germany's Merz says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion during the opening of the 'Re:publica 25' digital conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
As ASEAN touts unity, Philippines seeks consensus on South China Sea
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (center), locks hands with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (left) and Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah during a group photo at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
Eagle nest discovery sparks opposition to megasolar project
The white-tailed eagle's wintering grounds include Hokkaido, northern Honshu, the Russian coast, the southern Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.
Fighters already showing last season's playoff run was no fluke
Fighters starter Hiromi Ito pitches against the Hawks in Fukuoka on April 29.
A moving meditation: Finding serenity in tea ceremony across space and time
Drawn to tea ceremony while volunteering at a Japanese garden in Phoenix, Arizona, Michele Laudig (right) came to learn a “common language of movement and ritual” that brought her into new communities in New York City and Tokyo.
Are microplastics hurting our fertility?
A worker sorts plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo in 2019. Japan has been criticized by environmental groups for its strategy on plastics, which is heavily reliant on recycling instead of reduction.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?
By Eric Margolis

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