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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2006

Entrepreneur beats heavy odds to make comeback

When Katsumi Iizuka personally assumed in 2001 the 2.4 billion yen debt that his failed personal computer firm had accumulated, few would have expected him to make a comeback.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2006

Despite Oji's likely failure, M&As catching on

Japan appears to have entered a new era of mergers and acquisitions with Oji Paper Co.'s recent takeover bid for Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2006

Affiliate marketing now coming of age

"Half my advertising budget is wasted, but I don't know which half," goes the old retailer's quip, but this dilemma may someday be a thing of the past. If so, affiliate marketing, a type of pay-for-performance advertising, will get some of the credit.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2006

Paraguay envoy looks back on emigration plan that worked

, now the Japan International Cooperation Agency, played a key role in assisting the emigrants to Paraguay and improving their lives, providing them with agricultural knowhow. Hospitals and schools were built with aid from Japan, while JICA experts collaborated to improve soybean strains and advised...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2006

No shortcuts to free access

Last January, a major scandal broke over budget hotel chain Toyoko Inn Co.'s illegal removal of special guest rooms and parking spots set up for the disabled after the construction of those facilities had passed official inspection. Toyoko Inn converted the special rooms into normal rooms and the special...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 13, 2006

High-school baseball pitches the way of the samurai

It's said that even Japanese people who don't like baseball still get caught up in the annual summer high-school baseball tournament, which happens to be taking place right now at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture. Apparently, this same paradox applies to at least one American. On the Internet message...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 13, 2006

NHK's "Nihon to Ta-ttakatta Nikkeijin," Fuji's "Unbelievable" and more

In commemoration of the Aug. 15, 1945 Japan surrender in the Pacific War, NHK is presenting a documentary about the Japanese-American interpreters who worked with the American military during and after World War II.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2006

Too risk-averse to take issue

Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda put a damper on the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race when he dropped out of the running. Who will succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in September?
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Sister of B-29 copilot visits crash site in Ibaraki

TSUKUBAMIRAI, Ibaraki Pref. -- Wilma Cook remembers how hard her father tried to discover what happened to her brother, 2nd Lt. Eugene Cook, when his B-29 bomber crashed in Japan during an air raid in March 1945.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2006

BOJ gets leeway as Fed pauses interest rate hikes: economist

The U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to pause rather than end its drive to raise interest rates has taken some of the pressure off the Bank of Japan, which is planning rate hikes of its own, according to analysts.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2006

Volunteer group's play tells refugee's harrowing tale

A Tokyo-based group working to raise awareness of the plight of people seeking asylum in Japan is performing a play that depicts the struggle of a refugee who lives under constant fear of deportation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 10, 2006

There's an art to saving country life

Just a few hours north of Tokyo's seemingly endless sprawl is the mountainous region of Echigo-Tsumari in Niigata Prefecture. Like so many other rural parts of northern Japan, it is a rugged, isolated, aging and economically stagnant place where elderly men and women can be found doubled over in terraced...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2006

First U.S. beef since ban goes on sale at Costco

U.S. beef went on sale Wednesday for the first time since the lifting of a ban imposed in January over mad cow disease, officials from the stores selling the meat said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 10, 2006

Looking beyond the West

Art historian Dr. Charles Merewether is the artistic director and curator of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney (established 1973). Merewether has worked and taught in Mexico, Spain, Australia and the United States and is the author of a number of books on art, including "Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations...
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2006

Fujimoto seeks thalidomide approval

Fujimoto Pharmaceutical Corp. has filed an application with the health ministry to manufacture and sell thalidomide as an authorized medicine, more than 40 years after the drug was banned in Japan for causing severe birth defects, according to a company official.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 9, 2006

Aso wants Yasukuni as nonreligious war memorial

Foreign Minister Taro Aso stirred up more controversy Tuesday over Yasukuni Shrine by proposing it be stripped of its religious status and turned into a state-run war memorial.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2006

No full production seen in disputed gas field

China has yet to begin full-fledged production in the Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, where Japan and China are at odds over resource exploration rights, the Foreign Ministry's top bureaucrat said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 5, 2006

Paving over the Kyoto Protocol realities

The Kyoto Protocol aimed to slow down global warming, but I have a better way of dealing with global warming in Japan. It requires each person to walk outside of their house with a jackhammer and remove a 1-meter slab of concrete.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

First U.S. beef since botched veal to arrive Sunday

U.S. meatpackers are shipping beef to Japan again and the first batch is expected to arrive in Tokyo by air Sunday, industry officials said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 5, 2006

Renu Arora

In 1982, Renu Arora, from Bombay and living in Japan, began her Gourmet Trips to India from here. Married and the mother of a son, she was teaching Indian home cooking to groups of interested Japanese people. Some were men, some young unmarried women, some housewives. Some of them aimed to become professional...
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 4, 2006

Marinos spoils Nakamura's homecoming

YOKOHAMA -- Yokohama F. Marinos ruined Shunsuke Nakamura's homecoming with a convincing 3-0 win over Celtic in a friendly at Nissan Stadium on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 3, 2006

Discuss Yasukuni after LDP poll: lobby

The Japan War-Bereaved Families Association, the most powerful lobby for relatives of Japan's war dead, will forgo discussion of politically sensitive issues related to Yasukuni Shrine until after the Sept. 20 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, an executive of the group said Wednesday. ...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2006

Paper hits North's missiles, China buildup

nuclear (arms) issue, are a destabilizing factor for the entire international community," the report reads. "The range of North Korean missiles is expected to be extended (farther), including possible derivatives of Taepodong-2 missiles," the paper, released Tuesday, says in reference to Pyongyang's...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jul 31, 2006

BOJ should have based hike on consumer needs, worldwide inflation trend

The Bank of Japan raised the unsecured overnight call rate from virtually zero to 0.25 percent at the end of its July 13-14 Policy Board meeting and hiked the official discount rate from 0.1 percent to 0.4 percent.
EDITORIALS
Jul 30, 2006

Doha goes down the drain

The Doha Round of global trade talks collapsed amid bitter recriminations last week. Officially, the talks are in "indefinite suspension," but they are as good as dead if governments do not make fundamental changes in their thinking. That means facing down powerful domestic agricultural lobbies and taking...
Britain’s Prince of Wales aircraft carrier makes Japan debut
HMS Prince of Wales arrives into the Port of Darwin, Australia, in July during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.
Japanese students who want to study abroad looking at options in Asia
The number of Japanese students who applied to the National Taiwan University in Taipei in 2025 is more than 60% higher than last year due partly to affordability and proximity.
Controversial theories continue to swirl around 1985 JAL jet crash
Kimi Ozawa, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, prays in front of his memorial marker on Tuesday in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture.
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.
Taiwanese drama 'Zero Day Attack' on Chinese invasion to stream in Japan
A scene from the Taiwanese television drama "Zero Day Attack," which will stream in Japan from Friday.
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.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
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