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JAPAN
Jul 16, 2003

Lingering cold may impact crops, weather agency says

Farm crops may be affected by the unusually cold weather in northern and western Japan since late June, the Meteorological Agency said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 16, 2003

Matsui on a roll into All-Star game

TORONTO -- What a difference six weeks can make. On June 4, Hideki Matsui was scuffling along with a .250 batting average, a paltry three homers and 33 RBIs. Since that low point in the season, the New York Yankees rookie outfielder has hit at a torrid .387 clip, while adding six homers and 33 RBIs in...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2003

Trendy avatars give Net users new way to impress -- and spend

"Avatar" has become the latest buzz word in the Net world, with major providers and portals launching new Web sites in their search for fresh revenue sources.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 15, 2003

Scooter worry, motorcycles and doctors

Motor scooter We own a Honda Today motor scooter here in Tokyo which we'd like to bring with us back to the U.S. next year. How can we find out if we can do this? -- Tokyo Jack
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2003

Toward a viable dialogue

The latest round of ministerial talks between North and South Korea, which opened in Seoul on Wednesday, is a reminder that inter-Korean dialogue is alive. But prospects for reconciliation are clouded by the North's suspected nuclear-weapons program. As yet there is little hope for an improvement toward...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2003

Students test corporate waters as interns

Like many college students who gathered at a Tokyo forum earlier this month, Tomoe Yoshida believes becoming an intern at a company will help her find out what career she wants to pursue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2003

Tokyo Star taking a different approach to banking

Enter one of Tokyo Star Bank's four new branches, and you are soon ushered into booths arranged for private consultations with customers.
EDITORIALS
Jul 10, 2003

Wrong light at the end of the tunnel

Stock prices and long-term interest rates in Japan have climbed rapidly of late. On Monday, the Nikkei index hit a 10-month high of 9,795 points while yields on 10-year benchmark government bonds topped 1 percent, more than double the level of a month earlier. That is good news if it signals an upturn...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 9, 2003

Did sports rags hire students to stuff ballot box for Godzilla?

A couple of selections from the mail bag this week.
BUSINESS
Jul 9, 2003

Ogi to pitch rail system in China

Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi said Tuesday she intends to visit China early next month to pitch Japan's high-speed rail system for a new Beijing-Shanghai route being planned.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 9, 2003

Dub-tropical of Little Tempo travels well

While most of Tokyo is frantically trying to cool down, Japan's prime dub outfit Little Tempo will be heating things up this summer with a series of live gigs.
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2003

Analysts see rosy outlook for economy

Some analysts are revising upward their expectations for Japan's economy and predicting stronger growth, although no one is forecasting vigorous recovery just yet.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2003

Deja vu in Indonesia

The deteriorating situation in Aceh is sadly familiar. The Indonesian government is claiming that it has rebel guerrillas on the run, but is clamping down on the media so that independent assessments of the situation are hard to come by. The guerrillas dispute the military's assertion that it has regained...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 6, 2003

Small campus, big dreams

IKOMA, Nara Pref. -- While many national universities are apprehensive about being transformed into independent administrative corporations next April, Koji Torii, president of Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), sees it as a good opportunity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jul 6, 2003

A last taste of Honey

It might be the right time for the 54 Nude Honeys, but it's the wrong place and they've decided to do something about it. In September, they're jumping on a plane and decamping to New York, where the American music-media have stepped into line with their British brethren and realized that the current...
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2003

Lawyer-present request outside SOFA: Moriyama

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said Friday it is difficult to agree to Washington's request for a U.S. government official to be present during police interrogations of U.S. military personnel accused of crimes in Japan.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2003

Fast-moving dispatch bill needs some explanation

The House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that paves the way for elements of the Self-Defense Forces to go on a mission in Iraq.
COMMENTARY
Jul 5, 2003

'Neocon' recipe for disaster

BRUSSELS -- Newspapers are awash with speculation as to the likely outcome of the Korean Peninsula's nuclear crisis. Will it be the United States that blinks or North Korea? Nobody knows. What is clear is that while North Korea and the world wants and needs a solution, opinion in the U.S. is sharply...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 4, 2003

Little Myanmar in big Tokyo

The ongoing ethnic food boom in Tokyo has somehow bypassed some of the most interesting, savory and satisfying food in all of Southeast Asia -- the cuisine of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma before the accession of the current military government in 1989).
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2003

U.S. wants officials present in military suspect questioning

The United States has demanded that Japan allow American officials to be present when U.S. servicemen suspected of committing crimes here are questioned by Japanese investigators prior to indictment.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jul 3, 2003

What a week that was

It was a week filled with surprises and excitement.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2003

Fugitive Fujimori plots comeback

Alberto Fujimori peers into his computer quietly plotting a return to power half a world away -- all but oblivious to being a wanted man who can't leave the confines of Japan for fear of arrest.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2003

U.S.-style law schools to offer practical approach

More than five years of study -- at cram schools, not universities -- has been the norm to pass Japan's extremely competitive bar exam.
EDITORIALS
Jun 30, 2003

Prepare for the next outbreak

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which has claimed the lives of more than 800 people around the world, appears to have subsided. No new cases have been reported in mainland China, the epicenter of the disease, since June 11. Complete eradication will be difficult, though, and...
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2003

DPJ may soften stance over SDF dispatch bill

The Democratic Party of Japan may consider discussing with the ruling coalition revisions to a government bill to allow the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to help with the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, a senior DPJ official said Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 30, 2003

U.N. strives to control real weapons of mass destruction

In July 2001 the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus an action program to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. Two months later, the 9/11 terror attacks hit the United States, shifting the focus to international terrorism and the proliferation...
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 29, 2003

Furuta rips four home runs

Veteran catcher Atsuya Furuta belted four homers in four at-bats Saturday to lead the Yakult Swallows to a 14-4 victory over the Hiroshima Carp.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 29, 2003

The poetry and power of rock 'n' roll

For an artist as personal as Patti Smith, who once told an interviewer that it wasn't difficult to leave "the limelight and the applause" at the height of her popularity as a rock singer to become a full-time wife and mother, she certainly seems to derive a great deal of spiritual sustenance from direct...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 28, 2003

Extinction ahead for odd Japanese beasts

A news item earlier this year cited the upcoming extinction of the banana, giving the slippery fruit a life expectancy of but 10 more years.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Japanese students struggle with description-type tests
The average correct answer rate for description-type questions in the Japanese-language section of the fiscal 2025 national achievement test for third-year junior high school students was as low as 25.6%, according to the education ministry.
Severe Tropical Storm Krosa approaches eastern Japan
Severe Tropical Storm Krosa is expected to pass east of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture on Saturday morning.
Japan's jobs-to-applicant ratio falls to 1.22 in June
Japan's seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio dipped to 1.22 in June, down 0.02 point from the previous month, according to the labor ministry.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
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