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JAPAN
Jun 13, 2008

Rising trend in global crime worries G8

Justice and home affairs ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations began a two-day meeting Thursday in Tokyo on measures to halt a rising trend in global organized crime.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2008

MHI has no plans to enter jumbo jet market

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which plans in 2013 to launch Japan's first domestically produced jetliner, is not looking to enter the jumbo jet fray, MHI President Hideaki Omiya said Thursday.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2008

A skilled scrutinizer of perversity

Tom Kalin is best known for his 1992 feature debut "Swoon," a stylish but keenly observed thriller about a gay couple who, in the 1920s, murdered a child. His latest film, "Savage Grace," is also about a relationship defined by perversity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2008

'Juno'

For a long time I was of the opinion I'd see anything with French actress Beatrice Dalle in it. My obsession dated back to 1986's "Betty Blue," which featured a performance by Dalle of such typhoon-like passion and intensity that nothing she's done since even comes close. Still, I indulged her, out of...
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2008

'Savage Grace'

There's much that's grotesque about "Savage Grace," but director Tom Kalin and writer Howard A. Rodman deliberately candy-wrap the unseemliness in decorous crepe paper — with the result that the poisonous goo leaks from the edges with a creepily gothic effect. Savage Grace Rating: (3 out of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 13, 2008

'Kamisama — no Puzzle'

Directors and producers who score big hits become big powers in the industry, ipso facto. They can consequently make films that would get their less successful brethren laughed out of a pitch meeting. A new case in point is "Kamisama no Puzzle (God's Puzzle)," an SF thriller by hit-making director Takashi...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 13, 2008

Lady virtuoso 'sings' like a bird

Her music is as lovely as a song sung by a pretty bird. Of course, birds don't actually "sing," and neither does Kimiko Wakiyama. Like a bird, she whistles. In fact she's a champion whistler, who won the women's crown at the 2007 International Whistlers Convention (IWC 2007) in North Carolina.
EDITORIALS
Jun 13, 2008

Hazy emissions goal

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has shown his determination to lead the coming Group of Eight summit in discussions on climate change by announcing Japan's long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. He also announced an "experimental" debut of emissions trading in Japan starting this autumn and a...
CULTURE / Music
Jun 13, 2008

Lee "Scratch" Perry "The Mighty Upsetter"

British dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood says in the press release for "The Mighty Upsetter" that it is Lee "Scratch" Perry's best album in decades — and it's hard to disagree with him. They key factor in its success is that notorious nutcase Perry (playing at Fuji Rock Festival this year, as is Adrian...
EDITORIALS
Jun 13, 2008

Tug of war over Mr. Fukuda

Opposition forces Wednesday passed a censure motion in the Upper House against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda — the first such motion ever passed under the postwar Constitution. To counter the censure motion, the ruling forces in the Lower House gave Mr. Fukuda a vote of confidence Thursday. The two moves...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 13, 2008

Fireflies set the nights alight

It seems no one really knows why the two predominant varieties of hotaru (firefly) in Japan are known as genji-botaru and heike-botaru.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2008

Fukuda, Rudd affirm economic, security ties but avoid whaling

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed Thursday to cooperate on a wide range of issues but left the sensitive subject of whaling effectively untouched to avoid diplomatic friction.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 13, 2008

Getting high with ease

The goal was a lofty one, figuratively: To climb the highest peak within the Tokyo metropolitan area.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2008

Meat prices to rise on corn cost

Japan, the world's biggest corn importer, is set to increase floor prices for domestic meat for a second time this year and boost subsidies to livestock farmers after prices of the grain soared to a record.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 13, 2008

Koshu stands out as sip of summer

Last month, Tokyo's wine community was given a rare treat: Two of the most famous names in the wine world descended to hold forth on subjects including the bright future of Japan's Koshu grape and Bordeaux's stellar 2005 vintage.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2008

NHK censorship ruling reversed

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling Thursday, dismissing a suit filed by a women's rights group that demanded NHK and two production companies pay compensation for altering the content of a documentary on Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jun 13, 2008

"Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime"

Director: Shingo Matsubara
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2008

Tokyo office vacancies rise to 3.29%

Tokyo's office vacancies rose in May to the highest level in two years as companies consolidate work space amid declining profits, the government said Thursday, noting the pace of the downturn is the sharpest in six years.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2008

Hiking cigarette taxes 'disastrous' move for consumers, industry: JT

Japan Tobacco Inc. says a proposal to triple cigarette prices through higher taxes would devastate the nation's tobacco industry and could hurt the share price of the world's third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2008

Let 10% of Japan be foreigners: Nakagawa

Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers made an ambitious proposal Thursday to raise the ratio of immigrants in Japan to about 10 percent over the next 50 years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 13, 2008

World Beat 2008

If New York City was the world, then the borough of Brooklyn would be Global Bohemia, the place where undiscovered international creative forces meet, get drunk together and make art. In terms of music, no Brooklyn indie band personifies this idea better than Gogol Bordello, the "gypsy punk" collective...
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.
From Osaka to the NHL: Jordan Spence hopes to inspire young Japanese hockey players
Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence helps lead the Dreamskate Japan hockey camp in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 5.
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.

Podcast

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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