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JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Food self-sufficiency holds at 40%

Japan's self-sufficiency in food stayed at 40 percent in fiscal 2005 for the eighth straight year since fiscal 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Pregnant women get badges to sit

Tokyo railways are providing pregnant women with badges in the hope of prompting other passengers to offer them seats.
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.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Researcher gave Russian high-tech Nikon device

Tokyo police turned over to prosecutors Thursday their case against a former Nikon Corp. researcher who is suspected of giving a Nikon device under development related to fiber-optic communications to a Russian official in Tokyo last year.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Tokyo Tower likely to get culture status

With its days as a television broadcasting tower numbered, the company that owns Tokyo Tower wants to register it as state-designated cultural property, company officials said Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2006

Nukaga unlikely to join LDP race

Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga will probably not become a candidate in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election in September because his own faction will not support him, political sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

2,339 pools don't pass drain grille muster

Nationwide, 2,339 school and public swimming pools do not meet safety standards because their drain and intake grilles are not properly bolted in place, according to a government survey released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2006

Used auto sales off a fourth month

Used vehicle sales, excluding minivehicles, fell 8.6 percent in July from a year earlier to 396,057 units, down for the fourth straight month, an industry body said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Paloma offices, factory raided over poisonings

at Paloma Co. answers questions from reporters Thursday in Nagoya after the company was searched. KYODO PHOTO
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2006

Suds shipments slump to record low

Shipments of beer, "happoshu" low-malt beer and nonmalt, beerlike drinks by Japan's five top brewers in July fell 5.7 percent year on year to 47.50 million cases due to a long rainy spell that cooled demand, industry figures showed Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2006

Cluster bombs add to terror

NEW YORK -- As if the ruthless air attacks on Lebanese civilians weren't enough, Israel has been using illegal cluster munitions in populated areas of that country. Human Rights Watch researchers working on the ground in Lebanon have confirmed that an attack with cluster bombs was carried out on the...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Sax man Pharoah Sanders still hitting the right notes

One of the finest tenor saxophone players of his generation, Pharoah Sanders returns to Japan to play three dates at the Blue Note in Tokyo from Aug. 20-23, before guesting with the Japanese jazz-dance fusion band Sleepwalker as part of Metamorphose, an eclectic one-day dance music/jazz festival taking...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Classic Broadway musical 'West Side Story' staged

The Joey McNeely-directed Broadway musical "West Side Story" runs at Tokyo's Bunkamura, from Aug. 16-Sept. 3, before touring Osaka, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Matsumoto and Toyama.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Japan Phil strings keep program secret

A string quartet made up of members of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a mini concert on Aug. 18 in Suginami, western Tokyo. The concert program is being kept a surprise.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 11, 2006

Psychedelic radar 08.11

Mother: Aug. 13-15
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Examining one nation's identity

Seven films by directors from Armenia and its diaspora will be screened as part of the "Armenian Film Selection," taking place Aug. 11-12 and Aug. 19 at two Tokyo venues, Athenee Francais Cultural Center in Chiyoda Ward and Uplink Factory in Shibuya. Four films -- Harutyun Khachatryan's "Return to the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Aug 11, 2006

An attack of the cute and quirky

Fashion designer Eri Utsugi is a very lucky lady: After only one catwalk outing, her mercibeaucoup brand will open six new stores in prime locations -- starting with Aoyama and Ginza -- over the course of the next seven weeks.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

Obituary: Hirokazu Kuroda

Hirokazu Kuroda, the leader of a radical leftist group from the 1960s to the 1990s, died at a hospital in Saitama Prefecture in late June, sources said Thursday. He was 78.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 11, 2006

Nikaido Kazumi "Nikaido Kazumi No Album"

Kazumi Nikaido's first solo album in three years is an odd proposition. It's scattered and insane, like a schizophrenic puppy that's been at the cough medicine. But when it shines, it really shines.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Showa Era star remembered

The International Theatre Institute is offering half-price kabuki tickets to foreigners living in Japan for its September program taking place at Kabuki-za theater in Ginza, Tokyo, on Sept. 15-17 (4:30 p.m.).
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 11, 2006

Cravin' more of that summer wine

Summers in Japan are associated with boisterous matsuri filled with men in fundoshi sweating under the great weight of omikoshi portable shrines, and colorful yukata-clad girls clip-clopping in their geta en route to see fireworks-filled skies.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
A viral manga prediction of a July 5 disaster has gripped Japan with anxiety and triggered an economic impact, but experts warn that while such dates are unreliable, the threat of a massive earthquake remains real. 
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jars Tokara Islands amid flurry of seismic activity
A strong quake struck off the Tokara Islands on Thursday afternoon, with the island chain having recorded around 1,000 earthquakes since a burst of seismic activity first began on June 21.
Japan to require flight passengers to keep power banks within sight
The transport ministry has announced new regulations requiring flight passengers to keep power banks within sight to mitigate fire risks while on board planes.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Residents of Tokara Islands begin evacuation as seismic swarm continues
Details about evacuations from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen written on a whiteboard in the city of Kagoshima on Thursday.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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