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SOCCER / J. League
Aug 17, 2006

FC Tokyo coach Gallo fired

FC Tokyo have sacked Brazilian Gallo and named Hisao Kuramata as new manager of the J. League first-division club, FC Tokyo officials said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2006

Riggs, Iwamura deliver big hits in Swallows' runaway victory

Alex Ramirez didn't have much to clean up Wednesday night.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2006

Daughters also unable to reach Asahara

When she was finally allowed to visit her father, she found him in a wheelchair, wearing a diaper. A prison guard took notes throughout the 30-minute encounter, which took place in a small, barren room, through a plate of thick, transparent plastic. It was, for her, a dream come true, but yet a nightmare....
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2006

10 cities will get light rail systems by fiscal 2016

Advanced light rail transit systems that use low-floor streetcars will be set up in about 10 cities across the country by fiscal 2016, sources at the transport ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 17, 2006

Last shrine trip OK, but not next: poll

Just over half of the respondents to a Kyodo survey released Wednesday supported Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's trip this week to Yasukuni Shrine, but nearly the same number said the next leader should not go.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 17, 2006

Takeharu Ogai -- White Hole Gift Shop

Taro Nasu Osaka Closes in 44 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2006

Film's future is now

T here's new competition for actors aiming to make it big in Hollywood: Thanks to computer graphics, stars from the past are about to rise from the dead to play in new feature films as if they had never passed away.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2006

Sony braces for impact of massive battery recall

Sony Corp. is cooperating fully with personal computer maker Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries supplied by Sony, but it does not know how much the recall will cost, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 17, 2006

Tatzu Nishi -- Cheri in the Sky

Maison Hermes 8F ForumCloses in 15 days
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2006

The rules of Lebanon's reconstruction

PRAGUE -- Lebanon's reconstruction, so painstakingly carried out in the 1990s, is now at risk of being undone. But Lebanon is not alone in that respect: According to the United Nations and several independent studies, countries in transition from war to peace face roughly a 50 percent chance of sliding...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 17, 2006

Exploring her selves

Modern culture is deeply interested in constructed and changing identities. The mutability of the individual is an obsession that stretches from stories about Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" being a portrait of the artist in drag to Oprah Winfrey's very public weight-loss programs; from Japanese artist...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2006

Princess Kiko enters Aiiku Hospital

Princess Kiko, 34 weeks pregnant with a possible future heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, entered Aiiku Hospital in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday, as she waits for the birth of her third child, expected early next month.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2006

A legacy of callousness

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the 61st anniversary of the end of World War II, points to his failure to understand that such visits have a historical dimension that overshadows Japan's relations with neighboring countries.
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.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 17, 2006

Filtering Shakespeare with noh

Despite the variety of attempts, few productions of Shakespeare succeed in bringing new insight to the playwright's works. In May 2004, though, when director Yoshihiro Kurita presented "Macbeth" in a traditional noh theatrical style at the Ryutopia Theater in Niigata, audiences and critics alike were...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2006

Fuel spike hits taxi, airline passengers

Crude oil price rises are turning the screws on taxi companies and airlines, pushing them to pass higher fuel costs on to passengers in the form of higher fares.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2006

Gauging proportionate force

LONDON -- The war in Lebanon has prompted the term "disproportionate force" to be bandied about as if some crystal-clear principle of international law lay behind it, telling us when force is disproportionate and why it is illegal. But combat-related civilian deaths are not enough to say that "disproportionate...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 17, 2006

Ernesto Neto

Tomio Koyama GalleryCloses in 9 days
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 16, 2006

Ogata, Suenaga carry Carp to win over Dragons

Carp pinch hitter Masafumi Suenaga belts a solo homer to left in the fifth inning in the Carp's 5-4 win over the Chunichi Dragons at Hiroshima Stadium on Tuesday. KYODO PHOTO
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 16, 2006

Defiant Koizumi visits Yasukuni

Defying repeated warnings from China and South Korea, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, the 61st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, paying his respects at the Shinto site that honors the nation's 2.5 million war dead and 14 Class-A war criminals.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 16, 2006

Koizumi visit quick but so is protest outcry

what he did," said Eun Sik Kim, deputy director of the committee. Taiwan Aboriginal, a group of Taiwanese who marched with the Korean group, were even more vocal.
Takaichi buys time and builds trust with ‘near-perfect’ Trump summit
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Takaichi pushed back on U.S. request to ban Russian gas imports, sources say
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly turned down a request from the U.S. to cease imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."
Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
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