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Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 22, 2006

S. Korean wetland faces doom

For those readers long ago numbed to the fraud, waste and environmental abuse that accompanies public works projects in Japan, here's one that might jump-start your ire: A project by the South Korean government to landfill and develop 40,100 hectares (almost 100,000 acres) of coastal waters and wetlands...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Feb 22, 2006

Signal crayfish

* Japanese name: Uchida zarigani * Scientific name: Pacifastacus leniusculus * Description: Crayfish look like small lobsters. Despite their name, they are not fish, but freshwater crustaceans. They have a segmented body, up to 20-cm long, with 10 legs and a hard exoskeleton that they must molt as they...
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2006

Mr. Koizumi's running on empty

The Diet is in turmoil over a fresh scandal. At a session of the Lower House Budget Committee last Thursday, an opposition party member alleged that Mr. Takafumi Horie, the disgraced former chief executive of the Internet company Livedoor, had sent an internal e-mail to subordinates before the Sept....
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

NHK mulls sponsors for its exports

Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Shogo Hayashi said Monday the ministry will consider accepting sponsorship from advertisers to fund programs that NHK airs abroad.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Mergers reduce municipality count by a third since 1999

The number of cities, towns and villages fell below 2,000 Monday, compared with more than 3,200 in 1999, prior to the central government's push for municipal consolidation to streamline local administration, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Devotion to job a recipe for retiree divorce

Many middle-aged couples are filing for divorce upon arriving back in Japan after traveling overseas to celebrate the husband's retirement.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Takebe may file slander suit over e-mail allegation

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe refused Monday to rule out the possibility of suing Hisayasu Nagata, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party of Japan, over his allegation that Takebe's second son had shady financial connections with jailed Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Another architect in shoddy building scam won't give unsworn testimony

The head of an architectural design office embroiled in a scandal over faked quake-resistance data in three building projects in Fukuoka Prefecture refused Monday to give unsworn testimony before a Diet committee.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

U.S. beef report insufficient: Nakagawa

The U.S. report on its probe into a shipment last month of banned bovine material and measures to prevent a recurrence is "insufficient," farm minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Monday, adding that Japan plans to raise a range of questions with Washington.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

47% of nursing homes fail fire code

Nearly half of all nursing homes for senile elderly people do not have proper fire protection measures, according to a government report released Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Child killings cast light on isolated foreign moms

The arrest of a Chinese woman in Friday's fatal stabbing of two children she routinely drove to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, has cast a light on the problems foreigners face in trying to fit into Japanese society.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Lower House members not quite as rich

The average value of assets held by 479 House of Representatives lawmakers elected last September is 49.78 million yen excluding equities, according to a Kyodo News survey based on declarations released Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2006

Fuji Photo plans foray into drugs

Fuji Photo Film Co. said Monday it has become the leading shareholder in Tokyo drug venture Perseus Proteomics Inc. in a bid to push deeper into the medical business.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2006

Ad spending up thanks to Net

Spending on advertising came to 5.96 trillion yen in 2005, up 1.8 percent from the previous year for the second consecutive annual growth as the market for Internet ads grew more than 50 percent, Dentsu Inc. said Monday.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 21, 2006

Araujo wins award from press

Brazilian striker Araujo, whose 33 goals helped Gamba Osaka win its first J. League title last season, on Monday was named the 2005 Footballer of the Year in a poll of Japanese soccer writers.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Asahara's daughter beats school in court

The Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered the operator of Wako University to pay 300,000 yen in damages to a daughter of Shoko Asahara, founder of Aum Shinrikyo, for illegally denying her entry after she passed the school's entrance exam.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2006

Empire of debt has its limits

HONG KONG -- Recent news about U.S. current-account deficits with the rest of the world gives grim pause for thought from Beijing and Tokyo to London, and especially in Washington, for it shows the United States approaching the financial equivalent of a nuclear meltdown.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Yamanote Line halted after track section sinks

East Japan Railway Co. said Monday it found that a 15-meter stretch of track on Tokyo's Yamanote Line had subsided by up to 2 cm.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Aso now calls honey trap allegation hypothetical

Foreign Minister Taro Aso on Monday backed away from an earlier claim that China lured a consular official with a female spy, saying he offered the account only as a possible scenario.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 21, 2006

Taking the biz plunge

Japan has long been a point of interest for economists worldwide, picking itself up after World War II to create a gargantuan economy that, despite the post-Bubble crash, is still one of the largest in the world. But these stats do little to shed any light on what it's like doing business on the ground...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2006

Livedoor could be delisted if more warrants are issued

The Tokyo Stock Exchange may delist Livedoor Co. if prosecutors serve fresh arrest warrants to its former executives for the company's alleged accounting frauds, TSE President Taizo Nishimuro said Monday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 21, 2006

Insurance snubs and damages

Insurance snub My husband recently passed away. I have a three-year visa and a valid driver's license, but when I went to renew my insurance, I was told by the insurance company that they could not insure me because I was a foreigner.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 21, 2006

Does Takafumi Horie deserve everything that he's getting?

Jon Bro Student, 23 It wasn't right. What Horie was supposed to show to investors, he lied about, and probably the same things have been going on in a lot of places. In America, he would probably be going to jail, but for Japan, I can't say.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 21, 2006

Party round-up: Chloe, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Alexander Lee-Chang . . .

It's been a busy month for the Tokyo style scene, with a flurry of high-profile store openings culminating in an unveiling of the monumental Omotesando Hills that coincided with extravagant 100th anniversary bashes for luxury pen brand Mont Blanc and jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels. All this meant a punishing...
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
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