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JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

'Manga' industry worried cyberspace bootleggers may spread

Comic book artists and industry officials expressed concern Tuesday about the potential for illegal distribution on the Internet, pointing to cheap and simple technologies that could spawn homemade bootleg factories.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Trio deemed space shuttle-worthy

Three Japanese astronauts have been certified as U.S. space shuttle mission specialists, officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2006

Ignored epidemic: violence against women in Russia

NEW YORK -- It is under-recognized and under-reported. It is also one of the most significant epidemics in the Russian Federation today. It is gender violence, manifested essentially as violence against women. A recent report by Amnesty International, "Russian Federation: Nowhere to Turn to: Violence...
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Brokers to give up J-Com spoils

Fifty Japanese and foreign brokerages have offered to give up a combined 20.9 billion yen in profits they made by exploiting a trading error involving shares of staffing firm J-Com Co. in December, an industry group said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Matsushita, Sony unveil new cameras

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Sony Corp. unveiled new digital cameras Tuesday that will go on sale next month in a bid to get out in front of the pack amid intensifying competition.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Japan, GCC to hold pre-FTA talks

Japan and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council will hold preliminary talks on a free-trade agreement in late May, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Obituary: Fumio Takagi

Former Japanese National Railways President Fumio Takagi, who laid the groundwork for the 1987 privatization of the mammoth JNR, died of heart failure Tuesday, his family said. He was 86.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Steinmeier plans visit

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pay a three-day visit to Japan starting Monday to hold talks with his Japanese counterpart, Taro Aso, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Most U.S. beef processors safe: LDP team

Most U.S. beef processing facilities looking to export beef to Japan are taking sufficient measures to satisfy the criteria agreed upon between the United States and Japan, an inspection team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Mitutoyo unaware exports illegal?

High-tech precision instrument maker Mitutoyo Corp. issued a qualified denial Tuesday of knowingly engaging in the illegal export of machinery that could be converted for use in nuclear weapons production.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Nippon Steel ups stake in friendly ally

Nippon Steel Corp. will raise its equity stake in Sanyo Special Steel Co. to some 15 percent from the present 11.2 percent by the end of June as part of the two firms' business and capital alliance aimed at strengthening their competitiveness, the two steelmakers said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Tokyo department store sales inch up

Department store sales in Tokyo edged up 0.1 percent in January from a year before to E64.60 billion for the third consecutive monthly rise, thanks in part to a cold wave early in the month that helped move winter clothing, an industry group said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Tokyo Shoko shows bankruptcies up in January; Teikoku reports a fall

The number of corporate bankruptcies rose 2.6 percent in January from the previous year to 1,049, Tokyo Shoko Research said Tuesday, while Teikoku Databank announced that 730 firms went bankrupt in the same month, down 3.7 percent from the month prior.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Sompo hits staff for padding contracts

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said Tuesday it punished 527 people, including sales staff and their supervisors, last month for illegally padding the number of new contracts they sold to meet internal sales goals.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 15, 2006

Japan Times wins award for animal rights coverage

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) today announced that The Japan Times is this year's winner of its prestigious International Genesis Award, given in recognition of its Nov. 30, 2005 "breakthrough expose" headlined: " 'Secret' dolphin slaughter defies protests."
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Keidanren to promote Nakamura

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) said acting Director General Yoshio Nakamura will succeed Ryuko Wada as head of the powerful business lobby's secretariat.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

E-mail alleges Livedoor told unit to make false purchases

Livedoor Co. asked an online marriage information company suspected of playing a part in its alleged accounting fraud to provide a fictitious profit of 120 million yen to a Livedoor group company in 2004, a Livedoor e-mail message obtained Tuesday by Kyodo News showed.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Point man on N. Korea takes academic post

Japan's former top negotiator with North Korea, Hitoshi Tanaka, will become a guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo in April, school officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 15, 2006

Underwater walker beggars belief

The winter's snow gathers first as a dusting on the riverside vegetation. The wiry dwarf bamboo bows slowly under the accumulating blanket; shrubs and bushes disappear beneath duvet-like domes of crisp whiteness. The surrounding Hokkaido forest becomes hushed; the trees white-coated, their branches laden...
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.

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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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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