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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 23, 2005

Best to dig deep and study language from its roots

W hen I was growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, the L.A. County Board of Education decided that the children of the city should learn Spanish. While the language was not made compulsory, it was taught to us regularly with the usual visual aids, such as pictures of elephants, giraffes, mountains...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2005

DoCoMo e-mail addresses leaked

The Web site of an Internet company on Guam temporarily allowed access to a list of e-mail addresses of some 71,000 users of NTT DoCoMo Inc. mobile phones, NTT DoCoMo officials said Saturday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 23, 2005

Look for change next year

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's determination to visit Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine needs to be seen in the perspective. The visit was not necessarily, as Beijing and Seoul seem to believe, a final proof of prime-ministerial evil.
Features
Oct 23, 2005

Japan's take on the issue of diagnosis

Cancer diagnosis has long been a divisive issue in Japan.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 23, 2005

Check out vintage clothing in TV Tokyo's "Kaiun! Nan'demo Kanteidan" and more

Though he isn't considered elegant, comedian-musician Joji Tokoro has a distinctive sense of style that goes beyond his huge collection of eyewear and short-cropped blonde hair.
Japan Times
Features
Oct 23, 2005

Sickness unto death, without despair

One summer morning in 2001, a good friend of mine, Bronson Conrad, rang me at my Manhattan home. After we'd chatted for a while, he broke the news that he had incurable, terminal cancer in his hip bone.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 22, 2005

Henry confirms status as best player in Premier League

LONDON -- There can be little doubt that Chelsea has the best team in England, breaking records almost for fun. But for all its many qualities, Chelsea does not have the Premiership's best player, and the return of Thierry Henry in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Sparta Prague last Tuesday underlined his true...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

NPA plans hotline for 'harmful' Internet content

The National Police Agency plans to set up an online hotline for the public to report illegal or harmful content they spot on the Internet, such as that related to drug trafficking, child pornography or the production of explosives, NPA officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Emissions data put Kyoto target in doubt

Japan emitted 1.329 billion tons of greenhouse gases in fiscal 2004, up 7.4 percent from the benchmark year of 1990 set under the Kyoto Protocol, the Environment Ministry announced Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Press curbs infuriate media body

The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association urged the government on Friday to reconsider proposed legislation that would give police the discretion to withhold the identity of crime victims, saying this information is essential for reporting.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Overfishing threatening too many species: expert

efforts, after a few years the population will be rebuilt and we catch more," Pauly said. To help depleted fish stocks recover, 10 percent to 30 percent of the world's oceans should be protected, he said. Currently, less than one percent of the ocean is protected.
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 2005

How not to manage U.S.-Singapore ties

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps the last thing that the well-run city-state of Singapore needs is for some outside columnist to defend it. Among the many natural-born rhetorical defenses available on this amazing island is the redoubtable Lee Kuan Yew. Even at 82, the founding prime minister of modern Singapore...
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2005

Leveling the finance playing field

A review of the nation's eight government-affiliated financial institutions is gaining momentum in response to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's drive to abolish, integrate or privatize them. Shortly after Mr. Koizumi took power in 2001, he included the reform of those institutions in his "reform without...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

U.S. realignment talks in danger

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Friday that Japan and the United States might not hold realignment talks next week if the two sides fail to agree on where to move the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2005

Sex inequality slows growth

NEW YORK -- A growing number of countries have adopted population and development policies to meet the health-care and education needs of women, including their reproductive health needs. In spite of that, gender inequality persists in most countries around the world. According to the United Nations...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 22, 2005

Naive 'gaijin' meets Paparazzi Parakeet

Japanese people have a reputation for loving to take photos. In Japan, it's not uncommon for complete strangers to ask you to join in their photo just so they can be in a picture with a "gaijin."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 22, 2005

Margarita Carrillo de Salinas

"The most important room in our house in Mexico was the huge kitchen. We six children went in with our bicycles; our mother was cooking, we all helped. Our grandparents were there -- our father, a lawyer, was always encouraging family life around the table. That is the way I got my interest in food,"...
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Japan eyes 27.2% duties on Hynix DRAMS

The government said Friday it has notified South Korea that it may levy a 27.2 percent import duty on computer chips made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Livedoor aims to control mail-order firm Cecile

Internet services firm Livedoor Co. said Friday it is trying to set up a Cecile Co. subsidiary and will acquire a majority stake in the mail-order business for more than 20 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Kabu.com boosts first-half revenue

Online brokerage kabu.com Securities Co. said Friday its unconsolidated operating revenue in the April-September period shot up 52.6 percent from a year earlier to 8.21 billion yen on robust stock trading.
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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