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JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Jun 28, 2005

Citizen participation in international cooperation

A public symposium on how ordinary people can assist international cooperation activities based on the experiences of the European Union and Japan will be held July 14 in Yokohama.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 28, 2005

Visa crackdown -- don't get burned

Last year The Japan Times ran an article entitled "Students pay price in visa crackdown" about Americans put through the wringer on minor infractions.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Koizumi nixes LDP postal amendments

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected a request by his own Liberal Democratic Party on Monday to amend a set of bills now in the Diet that would privatize Japan Post, senior LDP members said.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Bird flu detection delay has ministry clucking

The farm ministry will begin seeking ways to detect weak strains of bird flu in the early stages, in light of the latest case in Ibaraki Prefecture where it took more than two months for the outbreak to be confirmed.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Japan Highway, other firms to be raided over bid-rigging

Prosecutors will raid offices of bridge builders and Japan Highway Public Corp. on Wednesday on suspicion of rigging bids for Japan Highway bridge construction projects, investigative sources said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 28, 2005

Pitching a Japan that can

A clash of interests among major U.N. member states is clouding the prospects for reform of the Security Council. While Japan, Brazil, Germany and India, known as the Group of Four (G4), seek permanent membership on the council, the Uniting for Consensus coalition, including Italy, South Korea and Pakistan,...
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2005

Shareholders' meetings going online

In another move to secure the loyalty of individual shareholders, nearly 400 Japanese companies have allowed or will allow individual investors to vote via mobile phones or personal computers for this year's general shareholders' meetings, which will peak Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 27, 2005

Brazilians too strong for Japanese volleyballers

Japan failed to capitalize on a two-set lead over powerhouse Brazil and lost 3-2 in a game between unbeaten teams in the preliminary round of the women's volleyball World Grand Prix on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2005

Rookie Kubo, Marines shut out Buffaloes

Catcher Tomoya Satozaki hit a pair of homers and rookie Yasutomo Kubo went the distance Sunday as the Chiba Lotte Marines downed the Orix Buffaloes 5-0 to snap a three-game losing streak.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2005

More of the same with the Koreas

Three days of high-level talks between North and South Korea yielded little that could be called progress toward resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. That is not surprising. The North has maintained all along that the nuclear issue is a question to be settled between itself and the United...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 27, 2005

Shining a light on Turkish-Japanese ties

NEW YORK -- Selcuk Esenbel was in town. For many years now a professor of history at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Selcuk was, when I met her more than 30 years ago, studying Japanese history at Columbia University. The fruit of that study is her 1998 tome, which she gave me during her previous visit...
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Jun 27, 2005

Tickets to Live8 concert now available through lottery

A lottery is now open for tickets to the Japan performance of the Live8 series of rock concerts aimed at getting world leaders to help Africa.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Japan seeking Yokota air control

Final negotiations have started over the return of vast airspace whose traffic control rights are now held by the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, according to government sources.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Nakasone against building a new war memorial

Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone expressed strong opposition Sunday to building a secular memorial to Japan's war dead that political leaders could visit without provoking Asian countries.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2005

Perceptions that defy amity

On a recent Korea Air flight from Narita to Inchon, South Korea, I was surprised when they showed images of air routes on the in-flight video system. The Tok-do islets in the Sea of Japan, the source of a Japan-South Korea territorial dispute, were shown as prominently as Tokyo and Seoul. The islets,...
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Alleged bid-riggers got huge Japan Highway deals

Forty-seven companies allegedly involved in rigging bids for government construction projects also won contracts worth a combined 443.7 billion yen over the past five years for steel bridge orders placed by Japan Highway Public Corp., according to internal Japan Highway documents.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2005

Will South Korea's economy follow Japan's?

GUATEMALA CITY -- Despite numerous economic stimulus packages during his tenure in office, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun must regret his promise to oversee annual economic growth of about 7 percent during his five-year term. As it is, the South Korean economy grew in the first quarter of 2005 at...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 27, 2005

Economists, remember to mind your Ps and Qs

Children are told to mind their Ps and Qs when they go visiting. They must be on their best behavior. They have to be able to speak like well-educated young people. They have to know P from Q. Well, so do economists, actually.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Poll indicates DPJ poised for gains

With one week to go before the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, a new poll shows support for the opposition Democratic Party of Japan among voters in the capital is up 10 percentage points from four years ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

German ambassador confident of UNSC success

Strong backing from developing countries is likely to be enough to get the "Group of Four" nations over the top in their effort to expand the U.N. Security Council, according to Germany's ambassador to Japan, Henrik Schmiegelow.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Asylum seekers get a big kick out of 'One Ball, No Border' tourney

Cheers and laughter echoed Sunday morning around Waseda University's soccer field in Nishitokyo as an estimated 150 people seeking asylum, lawyers, Japanese volunteers and friends gathered for an annual futsal tournament to mark World Refugee Day.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 26, 2005

Late show from Rhodes as Giants down Tigers

Tuffy Rhodes hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning Saturday to lift the Yomiuri Giants to an 8-6 win over the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 26, 2005

Mongolian obtains citizenship

Mongolian makuuchi division rank-and-filer Kyokutenho has obtained Japanese citizenship, sumo sources said Friday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 26, 2005

New book offers interesting retrospective on Japanese game

Remembering Japanese Baseball, an Oral History of the Game is the title of a new book by Robert K. Fitts, the creator of RobsJapanese Cards.com, the world's largest Web site dedicated to Japanese baseball cards and memorabilia.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
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. 
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.
U.S. military apologizes over Okinawa sexual assault case
Col. Neil Owens (right), chief of staff for the 3rd Marine Division, bows in apology at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha 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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