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BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Japan Post eyes global distribution ties

Japan Post is in talks with TNT Post Group NV of the Netherlands and several Japanese transportation companies about an international distribution alliance, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

U.N. resolution stresses NPT

Japan on Wednesday submitted a revised nuclear disarmament draft resolution to the United Nations that underscores the importance of an effective framework for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Aomori formally OKs ITER research center in Rokkasho

Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura said Wednesday his prefecture will accept a request from the central government to host a research center related to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor to be built in France.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2005

From national security to human security

The suffering and death inflicted by last December's tsunami and Hurricane Katrina shows the need to reframe security in human terms.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Undies-theft video angers TV Asahi

An independent TV production company submitted to police a videotape that was meant to be aired by TV Asahi Corp. showing an underwear burglary, the broadcaster said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 13, 2005

Filling an emptiness with public play

Just before Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi died of pneumonia in 1988, he completed his final legacy, the master plan for Moerenuma Park north of Sapporo in Hokkaido. Seventeen years later, the 189-hectare park envisaged by Noguchi as one large sculpture was finally completed in July at a cost...
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Government still bullish on economy

The government Wednesday maintained its bullish assessment of the economy from the previous month, with officials citing recoveries in personal spending and exports.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Eight Japanese-Filipinos file for citizenship in Tokyo

Eight Japanese-Filipinos born in the Philippines prior to the end of World War II applied Wednesday with the Tokyo Family Court to be registered as Japanese citizens.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Electronic toll collection tops 50%

The transport ministry said Wednesday that 50.2 percent of vehicles used the electronic toll collection system when they passed through toll booths on expressways between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Direct financing boon for insurers

Life insurance companies are increasingly tapping the capital market directly, a trend expected to help improve their financial flexibility and credit quality, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

FamilyMart expanding

Convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. will open some 40 stores in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture in the business year through February 2007, becoming the second convenience chain with a nationwide network after Lawson Inc., its president said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 13, 2005

Pop mystification

Sigmar Polke has a lot in common with the medieval alchemists with whom he identifies. Like them, he is interested in transmutation, sometimes employing pigments and techniques that make his paintings change over time. Like those pseudo-scientists of the past, he uses a combination of mystification and...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 13, 2005

When revolution came to the big screen

1969 was a watershed year for American cinema, with two films in particular heralding significant changes to the movie-making industry. One was "Midnight Cowboy," the story of a hustler and a junkie on the streets of New York City, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; this became the first X-rated...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Jenkins hopes book helps settle abduction cases

how they handle the abductions . . . they are doing everything they can do," he said. In his memoir, Jenkins says he met or witnessed many people in North Korea who he believed were definitely abductees from Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong and other parts of Southeast Asia.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Six insurance execs face pay cuts

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. said Wednesday it will cut the pay of President Hiroyuki Uemura and five other executives over a scandal in which it failed to make payments in some 25,000 cases over a three-year period.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Keidanren grades LDP over DPJ

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) generally gave higher grades to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party over the Democratic Party of Japan in an assessment of the two parties' policies and achievements.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Pentax, Korean firm target DSLRs

Pentax Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed with Samsung Techwin Co. of South Korea to jointly develop digital single-lens reflex cameras.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Taiwanese let ruling on Yasukuni lawsuit stand

Taiwanese who sued the government over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine will not appeal to a higher court, their lawyers said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

BOJ retains its ultraloose money policy

The Bank of Japan maintained its ultraloose monetary policy Wednesday, leaving the current account balance target unchanged at 30 trillion yen to 35 trillion yen.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2005

Thai champ stops Naito

Japanese boxer Daisuke Naito lasted longer this time against Thai champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam but his renewed bid for a world title ended in the seventh round Monday in a rematch of their WBC flyweight fight.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2005

Swallows' Aoki first in CL to top 200 hits

Norichika Aoki hit a leadoff single to right field in the first inning of the Yakult Swallows' 5-0 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday night, making him the second player in Japanese baseball history to reach 200 hits in a single season.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2005

Supreme Court upholds former Itoman exec's 10-year term

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by a former managing director of the now-defunct trading house Itoman Corp. against his prison sentence for his part in a scam that caused the company to incur huge losses, judicial sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2005

Postal bills fly through Lower House

got what he wanted by fair means or foul," Kamei said after the vote. "It seems as if the 'age of civil wars' has been revived in modern society and I fear that democratized Japan will disappear."
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2005

Ministry sees 85,000 asbestos deaths

Deaths caused by asbestos-related mesothelioma and lung cancer in Japan could reach 85,000, Environment Ministry sources said in an estimate Tuesday.
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
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.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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