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CULTURE / Music
Jun 22, 2005

Sacred sounds of Ainu tonkori resurrected

Keeping traditions alive is not easy; it's even harder when there is no one to teach them. When Ainu musician Oki recently re-created traditional tunes on the tonkori, the stringed instrument of the Ainu people, his only guides were pre-1970s recordings of tonkori music collected by ethnomusicologists...
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2005

Nissan shareholders rap directors' pay

The Nissan Motor Co. board of directors was paid too much in fiscal 2004, shareholders charged Tuesday at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Yokohama.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 21, 2005

Japan interleague play a hit with fans: poll

Interleague play, which was introduced to Japanese baseball for the first time ever this season, appears to be a big hit, if not quite a grand slam.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 21, 2005

Injured Marines hurler goes on DL

Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander Shunsuke Watanabe was removed from the active roster Monday after complaining of discomfort in his right elbow, team officials said.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 21, 2005

Money, good men, Vikings and markets

Fast, reliable AG offers advice from Yokohama on a fast and reliable way to get money from the USA to Japan.
COMMUNITY
Jun 21, 2005

Should we hunt whales?

The pro-whaling position anguishes those nations that resent Japan's apparent cruelty.
COMMENTARY
Jun 21, 2005

Career soldier sees China for what it is

LOS ANGELES -- How many of you out there would just love to see Colin Powell back in the saddle as U.S. secretary of state? Or, better yet, as secretary of defense, giving the boot to his arch-nemesis -- the war-prone Donald Rumsfeld?
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2005

Credit card companies urge calm over data theft in U.S.

Major credit card firms appealed Monday for calm after it was learned that personal information on tens of thousands of Japanese card holders may have been leaked as a result of a security breach in the United States.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Child-abuse consultations rise by 25%

Child consultation centers across the nation dealt with about a quarter more cases in fiscal 2004 than a year earlier, a preliminary survey by the welfare ministry showed Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Japanese credit card holders hit by security breach in U.S.

At least 30 credit card holders in Japan have been hit by fraudulent transactions resulting from the security breach announced Friday in the United States by MasterCard International Inc., according to industry officials.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Railways, Toei also paid off rightists?

Five Tokyo-based railways and a major movie producer invested a combined 58 million yen in a rightist-linked land-development company, officials of the firms said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2005

Seiyu to delist in Germany, Euronext

Supermarket chain operator Seiyu Ltd. said Monday it has decided to delist its shares from stock exchanges in Frankfurt and Duesseldorf and the pan-European Euronext due to low trading volumes there.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Ethnic Myanmar refugee pleads for policy change

A refugee from Myanmar belonging to an ethnic minority urged Japan on Monday to grant asylum to more of his compatriots, saying they face serious persecution back home.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Swindler Inagaki found guilty, avoids prison

Jitsuo Inagaki, a former state minister for Hokkaido and Okinawa development, was sentenced Monday to a suspended two-year prison term for illegally selling investment products that promised high returns and guaranteed the principal.
COMMUNITY
Jun 21, 2005

Should we hunt whales?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for shooting whales. Get a bunch of tourists, put them on boat, send it out to the North Pacific and let them fire off some rounds for an hour or two. Of course the ammunition used would be Kodak and Fuji stock, but it's a lot more humane than blowing them up. And it doesn't...
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Koizumi and DPJ trade accusations over drinking

The political battle over the government-backed postal reform plan took a new twist Monday when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rebutted an accusation by the main opposition party that he had consumed alcohol before a key House of Representatives plenary session last week.
EDITORIALS
Jun 21, 2005

Europe's crisis deepens

There were no doubts that last week's European Union summit would be difficult. The EU leadership has been in uncertain territory since two national votes rejected the new constitution. Few anticipated, however, that EU leaders would compound their troubles with an ugly squabble over the budget that...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 21, 2005

Are you for or against whaling?

Yuka Saito Finance, 23 Anti, because I don't think we need whale to eat. I've never eaten whale, but I've heard that it doesn't taste too good. There are lots of other things that we can eat besides whale, I think.
JAPAN / A GENERATION CLOCKS OUT
Jun 21, 2005

Baby boomers poised to turn pensioners en masse

A mass exodus looms in 2007 when baby boomers begin reaching retirement age, and the implications — both positive and negative — will be far-reaching.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Couple murdered before dormitory blast

Two people were found dead Monday following an explosion at a corporate dormitory in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, police said.
COMMENTARY
Jun 21, 2005

The euro's legs are shaking

LONDON -- Now that the proposed European Union Constitution has been well and truly sunk (although parts may be salvaged), could the same fate happen to the euro currency?

Longform

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