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Japan Times
Features
Apr 24, 2005

Menswear to the rescue

The Fall 2005 season saw the Tokyo Collections in a sorry state.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2005

Students improve in standardized tests

Elementary and junior high school students showed improvements in the government's scholastic achievement tests conducted in January and February 2004 from those in 2002, according to the education ministry.
COMMENTARY
Apr 24, 2005

A provincial pitch for votes

LONDON -- Britain is now in the grip of a general election campaign with voting due May 5. As with political campaigns generally in the modern world, this one is heavily oriented toward domestic issues and disputes. Globalization and the worldwide information revolution seem to have had the opposite...
Japan Times
Features
Apr 24, 2005

Surreal circus of 'beasts' and beauties

Before the Heatherette show, during Fall 2005 New York Fashion Week, the paparazzi are doing what paparazzi do best: stalking their quarry with the determination of psychotic bounty hunters.
Features
Apr 24, 2005

Grande dame of haute kuchuuru

In the fickle world of fashion, where players come and go with the regularity of the seasons that their working lives are firmly pinned to, there are fortunately just a few who hang in there to lend some sense of continuity.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2005

Japan to propose giving energy tech to Third World

Japan will propose at a U.N. convention against global warming that industrialized nations transfer energy-saving technologies to developing nations as part of emission quota transactions, officials at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Saturday.
COMMUNITY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 24, 2005

Thirty years on, have no lessons been learned from Vietnam?

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a war that in Vietnam is known as the "American War."
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Apr 24, 2005

Book bite

HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JAPANESE PARTICLES, by Naoko Chino. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 2005, 198 pp., 2,200 yen (paper). There are 10 particles in the Japanese language that indicate time, 11 for connections between words, 12 for emphasis, and 14 that come at the end of a sentence...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 24, 2005

Documenting hell on Earth: At a theater near you

Because of the dangerous situation there, none of the commercial Japanese TV networks have staff correspondents in Iraq. On-site reporting that's shown on Japanese TV is from either other countries' news organizations or freelance Japanese reporters, the most prominent of whom is probably Takeharu Watai,...
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2005

N.Y. Times bureau chief honored

Internationally recognized journalist and author Howard W. French was awarded an honorary doctorate Saturday in Tokyo in recognition of his years reporting on Asia as chief of The New York Times' Tokyo and Shanghai bureaus.
Features
Apr 24, 2005

Wannabe style capital puts on a 'cute' show

"Fancy a trip to the Singapore Fashion Festival?" My gnarled editor swiveled around from the Mac and shot me a grin. "This looks like a junket."
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2005

Bug in antivirus software hits LANs at JR East, some media

Computer local area networks at East Japan Railway Co. and some media organizations were inaccessible Saturday morning, apparently due to a bug in antivirus software made by Trend Micro Inc.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Apr 24, 2005

Time for some Showa trivia and Heisei melodrama

GEISHA -- HARLOT -- STRANGLER -- STAR: A Woman, Sex & Morality in Modern Japan, by William Johnston. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 245 pp., $29.50, (cloth). ISOLATION, by Christopher Belton. New York: Leisure Fiction, 2003, $6.99, 372 pp., (paper). To be honest, I've never really understood...
CULTURE / Music
Apr 24, 2005

Hacienda Brothers: "Hacienda Brothers"

Vocalist Chris Gaffney, who has been kicking around the Southwest country-western scene for 25 years, and Dave Gonzalez, former guitarist for the rockabilly-blues band The Paladins, call the music they make as the Tucson-based Hacienda Brothers "western soul." Gaffney's baritone teeters somewhere between...
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2005

Koizumi, Hu hold talks

JAKARTA -- The leaders of Japan and China met Saturday in an effort to end a dispute over Japan's wartime aggression that has badly damaged relations between the two Asian powers and alarmed their neighbors.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2005

Purge U.N. panel of the freedom-haters

STOCKHOLM -- For Sweden, my homeland, the United Nations is a sacred cow. But today, many Swedes, like others around the world, are having second thoughts. Three events incited these doubts. The first was the slaughter in Rwanda a decade ago of more than 800,000 people within 100 days -- probably the...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 23, 2005

Plot thickens over meetings between Kenyon, Ferdinand

LONDON -- If, by chance, a guy bumped into an old girlfriend in a restaurant his wife would no doubt understand. Unfortunate coincidences happen, unplanned, innocent liaisons . . . hey, they're part of life.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 23, 2005

Dragons down Giants to top Central League

Kenshin Kawakami came within one out of a complete-game Friday as the Chunichi Dragons downed the Yomiuri Giants 5-2 to move into sole possession of first place in the Central League standings.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2005

Former teacher can't understand indictment over 'Kimigayo' protest

A former teacher pleaded not guilty in a court hearing Thursday to a charge of disrupting a graduation ceremony at a public high school in Tokyo last year by opposing the singing of "Kimigayo," the national anthem.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2005

81 Diet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

A Cabinet minister and at least 80 other Diet members visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2005

Lawmakers OK daylight-saving time draft bills

A group of lawmakers on Friday approved a package of draft bills to introduce daylight-saving time nationwide, with an eye to submitting them to the Diet next month, members of the group said.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2005

Doomed Cititrust hit with FSA order

The Financial Services Agency slapped Cititrust and Banking Corp., a Japanese trust banking unit of Citigroup Inc., with an administrative order Friday regarding its illegal business operations and for evading an agency inspection last year.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2005

Russian minister tight-lipped on oil pipeline plans

Russian Energy and Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko on Friday avoided saying whether Japan or China would be first to get a crude oil pipeline connection with eastern Siberia.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2005

Ban on 37 alien species approved

The government on Friday endorsed an ordinance to prohibit the importing and breeding of 37 nonnative species seen as endangering the ecosystem.
COMMENTARY
Apr 23, 2005

China and Japan have their work cut out

LOS ANGELES -- It is true that the issue of Japan's behavior a half century ago is not moot, especially if there is reason to believe that aggression against its neighbors is not truly a thing of the distant past.
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. 
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jars Tokara Islands amid flurry of seismic activity
A strong quake struck off the Tokara Islands on Thursday afternoon, with the island chain having recorded around 1,000 earthquakes since a burst of seismic activity first began on June 21.
Japan to require flight passengers to keep power banks within sight
The transport ministry has announced new regulations requiring flight passengers to keep power banks within sight to mitigate fire risks while on board planes.
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."
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.
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.

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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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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