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BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Is it payback time for Mizuho?

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is in talks with financial authorities over the possible repayment of about 800 billion yen in public funds by the end of this month, sources said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 6, 2005

Jambo: 'hello' in Swahili, help for nature at large

David Howenstein does not believe in being jinxed, or in giving up, which is why after two abortive attempts to meet we finally link up. He arrives, suitably attired, by a typical three-speed bike for morning tea in Seibu, which is also rather derring-do.
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2005

An excuse for nuclear weapons

Sixty years ago, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, followed by one on Nagasaki three days later. The killing and injuring of hundreds of thousands of people ushered in an age that threatened nuclear annihilation. Since the East-West confrontation ended 15 years ago, the world has tended...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Ishihara told to eschew Yasukuni

Relatives of the war dead and citizens representing various groups demanded Friday that Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara refrain from visiting Yasukuni Shrine on the Aug. 15 anniversary of the end of World War II, but to no avail.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Deadly pair tied to another attack

Two men arrested on suspicion of murdering a homeless man in a Tokyo park last month are also suspected of attacking a 47-year-old company employee in June, investigators said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2005

Deciphering China's military intentions

HONOLULU -- Surely the most pressing security question confronting the United States in Asia and the nations of Asia themselves is: "Will China become a serious military threat in the western Pacific?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 6, 2005

What not to do in Japan: die

As a veteran resident approaching his 28th year in Japan, I would like to offer some simple advice to tourists, newbies and fellow graybeards as well. Which is:
MORE SPORTS
Aug 5, 2005

Colts lose Stokley to shoulder injury

With the sound of hard hits, blazing speed and dynamic super plays, the NFL is back in Tokyo for the first time in two years.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 5, 2005

Top soccer figures confound with contradictory words

LONDON -- England was gearing up to the start of the Ashes series against Australia, the cricket season building into its much-awaited climax.
EDITORIALS
Aug 5, 2005

Safeguards for a DNA database

The National Police Agency has been implementing a phased plan to construct a database of DNA patterns of suspects and convicted criminals to facilitate criminal investigations. DNA patterns, also called DNA fingerprints, can identify individuals almost as accurately as real fingerprints. A 2002 Interpol...
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

MTFG, UFJ expected to delay bank-unit merger, sources say

The merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. and UFJ Holdings Inc. in October has stumbled and the firms intend to postpone integrating their core banking units for another few months, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Famed Imperial Hotel chef Murakami dies of heart failure

Nobuo Murakami, former chief chef at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, died of heart failure Tuesday morning at his home in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, his family said Thursday. He was 84.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Noguchi tells Koizumi of space walk rush

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi says that during his first space walk last Saturday, he felt he would start plummeting toward Earth 400 km away.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Suginami delays vote on textbooks

The Suginami Ward board of education postponed Thursday's vote on whether to adopt two contentious social studies textbooks that have been criticized for distorting history and glossing over Japan's atrocities during the war.
Japan Times
JAPAN / 60 YEARS AND ONWARD
Aug 5, 2005

Postwar labor scene still grim for working women

Choice has been a long time coming for Japan's working women.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2005

Honda will go it alone on fuel-cell cars unless GM comes knocking

Honda Motor Co. will work alone to develop fuel-cell cars but is open to the idea of joint research with General Motors Corp., President Takeo Fukui said in an interview Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Postal privatization vote set for Monday

The long-awaited showdown vote on the postal privatization bills that could determine the fate of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration has been delayed until at least Monday, officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Money-transfer fraud up but total crimes down

The number of reported money-transfer frauds and the losses from them increased in the first half of 2005 from the same period last year, but total crimes, including those committed by minors, decreased for a third straight year, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2005

How London blitzed Paris for the Games

SINGAPORE -- London's winning bid for the 2012 Olympics at the 117th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Singapore came as a surprise July 6. The IOC voted 54-50 for London after Madrid, New York and Moscow were eliminated in the earlier rounds. French newspapers were already reporting...
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Runway extension OK'd as planned

The transport ministry made it official Thursday: Narita International Airport's second runway will be extended by 2010 to increase flight capacity at the nation's chief international gateway.
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.
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.
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
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.

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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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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