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JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

Japan looks to build own unmanned spy aircraft

A Defense Agency research institute plans to produce two prototype high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance aircraft by fiscal 2012 at a total cost of 22 billion, yen it was learned Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 20, 2005

Shakespeare as never before

Last October, 27-year-old kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke called theater director Yukio Ninagawa, who was working in London at the time, to see if he would create a unique kabuki piece for Kikunosuke's debut production for the Kabuki-za.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

MHI to get license to produce PAC-3 interceptor missiles

Japan and the United States agreed earlier this year that ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability 3 interceptor missiles will be produced under license in Japan as part of the missile defense system, Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

'85 JAL crash still painful for the families

Relatives of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash have published a collection of essays as part of efforts to keep alive the tragedy -- which killed 520 people -- ahead of its 20th anniversary on Aug. 12.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 20, 2005

The Bard on the hanamichi

With his characters given samurai names and clad in kimono, whatever would the Bard make of this "Twelfth Night" by Japan's foremost Shakespeare dramatist, 69-year-old Yukio Ninagawa? This veteran theatrical explorer long vowed never to tackle kabuki, but is doing just that with "Twelfth Night" to packed...
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2005

JEC splits stock in bid to counter a possible takeover by Yumeshin

Japan Engineering Consultants Co. has decided it will carry out a 5-for-1 stock split as a defensive measure against a possible takeover bid by Yumeshin Holdings Co., according to Japan Engineering officials.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

West Nile research planned before virus arrives

The health ministry will begin comprehensive research on West Nile fever, which experts believe could enter Japan from the United States or Siberia at any time, officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

Station has back-to-back signal mixups

A train almost entered a track where another train was stopped Sunday night at JR Kumamoto Station because the signal, which was being manually operated, was green, and a similar incident took place on the same track a few minutes later, transport ministry officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2005

M&As latest theme in the game of Life

Toy maker Takara Co. plans to launch a board game in Japan based on mergers and acquisitions amid growing interest in corporate power struggles.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

Ruling upheld nixing redress over Unit 731 germ warfare

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision denying Chinese plaintiffs compensation for germ warfare atrocities committed in China by the Imperial Japanese Army during the war.
EDITORIALS
Jul 19, 2005

Collusive ripoff 'from heaven'?

The bid-rigging scandal involving major bridge builders has again brought into public view the structural collusive relationship between private enterprise and the public sector. The scope of the criminal investigation -- which originally targeted projects ordered by local bureaus of the Land, Infrastructure...
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2005

North willing to build ties, Japan is told

Taku Yamasaki, former vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Monday he asked South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young to understand Japan's intention to take up the abduction issue at the upcoming six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear programs.
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2005

Retired athletes learn to survive life after sport

While all workers in Japan feel pressure to perform at the top of their game, that's probably more true for professional athletes than anyone else.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 19, 2005

Foreign mothers fight for children's futures

Rosanna Tapiru's problems really began shortly after her arrival in Japan.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2005

80% of banks keep mass personal data

Almost 80 percent of Japan's banks store personal data on at least 100,000 people each, a Cabinet Office survey showed Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2005

'Connoisseur tourists' flock to charter jets

The major travel agencies are chartering an increasing number of jumbo jets to offer bargain-priced package tours to "rather unusual" tourist destinations across the world.
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2005

Money -- the toughest hurdle in sport

Just as many professional athletes struggle to carve out a second career after they retire, amateur sports players are also confronting some really hard times.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2005

Rainy season subsides in Honshu

The rainy season appears to be over in a large portion of Honshu stretching from the western tip of the Chugoku region to the Kanto plain surrounding the Tokyo metropolitan area, the Meteorological Agency said Monday.
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’

Longform

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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