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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 19, 2005

Buying in bulk and omiyage

Costco JS in the U.S. writes: "I am a Costco member in the U.S. and I am able to use my card at the stores in Japan. All I had to do was stop by the membership desk on the way in the first time and make sure that their system could access my account. I have to imagine that the arrangement works in reverse...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2005

The most dangerous civilian job in Iraq

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- In the translation world, the Italian phrase "traduttore, traditore" (translator, traitor) is used to suggest the inability to capture all the meaning in the original text and transfer it into another language because something inevitably gets lost in translation. Insurgents in...
SUMO
Jul 18, 2005

Bulgarian Kotooshu upsets Asashoryu

Bulgarian Kotooshu upset grand champion Asashoryu Sunday to end the Mongolian yokozuna's winning streak and topple him from his position as sole front runner at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
EDITORIALS
Jul 18, 2005

Japan's quiet time bomb

Health problems linked to asbestos, which was used in large quantities as heat-insulation material for buildings during the period of Japan's high economic growth, are spreading among workers who inhaled the substance in the past. One enterprise after another has released lists of workers who have died...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jul 18, 2005

In final analysis, postal bills hold key to rationalizing the status quo

Now that he's back from the Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi faces an uphill battle to get his postal privatization bills approved by the House of Councilors.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2005

Japan to help build sub reactor graveyard in Vladivostok

The government will join hands with Russia to build a facility to store reactor components from dismantled nuclear submarines on the outskirts of Vladivostok in hopes of preventing radioactive pollution in the Sea of Japan, government sources said Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2005

Senior LDP lawmakers don't want election over postal privatization

Three senior lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party came out Sunday against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's stated plan to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold an election if his postal privatization bills are voted down.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 17, 2005

Did Kapler fall victim to old trick?

Now-former Yomiuri Giants outfielder Gabe Kapler has cleared waivers after being released by the Tokyo team, and he appears headed back from where he came -- Boston -- and a shot at a second consecutive World Series championship ring.
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2005

DPJ exec calls for Cabinet PKO unit

Seiji Maehara of the Democratic Party of Japan has proposed setting up a military unit under the Cabinet specializing in U.N.-authorized international cooperation and peacekeeping operations, DPJ sources said Saturday.

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