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BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2005

U.S. insurance lobbyist calls for 'kampo' fair play

The visiting president of an American life insurer group urged the Japanese government Thursday to ensure a "level playing field" when it proceeds with the privatization of its huge postal life insurance service, scheduled to begin in 2007.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2005

Wages seen rising 1.7% after talks

A private think tank forecast Thursday that wages in Japan will increase 1.7 percent on average from year-before levels after the annual spring wage negotiations.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2005

IRCJ names three innkeepers as last firms to receive bailout

The state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan said Thursday it will help rehabilitate three lodging companies and indicated they would be the last bailouts.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Feb 4, 2005

Ancient Asakusa still central to community

The day in Asakusa begins with the tolling of the Senso-ji bell at 6 a.m. The temple bell, located behind two bronze bodhisattva statues dating back to 1678, is one of the nine official Time Bells of Edo, established in 1692.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 4, 2005

In search of the real flavor of Yokohama's Chukagai

In some quarters it's become almost knee-jerk to denigrate Yokohama's Chinatown. Too clean and tidy, they sneer, it feels like a theme park. It's just for tourists. And, the most serious charge of all, the food just isn't authentic. To which the Food File would retort: Perhaps so; not necessarily; and...
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2005

Toyota sees 1 trillion yen year as profit rises 3.5%

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its group net profit in the October-December period rose 3.5 percent from a year earlier to 296.5 billion yen, clearing the way for its profit for the year to March to exceed 1 trillion yen for a second consecutive year.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2005

Takaoka, Wainaina on marathon list

Japanese record-holder Toshinari Takaoka and two-time Olympic medalist Eric Wainaina of Kenya were among the 11 runners invited to this month's Tokyo International Marathon, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2005

Sharapova, Kuznetsova on cruise control

Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova proved once again why all that glamour isn't just sugarcoating.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2005

Sato decides to hang up gloves

Former WBA super-bantamweight champion Osamu Sato said Wednesday he is ending his 10-year boxing career.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2005

Miyakejima calling

It has been four years and five months since volcanic activity on Miyakejima island, about 200 km south of Tokyo, forced all residents to evacuate. On Wednesday, the first group of 62 people returned to the island. We congratulate them on their homecoming, although life on the island is fraught with...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

Bank card crimes fuel rush to biometric systems

The growing number of bank account thefts involving stolen or forged bank cards is forcing financial institutions to adopt costly biometric technology to verify that only bona fide customers are using automated teller machines.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

Hitachi to acquire majority stake in PDP tieup with Fujitsu

Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it will acquire a majority stake in a 50-50 plasma display panel manufacturing joint venture with Fujitsu Ltd., as it aims to bolster its PDP TV business amid intensifying competition.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

'Tokyo' blamed for bank's lengthy name

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. and UFJ Holdings Inc. plan to name the new commercial bank to be created by their Oct. 1 merger the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, banking sources said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 3, 2005

Fear of rips in the EU fabric

LONDON -- The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of state -- including the European Union -- and destroy the civilization that has been...
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

Itochu, Turner to fund cartoons

Itochu Corp. said Wednesday it will start a Japanese animation fund with Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific Inc. to produce programs for broadcast in Japan and the United States.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

Monetary base up 3.9% in January

Japan's monetary base grew 3.9 percent in January from a year earlier for the 48th consecutive monthly increase, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Feb 3, 2005

"Pirates!" "Mammalabilia"

"Pirates!" Celia Rees, Bloomsbury; 2004; 296 pp. Celia Rees's "Pirates!" is a gripping read from page one: It gains on you like Blackbeard's fearsome pirate ships, takes you hostage, and holds you without mercy till the last page. Her story of two young women taking to a life at sea as pirates is so...
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2005

FSA mulling life insurance deregulation

The Financial Services Agency might partially deregulate the life insurance sector in fiscal 2005, including expanding the range of insurance products with discounted premiums, according to agency sources.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Feb 3, 2005

No ends in sight to quell Matsuki's rage

Mr. Matsuki, our forester here at the Afan Woodland Trust in Kurohime, Nagano Prefecture, came to me just before Christmas in a very bad mood. He does get grumpy sometimes (he's quite famous for it), but this time he was very, very cross. He stormed into my house, not even bothering to say hello, came...
COMMUNITY
Feb 3, 2005

A common thyroid disease that's easily overlooked

Of late, do you find yourself becoming very tired or sleepy without any particular reason? Do you feel that you cannot concentrate on your studies or work as well as before? If so, you should have your levels of thyroid hormone checked.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 2, 2005

Sugiyama crashes out in first round of Toray Pan Pacific Open

Ai Sugiyama's miserable start to 2005 continued as Japan's top player was dumped out of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in the first round by Italy's Roberta Vinci on Tuesday.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 2, 2005

Nakata snubbed for World Cup qualifier?

Italian-based midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata is unlikely to be called up for Japan's upcoming World Cup qualifier against North Korea, Japan Football Association president Saburo Kawabuchi said Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 2, 2005

Japan team named for Dynasty Cup

U.S.-based Shigeki Maruyama and JGTO money title holder Shingo Katayama will head the Japanese team taking on the Rest of Asia side at the Dynasty Cup in April, the Japan Golf Tour Organization 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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