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CULTURE / Film
Aug 4, 2004

No winners or losers in 'The Face of Jizo'

In the early 1960s, Hisashi Inoue, the author of the original play "The Face of Jizo," was working under contract as a writer at NHK. The idea for the play came when he was sent to Hiroshima in the summer to do a program about the anti-nuclear movement.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 4, 2004

Guggenheim's show harks back to modern times

Several years ago, Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, approached Mori Building Co, Tokyo, about setting up a Guggenheim branch in Tokyo. The Guggenheim has recently opened centers in Bilbao, Berlin and Las Vegas. The idea was, in the end, rejected, but it did inspire...
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Koizumi doesn't want to see 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday criticized Michael Moore's popular and controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," which slams the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

350 attend Asia-Pacific conference

About 350 alumni of the East-West Center from 23 countries attended the opening Monday of a three-day international conference in Tokyo organized by the Hawaii-based research and education institution.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 3, 2004

Japan diet risks on rise

When Hiroyuki Suematsu left medical school in the early 1960s eating disorders were still rare in Japan. During his own childhood after the Pacific war binge eating would have been almost unthinkable.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Koizumi doesn't want to see 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday criticized Michael Moore's popular and controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," which slams the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Government considering Filipino nurse training plan

The government is studying the creation of a training system to accept Filipino nurses and other caregivers in Japan, officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Teachers who protest anthem to undergo 'retraining'

The Tokyo metropolitan board of education started a mandatory training program Monday for teachers who have been reprimanded for failing to stand up and sing the national anthem during school ceremonies.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Aug 3, 2004

Is your diet healthy in Japan?

Alexander Mande Student, 25 I think it's very, very good. Even eating day-old sushi is fresher than what I can get at home in Germany, except I don't like natto.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Aug 3, 2004

Health costs, counselling, and new jobs

Health Insurance I have been in Japan over a year and I have enrolled in Japanese Health Insurance. My first three monthly premiums cost 1,500 yen, but I have since been re-assessed and now my monthly premiums have jumped to a whopping 57,000 yen a month.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2004

Tax revenues see 10.9% rise

Tax revenues rose 10.9 percent in June from a year earlier to 2.047 trillion yen for the fifth straight monthly increase, due to the widening economic recovery, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2004

Average monthly wage continued decline in June

The average monthly wage at companies in June, including summer bonuses, fell 2.4 percent from a year earlier to 460,922 yen, falling for the second straight month, the government said in a preliminary report Monday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / A GAIJIN'S TALE
Aug 3, 2004

Keeping time

Punctuality is one of Japan's greatest virtues but for uninitiated foreigners it can be a source of frustration as well.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 3, 2004

Officials confirm Nagashima's absence

Japanese national baseball team manager Shigeo Nagashima, who is undergoing rehabilitation from a stroke suffered in March, has decided not to travel to Athens to lead the squad at the Olympics later this month, team officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2004

Credit Saison ties up with Monex

Credit Saison Co. said Monday it has teamed up with online brokerage Monex Inc. to sell investment trust products to its 16 million credit card holders.
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JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Convict fights to clear drug-running taint

Masaharu Katsuno says he survived a decade in an Australian prison because he held out hope that he, his two brothers and their two friends -- all convicted heroin smugglers -- would someday be exonerated of their crimes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2004

Man missing since 1976 possibly abducted: group

Suspicions have deepened that a man from Saitama Prefecture missing since 1976 was kidnapped to North Korea, an affiliate of the citizens' group NARKN said Monday.

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