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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jul 24, 2004

Morio Matsui

In times of difficulty and pain, Morio Matsui says he has always been saved by his painting.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2004

Armitage wrong to link UNSC bid with reform of Article 9, officials say

Government officials on Friday dismissed advice by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and said Japan will not revise its Constitution to gain a seat on the U.N. Security Council.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2004

Shiseido taps hops to fight gray hair

Cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. said Friday it will debut a hair tonic containing hop extract to prevent graying.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / GARDEN PATHS
Jul 24, 2004

Down by the watersides

In the heat of summer we are naturally drawn to water, and for centuries water has been a vital element in Oriental gardens. In the ninth century, the Chinese poet Po-Chu-i (known as Hakurakuten in Japan) wrote about a small pond in his garden, and his words still evoke the timeless pleasures of the...
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2004

Softbank told to prevent info leaks

The telecom ministry on Friday again urged Internet service provider Softbank BB Corp. to take better care to prevent customer information from being stolen or leaked, ministry officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2004

Labor threatens golden FTA

SYDNEY -- Ah, such dilemmas in power politics. At last, after years of both sides giving concessions, Australia has gotten America to agree to a free trade agreement. And what does the Australian Labor Party do? Threaten to kill it before birth.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2004

McDonald's ups first-half estimates

McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) Ltd. on Friday revised its group net and pretax profit estimates upward for the first six months of the 2004 business year to 1.12 billion yen and 2.61 billion yen, respectively.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 23, 2004

PL boss set for Nozaki meeting

Pacific League President Tadao Koike said Thursday he has scheduled a meeting Friday in Tokyo with Hanshin Tigers President Katsuyoshi Nozaki to discuss moves by many of the Central League baseball clubs to keep the two-league system.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Afghan girl to get bullet removed from head

An Afghan girl arrived in Tokyo on Thursday to undergo surgery aimed at removing a bullet that has been lodged in her head since 1996, when she was shot during the civil war raging in her homeland, her supporters said.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Prince suffers irregular heartbeat

Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Emperor Akihito's eldest cousin, was taken early Thursday to a Tokyo hospital after suffering an irregular heartbeat, the Imperial Household Agency said.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Record 34,427 took own lives last year

A record 34,427 people committed suicide in Japan last year.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 23, 2004

Japan takes Women's World Series

A seven-run fifth inning gave host Japan a hefty lead to beat the United States 13-4 and take the title at the fourth Women's World Series baseball championship.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Kono China visit seen as bid to douse Yasukuni ire

House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono will make a six-day visit to China from Sept. 20 at the invitation of Beijing, according to sources close to the parliamentary leader.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIGHT SPY NEWS
Jul 23, 2004

Lagoon

Lagoon is the second in the current series of Dimension K parties at Ageha, the multifloored club in Shin Kiba. And one for which Giles Johnson, the promoter, plans to transform the club into a futuristic underwater world populated with Aquanauts, Parrotfish Girls and other creatures. The pool area...
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Independents to challenge governors

The incumbents in Wakayama and Yamaguchi will each go up against an independent in the Aug. 8 gubernatorial elections, with all four registering Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

IPO boom prompts overheating concerns

Japan's initial public offering market is booming, with the number of IPOs in the first half of this year topping 70 and expected to exceed the 120 of last year.
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

Business chiefs blame officials for shortcomings of Japan

OYAMA, Shizuoka Pref. -- Business leaders must lead the nation in soul-searching debate on Japan's security, diplomacy and constitutional issues, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Jul 23, 2004

Fuji Rock's nightlife takes it off the scale

A good three-point formula to apply when reviewing a bar is to consider 1) the setting, 2) the people and 3) the music. These are the main ingredients that best sum it up and measure its potential. Some places score higher on some counts than they do on others, but the nightlife at the Fuji Rock Festival...
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

Taxi drivers sue over smoking in cabs

A group of 26 taxi drivers and users filed a lawsuit Thursday at the Tokyo District Court, demanding 13.6 million yen in damages from the state over its alleged failure to actively curb smoking inside cabs.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

BSE report set to please beef exporters in U.S.

Japan and the United States compiled a report Thursday stating that blanket testing for mad cow disease has limitations in terms of detecting whether young cows have been infected with the brain-wasting illness.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2004

A third of workers are part-timers, temp staff

Part-time and temporary workers comprised 34.6 percent of the nation's workforce in 2003, up 7.1 percentage points from 1999, mainly due to corporate efforts to cut labor costs, according to a labor ministry survey released this week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

Portable digital-audio player market heating up

Competition is intensifying in Japan over a new breed of portable digital-audio players that allows music lovers to carry around a vast library of their favorite tracks.
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

Exports, imports hit record highs in first half

Japan's exports and imports hit record highs in the first half of 2004, underscoring solid growth in the Japanese and world economies, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 23, 2004

Dream of wind power flags

LONDON -- Is Britain about to reverse its policy on civil nuclear power? Could the British policymakers be reluctantly coming to accept that while the official energy policy is to keep only one nuclear power station going after 2020 it may in practice be necessary to build some more in order to ensure...
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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