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JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Asylum-seeker prefers death before detention

An Afghan asylum-seeker suffering depression and posttraumatic stress disorder tried to kill himself last week while being moved from a hospital in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, to a detention facility, it was learned Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Hemophiliac targets hepatitis C blunders

A hemophiliac who achieved fame through his dogged fight to make the government accountable for the use of HIV-tainted blood products is picking a fight again, this time over Tokyo's handling of hepatitis C.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Isle intruders get fast boot back to China

Seven Chinese activists who were arrested for illegal entry after landing on the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea were deported to China on Friday night.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Japan on Hamas' side: Israel envoy

Israeli Ambassador to Japan Eli Cohen lodged a protest Friday with the Foreign Ministry over Japan's condemnation of Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2004

The last thing Japan, China need

Japan-China relations are strained again, this time over a territorial dispute involving a group of uninhabited islets in a potentially oil-rich area of the East China Sea. On Wednesday, seven Chinese activists landed on one of the Senkaku Islands. Japanese police arrested them for violating the Immigration...
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 27, 2004

Nagashima moves hospital

Former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima transferred to another Tokyo hospital on Friday to begin a rigorous physical therapy program, Yomiuri spokesman Atsushi Harasawa said the same day.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Chongryun embezzler gets six years

A former head of the financial bureau of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun) was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for embezzling 837 million yen from the failed Chogin Tokyo Credit Union.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Tension mounts before MLB hits Tokyo Dome

It was business as usual Friday afternoon at Tokyo Dome -- high school boys checking out baseball memorabilia at a store, mother-toddler pairs munching away at a fast food joint near the stadium gates.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 27, 2004

On splitting the cultural fairway

Out on the hometown golf links with an old high school chum, I soon ended up in trouble -- for our initial drives found me in ankle deep rough and him sitting pretty on a small rise in the center of the fairway. Before plunging into the weeds, I complimented my friend on his position, and he returned...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Toyota makes Forbes' 2004 top 10

Toyota Motor Corp. was the highest-ranked Japanese company in Forbes magazine's 2004 corporate rankings, moving up to the eighth spot from 10th a year earlier, the U.S. business magazine said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Tokyu poised to sell 85% of travel unit to investment firm

Railway firm Tokyu Corp. said Friday it will sell 85.03 percent of wholly owned travel subsidiary Tokyu Tourist Corp. to Activ Investment Partners Ltd. for 2.49 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Deflation maintained grip on Tokyo in fiscal '03

A key gauge of consumer prices in Tokyo edged down 0.3 percent in fiscal 2003 for the fifth straight annual decline.
COMMUNITY
Mar 27, 2004

Ability to get up and go anywhere is true power

In India, he went to Darjeeling for one reason only: to drink tea.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Mitsui Chemicals in China venture

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. said Friday it has agreed with Chinese petrochemical company Sinopec Corp. to form a joint venture to make a high-performance plastic component used in home electronics and optical discs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Ex-North Korean spy wants hand in collapse of Kim's empire

KITAKYUSHU -- On Aug. 30, 1993, four North Korean agents slipped over the 38th parallel into South Korea. Disguised as South Korean soldiers, their mission was to spy on U.S. and South Korean forces near Panmunjun.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Ex-NCB pair must pay 500 million yen to RCC for bad loans

The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered two former executives of the failed Nippon Credit Bank to pay 500 million yen in damages to the state-run Resolution and Collection Corp. because they hurt the bank by extending irrecoverable loans.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Experts mull extent of bird flu infection among crows

The infection of eight crows in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures with avian flu has raised concerns that wild birds that get near people may become potential vehicles for the virus.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Is the Senkaku row about nationalism -- or oil?

The Senkaku Islands are a group of rocky, deserted islets in the East China Sea that are known as a home for albatrosses.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Listed firms try to keep faith of investors by bearing gifts

The rationale is simple: If you want investors to hold on to your company's shares, send them gifts.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 27, 2004

Meet the 'Brunei millionaire' -- and run!

So you thought you'd take a trip to Southeast Asia to get away from the pressures of modern life, including the spam that clogs your e-mail daily, especially those Nigerian scams that ask you to give your bank account information. As if you'd be so daft. So you plan a short trip to an exotic locale,...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Diet passes 82 trillion yen '04 budget

The Diet on Friday passed the fiscal 2004 budget, which totals 82.11 trillion yen.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2004

Boy crushed in Roppongi Hills' doors

A 6-year-old boy died Friday after his head was crushed in the revolving doors at the main entrance to the Mori Tower building in the Roppongi Hills complex in Minato Ward, Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 27, 2004

Angela B. Infante

After the end of World War II, Japanese people were in need. With the basic necessities of food, clothing and housing in short supply, and daily amenities almost unobtainable, the people suffered. Some concerned non-Japanese women living in Tokyo came together to provide help. They resurrected a prewar...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2004

Tale of three Asian elections

SINGAPORE -- Taiwan held its landmark presidential election last Saturday, Malaysia organized legislative elections last Sunday, and Indonesian legislative elections are scheduled April 5.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2004

Firms may get to air English results

A government financial panel opened discussions Friday to allow foreign companies to release their financial results in English to promote overseas investment in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2004

Tony Blair loses his touch

LONDON -- When he led the reformed British Labour Party to two overwhelming general election victories in 1997 and 2001, Tony Blair epitomized a new political generation that would sweep away both the cobwebs of traditional socialist policy and the increasingly incoherent, sleaze-tainted performance...
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
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
By Mai Yoshikawa

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