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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 23, 2004

Class action

What would you do if you were sacked for "clicking your pen too much in class," or for "talking to yourself during your break" . . . or how about for "only eating the topping on your rice during lunch?"
COMMENTARY
Nov 22, 2004

Limits of education control

The proposed trilogy of tax and fiscal reforms, aimed at giving more fiscal independence to local governments, is troubled by disputes over whether the state should continue paying for compulsory education. At issue is whether the education ministry or the local autonomies should be responsible.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2004

Wanted: a more realistic Myanmar policy

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- It is now more than obvious that developments in Myanmar have taken a sad turn. The harden- ing of the junta's position does not augur well for future United Nations involvement. The generals in Yangon will not roll out the red carpet for a U.N. envoy whose efforts they had neutralized...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 22, 2004

Firms think little of government statistics, questionnaire shows

Among government statistics detailing the condition of the Japanese economy, the Cabinet Office's quarterly estimates of gross domestic product, the Finance Ministry's report on corporate activity, and the "tankan" survey by the Bank of Japan are widely known. But there are many other economic statistics...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2004

Wife of GSDF sergeant found dead in her home

The wife of a Ground Self-Defense Force sergeant was found dead at their house in late September while he was stationed in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Nov 21, 2004

Toilet humor in the Tokyo underground

"Tell Franck he's an asshole," barks David Pallash down the phone to me. "And that he is just tooooo French."
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2004

Kato makes LDP faction comeback

Veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Kato, who was once widely seen as a future prime minister, returned Thursday to an LDP faction to which he had previously belonged.
EDITORIALS
Nov 19, 2004

Capital and management

For nearly half a century, Seibu Railway Co. has given the Tokyo Stock Exchange false information about the equity stakes held by its major shareholders. In an unusually swift response, the TSE on Tuesday decided to delist the company, saying its systematic coverup of the stock ownership percentage for...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 19, 2004

Portsmouth's Redknapp, Mandaric reach uneasy truce in ongoing turf war

LONDON -- Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp and chairman Milan Mandaric are like a married couple constantly quarreling but who find it difficult to live together, though, equally can't live without each other.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2004

Iran strikes another nuclear deal

I ran has agreed to suspend its nuclear programs while it continues negotiations with European nations on the future of those efforts. While the government in Tehran is pleased with the results of the discussions, other nations, worried about the possible proliferation of nuclear weapons, should be more...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2004

Government is urged to offer more help for foreigners with HIV, AIDS

A group of researchers and nongovernmental organizations is urging the government to reinforce support measures for foreigners with HIV or AIDS in Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2004

Constitutional changes eyed to let female on throne, legalize military

A Liberal Democratic Party panel has compiled an outline for revising the Constitution that would allow for a "military force for self-defense," the Emperor as head of state and a female on the Imperial throne, LDP sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2004

Lower House panel debates foreign suffrage bill

A House of Representatives committee on Tuesday began deliberating a bill to enable permanent foreign residents of Japan to vote in local elections.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2004

Ozawa agrees to rejoin DPJ top brass

Ichiro Ozawa, former deputy president of the Democratic Party of Japan, agreed Tuesday to assume the party's vice presidency.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2004

Inaugural science-technology forum urges help for developing countries

KYOTO -- Calls for broader scientific and technological support for developing countries as well as increased participation in scientific debate by the public resonated throughout the second day of the Science and Technology in Society forum Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2004

Major science meeting in Kyoto gets under way

KYOTO -- Nearly 400 government ministers, Nobel laureates, corporate executives and leading scholars gathered here Sunday for a three-day conference to discuss the impact of scientific and technological progress on society.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2004

Delegates visit sites linked to abductees

Japanese delegates in North Korea for abduction talks visited locations Saturday near Pyongyang and in other parts of the country where Japanese abductees are said to have stayed, officials in Tokyo said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 14, 2004

Onscreen breakthroughs

Picture Pikachu on a noir trip, popped loose of the 2-D plane.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2004

Rakuten chief joins Ito policy panel

Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani has been appointed as the sixth member of a private advisory panel of Financial Services Minister Tatsuya Ito.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Five-day-week schools get shorter summer break

To make up for classroom hours lost since the introduction of a five-day school week, students at the 24 junior high schools in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward will lose one week from their summer vacation beginning next year, according to ward officials.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2004

Digital camera makers slash full-year forecasts

One after the other, Japan's major digital camera makers, have slashed their full-year sales forecasts due to fiercer-than-expected competition at home.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Embassy worker told to pay fine

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered a Japanese employee of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Tokyo to pay a 150,000 yen fine for a traffic accident she caused in 2002 on her way home from escorting a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister to a hotel.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2004

'Uniter' needs bipartisan foreign policy

SANTA FE, New Mexico -- The ballot counting goes on in New Mexico, the battleground state closest to Northeast Asia and U.S. Democrats' last stand, but to what avail? With the presidential election already decided, only the political arithmetic remains.
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2004

Tension rises in southern Thailand

Unrest continues to grow in southern Thailand. Long-standing grievances are being compounded by government bungling, insensitivity and negligence. Now, even Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra concedes that violence is likely to increase. A failure to properly respond to Muslim complaints will guarantee...
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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