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JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Princess Aiko nears first birthday

Princess Aiko, the first child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, will celebrate her first birthday Sunday.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Nissan hopes Micra compact will be a big hit in Europe

SUNDERLAND, England -- Nissan Motor Co.'s remodeled Micra compact car rolled off the assembly line here Friday with hopes it will help the carmaker further penetrate the competitive European market.
EDITORIALS
Nov 30, 2002

A new law to help the abductees

The government is set to provide financial and other support for Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea and their family members who return to Japan. On Thursday the Lower House unanimously passed a special bill for this purpose, which is due to clear the Upper House next week and take effect Jan....
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Koizumi ponders changes to local corporate taxes

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday the government may allow local governments to tax corporations on the basis of business size rather than profits, and the rate could differ by region.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Fire on car-laden freighter doused

A fire aboard a car-carrying freighter aground on Izu-Oshima Island was extinguished Friday morning after blazing for about 76 hours, the Japan Coast Guard said.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Consumer price index slips 0.7%

The key gauge of consumer prices in Tokyo fell 0.7 percent in November from a year earlier for a record 38th straight month of year-on-year declines, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Car-sharing gears up to find a foothold

SEIKA, Kyoto Pref. -- Sonoko Umemura, an official at the Kansai Economic Federation in Osaka, reserves a car by mobile phone when she travels to Kansai Science City so that she can drive to research centers scattered across an area not well served by the public transportation system.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 30, 2002

Teams line up to snatch Emperor's Cup

Seeking the honor of being Japan's No. 1 soccer club and a cash prize of 100 million yen, qualifiers from each prefecture and teams from the semi-pro Japan Football League will challenge J. League clubs in the upcoming Emperor's Cup.
COMMENTARY
Nov 30, 2002

West Coast optimists say the sun also rises

LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes the only explanation for it is that there are two Americas. The East Coast America, with its dark cynicism and worldly seen-it-all sangfroid, sees Asia as mostly a problem and a threat. But West Coast America, soaking up its proximity to Asia and reveling in local Asian ethnicities...
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Ministry to prop up sinking Kansai airport

To save debt-ridden Kansai International Airport Co., the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has drawn up a bailout plan to provide the semipublic airport operator with about 9 billion yen in subsidies a year and offer government guarantees on short-term bonds to be issued by the company.
COMMENTARY
Nov 30, 2002

Opposition, come out please

LONDON -- Parliamentary institutions in Britain and Japan currently have one thing in common -- they lack an effective and credible opposition. The absence of opposition can allow governments with large majorities to ignore public opinion, at least in the short term, and behave in an autocratic way,...
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Prosecutors want acquittal of HIV expert overturned

Prosecutors on Friday demanded that the Tokyo High Court overturn a lower court acquittal of a former vice president of Teikyo University in connection with the AIDS death of a male hemophiliac patient in 1991.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 30, 2002

WTA drops Princess Cup

The Toyota Princess Cup, one of three official tournaments played in Japan on the women's professional tennis circuit, has been dropped off the WTA Tour calendar for next year, Japanese tennis officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Panel wants less control over rice

The agricultural policy panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday called on the government to give farmers more freedom in running their paddies.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 30, 2002

Roaches with secret technology win war

I came home the other day and noticed someone had been eating my porridge. "Someone's been eating mine too," said my husband. "And there he is!" I got my shotgun and pointed it at the roach. Bam! He's gone now.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Billions in taxes misused: report

Government organizations and state-funded corporations improperly spent more than 24 billion yen in taxpayer money in fiscal 2001, the Board of Audit said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Government wants Jenkins to be treated in Japan

The government has demanded that North Korea send Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. soldier married to a returned Japanese abductee, to Japan to treat his illness at a hospital here, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Katayama to tackle vote controversy

Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama pledged Friday to rectify an unconstitutional situation in which votes cast in elections on behalf of disabled people who are unable to write or go to the polls are not accepted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Nov 30, 2002

Representative office gives visitors hands-on approach to Yamanashi

The Yamanashi Prefectural Trade and Tourist Center in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu district is trying to offer more than just tasty delights and souvenir crafts.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 30, 2002

Celebrating 'washi' in tune with Kyoto winters

Traditional farmhouses amid wintry landscapes. Schoolchildren under brightly colored umbrellas cross snow-covered paddy fields. Footprints mark an otherwise pristine street scene after a snowfall. Then, as if to remind us that summer will soon be coming round again, a woman bearing a child on her back...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Nov 30, 2002

The funkier side of Mike Maguire; new Antidote release; Domino at Fire

Somewhere standing off to the side of all the people who have claimed titles in electronic music -- the various kings, queens, godfathers and godmothers -- is Mike Maguire, marking his own beat, seemingly oblivious to the world.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 30, 2002

Randolph Stensen

Refugees International Japan will hold its annual ceremony "Light Up the Life of a Refugee Child" at noon on Dec. 5. The ceremony transforms Tokyo Station's north hall, the Marunouchi exit, into a glittering, pulsating Christmas scene, with the illuminating of a giant decorated tree, sales of cards and...
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

State's debt-collection agencies to confer

The head of Resolution and Collection Corp. voiced willingness Friday to boost ties with the planned state-backed industrial revival body that will be tasked with buying bank loans extended to troubled firms in an effort to help rehabilitate the companies in question.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

E*Trade Japan gets warning

Online stockbroker E*Trade Japan K.K. has been warned by the Tokyo Stock Exchange over accepting orders suspected of being aimed at manipulating stock prices, it was revealed Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2002

The CCP wears the pants in this marriage

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Now that the dust is settling after the Chinese Communist Party's 16th National Congress, we can begin to see the implications of the various decisions announced there.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 30, 2002

Japanese made funny by 'gaijin' gaffes

Some people collect rocks. Others stamps. Still others beer cans.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2002

Public art promoter pitches tours to take in Japan's aesthetic heritage

In the 1960s, contemporary art objects, usually sculptures, were brought out of museums and placed in public spaces, lumped under the category of public art.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2002

Panel urges patience, carrots for Pyongyang

A government foreign policy advisory panel recommended Thursday that Japan seek gradual changes in North Korea instead of pursuing a "quick overthrow of the current regime" and use economic aid as a carrot.
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2002

Yanase to hand import rights on two cars over to GM unit

Yanase & Co., a car dealer specializing in foreign vehicles, said Thursday it will transfer the import rights relating to two foreign car makes to the Japanese unit of U.S. auto giant General Motors Corp.
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jars Tokara Islands amid flurry of seismic activity
A strong quake struck off the Tokara Islands on Thursday afternoon, with the island chain having recorded around 1,000 earthquakes since a burst of seismic activity first began on June 21.
Onosato's yokozuna promotion causes rare quirk in new sumo rankings
Newly promoted yokozuna Onosato holds a copy of the latest banzuke ranking in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
A viral manga prediction of a July 5 disaster has gripped Japan with anxiety and triggered an economic impact, but experts warn that while such dates are unreliable, the threat of a massive earthquake remains real. 
Over 900 earthquakes strike Tokara islands in space of two weeks
A screenshot shows many quakes occurring in the Tokara islands over the past 30 days, in this image taken from the U.S. Geological Survey website.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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