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BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2002

Yanagisawa pushes banks to introduce new settlement account

Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa expressed hope Tuesday that financial institutions will introduce a new settlement-specific bank account next April whose deposits are fully protected by the government, although doing so is not mandatory.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Osaka officials declare USJ drinking fountains safe

OSAKA -- Osaka city officials on Tuesday declared the drinking fountains at the Universal Studios Japan theme park safe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2002

Mitsubishi Estate rebuilds historic commercial building

Mitsubishi Estate Co. completed reconstruction work Tuesday on a historic commercial building in Tokyo's Marunouchi district.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Radiation leak shuts down Tepco reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has shut down a reactor in Fukushima Prefecture after discovering a radiation leak, company officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002

Interpol: "Turn on the Bright Lights"

Back in high school, my art and drama classes were spent hanging out with the goth-rockers and burnouts who slouched over the corner table. As we gushed over bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division and Wire, we etched their names on our jeans with crappy, public-school calligraphy pens.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 4, 2002

X Japan pianist/drummer is now a global commodity

If you've walked by the Laforet building in Harajuku recently, you might have noticed a huge banner that draped the structure's exterior featuring a masked character, looking something like a pro wrestler, poking his head out of what appears to be a body of water.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2002

Ministry spending review chides universities, SDF

Taxpayer money can be used more efficiently in university research center construction and military computer systems development, according to a spending review released by the government Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 4, 2002

No fear of flying

"There's no such thing as improvisation," the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia once said. "There's only composition. Only you do it quickly; you're composing on the spot."
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Ship may be identified Sept. 24

The government plans to identify a sunken ship it is trying to salvage, which was suspected of being a North Korean spy ship, about a week after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Sept. 17 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002

Brother Ah: "Sound Awareness"

For the past several decades, Brother Ah has been doing his best to heal the world with music. Two of his early-'70s albums -- "Sound Awareness" and "Move Ever Onward" -- that didn't see much light the first time around have just been rereleased as the first installments of Ah's Sound Awareness series....
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 4, 2002

Fighters welcome foreign fans to Dome

The Pacific League's Nippon Ham Fighters will hold their first Arizona Diamondbacks Night promotion on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Tokyo Dome and, as was the case with Yankees Day for the past 20 years, the Fighters ballclub is inviting 3,000 foreign fans as guests to this fun international event. The...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002

reindeer section: "Son of Evil Reindeer"

The idea behind The Reindeer Section came up when a dozen or so leading lights of Glasgow's music scene attended a Lou Barlow concert and got very drunk together. As is often the case in such situations, the idea didn't seem half as interesting the next day.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2002

Designed to dazzle: a lacquerware celebration

The quintessential Japanese aesthetic is that of wabi sabi, a beauty associated with things that are simple, rustic, unpolished or even plain rundown. It is perhaps surprising, then, that this aesthetic is so little in evidence at an extensive exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum of one of Japan's...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2002

Reform or bust for South Pacific nations

SYDNEY -- Tropical paradise or basket case? The South Pacific has taken a good look at itself and decided it's a bit of both. And the bad bit, everyone agrees, must be cleaned up.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Sanyo touts home-use sensor to gauge sleep apnea

OSAKA -- A new sensor developed by Sanyo Electric Co. could help people with sleep apnea, and may eventually regulate the environment in which one sleeps.
COMMENTARY
Sep 4, 2002

Asian stereotypes die hard in U.S. national psyche

LOS ANGELES -- One of the best reading experiences in the United States this summer is the thriller "Absolute Rage," certainly a rage among applauding reviewers from Publishers Weekly to the Los Angeles Times. The 14th in a series of crime thrillers, it tells a well-informed tale about America's brutal...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2002

Let there be light in the urban darkness

Naoya Hatakeyama's stunning photographs use finely tuned modern techniques to discover harmonious beauty in places where we often perceive only competing layers of chaos. They filter our all-too-familiar environment, revealing its underlying complexity and, in the process, leading us to question the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2002

Everlasting beauty left by everyday lives

Two thousand years from now, what will archaeologists unearth from the ruins of our civilization? Cars? Rice cookers? For sure, examples of "technology" so outdated as to provoke incredulity. The U.S. government believes that future humans -- or perhaps extraterrestrial excavators -- will uncover still-toxic...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Ethiopian envoy seeks investment boost

Although he welcomes Japan's commitment to Africa and its substantial official development assistance, the new Ethiopian ambassador emphasizes that Japanese investment, even just a little, in his country would make a big difference to its already good relations.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2002

Human activity responsible for half of 'heat island' effect

Human activity is responsible for just over half the thermal energy that causes the so-called heat island effect in central Tokyo, according to an Environment Ministry report released Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002

John Hicks: "Music in the Key of Clark"

Tribute albums only work if the feeling's right. Songs can always be rearranged, styles copied and energy siphoned off past achievements, but if the feeling isn't right, it's just parasitic. John Hicks' new CD, "Music in the Key of Clark," dedicated to jazz piano great Sonny Clark, avoids this problem...
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2002

Contractor suffers 2.5 billion yen loss

OSAKA -- Takenaka Corp. said Tuesday it suffered a group pretax loss of 2.5 billion yen in the first half of the current business year, its first such loss since the war.
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2002

Mr. Tanaka's work begins anew

In Sunday's much-heralded gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture, former reformist Gov. Yasuo Tanaka made a triumphant comeback, dealing a heavy blow to anti-Tanaka forces and other conservative hardliners who have vehemently opposed his popular campaign against dam construction and other pork-barrel...
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2002

Ministry deems Nippon Ham fit to resume beef operations

The farm ministry said Monday that Nippon Meat Packers Inc. and its scandal-tainted subsidiary can resume their beef-related operations because it has deemed as acceptable the group's steps to prevent further fraud targeting the government's beef buyback subsidies.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2002

Little-used Kansai airport likely to finish second runway

OSAKA - Eight years after it opened to great fanfare, Kansai International Airport looks likely to get a second runway in 2007, even as its financial problems continue to mount.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2002

'Galaxy Express 999' to go online

Toei Animation Co. will soon distribute via the Internet the latest episodes of the popular "Galaxy Express 999" animated series by cartoonist Reiji Matsumoto in a tieup with Yahoo Japan Corp., Japan's largest search engine, according to Toei officials.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2002

Sapporo plans to close two of its breweries

Sapporo Breweries Ltd. said Monday it will close two of its eight beer breweries by the end of 2003 as part of a restructuring program.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2002

Kurosawa's restored first flick coming to DVD

An almost uncut version of the late director Akira Kurosawa's first movie will make a comeback on DVD in October thanks to a Russian motion picture depository that kept a portion of the scenes removed from the original work.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2002

Woman denies masterminding boy's abduction

A Chinese woman accused of masterminding the June kidnapping of a 6-year-old Chinese boy in Tokyo denied in court Monday that she planned the abduction and claimed she only helped the other four accused in the crime.
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. 
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.
Japan to require flight passengers to keep power banks within sight
The transport ministry has announced new regulations requiring flight passengers to keep power banks within sight to mitigate fire risks while on board planes.
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."
Residents of Tokara Islands begin evacuation as seismic swarm continues
Details about evacuations from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen written on a whiteboard in the city of Kagoshima on Thursday.
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.

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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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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