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Just a year into her marriage, Emi Yoshida realized she might not survive it. Her violent, drug-addict husband had tried to strangle her, then beat her unconscious outside their Tokyo home. When she came to, he was threatening her with a knife.

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Head found on mountain in Hiroshima

A young woman's severed head is found on a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture and police are investigating to determine if the victim is a female college student who vanished late last month in neighboring Shimane.

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Gunman wounds three, kills self: police

A gunman who holed up in a building in Yokohama after shooting and seriously wounding three men in a suspected dispute over a loan repayment apparently committed suicide, police say.

Police suspect two more Tottori deaths linked to woman

Two more men who died under mysterious circumstances in Tottori Prefecture could be linked to a woman who is already under suspicion over the deaths of three other men, investigative sources say.

TOKYO (10 p.m.)

18°C

Partly cloudy

Humidity: 82%

Winds: NNE at 11 kph

Pressure: 1021 hpa

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Wisdom of Entrepreneurs

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Japanese Language School Directory

Check and compare what each school has to offer before you choose: directory of major Japanese schools in Tokyo, their features and class schedules.

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National Day Index

Celebrating the nations of the world

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外資系企業で通訳者として働く派遣スタッフのインタビューを掲載！正社員よりも派遣社員として働くメリットとは？

International Reports

WER: Australia

Strengthening ties with the Japanese

WER: Indonesia

Indonesia becomes newest member of economic elite

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Real Estate Guide

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The Japan Times Online Updates

COP15: The Japan Times announces plans to dispatch "junior reporters" to COP15, the 15th Climate Change Conference, in Copenhagen. ジャパンタイムズ、デンマークCOP15の取材活動にジュニア記者派遣 Click for full press release.
Shukan ST Digital Version: Read the digital version of Shukan ST in full color. Click for more information (in Japanese). 週刊STのデジタル版がスタートしました。デジタル版は全ページがカラーです。お申し込みはこちらから。

Hotline to Nagatacho: Need to vent at the government? We'd like to read what you have to say. Click for more information about Hotline to Nagatacho.

Ando poised despite fall

By JACK GALLAGHER

Miki Ando finishes second in the short program at the NHK Trophy despite falling on a planned triple flip.

BASEBALL

Fighters face up to task

By JASON COSKREY

BASEBALL

Yankees set sights on more glory

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CLOSE-UP

Honored U.S. beacon for Japan

By TOMOKO OTAKE

Susan Schmidt is a former editor at the University of Tokyo Press who spent 20 years living and raising a family in Japan up until the mid-1990s. She is now executive director of the U.S.-based, 1,500-member Alliance of Associations of ...

LIFE IN JAPAN

Symposium hears of new 'pan-Asian' trend

By TOMOKO OTAKE

LIFE IN JAPAN

Ministry insider speaks out

By TOMOKO OTAKE

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Scaremeister Raimi sheds light on his fondness for darkness

By GEORGE HADLEY-GARCIA

Sam Raimi is best known as the man behind the "Spiderman" franchise, but he's also widely regarded as a master of the macabre and of horror. After all, he broke through in 1981 with "The Evil Dead" after fixating on ...

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Synecdoche, New York

Being Charlie Kaufman takes a lot of brain power

By KAORI SHOJI

Sreenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who spun American cinema on its head with striking scripts for "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," goes for fiendishly obsessional, intellectual acrobatics in his directorial debut. ...

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Ando poised despite fall

Fighters face up to task

Yankees set sights on more glory

Honored U.S. beacon for Japan

Symposium hears of new 'pan-Asian' trend

Ministry insider speaks out

Scaremeister Raimi sheds light on his fondness for darkness

Being Charlie Kaufman takes a lot of brain power

Contrasting personalities the big issue in Vogue doc

Japanese remakes of Hollywood hits hardly the way forward

A masterclass at the counter

This obscure liqueur may save your soul

Elevated dining at a molecular level

The haunting beauty that is Yushima

Stepping out on a Chichibu trail

Pottering down Chita way

Opera group to perform classic China narrative

Partying with a leathery twist

Artist Ozaki to light up Shibuya Parco's unique Christmas display

'Superfood Buffet'

Zero Gravity

Noodles

DPJ exec eyes suffrage bill this term

Sakurajima eruptions pass 400

Nut left in man's heart didn't kill him: doctors

Speaking out about domestic violence

Japanese URLs no big deal

JR East resorts to blue LEDs to stem suicides

Reports and practical info about the H1N1 influenza virus

Dongguan official invites direct investment

Target high-end tourists: hotels head

JAL must stay aloft until January: turnaround chief

Debate Afghan war goals, then select strategy

Mr. Hatoyama fuzzy on funds

Tough pension task for DPJ

Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace

Japanese — a language of tall tales

Demography vs. demagoguery: when politics, science collide

African and Mideast culture in spotlight at biannual Tokyo bazaar

What are your tips for surviving this winter?

In Tokyo, nothing is too good for your pet

Now's the time to celebrate design

Tokyo's rising tide of design

Yokohama gets creative directive

Not all smooth at CREAM festival opening

Cultivating a way for egoless art

Soil creates life with 'death jazz'

Vola & The Oriental's record-making Machine

The Shapeshifters

Yolz in the Sky "Ionization"

Limited Express (has gone?): "LTD"

Gokai: The more I know Japan, the thicker the fog

Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese

Foundations take a new shape

Kafkaesque tale for the new porn era

Ripping yarn of the oddball genius who uncovered China's greatest secrets

Wildlife returns to our well-kept woods

Of simmering frogs and economists leaping to terminal conclusions

Dynario helps gadget-users on the move; Kyocera makes phone for kids

JVC says looks aren't everything; Nikon readies for closeups

Kindle confident in face of challenging Japanese market

Sony, Fujitsu computer models embrace Windows touch

It's big or bust in eyes of Japanese cinema

Japan Prize awards, documentary on Nara temple, and Beat Takeshi's definition of beauty

Japanese food-safety label protects business foremost, and not people

Hard-working kids documentary, tales from teen mothers and housewife-volleyball sitcom

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