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BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2003

Focus on cheaper premiums pays off for AFLAC

Consumers going after cheaper products do little to help the nation's deflation woes and usually end up hurting companies in the form of declining sales revenues.
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2003

FSA imposes operation ban on Unum Japan

The Financial Services Agency said Thursday it has ordered Unum Japan Accident Insurance Co. to halt operations for 30 days beginning Jan. 20. During the suspension, the nonlife insurance company will be banned from marketing and concluding insurance contracts.
COMMENTARY
Jan 10, 2003

Pyongyang is the real victim

Western and Japanese reactions to North Korea's recent nuclear activities and warnings have been strange.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 10, 2003

Kanda's shrine to the humble soba noodle

During this most auspicious of Japanese seasons, it seems as if just about every kind of food is imbued with momentous import. From the mochi in the o-zoni soup with which the New Year's morning is greeted to the array of colorful but austere o-sechi ryori tidbits, many of these dishes are appreciated...
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2003

Recession proving to be karaoke industry's ultimate sour note

After a decade in the karaoke business, lounge owner Kagura Muto has heard her share of sour notes. But business of late has been a different sort of flat.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 9, 2003

Takahashi taking life in stride

First of two parts
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

World Bank to hold free East Asia symposium

The World Bank will hold a free symposium on innovation and development in East Asia on Jan. 16.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Emperor to have cancerous tumor removed Jan. 18

Emperor Akihito will undergo surgery for prostate cancer on Jan. 18, the Imperial Household Agency said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Jan 9, 2003

Democratic candidates burst out of the blocks

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidates got the best Christmas present possible from former Vice President Al Gore when he opted to stay out of the 2004 presidential elections. The decision made him a winner as well. It could not have been an easy choice, but it was sound and courageous.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 9, 2003

Hoshino to hang up his gloves

Former World Boxing Association minimum weight champion Keitaro Hoshino will retire following a failed bid to regain the title last month, his chief trainer said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Researchers inspire fresh hope for partially paralyzed patients

A Hokkaido University research team has developed an automated system that uses electric stimulation to allow patients suffering from one-sided paralysis to recover their walking ability.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Doctors debate in court as part of new system

Three doctors held a debate Wednesday in a medical malpractice suit before the Tokyo District Court in the first application of the "conference debate formula" intended to gain a fairer outcome and shorten court proceedings.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Six men arrested over 2001 slaying

Six men, including a senior member of a religious organization, were arrested Wednesday alleged involvement in the slaying of a 70-year-old real estate agent in Tokyo, according to sources.
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2003

Kansai businessman urges tax hike

OSAKA -- A Kansai business leader urged the government Wednesday to gradually hike the consumption tax to 10 percent from the current 5 percent to fund additional stimulative fiscal spending aimed at combating deflation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Opera in Manila to showcase famed Christian daimyo's life

A celebrated daimyo stands immortal in the middle of a plaza in the busy Paco district of Manila.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jan 9, 2003

Emphasizing the positive

Perhaps more than any other individual today, Junko Edahiro is striving to share Japan's environmental successes with the world.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 9, 2003

Cultured 'man of forest' in peril

Culture, from a biological point of view, is behavior that is passed on through social contact. But what are the origins of culture? And what is it about humans that has allowed us to develop such rich and diverse cultures?
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2003

Three firms given 'integrity awards'

Developer Mitsubishi Estate Co., industrial waste recycler Daiseki Co. and Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. were honored Wednesday as the most "sincere" companies in Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

Pyongyang spy targeted by warrant

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department obtained on Wednesday an arrest warrant for a North Korean agent suspected of luring Yutaka Kume to Pyongyang in 1977, police officials said.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2003

New system to facilitate closer flying

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to more than halve the minimum separation distance between commercial aircraft flying over the busy North Pacific and polar route between Japan and the U.S. East Coast.
EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 2003

Don't play into Pyongyang's hands

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, has given North Korea one last chance to halt its nuclear weapons programs. Pyongyang should seize this opportunity and agree to negotiate. On Monday, the IAEA passed a resolution calling for North Korea to put its nuclear facilities...

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