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Nov 1, 2009

Intimidating remarks unwelcome

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told his counterparts in Tokyo recently that the relocation of 8,000 U.S. Marines to Guam and the shutdown of Futenma Air Station, Okinawa, depends on how the 2006 agreed road map for U.S. military realignment in Japan is implemented. That's intimidation and bullying. ...
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2009

Cabinet bill goes easier on lenders

The banking industry breathed a sigh of relief Friday as the Cabinet sent the Diet a bill that merely "encourages" lenders to freeze debt repayments for small businesses and home owners until March 2011.
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2009

Sony net loss soars to ¥50 billion

Amid the lingering global economic slump, Sony Corp. reported Friday a ¥49.97 billion group net loss for the first half that ended Sept. 30, against a ¥70.23 billion group net profit posted a year earlier.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 31, 2009

Keane facing uphill battle with Ipswich Town

LONDON — Last April Ipswich Town sacked manager Jim Magilton and brought in Roy Keane for the last two games of the season. Ipswich's new owner Marcus Evans, who likes publicity as much as Superman enjoys kryptonite, wanted a big name. Instead, Ipswich is in a big mess.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 30, 2009

Grouses get off to fast start after years of frustration

Triple overtime wins give a team a healthy dose of confidence — and plenty of exhaustion, too.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2009

Ogasawara returning to battle team he started with

Saturday night will mark a reunion of sorts when the Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters take the field at Sapporo Dome to open the 2009 Japan Series.
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2009

JAL to seek revival under state

After about a month of evaluating the assets of Japan Airlines Corp., the transport ministry and a reconstruction task force said Thursday that the struggling carrier needs to go through reconstruction under the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corp.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 30, 2009

JSF chief requests Mao meet

In the wake of Mao Asada's poor showing at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow last weekend, Japan Skating Federation president Seiko Hashimoto has requested a meeting with the embattled skater.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 30, 2009

'Watashi Dasuwa'

"A fool and his money are soon parted" and all its many variations is a common theme in films, from the heist-of-a-lifetime that ruins so many lives in "Goodfellas" to Gary Cooper handing out his inherited fortune to total strangers in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and then coming to regret it.
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2009

Japan, U.S. trail in hiking interest rates

The global monetary policy divide is widening as the U.S. Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and major counterparts lag behind Norway and Australia in raising interest rates, a trend that is set to continue into 2010.
BUSINESS / Q&A
Oct 29, 2009

Japan Post, with new boss, returning to public roots

Bowing to calls to resign, most adamantly by Shizuka Kamei, state minister in charge of postal services, charismatic former banker Yoshifumi Nishikawa officially stepped down Wednesday as president of Japan Post Holdings Co. and was replaced by former Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 28, 2009

Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese

One of the biggest omissions in Japanese textbooks, classes and one-on-one lessons is gendered language. Ignore it and at some point you will wind up sounding like a little Japanese girl — or a guy — when you didn't intend too.
MORE SPORTS / ICE TIME
Oct 28, 2009

Tarasova must go if Mao wants shot at Olympic glory

Sometimes you have to throw the game plan out the window.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 28, 2009

Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese

One of the biggest omissions in Japanese textbooks, classes and one-on-one lessons is gendered language. Ignore it and at some point you will wind up sounding like a little Japanese girl — or a guy — when you didn't intend too.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 27, 2009

File-sharing: Handle Winny at your own risk

More than a decade since the heyday of Napster shareware, peer-to-peer file distribution remains a key tool for Internet users exchanging music and movie files online. The leading program in Japan is Winny, an application distributed free of charge since May 2002 by former University of Tokyo researcher...

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