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BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2006

How will delisting impact Livedoor?

The Tokyo Stock Exchange will delist Livedoor Co. on April 14, depriving the Internet company of the ability to raise capital on the market. How will the move affect Livedoor? Here are some questions and answers that address the firm's possible fate:
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006

Architect group to offer directory of highly trained members

A nationwide organization of architects will publicize later this month the names and addresses of architects who have taken training courses on the latest technologies and construction regulations, the group said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006

Iwakuni vote won't halt U.S. move: Abe

The central government will go ahead with plans to move 57 U.S. carrier-based warplanes and support personnel to the U.S. Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, despite the overwhelming opposition expressed in a nonbinding local plebiscite, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Monday....
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2006

TSE elects to delist Livedoor

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Monday it will delist scandal-tainted Livedoor Co. and subsidiary Livedoor Marketing Co. from its Mothers market for emerging firms on April 14 due to alleged accounting fraud.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2006

Iwakuni voters reject realignment plan

IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi Pref. -- A majority of Iwakuni residents voted "no" in a closely watched plebiscite Sunday, rejecting the central government's plan to move 57 U.S. warplanes and 1,600 additional marines to the area, according to partial vote counts and exit polls.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 13, 2006

Koreans hope semi spot enough for military release

PHOENIX -- Grab a uniform and do it for your country. Whether it is in the army or in the World Baseball Classic, several members of Team Korea will do just that soon enough. Or they will already have done both.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2006

A tribute to a brave soul

In May 2004, a woman named Dana Reeve delivered a commencement speech at her alma mater, Middlebury College in Vermont, where she and her husband were being awarded honorary degrees. It was an upbeat speech. There was nothing unusual about that. Commencement speeches are supposed to be upbeat. Most of...
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Plebiscite outcome won't affect realignment plan, Nukaga hints

There will be no change in the plan agreed to by the Japanese and U.S. governments to move U.S. naval aircraft to a U.S. Marine Corps base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, even if local residents vote against it, Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga hinted Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Yamato, DHL in marketing tieup

Yamato Holdings Co. said Friday it has signed an agreement with DHL Global Mail (Japan) K.K., part of the Deutsche Post World Net group, that will create a joint direct marketing venture on April 3.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 10, 2006

English fans shed no tears over Chelsea's ouster by Barca

LONDON -- Rarely if ever have English football fans cheered a victory by a foreign side over one of their own as Barcelona's Champions League knockout of Chelsea was greeted on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Osaka seeks to stub out pesky public smoking

OSAKA -- For reasons of health and public relations, the Osaka Municipal Government is moving forward with plans to adopt an ordinance that would outlaw smoking on its most crowded streets.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Wanted: Pilot to pull DPJ out of dive

The decade-old Democratic Party of Japan is facing what members describe as its biggest crises ever.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2006

Fuji TV will sue Livedoor but may try to sell stake first

The chairman of Fuji Television Network Inc. said Thursday the TV network will sue Livedoor Co. for compensatory damages in connection with huge losses caused by a plunge in the stock price of the Internet and financial services company.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

NHK should raise money for foreign service by ads: panel

A committee advising communications minister Heizo Takenaka has proposed that NHK be allowed to show commercials to raise money for its international broadcasting service, the panel chairman said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2006

Hostage beheaded in Iraq 'not tortured'

BAGHDAD (Kyodo) The Iraqi man who has confessed to executing a hostage Japanese backpacker in 2004 said Monday that Shosei Koda was not tortured during his captivity.
COMMENTARY
Mar 8, 2006

Can monarchical systems survive?

LONDON -- Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has recently claimed that his copyright was infringed by a popular newspaper that printed extracts from his diary about the handover of power in Hong Kong in 1998. The diary revealed the prince' distaste for the Chinese leaders whom he described as...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Bid-riggers to be barred for a while

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday that 178 companies will be temporarily barred from bidding for defense facilities contracts following a series of bid-rigging incidents.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2006

Jobless rate edged up to 4.5% in January

Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent in January from 4.4 percent in December, when it registered a 0.1 percentage point decline, the government said Friday.

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