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EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2006

Trying too hard to get ahead

When Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata spoke during a Feb. 16 Lower House Budget Committee session, it appeared that he possessed a strong political weapon for blowing up the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Be wary of China threat, NPA tells tech exporters

The National Police Agency chief urged Japanese high-tech equipment makers Thursday to be more cautious when exporting to China as their technology could be used to make weapons.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Public OK needed to expand overseas service: NHK chief

A national consensus will be necessary for NHK to use viewer fees to expand its international broadcasts, the public broadcaster's president, Genichi Hashimoto, said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

Oracle to release search software

Oracle Corp. announced Thursday it will market a new software package worldwide by the end of March that will allow corporate users to easily search their company databases.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 2, 2006

TIF pushes theater's borders

With guest productions from as far afield as Kuwait, Israel, Germany and the United States, this year's 12th annual Tokyo International Arts Festival (TIF) is delivering a challenging program of theater and dance from some of the world's leading dramatists. In doing so, TIF -- held for the first time...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 1, 2006

Japan aiming for top spot in first round of World Baseball Classic

Make no bones about it. Japan more than plans to make it to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2006

Japan will side with UNSC position on Iran: Aso

Japan will be in sync with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council should they decide to bring the Iranian nuclear case up for discussions, Foreign Minister Taro Aso suggested Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 1, 2006

Race against bird flu speeds up

A vian flu appears to be spreading with increasing rapidity. In recent weeks, there have been confirmed reports of the disease in Europe and Africa, demonstrating that the H5N1 strain is hardier than thought and truly a global danger. While health officials call for continuing surveillance and vigilance,...
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

Yang to follow with donation

TURIN, Italy (AP) Inspired by American speedskater Joey Cheek's example, Chinese short track Olympic medalist Yang Yang said Sunday she'll donate her $10,000 bronze-medal bonus to a charity that helps children in areas ravaged by conflict. The donation helps push the charity, Right to Play, close to...
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

Rogge 'happy' with Turin Games

TURIN, Italy (AP) Jacques Rogge loved the sports action, the venues, the athletes' performances. Just don't ask him to grade the Turin Games. The International Olympic Committee president gave his definitive verdict in his speech at Sunday night's closing ceremony, but he provided a hint beforehand...
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2006

Cabinet should set aid policy: panel report

A government advisory panel will propose that the prime minister and four other Cabinet members come up with strategies on overseas economic cooperation, according to a draft panel report obtained by Kyodo News.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 28, 2006

Invisible minority

Misrepresented, misunderstood and mysterious, a group of women fight a dual struggle, compelled to speak up for their rights, yet fearing the consequences of a life made visible in an oppressive world.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 26, 2006

Mourinho should take a media lesson from Wenger

LONDON -- When Arsene Wenger left the press conference in Bernabeu Stadium after Arsenal's 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday night he smiled as the assembled media gave him a round of applause.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2006

DPJ hopes to settle e-mail issue this week

The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan hopes to settle questions surrounding an e-mail that one of its lawmakers has claimed shows a shady money transfer involving ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe without anyone having to resign, DPJ members said Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2006

Income linked to student performance

About half of unionized teachers at elementary and middle schools believe academic performance of their students is mirrored in the growing differences in their parents' incomes, according to a survey by Kyodo News.
EDITORIALS
Feb 26, 2006

Justice for a Holocaust doubter

Of all the people whose misfortunes made news this past week, few inspire less sympathy than David Irving. The British historian who has fashioned a career out of questioning the Nazis' slaughter of millions of European Jews was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for violating Austria's ban...
Japan Times
Features
Feb 26, 2006

Tales of two cities

The seeds of political tension in Xinjiang are not hard to find.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 26, 2006

It was downhill all the way in Japan's media coverage of Olympics

Were the Turin Winter Olympics really that boring or was it just the Japanese television coverage?
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 26, 2006

Has America's conscience fallen victim to 9/11?

On the 15th of this month, the Australian television station SBS broadcast one of the most awful and horrendous programs I have ever seen. The images aired -- many for the first time anywhere -- were still photographs and raw videos of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These were abuses committed...
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Nihon Keizai reels amid investigations into insider trading

Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. President Ryoki Sugita said Friday its managing director in charge of advertising, Takashi Kageyama, resigned the same day to take responsibility for alleged insider trading by an employee at the business daily's advertising department.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

ODA bureau to be killed, reborn

The Foreign Ministry will abolish an existing bureau handling official development assistance and create a new entity to take charge of it, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2006

Toshiba faces major hurdles with Westinghouse

Toshiba's CEO had good reason to sound a trifle defensive about his company's $5.4 billion purchase of U.S.-based nuclear power company Westinghouse.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2006

Acquisitive Don Quijote posts 13% profit rise

Discount retailer Don Quijote, currently under the spotlight over its hostile takeover bid for Origin Toshu Co., said Wednesday it posted a net profit of 4.85 billion yen from July to December 2005, up 13.2 percent from the same period the previous year.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2006

Aso wants oversight of ODA entity

Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the Foreign Ministry should have sole oversight of a planned entity that would integrate the three official development assistance operations -- grants, technical cooperation and yen loans.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight