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BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2006

Abe gets watered-down road-tax reform

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Friday to a watered-down plan on road-related tax revenues that will move only the money not allocated to road construction projects into the general expenditures category.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 9, 2006

Painting the air baby blue

The world used to be more beautiful. The sky was bluer, the grass was greener, and good always triumphed over evil.
EDITORIALS
Dec 9, 2006

A change of direction in Iraq?

The long-awaited report of the Iraq Study Group was released Wednesday and it paints a grim picture of that war-torn country. The candor is refreshing; no policy can succeed if it is not based on reality. Not surprisingly, the conclusions constitute a fundamental revision of U.S. policy. But signals...
SOCCER
Dec 8, 2006

Coach Tena: America forward line will turn it on at Club World Cup

Club America can light up the Club World Cup with its own devastating brand of attacking soccer, coach Luis Fernando Tena said Thursday.
BASKETBALL
Dec 8, 2006

Apache go get AND1 player Jones

A Tokyo Apache official told The Japan Times on Thursday that AND1 Mix Tape team player Tony "Go Get it" Jones will join the bj-league side.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 8, 2006

Sauper: Tanzania's devil speaks

"Darwin's Nightmare" is an exercise in irony that probably would not have been lost on Charles Darwin himself, who by all accounts was a lucid if embittered scholar with a penchant for sardonic humor. The lessons to be culled from this documentary are so varied that it's impossible to take it all in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 8, 2006

Leonid Korkin

From Dec. 9 to 25, the St. Petersburg Chamber Ensemble will give 11 performances of "Ave Maria in Christmas" in Tokyo and Yokohama. Renowned as one of the best ensembles in Russia, the group have invited harpists and soprano soloists from the Leningrad State Opera to join the tour. Opening quietly with...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2006

Japan can't stop the tide of people: UNHCR chief

As more people migrate worldwide, Japan will not be able to stop immigration, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, saying he was concerned with Japan's restrictive refugee acceptance program and treatment of asylum-seekers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Dec 7, 2006

New forms of old traditions at the Japan Society

Over the past several years there have been quite a few exhibitions of Japanese ceramics overseas, but "Contemporary Clay/Japanese Ceramics for the New Century," which is now at the Japan Society Gallery in New York, is the most brilliant by far.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 5, 2006

Shelter reaches out to abuse victims

Her hands were clenched into fists, and patches of lightened skin mottled her skin up to her elbows. Addressing the four foreign women sitting in the office of the domestic violence shelter in Okayama City, the young woman quietly told us of the years of abuse she endured at the hands of her husband....
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2006

Doubts hamper hydrogen's spread

Despite the BMW Group's assurance that it has taken every precaution and covered the worst-case scenarios, many people still doubt the wisdom of using highly flammable hydrogen as a fuel.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Dec 3, 2006

Marshall calls upon wisdom of legendary coach Knight

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in Japan's bj-league -- the nation's first pro basketball circuit -- which has started its second season. Mikey Marshall of the Oita HeatDevils is the subject of this week's profile.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2006

Nintendo's Wii game console debuts to long lines nationwide

Enthusiastic fans formed long lines outside electronics stores nationwide early Saturday to be the first in Japan to get their hands on Nintendo Co.'s new Wii video game console.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2006

Nintendo's Wii game console debuts to long lines nationwide

Enthusiastic fans formed long lines outside electronics stores nationwide early Saturday to be the first in Japan to get their hands on Nintendo Co.'s new Wii video game console.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 2, 2006

Zidane's spot in last three a joke, no matter who says otherwise

LONDON -- Managers and players know football best because they are involved in it.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Dec 1, 2006

Humphrey, Davis win monthly honors

Each month during the 2006-07 season, The Japan Times will select bj-league Offensive and Defensive Players of the Month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Dec 1, 2006

Ub-X freely tinkers with the engine of jazz

Piano, bass and drums form the engine of jazz. Most jazz bands build on this foundation by adding other instruments, while a select few work from within to upend the conventions of the piano trio and fashion a completely new sound. Ub-X, one of the latter, is a group that sounds like no other.
EDITORIALS
Nov 30, 2006

Flush times for banks

The aggregated net profits of the nation's six major banking groups have reached a record 1.73 trillion yen for the April-September half-year period, with four of the groups realizing record profits. A special factor contributed to the soaring profits. Brighter business performances among their borrowers...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 30, 2006

Moving beyond nonsense

Born Kazumi Kobayashi in Tokyo, 43-year-old Keralino Sandroviich -- or Kera, as he is best known -- started his career with the techno band Uchoten (Rapture) which he formed in 1982 when he was a student at the Japan Academy of the Moving Image. Although he had planned to be a film director, when Uchoten...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2006

It's bureaucracy vs. bid to create security regime

Tokyo's sectionalist bureaucracy is the biggest obstacle to creating a centralized national security apparatus, said Yuriko Koike, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's national security adviser.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years