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EDITORIALS
Aug 10, 2006

Nagano bids maverick goodbye

Nagano voters on Sunday chose a steady and stable style of politics over maverick leadership often characterized by theatrics, confrontation and confusion. Gov. Yasuo Tanaka, a reform-minded ex-novelist, sought a third term but was defeated by Mr. Jin Murai, a former state minister for national disaster...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2006

Rape wielded as a weapon in Myanmar

LONDON -- Gender-based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples. Myanmar is now permeated by such state-sponsored violence. Systematic sexual violence became visible in Myanmar when the Shan Women's Action...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2006

Revolution's gains yet to be measured

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- In August 1981, IBM introduced the 5150 personal computer. It was not really the first personal computer, but it turned out to be "The Personal Computer," and it revolutionized not just business life, but also the way people thought about the world.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2006

Sole clinical ethicist always has full plate

speaks with hospital staff at his Kissa Rinri (Ethics Cafe) at Miyazakihigashi National Hospital in late June. TOMOKO OTAKE PHOTO
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2006

Welfare adviser test to get tougher

The welfare ministry is considering making it tougher to take the national examination to become a social welfare agent and provide advice to seniors and disabled people, ministry sources said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2006

Merger option after Castro

LONDON -- "Are revolutions doomed to fail?" asked Fidel Castro last November, addressing an audience of university students in a five-hour speech that was followed by a question-and-answer session that lasted until dawn. "When the veterans start disappearing to make room for new generations of leaders,...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 6, 2006

JPBPU should consider rich history of Nichi-Bei Yakyu

You may have heard the Japan Pro Baseball Players Union has voted to end participation in Nichi-Bei Yakyu, the series of post-season all-star games between the best players in Japan and their counterparts from Major League Baseball. The apparent final good will event is scheduled to be played in Japan...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2006

Israel-Hezbollah conflict: the end game

LONDON -- The kill ratio is becoming a problem: Israel has been killing about 40 Lebanese civilians for every Israel civilian who is killed. They are all being killed by accident, of course, but such a long chain of accidents begins to look like carelessness, and even in Israel and the United States...
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Gap in real estate prices between big, small cities continues to widen

The gap in land prices between large and small cities continues to widen even though the average price in select areas has moved higher for the first time in 14 years.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Cops log 120 child abuse cases in first half

Child abuse cases uncovered by police in the first half of this year rose 14.3 percent over the same period last year to a record of 120, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2006

Obituary: Masao Nishimura

Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura, one of the architects of the Mizuho megabank group, died of heart failure Tuesday at a Tokyo hospital, his family has announced. He was 73.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2006

Tepco may sell ISP Fusion to Usen

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is studying a plan to sell off subsidiary Fusion Communications Corp., an Internet protocol telephony service company, to major cable music broadcaster Usen Corp., sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2006

DPJ leaders go fishing to help Miyake

Top Democratic Party of Japan officials visited Miyake Island on Tuesday to help promote the island's tourism industry, which has been severely damaged in the wake of the volcanic eruptions that started in September 2000.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2006

Staffing companies find market in helping retired athletes

When international midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata recently announced his retirement from soccer, people wondered what he would do in the next stage of his life -- business, sports, or a combination of both?
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2006

Another hospital halted care in last moments

A hospital affiliated with the Kinki University School of Medicine discontinued care for six severely ill newborn babies in 1996 and 1997 after they were judged to be incurable, a doctor who used to work at the university said Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 29, 2006

Yamamoto to retire from competition

Former world champion women's wrestler Seiko Yamamoto will retire from competition at the end of the month as she is busy preparing to marry Japanese national handball team player Hideaki Nagashima, wrestling coach Akira Suzuki said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

NHK faces new embezzlement case

NHK Service Center Inc. said it fired an employee Friday for misappropriating operational funds intended for an international figure skating competition.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2006

JCJ awards Tokyo Shimbun for stories on conspiracy bill

The Japan Congress of Journalists said Thursday it will award its grand prize this year to Tokyo Shimbun for its investigative report on crimes of conspiracy.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2006

Telescope sees gas clouds that dwarf the Milky Way

Japan's huge Subaru telescope in Hawaii has spotted and captured the images of huge masses of molecular gas, each larger than the Milky Way galaxy, the National Astronomic Observatory of Japan said Thursday.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 28, 2006

Jurassic 5 "Feedback"

"I refuse to bust gats and water down my raps," rhymes Akil on "Where We At," addressing Jurassic 5's detractors. His words will likely fall on deaf ears. Those disappointed by the lack of tired references to cash, drugs and violence of J5's past work won't be embracing their third full-length "Feedback."...
EDITORIALS
Jul 28, 2006

The endgame in Lebanon

It has been more than two weeks since Hezbollah launched a raid on Israel that prompted a brutal Israel response and appears to have triggered what can only be called a war. The international community has sharply criticized the combatants, but has done little more than protest. There is talk of inserting...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2006

Amazon Japan to launch online shopping mall

Major online book retailer Amazon Japan K.K. is approaching retailers in preparation for opening an online shopping mall, company officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2006

Oji Paper's bid for Hokuetsu rejected for Mitsubishi tieup

Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd., Japan's sixth-largest paper firm, rejected a takeover bid Monday by Oji Paper Co., the country's No. 1 paper producer, sticking to its planned capital and business tieup with trading house Mitsubishi Corp.
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2006

Nissan recalls 135,402 Largo cars

Nissan Motor Co. notified the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Monday that it is recalling 135,402 units of its Largo passenger car because their sunroofs might come off, the ministry said.
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2006

JCP paper marks 20,000th issue since '28

The Japanese Communist Party's newspaper reached its 20,000th issue Sunday since its launch in February 1928, despite many obstacles over the past 78 years.

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