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JAPAN
Jul 4, 2007

U.S., SDF face new challenges 50 years on

U.S. Forces Japan enjoys a mature, strong relationship with the Self-Defense Forces developed over the 50 years since establishing its headquarters here, according to the USFJ commander.
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2007

UBS opens branch in bustling Nagoya aimed at wealthy retirees

UBS AG, the world's biggest money manager, opened an office Tuesday in Nagoya to sell wealth-management services, aiming to grab a bigger share of the savings of the country's affluent.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2007

Investment-unit push

Citigroup Inc.'s investment-banking unit in Japan is managing the nation's fourth-biggest share sale this year and its largest underwriting assignment since the government sold stock in Toyota Motor Corp. in November.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 3, 2007

How Japanese tax-payers' money is lost in bid-rigging

Every few years, politicians, bureaucrats and construction company bigwigs get embroiled in bid-rigging scandals — and the public's faith in government sinks deeper.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2007

Wii pummeled PS3 in June sales

Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console extended its sales lead over Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 in Japan last month, research firm Enterbrain Inc. said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2007

JT to sell bonds to pay for Gallaher

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Monday it plans to sell about 150 billion yen of bonds to repay debt for the purchase of Gallaher Group PLC.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 2, 2007

U.S. dethrones Japan in title game

Japan's quest for a three-peat came to an end after falling 3-1 to Team USA in the final game at the International Softball Federation's VIII Junior Women's World Championship (U-19, fast pitch) in Enschede, the Netherlands. Japan took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning of the...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2007

Ozawa hits Abe over Kyuma remarks

Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma's remarks on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an easy target for Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa during a policy debate Sunday in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Reader Mail
Jul 1, 2007

Ground fighting in the last days

Some recent stories about Okinawa have followed the same faulty manual. At least two articles have made the claim that "Okinawa was the only inhabited part of Japan where ground fighting took place in the closing days of World War II."
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2007

Resolution on servitude

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has passed, by a 39-2 vote, a nonbinding resolution that says "the government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young...
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2007

Passing of a statesman

Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was a leader of postwar Japan's mainstream conservatism who strove to rebuild Japan while preventing it from retracing the militarist path. He died Thursday at 87.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 30, 2007

WWE hysteria all McMahon's doing

NEW YORK — Hucksters make their living ahead of the curve, or at the very least, by selling that illusion.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2007

H.K. man wins first 'Manga Nobel' for cartoonists abroad

A Hong Kong artist has won Japan's first "Nobel Prize of Manga" for artists working in the comic book genre abroad, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 30, 2007

A new era for Britain

In physical terms, Mr. Gordon Brown has not gone far this week: He moved his office one door down, from No. 11 to No. 10 on Downing Street in London. He did not even have to move his family, which already lives at the private quarters at No. 10. But the change in jobs from chancellor of the Exchequer...
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

U.S. beef back on Ito-Yokado shelves

Major supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. brought American beef back to its shelves Friday, about 3 1/2 years after sales were halted in the wake of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, a parent company spokesman said.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

Mitsukoshi turns profit but sales fall

Mitsukoshi Ltd., Japan's third-largest department store chain, said Friday it returned to profit in the first quarter from the year before, when it posted a loss because of a revaluation of its real estate holdings.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 30, 2007

Jorge Ferreras

Those who know him well agree that Jorge Ferreras is unusually talented and highly original. With his whimsies, his art and piano he has a gift for lighting up the space he occupies. He is an architect and artist, NHK radio man and university lecturer who came from Argentina to study and live in Japan....

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell