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JAPAN
Sep 24, 2005

Kanebo will sell off core fashion division

Kanebo Ltd., undergoing state-backed rehabilitation, plans to sell its fashion division, company officials said Thursday night.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2005

Expecting the 'obvious,' killer axes gallows appeal

A 38-year-old man sentenced to death for the murder of two pachinko parlor employees in 2003 has retracted his Tokyo High Court appeal, it was learned Friday.
Sep 24, 2005

North Korea may have mineral bounty

North Korea may be considered a country with few natural resources, but the United States and Europe are eyeing possible large deposits of minerals there that could be used in the high-tech and weapons industries.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2005

MTFG, UFJ target farming

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. and UFJ Holdings Inc. said Thursday they will enter a business and capital tieup with Norinchukin Bank to tap retail banking for farmers -- a large but closed market considered potentially lucrative.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2005

Honda hopes revamped Civic wins over drivers with sophisticated taste

Honda Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled its remodeled Civic -- the first major revamp of the car in five years -- hoping to take one of its mainstays more upmarket.
Sep 23, 2005

Violence by kids in elementary schools hit record in '04

The number of reported violent acts by children at public elementary schools reached a record high of 1,890 in the 2004 academic year through March, an education ministry survey showed Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2005

Breast cancer threat ignored

Japanese women must bring about radical change in their country's health-care culture to stem a worrisome increase in breast cancer, a prominent cancer-awareness advocate said ahead of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
COMMENTARY
Sep 23, 2005

Small but vital step for man

HONOLULU -- The agreement on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula reached Monday in Beijing was "one small step for man." It is, however, premature to call it a "giant leap for mankind." The agreement provides a template for working toward a solution to the denuclearization problem; it is not yet a road...
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2005

Outlays for welfare set new record at 84 trillion yen

Social security spending rose to a record high 84.27 trillion yen in fiscal 2003, up 700.2 billion, yen or 0.8 percent, from the previous year due mainly to snowballing outlays for the aging population, a government research institute said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2005

Impostor pilot conned woman out of 1 million yen

A 30-year-old man has been charged of defrauding a woman out of about 1 million yen by pretending to be an airline pilot needing to borrow money for business, police said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Sep 19, 2005

The Gathering 2005 preview -- return to Tsumagoi

Ready or not, here comes the spectacular end of another amazing summer season.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 17, 2005

Talking about the modern Japanese woman

Meeting last Monday, Barbara Hamill Sato is not sure how many women won seats in the previous day's general election, but suspects it may be the most ever.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2005

Kanebo to offload resin-making unit

Kanebo Ltd. said Thursday it will quit the polyester resin business by selling its resin manufacturing subsidiary to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. at the end of September.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2005

Consumer confidence rises again

Consumer confidence across Japan improved in August for the second straight month, spurred by improving employment conditions, the government said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2005

Foreign fashion brands making hay

The total declared income of 45 Japanese units of famous overseas fashion brands marked a record high of 125.9 billion yen in fiscal 2004, up 3 percent from the previous year, credit research agency Teikoku Databank said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2005

Trespassing case is political, activists tell court

Three peace activists on trial for trespassing at a Self-Defense Forces housing compound where they had been distributing antiwar leaflets told the Tokyo High Court on Wednesday their arrest and indictment is a form of political suppression and their case should be dropped.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2005

CPAs implicated in another Kanebo scam

Four ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants arrested this week falsified a report in 1998 on a troubled Kanebo Ltd. trading partner, leading Kanebo to agree to a massive bailout of the firm, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Doc sentenced for indecent behavior

A former doctor at a Tokyo metropolitan hospital was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in prison for tricking women patients into disrobing for medical examinations and taking photographs of them.
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2005

Competition heats up in household energy market

Fierce competition is heating up among electric, gas and oil companies to win more household customers and increase sales.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 11, 2005

CL may hold playoffs sooner than you think

The Central League has decided to consider instituting a playoff system beginning in 2007, but we may be seeing postseason play between two CL teams a lot sooner.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 11, 2005

Pyongyang palliative is Bush's bitter pill

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut -- Although buried by headlines from Iraq and Hurricane Katrina-devastated U.S. Gulf Coast region, the fourth round of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, about to resume in Beijing, presents the best chance yet to resolve diplomatically the simmering crisis on the...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 11, 2005

The curious Mr. Longfellow

LONGFELLOW'S TATTOOS: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, by Christine M.E. Guth. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004, 256 pp., 123 illustrations, $29.95 (paper). After the new Japanese government was officially installed in 1868, only a decade or so after the country had been, more or less, forcibly...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 11, 2005

Views from Asia suggest that 'Team Bush' is playing poorly for all sides

CONFRONTING THE BUSH DOCTRINE: Critical Views From the Asia-Pacific, edited by Mel Gurtov and Peter Van Ness. London: Routledge Curzon, 2004, 277 pp., £20.99 (cloth). Characterizing the Bush administration's foreign policy of zigzagging, dysfunctional initiatives and self-inflicted wounds a "doctrine"...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2005

National Stadium to get asbestos cleanup next summer

Plans are being made to remove asbestos insulation from the ceilings in the National Stadium complex in Tokyo starting next summer, it was learned Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Japan to set up 'control tower' for crimes by foreign residents
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Over 800 people found to be involved in TOEIC cheating scheme
An English conversation test paper and bubble answer sheet. A Chinese graduate student from Kyoto University is suspected of having attempted to use a small microphone under a mask to tell other takers of a popular English-language proficiency test the correct answers.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

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