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JAPAN
Nov 21, 2008

Aso to be LDP 'funeral director' for delaying poll?

Taro Aso was so confident that he would call a quick election after becoming prime minister in September that he postponed moving into the official residence.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Japan slides into recession

The economy shrank at an annualized pace of 0.4 percent in the three months through September, posting its second consecutive quarter of negative growth amid the global financial crisis and indicating Japan has entered a recession for the first time since 2001.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2008

Security tight as whaling ship departs for hunt

Antiwhaling activists protested Monday as the mother ship in Japan's whaling fleet left for the annual hunt in the Antarctic, the environmental group Greenpeace said.
Reader Mail
Nov 16, 2008

ASDF chief's views not unusual

In the Nov. 12 Kyodo article "Taipei demands redress, apology for sex slaves," we read that "In a rare show of unity, the island's ruling and opposition parties passed by a unanimous vote the Taiwan Comfort Women Resolution, calling on Tokyo to 'accept historical responsibility for its World War II sex...
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2008

Deviant thinking on defense

Prime Minister Taro Aso in an Upper House session Thursday said it was "extremely inappropriate" for Mr. Toshio Tamogami, the recently dismissed Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff, to write an essay that contradicted the government's official view on Japan's war-making in the 1930s and '40s.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan