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JAPAN
Aug 11, 2005

Snap election to delay realignment report: Ono

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Wednesday that a joint interim report on realignment of the U.S. military in Japan, initially expected to be compiled in September, will be delayed to October due to the House of Representatives election on Sept. 11.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2005

Shiseido sees no synergy from Kanebo bid

Shiseido Co. will withdraw from a series of tenders for Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. soon to be held by the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, company sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2005

Pakistan prime minister: invest in boom

Pakistan needs more private foreign investment in infrastructure, energy and other areas to meet the growing demands of its booming economy, the Pakistani prime minister said Wednesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2005

Police launch traffic safety campaign

The National Police Agency said Wednesday it would try to achieve the world's best traffic safety by introducing comprehensive safety education and reviewing licensing requirements for elderly drivers.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2005

Redress eludes survivors of deadly Soviet gulags

Haruyoshi Inukai was 20 when he donned an Imperial Japanese Army uniform on a sunny day in April 1944 and boarded a ship for deployment to Manchuria.
Japan Times
JAPAN / 60 YEARS AND ONWARD
Aug 10, 2005

Luck only payoff for Siberia returnees

Japanese soldiers who survived the slave labor, starvation and bitter cold of Siberian prison camps after the war could count themselves lucky, but not count any significant cold cash for their ordeal.
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2005

BOJ keeps monetary stance unchanged

The Bank of Japan decided Tuesday to keep its monetary stance unchanged, judging it necessary to get the nation on a clearly sustainable recovery amid renewed worries about the economy after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a general election.
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2005

Economy seen moving out of soft patch

Economic policymakers on Tuesday showed their strongest confidence yet that the nation has emerged from the lull that started in autumn and upgraded their economic assessments accordingly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2005

Defeat leaves LDP split as election looms

Monday's rejection by the House of Councilors of the postal privatization bills has left the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party sharply divided as it faces a general election in the coming weeks and a possible fall from power.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2005

Thousands mark Hiroshima A-bomb

HIROSHIMA -- Hiroshima marked the 60th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing Saturday with calls for more international grassroots activism to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons and harsh criticism of the nuclear powers for blocking such efforts.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 7, 2005

Mao was closer to seventy percent bad

An elegant Georgian terrace house in London's Notting Hill Gate, perhaps the most upmarket area for Britain's chattering classes now that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his friends have deserted Islington, may seem an unlikely venue for a counter-revolution against Mao Zedong's revolutionary claims. Yet...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Taiwan visa waiver now permanent

The Diet unanimously enacted legislation Friday to make permanent a visa waiver program for tourists from Taiwan, the second-largest source of foreign visitors to Japan.
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2005

An excuse for nuclear weapons

Sixty years ago, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, followed by one on Nagasaki three days later. The killing and injuring of hundreds of thousands of people ushered in an age that threatened nuclear annihilation. Since the East-West confrontation ended 15 years ago, the world has tended...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Ishihara told to eschew Yasukuni

Relatives of the war dead and citizens representing various groups demanded Friday that Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara refrain from visiting Yasukuni Shrine on the Aug. 15 anniversary of the end of World War II, but to no avail.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2005

Famed Imperial Hotel chef Murakami dies of heart failure

Nobuo Murakami, former chief chef at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, died of heart failure Tuesday morning at his home in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, his family said Thursday. He was 84.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 5, 2005

Weekend trance party picks 08.05

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JAPAN
Aug 4, 2005

JFBA to study ending death penalty

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations said Wednesday it will send a delegation to Germany and Britain later this month to study how the abolition of capital punishment has affected the two countries.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2005

Toyota sets sales record but profit drops

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that a 10.5 percent boost in sales helped it set a quarterly sales record of 4.98 trillion yen in the first quarter, thanks to thriving demand in all markets.
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 2005

Flawed crime bill threatens rights

The government has reportedly given up a plan to have the Diet enact within the current session a bill to enable Japan to join a multilateral treaty to combat international organized crime, but it intends to introduce it again in the next Diet session. The bill carries a danger of undermining a national...
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

China buildup on Defense Agency radar

Tokyo is monitoring China's rapid military buildup and remains on alert in the wake of recent incidents, including the intrusion of a submarine into Japanese territorial waters and frequent operations by its marine research vessels nearby, according to an annual report on defense released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Resume talks with North: think tank

Japan should seize the opportunity to resume normalization talks with Pyongyang if major progress is made at the six-party talks being held on North Korea's nuclear program in Beijing, experts said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Diet excludes strong terms from WWII anniversary resolution

The House of Representatives adopted on Tuesday a resolution for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II that says Japan expresses "deep regret" over its past conduct, but it does not use the terms "colonial rule" and "acts of aggression" that were in the 1995 resolution.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Monetary base up 1.5% in July

Japan's monetary base increased 1.5 percent in July from a year earlier, its 54th straight month of expansion, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 2, 2005

Verdy holds off Fiorentina in preseason friendly

J. League struggler Tokyo Verdy edged Fiorentina 2-1 in the Italian Serie A side's final match of their preseason tour in Japan on Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

U.S. steel imports face levy on Sept. 1

Japan will slap 15 percent levies on U.S. steel imports starting Sept. 1 in retaliation for American steel industry protection measures, the trade ministry said Monday, turning up the heat on a long-festering dispute between the world's two largest economies.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2005

Lufthansa to boost Eastern Europe destinations

Lufthansa German Airlines will expand its Eastern European destinations to improve access at a time of growing demand in Japan for business trips to that region, according to the carrier's executive vice president, Thierry Antinori.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers