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BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2006

Fed goes after BTMU over lax scrutiny

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) U.S. financial regulators took enforcement action Monday against Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and some of its U.S. operations for their failure to comply with programs against money-laundering.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2006

Postal rebels vow to follow party line for LDP return

Eleven of a group of 12 lawmakers kicked out of the Liberal Democratic Party last year for opposing postal privatization submitted a petition and special covenant Monday and are likely to be readmitted to the ruling party.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 28, 2006

Morimoto caught up in moment

SAPPORO -- Hichori Morimoto is no Doug Mientkiewicz.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2006

Fighters move ahead

SAPPORO -- Takeda and Takeda sounds like a law firm in Marunouchi, but up north, it's a crack pitching tandem.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2006

Darvish excels vs. Hawks

SAPPORO -- Messing this one up will be pretty tough.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 10, 2006

Comeback Hawks heading to Hokkaido

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Third place is feeling a whole lot better than first has the last couple years for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 9, 2006

Wounded Hawks lash out at Lions to level series

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- What a response.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 8, 2006

Masterful Matsuzaka

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Kazumi Saito was good enough to beat any pitcher in Japan on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2006

Honda to increase U.K. auto production

LONDON (Kyodo) Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it will create 700 new jobs and step up production at one of its British plants.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2006

Microsoft won't market Zune player in Japan

NEW YORK (Kyodo) Microsoft does not currently have plans to release its new Zune digital music player in Japan, Darren Huston, president and chief executive officer of Microsoft Co., the Japan unit of Microsoft Corp., told Kyodo News on Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 28, 2006

Lions win feels like a defeat

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Extra innings, and all for nothing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2006

Marines rough up Matsuzaka; Lions fail to grab No. 1 seed

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. At least Daisuke Matsuzaka has the playoffs.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2006

Cabrera powers Lions in crucial victory

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- A day after Julio Zuleta took over Invoice Seibu Dome, Lions first baseman Alex Cabrera wasn't going to be shown up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2006

Zuleta slugs 3 homers in win

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Ichi, ni, san.... Julio Zuleta has known how to count in Japanese for a few years.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2006

Aoki, Swallows give Romano tough time

It took getting ahead for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to get even.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2006

Riggs, Iwamura deliver big hits in Swallows' runaway victory

Alex Ramirez didn't have much to clean up Wednesday night.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 17, 2006

Last shrine trip OK, but not next: poll

Just over half of the respondents to a Kyodo survey released Wednesday supported Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's trip this week to Yasukuni Shrine, but nearly the same number said the next leader should not go.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past