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BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2008

Travel agents shrug off Thai turmoil

JTB Corp. and H.I.S. Co., the nation's two largest travel agencies, said Wednesday that losses from canceled package tours to Thailand, where antigovernment protesters took control of two airports in the capital, haven't been bad because it isn't peak season yet.
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2008

North nuke verification must be in writing: Saiki

Negotiators on North Korea's denuclearization confirmed Wednesday that they will press Pyongyang during next week's six-party talks to agree to verify its nuclear disarmament in writing.
Reader Mail
Dec 4, 2008

Don't write off trips to India

Regarding the Nov. 30 article "Tsuda's body arrives; Japanese recount terror": I am writing this from India. Here we have lost national pride, honor and, more importantly, a lot of lives. Only now a semblance of normality seems to be returning to Mumbai. I am saddened that Japan, too, has lost one of...
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2008

M&A explosion ahead: analyst

Japanese companies may set a record for foreign takeovers and investment next year as they scramble to boost shareholder value after a 48 percent plunge in the nation's stocks this year, said JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s new head of mergers and acquisitions in Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2008

Toshiba speeds up chip unit makeover

Toshiba Corp., Japan's largest chip maker, said it will speed up reorganization of its semiconductor business amid a harsh business environment.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2008

Japanese makers off 30% in U.S.

Japan's three biggest automakers said their November U.S. sales tumbled more than 30 percent as incentives failed to lure buyers to showrooms in the deepening recession.
BASKETBALL
Dec 3, 2008

Price named week's top player

The Oita HeatDevils have struggled since the season began, but center Jeffrey Price helped them put together their first winning streak of the 2008-09 season last weekend.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2008

Sweden shows how to sell anti-protectionism

STOCKHOLM — The looming global recession has brought government intervention to save failing companies to the forefront of economic policy. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently warned U.S. President-elect Barack Obama against bailing out America's automakers, arguing that global competition...
EDITORIALS
Dec 3, 2008

Proposals for pension reform

The Social Security Council, an advisory body for the health and welfare minister, has issued an interim report on reform of the nation's pension system, on the assumption that pensions, in principle, will be paid out of social insurance funds. The main pillars of the eight-point report are proposals...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2008

Hillary has earned a place on the world stage

NEW YORK — So, why did he do it? What led U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to tap his former adversary, Sen. Hillary Clinton, to serve as his secretary of state, the face and voice of his foreign policy, his emissary to the world?
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2008

Failed governance allowed attacks

MUMBAI — In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme poverty, there exists a little Somalia waiting to burst out and infect the body politic. This netherworld, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate a vast black-market economy, has bred, in Mumbai, a community...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2008

Time for Europe to fill a fading NATO's shoes

LONDON — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose foreign ministers will meet later this week, is dying. Death, of course, comes to all living things. And, as NATO approaches its 60th birthday next spring, there seems no immediate urgency about writing its obituary; 60-year-olds may reasonably...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 3, 2008

Aoki's aptitude at charity stripe benefits Apache

Like a vintage bebop album, a successful basketball team has an innate sense of improvisation that makes it unpredictable.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 3, 2008

Knicks, Marbury need resolution

NEW YORK — When Pacers' president Larry Bird decided prior to training camp to support coach Jim O'Brien's fervent desire to exile Jamaal Tinsley, I thought it was a lousy idea.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 3, 2008

Oh, no: It's not a Christmas pud

The Christmas season may be grinding ever closer, and the creation in the photograph below is almost the right color and shape, but it's most certainly not a Christmas pudding.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2008

Temps in manufacturing feel full brunt of slump

The deepening recession is worrying workers nationwide, particularly temporary employees in the manufacturing industry.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2008

Waseda admits sensitive info leak

A list containing information on at least 719 cases of Waseda University students and employees who sought consultation about sexual harassment and other sensitive concerns has been leaked on the Internet, the school said Tuesday.

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo