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BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

Aso's call for action fails to buoy Nikkei

Tokyo stocks renewed their plunge on Monday, with the key Nikkei index falling 6 percent to a fresh 26-year low despite Prime Minister Taro Aso's call earlier in the day for emergency measures to help stabilize the market.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

U.S. financial crisis puts brakes on Japan carmakers

Not only has the U.S. financial crisis sent the Big Three U.S. automakers into deep financial trouble, it is damaging the sales and profits of Japanese carmakers and forcing them to review their alliances.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2008

Flight fuel surcharges to linger till year's end

People hoping to travel abroad will have to wait until January for cheaper flights even though oil prices are plunging and the yen is rapidly strengthening against the dollar and euro.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2008

Dismissed sumo wrestler Gagloev launches lawsuit

Fired wrestler Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev's lawsuit to win back his membership in the Japan Sumo Association got under way Monday with his lawyers saying he desperately wants to return to the sport.
LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC
Oct 28, 2008

Take the first step to writing home in kanji

A friend in North Carolina recently showed me a yellowing nengajō (年賀状, New Year's card) I had sent her soon after first arriving in Japan back in the early 1980s. The return address, penciled in my best effort at the time — a childlike, uneven scrawl of kanji — reminded me of the intense...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 28, 2008

What are your plans for Halloween?

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Oct 28, 2008

Head for the future

JEAN SNOW
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 28, 2008

Paul and Neeta Daswani

Paul (61) and Neeta (60) Daswani are the owners of Sati's, a legendary clothing store in Okinawa City in the center of Okinawa Island. Since 1978, Sati's has been a one-stop shopping haven for hot tailor-made suits with cool matching accessories. Here beach bums turn into jazz cats thanks to the Daswanis'...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 28, 2008

WWII forced labor issue dogs Aso, Japanese firms

After evading the issue for more than two years, Taro Aso conceded to foreign reporters on the eve of becoming prime minister that Allied POWs worked at his family's coal mine in Kyushu during World War II.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2008

Verhagen calls on Japan to continue MSDF tour

Japan should continue its naval refueling mission in the Indian Ocean and together with the Netherlands shoulder its share of international efforts to secure peace in Afghanistan, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said during a lecture Monday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2008

Strong yen takes a toll on visitors

The yen's recent surge is hitting many foreigners hard in the wallet.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

Toyota China plant

Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it will build a new factory in China as demand for its autos there jumped 30 percent in the first nine months of this year.
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COMMUNITY
Oct 28, 2008

Foreign students to fill the halls

Rie Yoshinaga had a wide range of colleges to choose from.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

KDDI eyes ¥24,000 yearly fee cut

Mobile phone operator KDDI Corp. said Monday it will slash as much as ¥24,000 a year from subscription fees to win over customers from NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Softbank Corp.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

Mori sees 'full-blown' decline in Tokyo housing

Tokyo residential property prices may be poised for a major decline because of excess supply and flagging demand, according to Minoru Mori, chairman of Japan's biggest privately held developer.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 28, 2008

A peep at video parlors

In the predawn hours of Oct. 1, a fire broke out at an Osaka video parlor, killing 15 people and injuring nearly a dozen others, including one who died later. Kazuhiro Ogawa, a 46-year-old unemployed man who had been in the parlor, was arrested on suspicion of arson and murder.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2008

Merck exit from Japan drug research undermines government goal

Merck & Co.'s decision to close its drug-research laboratory in Japan undermines the government's goal of attracting overseas drugmakers to boost the global share of made-in-Japan medicines, according to Kiyoshi Kurokawa, the government's policy adviser.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2008

Sri Lanka sees LTTE at the end of the tunnel

SINGAPORE — Sri Lanka's government says its armed forces are in the final stage of a campaign to annihilate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the rebel group that has been fighting for 25 years to carve out a homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east of the island-state.

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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