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BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2008

Farmers demand ¥10 hike in milk price

Dairy farmers asked milk manufacturers Wednesday to pay them more for raw milk because the rising cost of livestock feed is threatening their livelihood.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2008

Honda's new fuel-stingy City debuts in Thailand

BANGKOK — Honda Motor Co. debuted a new made-in-Thailand model of its City subcompact Wednesday to meet growing global demand for fuel-efficient cars.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2008

LDP rivals offer more reform or regression

OSAKA — In the short term, the next prime minister will either continue internationally sought fiscal and economic reforms or return to the traditional pork-barrel projects and failed economic policies of the past, forge closer military ties with the United States or maintain the status quo.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2008

Wholesale inflation eases to 7.2%

The wholesale inflation rate slowed in August for the first time in 11 months as oil and commodity costs fell, signaling price pressures are starting to ease on the economy.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2008

Coincident index rise too small to dispel economic gloom

The economy is "deteriorating," the government reiterated Wednesday, acknowledging the country's longest postwar expansion has probably ended.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 10, 2008

Sumo struggles as Aki Basho approaches

In the days leading up to the Aki Basho, sumo is on the ropes.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2008

U.S. hedge funds: The sting is in the tail

PHILADELPHIA — Imagine that you are shopping for a high performance car, but that you are not allowed to look under the hood. What's inside is a secret. Furthermore, you cannot find out how similar vehicles have performed, because there are none. Finally, the car carries no warranty.
EDITORIALS
Sep 10, 2008

Put sumo back on course

Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi has resigned following tests showing that wrestlers Roho and Hakurozan, siblings from Russia, had smoked marijuana. The former yokozuna, one of the sport's all-time greats, should realize that it was his inappropriate behavior in the case that made his resignation...
EDITORIALS
Sep 10, 2008

No reason to hide pacts

Invoking the Freedom of Information Law, 63 citizens, including researchers, authors and journalists, have asked the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry to disclose three secret diplomatic documents related to the 1971 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule from the United States. The government...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2008

Saito set for eighth solo around

Plan A: Sail dead south from Yokohama, turn right past Tasmania, duck under Australia, skirt the Cape of Good Hope, pound farther south, keep the hairy Cape Horn just off to the right, then turn right again and beat a rhumb line northwest back home — all without stopping and alone.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2008

Ishihara fifth to enter race for LDP presidency

Nobuteru Ishihara on Tuesday became the fifth Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker to throw his hat in the ring for the LDP presidency in the wake of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's abrupt resignation announcement last week.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LETTERS FROM KOBE
Sep 10, 2008

Mixed-race babies in lurch

Fourth in a series
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2008

No congrats on N. Korea's birthday

Japan did not send a congratulatory message to North Korea on its 60th anniversary Tuesday and instead urged the hermit state to play a "constructive role as a member of the international community," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 10, 2008

Coin turtle

Japanese name: Kusagame
MORE SPORTS
Sep 10, 2008

Kameda expected to fight in fall

Disgraced boxer Daiki Kameda is expected to return to the ring on Nov. 6 against a to-be-announced foe at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, according to published reports.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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