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BUSINESS
May 8, 2008

No more hostile takeover bids for Yahoo in works, Gates says

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the world's biggest software company has no plan to launch a fresh bid for search engine operator Yahoo Inc. after abandoning its $47.5 billion takeover attempt.
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2008

Inflation caused by Ukraine's peg to dollar

KIEV — Inflation in Ukraine is skyrocketing. By March, it reached 26 percent per year and continues to rise. Although prices are increasing around the world, Ukraine's is extreme, twice as much as in neighboring Russia. Amazingly, instead of dampening inflation, Ukraine's central bank is stoking it....
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2008

North Korea-Syria connection

The disclosure by the United States that North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor demands that the North give a full explanation about its suspected nuclear proliferation activities. As there is the possibility that the six-party talks will hold another round this month, the U.S., Japan, South...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 2008

Westernized subjects for a distinct Japanese style

The history of modern Japanese art has a hierarchy of narratives. As in the West, at the top is the story of the avant-garde. This is a tale of trail-blazing artists taking trips to foreign locales, usually Paris, and bringing back radical foreign styles in their suitcases.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 2008

An aura of controversy in the chase for the new

Ever since 1917, when Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal to the Society of Independent Artists' exhibition, arguing that it was art, anything has become acceptable. Artist Chris Burden shot himself in the arm in a Los Angeles gallery in 1971; Piero Manzoni canned what was allegedly his own feces and sold...
JAPAN
May 8, 2008

Fukuda, Hu put focus on future

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed Wednesday to make 2008 the year for boosting their nations' "mutually beneficial" relationship, as Tokyo hosted the first Chinese leader to visit in 10 years.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 8, 2008

Expect discarded, retread coach to replace D'Antoni in Phoenix

Mike D'Antoni to seek gainful employment elsewhere (attempting to manipulate salary relief on $8.5 million obligation), the Suns have confirmed their coach is not invited back for the two years remaining on his contract. Depending on his agent's success at selling D'Antoni to the Knicks and Bulls who...
BUSINESS
May 8, 2008

Nippon Oil, PetroChina in refining JV

Nippon Oil Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to form a refining venture with PetroChina Co., expanding their alliance to capture growing Asian demand.
BUSINESS
May 8, 2008

Mitsubishi in deal with U.S. fund

Mitsubishi Corp. will set up a $300 million fund with Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC, a U.S. hedge fund, as part of a bid to strengthen its finance business.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 2008

Saskia Olde Wolbers: deceptive images, deceptive tales

If only every piece of video art started with the line: "Here I am lying next to my lover Jean, in intensive care."
BUSINESS
May 8, 2008

JAL, ANA lose Golden Week traffic

Japan Airlines Corp. and All Nippon Airways Co. flew fewer passengers during the Golden Week break as the national holidays were split between two weeks.
BUSINESS
May 7, 2008

Japan to propose copyright fees on iPods, digital recorders

The Japanese government will propose this week a plan to charge copyright royalties on sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, as well as on digital hard disk recorders, a major daily newspaper reported Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 6, 2008

Possibilities beyond Putinomics

MOSCOW — Medvedev will be inaugurated Russia's new president on Wednesday. Whether he can improve Russia's economy after he takes office is far less certain.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 6, 2008

Finance Ministry losing its luster

The Finance Ministry has long been known as the most powerful and elitist of Japan's bureaucracy. When Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda repeatedly tried in March to appoint a former vice finance minister as the new Bank of Japan governor — only to be rejected by the opposition-controlled Upper House —...

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