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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 23, 2008

Otsuka homers in Lotte's rout of Seibu

CHIBA — The Chiba Lotte Marines threw everything but the rule book at the Seibu Lions on Tuesday night. Good thing their manager was there to back them up.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2008

Kamei seeks to undermine death penalty

Japanese politicians are generally not very vocal when it comes to their views on capital punishment, mainly because a large majority of the public supports the death penalty.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2008

Sony decides to delay Home virtual world showcase for PlayStation 3 until fall

Sony is delaying the start of Home, its virtual world for the PlayStation 3 video game machine, until the latter half of this year — the second time the online interactive service has been postponed.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 23, 2008

Is growth driving us to oblivion?

Last month, when I wrote a column headlined "Apocalypse when? Can three experts all be wrong on looming disaster?," I expected that readers would harangue me for taking up ranks with the pessimists. After all, for every doomster, there seems to be a Pangloss reassuring us that all will be well.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2008

Oricon wins suit against writer

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered a freelance journalist quoted in a magazine article to pay ¥1 million in damages to Oricon Inc. for stating that its music charts are fixed and inaccurately rank the tunes.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2008

Lawmakers visit Yasukuni festival

A group of lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday for its annual spring festival, just one day after South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said in Tokyo he would focus on building friendly ties with Japan.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2008

Steel sheet prices set to rise again

Nippon Steel Corp. and JFE Holdings Inc. will raise wholesale prices for steel sheets by 10 percent as early as June, according to three metal traders familiar with price talks.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2008

Asia needs $100 billion forex pool: Watanabe

Asian governments should form a $100 billion pool of foreign reserves by 2010 to prevent a repeat of the region's financial crisis a decade ago, says Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan's former top currency official.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Apr 23, 2008

Tech to get people talking

Say what you want: Why use a tiny keypad to communicate when the human voice can do the job? NTT DoCoMo last week launched a new mobile phone from Fujitsu, the F884i, that will put the joy back into talking to your e-mail contacts. Employing the new FOMA Raku Raku Phone Premium system, users enter their...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Apr 23, 2008

Goose barnacle

Japanese name: Kamenote
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2008

Death penalty ruling marks dramatic shift

Tuesday's ruling in which a 27-year-old man was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of a mother and her infant daughter in Yamaguchi Prefecture marks a major judicial change, according to legal experts.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2008

Chugai Pharma profit plunges 50% on low Tamiflu, Epogin sales

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., the Japanese unit of Roche Holding AG, said first-quarter profit fell 50 percent from a year earlier because of a drop in sales of Tamiflu and Epogin, two of its three best-selling medicines.
EDITORIALS
Apr 23, 2008

Mr. Lee puts his best foot forward

Critical to the realization of the ambitious goals set by South Korea's new president, Mr. Lee Myung Bak, is the forging of a new relationship with the United States. Mr. Lee's five-day visit to the U.S. last week, which included a meeting at Camp David, the U.S. president's weekend retreat, went a long...
BASKETBALL
Apr 22, 2008

Mavs need to slow down Paul

With a quick behind-the-back dribble, Chris Paul darted left.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2008

Mixing sports and politics

PARIS — "Do not mix sports and politics!" That defiant cry from China's rulers to the threat of a boycott of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games does not stand the test of reality. Sport and politics have always been closely linked.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2008

New Delhi's dilemma with the Dalai Lama

PRAGUE — As the world reacts to China's crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it. India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.
OLYMPICS
Apr 22, 2008

Kitajima headlines 31-member Olympic team

Kosuke Kitajima was nearly speechless on the podium. He will give all the answers in Beijing.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2008

Moriya enters guilty plea

Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya pleaded guilty Monday to charges of bribery and perjury and acknowledged taking part in bribes-for-contracts schemes with executives of defense equipment traders between 2003 and 2007.

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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