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BUSINESS / SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Mar 6, 2008

High-growth targets may widen divisions in S. Korean society

The South Korean economy faces a host of structural challenges that were left unattended as the nation managed an export-led recovery from the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, the journalists told the Feb. 22 symposium.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Toyota mulls investing in MHI regional jetliner

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it may invest in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s project to build a regional jetliner that would be the first commercial aircraft produced domestically in around four decades.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2008

Bureaucrats resisting devolution

Ministry bureaucrats are resisting the government's effort to push devolution — the move to localize more government decision making and taxing authority. The government's devolution panel sent questionnaires to government ministries last fall to solicit their opinions on abolishing or integrating...
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Skymark mulls first dividend

Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan's largest low-fare carrier, may pay a dividend for the first time next business year to help stem a decline in its shares.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2008

Cloud over key appointment

The steering committees of both Diet chambers have laid down a new rule for Diet approval of the appointment of officials for four important organizations — the governor and two deputy governors of the Bank of Japan, the three top-ranking officials of the Board of Audit and the National Personnel Authority,...
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2008

"Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2008"

Yebisu Garden Place, The Garden Hall and other locations in Tokyo
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2008

"Syoin Kajii: Marginal Villages"

Foil Gallery in Tokyo's Higashi-Kanda
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Scrap iron, steel prices at record levels as demand soars

Japan's scrap iron and steel prices rose to a record for a fifth consecutive week as demand from Japanese, South Korean and Chinese steelmakers rose and a drop in building demolitions reduced the supply of reclaimed girders.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Nomura's online trading system fails

Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan's biggest securities firm, said Wednesday a technical failure prevented individual customers from trading securities on its online trading system.
BASKETBALL
Mar 5, 2008

Toyama's Kabaya earns honor

Masayuki Kabaya, one of the few bright spots for the Toyama Grouses this season, is the Circle K Sunkus Player of the Week, the bj-league announced on Tuesday. Kabaya, scored 19 points on Saturday and 23 more in Sunday's contest. The Grouses (4-30) lost both games to the Ryukyu Golden Kings. Kabaya...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2008

Putin's unwilling executioner?

NEW YORK — The question that has dominated Russian politics, and world discussion of Russian politics — will he (Vladimir Putin) or won't he stay in power? — has now been settled. He will and he won't.
COMMENTARY
Mar 5, 2008

Sovereign funds rescue West

LONDON — Ten years ago some commentators, including myself, were forecasting that the age of Westernization was over and that the age of Easternization was about to begin. Capital and technology that had flowed from the West to the East for several centuries past was now about to start flowing the...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

Freighter dings MSDF destroyers in Vietnam

Two Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers were hit by a Vietnamese freighter Tuesday at the port of Ho Chi Minh City, the second accident there in two days involving MSDF vessels, MSDF officials said.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 5, 2008

Marion bashers refuse to exit shadows

NEW YORK — Sorry, but no Shawn Marion column today, as advertised, on the grounds one and all insisted on anonymity with regards to his debatable trade for Shaquille O'Neal.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League / 2008 J. LEAGUE PREVIEW
Mar 5, 2008

JEF boss Kuze optimistic despite player exodus

Many soccer teams around the world recover from losing their captain and midfield inspiration between seasons, and many would even shrug off the departure of their best defender soon after.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

Obama to namesake town: Thanks for support

From Obama to Obama, thank you.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

MSDF withdraws ships from fishermen search

The Maritime Self-Defense Force on Tuesday recalled its warships from the search for the missing father and son whose fishing boat was run over by a destroyer last month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

Kamakura farmers hit food-waste plan

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Pref. — The truck farmers market in the center of this ancient capital has been an experiment on many fronts: It is a rare no-middleman link to consumers, engaging in a communal shared rotation of stalls and offering an ever-expanding bounty to please the city's worldly palates....
EDITORIALS
Mar 5, 2008

More of the same in Russia?

The overwhelming victory of Mr. Dmitri Medvedev in Russia's presidential election shows that the Russian people want the continuation of the basic policy line of President Vladimir Putin, who brought Russia stability and economic growth. Mr. Medvedev, a first deputy prime minister, was handpicked by...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

Accept fault, free 42-year death-row inmate, counsel tells Supreme Court

Lawyers seeking a retrial for a former professional boxer on death row for 42 years filed their final statement Tuesday with the Supreme Court, demanding that the court "have the courage to acknowledge its misjudgment" and free their client.

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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