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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 1, 2007

Stigma from arrest will linger for Redknapp in near future

LONDON — The problem with being arrested for anything is that the person is immediately seen as guilty by association by many.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Dec 1, 2007

Bond forged in Nepal still going strong

Praveen Lama and Kazuko Tanikawa have lived in a bustling shopping street in Tokyo's Kita Ward since July 2003, when the Nepalese married his Japanese wife after a long-distance love affair that lasted several years through e-mails and phone calls.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ALSO OUT THERE
Dec 1, 2007

Editors to single out buzzword of the year

Amplification of the Japanese language reaches its annual culmination every December when editors of Gendai Yougo no Kisochishiki (Encyclopedia of Contemporary Words) crown a word or a phrase as its "ryuko go taisho" — buzzword of the year.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 1, 2007

Hasta la vista, pink bunny!

This column is for all the Nova teachers out there who have lost their teaching jobs. And should you be packing up to go back home, I wish you all the best of luck.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 1, 2007

Company has visions of a brighter future

Have you heard of a sustainable plant that produces fuel as well as homeopathic medicines? Or a revolutionary process that turns garbage or plants into fuel?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Dec 1, 2007

Group helps volunteers get their hands on work

No matter how badly someone wants to put their good will to use, getting a handle on where to start is often the hardest thing to grasp. Realizing this difficulty, a group of U.S. volunteers in the late '80s got together to create New York Cares, an organization that helps link the ambitious aims of...
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2007

Workers at U.S. bases strike again

More than 16,000 Japanese workers at U.S. military bases in Japan staged a strike Friday, the second in two weeks, after negotiations failed over the government's plan to cut their benefits.
EDITORIALS
Dec 1, 2007

Opportunity in Annapolis?

There are many reasons to be skeptical about this week's Middle East conference hosted by the United States in Annapolis, Maryland — not least of which is the seven years of utter disinterest shown by the Bush administration. Without active U.S. involvement, the problems that fester in that troubled...
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2007

Gasoline pushes CPI up 0.1%

Japan's economy showed its first signs of inflation this year after gasoline prices surged.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2007

PS3 outsells Wii first time in Japan

Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console outsold rival Nintendo Co.'s Wii for the first time in Japan since its release in November 2006, a video-game researcher said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2007

ZMP puts on sale biped, Microsoft-programmed bot

ZMP of Japan began selling a two-legged walking robot Thursday that runs on Microsoft's new robotics software — a product the companies said will make it easier to transfer technology from one robot to another.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2007

Dentsu warns of lost discs blunder

Dentsu Inc., Japan's largest advertising agency, said it may have lost three CD-ROMs containing personal information on about 54,000 shareholders.

Longform

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