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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 16, 2007

Father's Day gifts on 100 yen

Dear Dad,
EDITORIALS
Jun 16, 2007

Falling short of reform

A bill to revise the Political Funds Control Law pushed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito is likely to be enacted during the current Diet session. Ostensibly it is aimed at bringing more transparency into mandatory political funds reports, but the bill is weak and Prime...
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2007

Komeito lawmaker scoffs at snub

said (New Komeito is) totalitarian just because he did not get his way," Kitagawa told reporters later Friday. Fukumoto said he handed in his letter of resignation from the party Monday, but Kitagawa said it has not been accepted and the party is considering reprimanding him.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 16, 2007

Taking steps to raise funds for AIDS orphans

Lynne Charles is tired. She's rarely to bed before 4 a.m., and has to be up at 6:30 to get her son off to school.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 16, 2007

Yukari Pratt

Put together the bright picture of a girl, growing up in Minnesota, with her younger brother, their Japanese mother and American father. She attended Luther College in Iowa, and took her degree there in a compelling interest, music. She said: "Music played a big part in my high school years. I had a...
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2007

Author Inose agrees to become Ishihara's deputy

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara announced Friday that writer Naoki Inose has agreed to serve as a vice governor for the capital.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2007

10 Pakistani Navy sailors go AWOL during rare Tokyo goodwill port call

and a supply ship are seen docked at Harumi Wharf in Tokyo on Thursday. KYODO PHOTO
SOCCER
Jun 15, 2007

Haitian youths desert national team

NEW YORK (AP) Most of a Haitian national youth soccer team apparently deserted the squad during an airport stopover hours before a planned Wednesday trip to South Korea to prepare for the upcoming FIFA Under-17 World Cup. By Wednesday afternoon, five or six of the 13 missing players had returned to...
SOCCER
Jun 15, 2007

Euro transfer gossip reaches feverish level

LONDON (AP) Thierry Henry for Barcelona? Samuel Eto'o for Arsenal? Didier Drogba for AC Milan?
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2007

Fund bill rife with loopholes advances

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday criticized as "full of holes" that obliges politicians' fund-management bodies to report expenditures over 50,000 yen, as the ruling coalition scrambled to mitigate the fallout from the May suicide of farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2007

Worst student suicide rate yet

The National Police Agency says that suicides in Japan topped 30,000 for the ninth consecutive year in 2006. While the total number, 32,155, was down 1.2 percent from 2005, the number of suicides among students, 886 — up 25 (2.9 percent) from 2005 — was the worst since 1978 when the NPA started compiling...
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2007

Japan jumps on the bioethanol bandwagon

Japan is looking to bioethanol as a way to become less dependent on imported energy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 15, 2007

'Zukan ni Notte Nai Mushi'

We all need to escape, once in a while, from being serious people in the real world, trying to ace the big test, land the big contract, or earn an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. Rinko Kikuchi, who accomplished the last feat for her turn as a hearing-impaired high-school girl in "Babel,"...

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes