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EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2006

Upgrading SDF's overseas activities

Bills to upgrade the Defense Agency to a ministry and revise the Self-Defense Forces Law are likely to be enacted in the current Diet session. The revisions could change the character of the SDF, which has operated under a strict "defense only" policy. Inasmuch as they are closely related to the workings...
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2006

LDP reform foes' return slammed as betrayal

In August 2005, 37 Liberal Democratic Party members held their heads high as they voted against LDP President and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's bills to privatize the postal system, legislation they felt was being forced on them.
COMMENTARY
Dec 5, 2006

Citizen musicians giving peace a chance

NEW YORK -- Political and religious leaders could improve their peacemaking ability by paying attention to what some contemporary musicians are achieving. "Inter-religious" orchestras comprising Jewish, Muslim and Catholic musicians point the way toward a diminishing climate of violence while signaling...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2006

Chaff that sticks to wheat

SYDNEY -- As scandals go in the annals of Australian business, the one over wheat sales to Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime is huge. And the political fallout, both domestic and international, may prove to be even mightier. It leaves many people here and abroad scratching their heads in amazement....
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2006

LDP allows postal rebels back in fold

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday officially readmitted 11 of the lawmakers kicked out of the party last year for opposing postal privatization, its key reform.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2006

LDP allows postal rebels back in fold

rejoining the party," Abe told reporters afterward. He said he would seek the public's understanding by achieving his policy goals with the help of the rebels.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 5, 2006

Shelter reaches out to abuse victims

Her hands were clenched into fists, and patches of lightened skin mottled her skin up to her elbows. Addressing the four foreign women sitting in the office of the domestic violence shelter in Okayama City, the young woman quietly told us of the years of abuse she endured at the hands of her husband....
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Dec 5, 2006

"Bad Kitty," "Junie B. Jones ... is on Her Way!"

"Bad Kitty," Michele Jaffe, Puffin Books; 2006; 294 pp. It's ha-ha-hard being a teenager, particularly if you're Jas Callihan, all of 17, half-Jamaican half-Irish, with a height to rival King Kong's and a nonexistent chest. In author Michele Jaffe's hands, nothing could be more hysterical than the gaffes...
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2006

Omi hints bond issues may face 3 trillion yen cut

Finance Minister Koji Omi said Monday the government will reduce new bond issues for fiscal 2007 "by a wide margin" amid reports the cut could be as much as 3 trillion yen.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 5, 2006

Views from Tokyo: What are the best ways to tackle bullying in schools?

Thomasina Larkin asks about the best ways to tackle bullying in schools
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 5, 2006

There's no need to grit your teeth

It has all the elements of a nightmare. A masked person stands over you wielding a small mirror in one gloved hand and a needle-sharp probe in the other. A drill powerful enough to cut through bone in seconds sits idle on a table beside other implements of torture. You cannot see the masked face clearly...
BASKETBALL
Dec 4, 2006

Humphrey scores 40 in Tokyo's OT triumph

John "Helicopter" Humphrey complained to the refs throughout the game -- nothing unusual about that. But he managed to convert his frustration into points on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2006

Horie says ex-CFO made false statements against him in court

Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie on Sunday accused a former subordinate of making false statements against him in court and said neither had been aware of alleged accounting fraud at Livedoor Co.

Longform

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