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JAPAN
Mar 24, 2007

Hepatitis C plaintiffs win 259 million yen

The Tokyo District Court ordered the state and three drugmakers Friday to pay a combined 259 million yen in damages to 13 of 21 plaintiffs infected with the hepatitis C virus from tainted blood products.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2007

Court upholds family's deportation order

The Tokyo District Court dismissed a lawsuit Friday by a Turkish Kurd, his Filipino wife and their 6-year-old daughter seeking to reverse a deportation order for overstaying their visas.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2007

Livedoor accountant first to do real time for fraud

The Tokyo District Court convicted two accountants Friday of knowingly certifying cooked Livedoor Co. financial reports, finding them negligent in their duty to provide accurate information to investors.
SOCCER
Mar 24, 2007

Naka gets behind coach Osim

Shunsuke Nakamura has sprung to the defense of Ivica Osim and his selection methods ahead of Japan's first national team game of the year against Peru on Saturday evening.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 24, 2007

S. Korea's Kim leads after short program

South Korea's Kim Yu Na put on a dramatic performance Friday night to win the ladies singles short program at the World Figure Skating Championships.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2007

Nakasone claims his 'ian-jo' was for R&R

Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Friday denied he set up a military brothel during World War II when he was a naval officer, claiming the facility he built was only for "rest and recreation" for the engineering corps he led.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2007

North Korea will only hurt itself

There was optimism in the air when the six-party talks on the denuclearization of North Korea resumed Monday in Beijing. That same day, the United States had announced that $25 million in North Korea-linked funds frozen in a Macau bank would be released. The funds had been frozen because of their suspected...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 24, 2007

Metal, sweat and fire come together in elegant art

In a cavernous brick warehouse on a quiet block in Brooklyn, N.Y., a woman kneels near a row of furnaces that heave with glowing orange flames.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 24, 2007

Chandru G. Advani

This is the India Year in Japan 2007 and the Japan Year in India 2007. It is a significant time for every enterprise interested in the flow of information, goods and people between the two countries.
COMMENTARY
Mar 24, 2007

Baseless threats of cold war

HONOLULU -- U.S. plans to deploy an antiballistic missile defense system in Europe have raised fears of a new Cold War. Russian responses to the proposal have been fierce: Moscow has warned countries that hosting interceptors would make them targets in the event of conflict. In fact, the planned deployments...
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2007

Osaka homeless in residency registry limbo ahead of polls

OSAKA -- As the Osaka Municipal Government's deadline looms for thousands of the city's homeless to change their residence registrations or be struck from the books, the two sides are still far apart about establishing bona-fide addresses for them to be able to vote in next month's local polls.

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell