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JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

Woman stripped of wall painting award

A 69-year-old housewife plagiarized the work awarded the No. 1 prize in a national wall painting contest, it was learned Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

Koreans want answers to slave laborers' fates

and two other South Koreans seeking information on relatives who were slave laborers in Japan during the war take part in a ceremony Friday in Tokyo as others hold photos of three North Koreans who were denied visas. SATOKO KAWASAKI PHOTO
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

Marubeni to acquire IRCJ's Daiei stake

Marubeni Corp. said Friday it will acquire the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan's entire stake in struggling retailer Daiei Inc. for 69.8 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

Mitsubishi Electric profit doubles

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Friday its group net profit jumped more than twofold from a year before to a record high 24.9 billion yen in the three months ending in June, thanks to vigorous sales of mobile phone handsets.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

NHK faces new embezzlement case

NHK Service Center Inc. said it fired an employee Friday for misappropriating operational funds intended for an international figure skating competition.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

DoCoMo quarterly profit declines

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday its group net profit in the April-June quarter dropped 21.3 percent from the previous year to 163.51 billion yen as an operating profit fall in its cellular phone division coincided with a loss expansion in other divisions.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jul 29, 2006

The secret to stomping the rainy season

It has been a long rainy season, with destruction from landslides and floods. But we don't worry about those things on the island. Because living on an island, we're used to having lots of water around. Thirty cm of rain here is just another drop of water in the sea.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

Mizutani Kensetsu, director charged

Mizutani Kensetsu Co. and its representative director, Shigeyuki Nakamura, were charged Friday with evading corporate taxes by hiding part of the firm's income in the business year through August 2003, prosecutors said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2006

Sunni-Shiite divide widens in the Mideast

LONDON -- Is the Sunni-Shiite divide in the Middle East now deeper than the antagonism between Israel and the Arabs? You might think so given the response of some Arab governments to Hezbollah's decision to attack Israel. Even as Israeli bombs fell on Beirut and Tyre, Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most conservative...
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

JAL's unannounced stock issue draws fire

Japan Airlines Corp. CEO Haruka Nishimatsu apologized Friday for not disclosing to stockholders its recent issue of new shares, which prompted JAL stock to plunge.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jul 29, 2006

Deven Arora

In his book "A Yen for Yen," Deven Arora from India describes his life in Japan as a "rupees-to-riches success story." He has always, he said, followed six rules: being committed to a dream; believing in self; daring to try unconventional ideas; being unafraid of making mistakes; persevering; and enjoying...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

'Koizumi's children' no longer

"Koizumi's children" are making their ways out of the nest and into the factionalized world of the Liberal Democratic Party.
EDITORIALS
Jul 29, 2006

No time to be shy

The Sept. 20 Liberal Democratic Party presidential campaign heated up Thursday when Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki became the first LDP lawmaker to officially declare his candidacy. Mr. Tanigaki's entry promises to deepen discussion of tax and other policy issues following former Chief Cabinet Secretary...
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

Carcinogen benzene in DHC drinks

Cancer-causing benzene has been found in amounts in excess of an international standard in a soft drink sold by cosmetics retailer DHC Corp., the health ministry said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 29, 2006

When Crete meets NEET

An unholy union with an unholy result -- a monster!
SOCCER
Jul 28, 2006

Barca earns bye for FIFA CWC

European Champions League winner Barcelona has received a bye into the semifinals of this year's FIFA Club World Cup to be held in Japan in December, the Japan Football Association said Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 28, 2006

Tanigaki throws hat into ring

Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki on Thursday became the first Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker to officially declare his candidacy for the Sept. 20 LDP presidential election, pledging that if he becomes the next prime minister, he will not visit Yasukuni Shrine.
SOCCER
Jul 28, 2006

AC gets go-ahead

NYON, Switzerland (AP) UEFA provisionally will allow AC Milan to play in the Champions League, pending a final decision next week.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2006

North-bound exports tightened

The government will tighten controls on the transfer of information technology and export of IT-related products to North Korea by revising trade control regulations this fall, official sources said.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2006

Tokyo school to get nationalists' civics text

The Tokyo metropolitan board of education said Thursday it will put a junior high school civics textbook authored by nationalists in one of its schools in the next academic year, metro officials said.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight