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JAPAN
Jan 14, 2006

EU favors more labs over stockpiles of flu drugs

International donors at a two-day rapid response conference in Tokyo said Friday they are ready to help poor Asian countries prepare for a potential flu pandemic, but a delegate from the European Union said it will not fund the stockpiling of drugs and instead focus on improving animal health measures....
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2006

Man arrested over sex with minor

An employee of Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of having had sex with a 15-year-old junior high school girl after paying her 50,000 yen a year ago, police said.
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2006

Sharp to invest 275 billion yen

Sharp plans to invest 275 billion yen next fiscal year to maintain its top spot in the liquid crystal display TV market, President Katsuhiko Machida said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2006

Kimura data suggest Aneha lied before Diet

In-house information provided Wednesday by a bankrupt construction firm linked to the building-code violation scandal indicates disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha may have given false testimony to a Lower House committee in December over his involvement in the fraud.
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2006

Privee takes top Hankyu stake

Privee Zurich Turnaround Group Co. has become the largest stockholder in Hankyu Holdings Inc. through an acquisition of 5.01 percent of the firm's outstanding shares, according to a report filed with financial authorities Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jan 10, 2006

Kazuhiko Hachiya

Artist Kazuhiko Hachiya, 39, is president of PetWORKs, a small company with nine employees. According to him, they "do big things in a funny and cute way." His company is behind the popular mail software PostPet, in which animated characters deliver the mail; the hit doll Momoko; and it is now venturing...
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2006

Nikko Citigroup employee makes trading blunder

A Nikko Citigroup Ltd. employee, investing for private purposes, mistakenly placed a buy order on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for 2,000 shares of Nippon Paper Group Inc. instead of two, the investment firm said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2006

BTMU debut as world's top bank wasn't without a hitch

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the world's largest bank, formed through the merger of two major Japanese financial groups, opened for business Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company's Tokyo headquarters.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2006

DoCoMo in talks for 5% stake in Philippine telecom firm

NTT DoCoMo Inc. is negotiating to buy into Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the largest telecommunications firm in the Philippines, company officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 31, 2005

Gen Okamoto

Gen Okamoto sees himself as an illustrator rather than a fine artist. For that reason, in his printmaking he uses different techniques to produce "tones and softer shadows, a kind of texture," which he is looking for as the most desirable for his kind of creative expression. Sometimes people ask him...
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2005

Portrait of a year in buzzwords

If it's December, it's time for those list-loving dictionary folks to be announcing their Words of the Year again -- and in the process providing editorial writers with a revealing lens on the past 12 months. This year, their labors yielded a couple of startlingly different scenarios.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 27, 2005

Real estate, a good cigar and body wax

Property in Yokohama Shirley, in Monterey, Calif., found an interesting article on buying property in Japan while browsing on the Web, and had a question.
EDITORIALS
Dec 25, 2005

Ground floor of a scandal

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Chiba and Kanagawa prefectural police launched a joint investigation Dec. 20 into Japan's building-design scandal, raiding more than 100 locations in Tokyo and five prefectures -- Chiba, Saitama, Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Miyazaki.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2005

Aneha, four subcontractors face charges

In addition to pressing charges against disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha, police will go after four firms that subcontracted the structural designs of four properties to him in connection with the quake-resistance data fabrication scandal, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2005

Condo, hotel bring toll in Aneha safety scandal to 73

The number of buildings designed on falsified quake-resistance data drawn up by disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha has risen to 73 in 17 prefectures, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 16, 2005

Dropping a line and seeing what hits

The Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini is sitting in the Tokyo office of her Japanese record company, talking about an izakaya where she spent an evening. Torrini has a special affection for eateries since she grew up in a restaurant run by her Italian immigrant father in a small town outside Reykjavik....
MORE SPORTS
Dec 15, 2005

Mitsubishi to take two-year pit stop

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Wednesday it has decided to suspend its participation in the FIA World Rally Championship series for two years from next year in order to concentrate on its business revitalization plan.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 11, 2005

Nihon TV's late-night series "NNN Document 05" focuses on asbestos and more

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the births of both the Liberal Democratic Party and rock 'n' roll. Though NHK might be expected to analyze the former, it has decided to celebrate the latter. On Dec. 12, 13 and 14 at 11 p.m., the BS-2 channel will present a three-part look at "The Birth of Rock:...
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2005

Diet will ask Aneha to testify next week

, Moriyoshi Kimura, president of Kimura Construction, and Akira Shinozuka, the Tokyo branch manager of the now-bankrupt contractor. The land ministry tried Thursday to formally notify Aneha that he was stripped of his first-class architect license Wednesday, but he was not at his home in Ichikawa, Chiba...
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2005

Aneha fraud easy to see: whistle-blower

, chief of Atlas Architect Design Office and the first whistle-blower in the building safety scandal, attends a session of the Lower House Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee along with eHomes President Togo Fujita (center) and Japan ERI President Takahide Suzuki.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2005

Kao camp in lead for Kanebo: sources

The state-backed corporate bailout agency is close to picking Kao Corp. and three investment funds as the buyer of Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. as it entered the final phase of selection proceedings, sources said Tuesday.

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