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JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Cops log 120 child abuse cases in first half

Child abuse cases uncovered by police in the first half of this year rose 14.3 percent over the same period last year to a record of 120, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Traditional Bali music

Based near Bali's capital city of Negara, Suar Agung have played jegog (traditional bamboo music from West Bali) to audiences in Japan on more than 30 occasions in the last decade.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2006

U.N. takes a hard line against Iran

The United Nations Security Council this week passed a resolution that gives Iran a stark choice: suspend its uranium-enrichment activities or face possible economic sanctions. The move is a victory for those who fear that Iran's nuclear programs threaten to unravel the global nuclear nonproliferation...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Traveling to Earth's depths

United States-born Charles Glover has been taking photographs since he was aged 10. Since that tender age, he has visited all seven continents and 70 countries. Glover's exhibition from his travels in Antarctica runs through August 31 at Maison Franco Japonaise museum in Ebisu, Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Konica Minolta ups group net profit

Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. said Thursday its April-June group net profit rose 44.3 percent from a year earlier to 10.56 billion yen on double-digit sales and profit growth for its information equipment and optics divisions.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Transfers of 100,000 yen or more face scrutiny

The Financial Services Agency said Wednesday it will require banks to keep records of people transferring 100,000 yen or more to help crack down on criminal activities.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 4, 2006

Psychedelic radar 08.04

Saturday, Aug. 5
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Movies with musical theme screened for free in Ebisu

The "Star Light Cinema Festival" is currently screening popular movies with a musical theme free of charge at Yebisu Garden Palace in Ebisu, Tokyo. It is the seventh time that the shopping complex has hosted the festival.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Tanigaki pitches 8% sales tax by '11

Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Thursday the 5 percent consumption tax should be raised to 8 percent by fiscal 2011.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

KHI's Airbus parts contract to end

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. will stop manufacturing fuselage panels for Airbus SAS A321 small jetliners at the end of March when its current contract with the European aircraft company ends, a KHI spokesman said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Bandai to sell giant Gundam

Bandai Co. said Thursday it will market a large plastic model of the Gundam robot, the main character from the popular cartoon series "Mobile Suit Gundam," on Dec. 16.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Aug 4, 2006

Shibuya's got glamour, and more

Anyone with more than a week in Tokyo has spent some time with Shibuya's mascot, Hachiko, waiting and watching thousands of individuals merge on cue into a tsunami of mass determination and consumerism, a scramble of humanity.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Architect's exhibition reveals simple aesthetic

Yoshihide Okuma (1905-1984) came to prominence as an architect in the postwar era, establishing a signature style of traditional wooden housing that harked back toward Japan's past when the country itself was undergoing rapid modernization.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Princess Mako off to Austria

Princess Mako, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, left for Austria on Thursday for a two-week home-stay.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Nippon Paper to try blocking Oji's takeover of Hokuetsu

Nippon Paper Group Inc., the holding firm of Japan's No. 2 pulp and paper company, said Thursday it will buy Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. shares to get an equity stake of less than 10 percent.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 4, 2006

72-hour party people

Japan's foremost music festival, Fuji Rock, might be over for another year, but for those who couldn't make the trek to Naeba Ski Resort last weekend, or the 130,000 who did but couldn't catch everything, our reporting team -- Daniel Robson, Simon Bartz, Philip Brasor, Mark Thompson, David Hickey, Richard...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 4, 2006

South of the border in 'Nakame'

Naka-Meguro's days as a hip, artsy enclave have long been numbered. The area isgentrifying fast, especially down by the river and uptoward Daikanyama. But venture along the slow-moving, old-school shopping street that forms the spiritual axis of 'Nakame' (as the locals like to call it) and you can still...
SOCCER
Aug 3, 2006

Gamba starts strong

J. League champions Gamba Osaka held off a second-half fight back to edge China's Dalian Shide 3-2 while JEF United Chiba beat South Korea's Ulsan Huyndai by the same scoreline at the East Asian "A3" Champions Cup in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 3, 2006

Kuroda best in July

Hiroshima Carp right-hander Hiroki Kuroda was named the MVP for the month of July after winning all four starts, including a shutout, during the month, the Central League said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 3, 2006

Oh leaves hospital, hopes to return soon

Japanese home-run king Sadaharu Oh left the hospital Wednesday after successful stomach cancer surgery last month, saying that he felt reborn and hoped to return to baseball as soon as possible.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2006

Japanese is youngest to scale K2

Tatsuya Aoki, a 21-year-old university student from Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become the youngest person ever to scale K2, the world's second-highest peak, his university said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2006

Bank to set up in Jordan for Iraq aid

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation is planning to set up a representative office in the Jordanian capital of Amman by the end of the year as part of preparations for offering aid to Iraq.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Japan to introduce joint child custody system in April 2026
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (center) and other ministers prior to a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday
Woman, 69, arrested over 1999 Nagoya housewife's murder
A police sketch released in 2020 of a woman spotted near the scene of the 1999 murder of a housewife in Nagoya's Nishi Ward
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18

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