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JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

453 Japanese had organ transplants abroad: panel

A Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry panel said Thursday that 453 Japanese people are known to have had transplants either of the heart, liver or kidney abroad, in the first such revelation of the number of Japanese receiving organs overseas.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Ruling bloc submits resolution telling Nishimura to quit

The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito submitted a resolution proposal Friday to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono to urge scandal-hit lawmaker Shingo Nishimura to resign.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2006

Political storm batters U.S. ports

The controversy over the proposed sale of U.S. port facilities to a government-owned company of the United Arab Emirates was, in large part, political theater. The deal was a gift issue in election season: It allowed members of Congress to demonstrate their commitment to U.S. security and U.S. jobs....
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Fukui favors cautious, phased interest rate hikes

Interest rates are on the way up, Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui said Friday in testimony to a House of Representatives committee on financial and monetary matters.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Murakami irate over auction of manuscripts

Popular novelist Haruki Murakami said in a monthly magazine released Friday that a number of his manuscripts have been put up for auction on the Internet and at secondhand bookshops without his permission.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Machinery orders suffer first drop in four months

Japan's core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent in January from the previous month to 1.059 trillion yen, the first fall in four months, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Bill targets pension premium refusers

The Cabinet OK'd legislation Friday for presentation to the Diet the same day to establish a new pension services agency in 2008 to replace the Social Insurance Agency and enhance collection of pension premiums.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

U.S. firm gets Toshiba DNA chip license

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has signed a licensing agreement with U.S. firm Antara BioSciences Inc. to transfer its expertise on compact, low-cost DNA chips and DNA diagnostic equipment.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Wholesale prices score 16-year high

Wholesale prices rose 2.9 percent in February from a year earlier for the 24th consecutive monthly rise, marking the highest growth in 16 years, the Bank of Japan said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Bill approved to revise Trust Law

The government approved a bill Friday to revise the Trust Law to allow new types of trusts, marking the first major amendment to the law since it was enacted about 80 years ago.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Yamato, DHL in marketing tieup

Yamato Holdings Co. said Friday it has signed an agreement with DHL Global Mail (Japan) K.K., part of the Deutsche Post World Net group, that will create a joint direct marketing venture on April 3.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 11, 2006

Akane Okamoto-Kaminski

Marek Kaminski, born in Poland in 1947, graduated from Warsaw University. As an advanced student of ethnic minority groups, he went on to the University of Sweden. In Sweden he met and married his wife, a Korean-Japanese who was traveling there. Akane, their daughter, was born in Goteborg, and their...
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Mitsubishi, Tepco in LNG tieup

Mitsubishi Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday they have agreed to jointly procure and market liquefied natural gas tapped in Oman, starting in April.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Aeon seeks to add banking operations to supermarkets by '07

Major supermarket chain Aeon Co. said Friday it will enter the banking business as early as spring 2007, building on its 1,500 stores and 13.7 million Aeon credit card holders in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 11, 2006

No more nude surfing in Bali

A few weeks ago, while surfing on the Bukit, Bali's southernmost peninsula, where the population is small and the waves big, I paddled my board out among a group of three young Japanese surfers who were obviously on vacation. They chatted among themselves, not really giving me much notice, when suddenly...
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Koizumi's crowning bill gets government OK

The government approved a bill Friday that gives the timeline for administrative reforms planned for the next several years, positioned as the capstone to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform agenda.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 11, 2006

Good Day to hear all about Ranald MacDonald

Never heard the name Ranald MacDonald? (Not easily forgotten, for sure.) This is about to change, thanks to the book "Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan" by American author Frederik Schodt.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Japanese universities need foreign students: U.K. scholar

Recruiting foreign students will be key if Japanese universities are to survive the competition expected as the population shrinks, according to British scholar Peter Mathias.

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