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BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2006

Specifics prove difficult in privatizing financier

The government has deferred a decision on whether to include specific measures to fully privatize Shoko Chukin Bank, a public financier specializing in loans to smaller businesses, in a bill on streamlining government-linked financial institutions.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 4, 2006

What would the village hugger do?

Eons ago in an America light-years away, my wife and I stopped at the only eatery available in a town that hit the bull's-eye in the middle of nowhere. As we ordered coffee and toast, an old man shuffling past suddenly stopped and spoke to my wife. She may have been the first Oriental he had ever seen....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 4, 2006

A meeting with a (full) Komodo dragon

Celebrity profile Name: Komodo dragon Breed: Varanus komodoensis, the largest monitor lizard Favorite food: Homo sapiens "Charm point": none
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2006

Reshaping the welfare state

LONDON -- A market economy is efficient, but it is not just. Because wages are determined by the law of scarcity, some people cannot earn enough money to live a decent life.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Nakagawa hints favoring Abe as next chief

Whoever succeeds Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should be highly popular with voters, Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Hidenao Nakagawa argued Friday, sparking speculation that he would back Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe in the September LDP presidential election.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 3, 2006

WBC is Japan's chance for international success

The Winter Warriors were a miracle away from leaving Turin empty-handed, but the Boys of Summer may just save the day in time for cherry blossom season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 3, 2006

Final hurdles cleared

All that's left for Team Japan to do is come out of the dugout and play China on Friday night.
BASKETBALL
Mar 3, 2006

Broncos to give out collectible cards

On the court, the Saitama Broncos aren't exactly basketball superstars.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2006

Trying too hard to get ahead

When Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata spoke during a Feb. 16 Lower House Budget Committee session, it appeared that he possessed a strong political weapon for blowing up the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

U.S. KC-130 relocation mulled

Japan and the United States are planning to change the relocation site for the command center for the U.S. KC-130 midair refueling aircraft unit from a Japanese base in Kagoshima Prefecture to a U.S. base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, according to Japanese government sources.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 3, 2006

Unselfish Matsunaka putting it all on the line for 'Hinomaru' in WBC

Team Japan cleanup hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka doesn't care how he swings the bat. Numbers are subordinate in the mind of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star, especially in the World Baseball Classic.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Be wary of China threat, NPA tells tech exporters

The National Police Agency chief urged Japanese high-tech equipment makers Thursday to be more cautious when exporting to China as their technology could be used to make weapons.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Bank exec, gangster held over loan

Police said Thursday they arrested seven people, including the chairman of a Tokyo-based "shinkin" savings-and-loan bank and a gang leader, on suspicion they conspired to arrange an illegal loan to a company linked to the mobster, despite knowing it would cause losses for the bank.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Yasukuni row hurting everyone: scholars

The dispute between Japan and China over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine hurts not only the nations' bilateral ties but also the entire region by hindering regional cooperation, two American experts on China said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Nagata now admits e-mail was fake, faces Diet discipline

Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata got on the same page as his party Thursday by finally admitting the e-mail he trotted out in the Diet last month in a bid to demonstrate shady financial ties between an arrested entrepreneur and a son of Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Death upheld for robbery-murders

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence handed to a 62-year-old man convicted of two robbery-murders in the 1990s.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

MUFG ending some ATM fees

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. in late May will abolish money transfer charges between its group banks for customers using cash cards at its automated teller machines, sources at the group said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

February monetary base up 1.9%

Japan's monetary base grew 1.9 percent in February from a year earlier for the 61st straight monthly increase, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 3, 2006

The black hole for U.S. aid

NEW DELHI -- Despite making the spread of freedom the rallying cry of his second term, U.S. President George W. Bush has found it difficult to visit the world's largest democracy, India, without also stopping to meet the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

IC-tagged produce coming to a grocer near you

Supermarkets are following department stores in introducing integrated circuit tags for their goods, believing that easing the payment process will make shopping more convenient for customers and help increase profits.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Obituary: Teruhiko Kuze

Teruhiko Kuze, a writer and producer of popular TV dramas, died Thursday morning at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, an employee of Kuze's TV production company said. He was 70.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Public OK needed to expand overseas service: NHK chief

A national consensus will be necessary for NHK to use viewer fees to expand its international broadcasts, the public broadcaster's president, Genichi Hashimoto, said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

BOJ hopes to dull long-term rate spikes

The Bank of Japan has started crafting measures to prevent long-term interest rates from surging in reaction to the imminent end of its ultraloose monetary policy, according to BOJ sources.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Member PCs' ASDF, GSDF data also leaked on Winny

Ground Self-Defense Force and Air Self-Defense Force data stored on privately owned computers have leaked onto the Internet via peer-to-peer file-sharing software Winny, following a similar case at the Maritime Self-Defense Force last week, Defense Agency sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

ODA units to be rejiggered but faces stay the same

The government may allow the new Japan International Cooperation Agency and a new public financial entity, both involving the consolidation of state-backed financial bodies, to have the same executives, according to sources.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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