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COMMENTARY
Nov 18, 2005

A chance to clean up terror

NEW DELHI -- The Oct. 8 South Asian earthquake struck at the epicenter of a principal recruiting ground and logistic center for global terrorists, leveling a number of terrorist nurseries and training camps in an area that serves as the last main refuge of al-Qaida. Much of the quake's destruction occurred...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2005

MUFJ profit tops Toyota's, hits record

The estimated consolidated April-September net profit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. has topped the group net profit of Toyota Motor Corp. to become the largest in Japan, figures released Thursday showed.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 18, 2005

Jojima cancels meeting with Mets

Japanese all-star catcher Kenji Jojima has canceled a meeting with the New York Mets and is preparing to end his current U.S. trip Thursday, according to baseball sources.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 18, 2005

Kabuki superstars perform

The Paris-based International Theatre Institute is once again offering half-price kabuki tickets for foreigners living in Japan following its successful November campaign.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2005

Koizumi to snub Toledo at APEC

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi revealed Thursday he has turned down an offer to meet with Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit, which starts Friday in Pusan, South Korea.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 18, 2005

Food for all

A traditional Irish band, a belly-dancing troupe and a Tokyo Comedy Store stand-up comic whose routine assesses United States-Japan relations will all attempt to get in the Thanksgiving mood to raise money for the Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) benefit, "Food for All Japan." The fundraiser takes place 6...
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2005

R&D spending dents Isuzu first-half profit 27%

Isuzu Motors Ltd. said Thursday its group net profit plunged 27.4 percent to 26.02 billion yen in the six months to Sept. 30, mainly due to an increase in research and development spending by the truck maker.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 18, 2005

Banrekiryukodo: Simple alchemy works wonders

The ikebana alcove in the clattering, bustling train station; the Shinto shrine on the roof of a high-rise office building; a bonsai pine outside a garish love hotel: Tokyo throws up juxtapositions of this unlikely sort at every turn. So it comes as no surprise whatsoever to find contemporary ryori at...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2005

Chopper, MSDF plane have close call

The pilot of a Maritime Self-Defense Force YS-11 training plane reported that he came dangerously close to a helicopter Wednesday while flying near Kagoshima Prefecture, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 18, 2005

Lightning Bolt: "Hypermagic Mountain"

"2morrow Morrow Land," the brilliant lead-off cut on Lightning Bolt's new album "Hypermagic Mountain," starts as the calm before a mighty storm -- a calm obliterated 15 seconds in when a bolt of musical lightning is hurled through your speakers with a chaotic fury.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2005

Firms raided in Narita bidding probe

Prosecutors searched the offices of several electrical machinery makers Thursday over allegations that the companies rigged bids for projects at Narita airport.
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Nov 18, 2005

Psychedelic radar 11.18

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BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2005

Sanyo exec to bow out to take blame for losses

Former Sanyo Electric Co. Chairman Satoshi Iue is expected to resign as executive director to take responsibility for the firm's poor earnings, company sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 18, 2005

Best of friends kick up a storm in the fun house

Nothing frustrates a music critic more than a band that refuses categorization. Lots of bands, intoxicated with their own creativity, might make the claim. Not many, after a few records, resist a formula or a style that isn't easily pigeonholed in a pithy phrase or two.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 18, 2005

Tatopani

Some call Tatopani "contemporary world music," but such a simple description doesn't do justice to the musical magic they conjure up. A trio-turned-quartet of Tokyo-based Americans and Australians, the genres of world, jazz, classical, acoustic and ethnic all capture individual aspects of their music...
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 17, 2005

Sub fires in winner as Japan tops Angola

It was the late, late show from Japan once again on Wednesday night as substitute Daisuke Matsui powered in a last-minute header to give Japan a 1-0 win over fellow World Cup qualifier Angola in a friendly at Tokyo's National Stadium.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 17, 2005

Verdy in ACL

Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi gave the green light Tuesday for Tokyo Verdy to play in next season's Asian Champions League even if they are relegated to the second division.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 17, 2005

Japan tops South Korea in three

Kana Oyama and Saori Kimura scored 14 points each to lead Japan to a straight-sets win over archrival South Korea in the women's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2005

More arrests over mushroom claims

Seven people, including an executive of a Tokyo-based publishing company, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of advertising "meshimakobu" mushrooms as an anticancer drug in 2003 in violation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, investigation sources said.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2005

War criminals, war dead same: Abe

The government should not look into the responsibility of the accused Class-A war criminals honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine and instead count them among the nation's 2.46 million war dead, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2005

30 billion yen extra-budget eyed for asbestos victims

The government will propose that 30 billion yen be allocated in the fiscal 2005 supplementary budget to redress asbestos victims not eligible for workers compensation, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2005

Beleaguered Bush receives warm reception from ally in Asia

KYOTO -- U.S. President George W. Bush doesn't get many warm welcomes when he leaves the White House these days.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2005

Koizumi, Bush stress strong ties

KYOTO -- U.S. President George W. Bush, in reaffirming his close personal ties Wednesday with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, praised the latter's recent election win as a model for democracy and underscored that the close Japan-U.S. relationship is important for all of Asia and beyond.

Longform

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