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JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Rights bill still on the burner

Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura on Friday suggested the government might be ready to resubmit the human-rights protection bill next year with revisions, including to the contentious media restrictions clause.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Guru's son sues school over rejection

A son of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara filed a 50 million yen damages suit Friday against a private middle school that refused to admit him even though he passed the entrance exam earlier this year.
COMMENTARY
Apr 8, 2006

Pack journalism can be lethal

Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Japan struggles with the right-to-die issue

The revelation in late March that a Toyama Prefecture surgeon shut off the life support of six patients and let them die has raised once again the issue of how to treat the terminally ill.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

UBS, Sumitomo settle '99 copper suit

UBS of Switzerland said Friday it has reached an agreement with Sumitomo Corp. to settle the lawsuit brought by the Japanese trading house in 1999 in connection with copper-linked transactions.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

DPJ elects Ozawa as new president

The Democratic Party of Japan elected veteran lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa, 63, as its new president Friday, ending his head-to-head race with rival and two-time President Naoto Kan.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Yokota's spouse South Korean

A DNA analysis suggests that the husband of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese national kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13, is a South Korean who was also abducted by the North, a Japanese government official said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

Yoshinoya halves loss, harbors high hopes

Yoshinoya D&C Co. President Shuji Abe on Friday painted a rosy picture for his company, one in which United States beef imports resume by September, sharply boosting profit at the restaurant chain famed for its beef-on-rice bowl dishes in time for the latter half of the business year.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Prosecutors file appeal in candy stick death case

Prosecutors on Friday appealed a Tokyo District Court ruling that cleared a doctor of failing to give proper treatment to a 4-year-old boy who died after a cotton candy stick pierced his throat and penetrated his brain in 1999.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Nago, Tokyo reach agreement on moving Futenma

, mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, meets Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga ahead of their talks at the agency.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

Panel gives options for fiscal health

A key government panel outlined a plan to overhaul of government spending and taxes aimed at restoring the country to fiscal health, but did not provide specifics on the size of expected budget cuts or consumption tax increases.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2006

Review sought on privacy law uses

Japan's major newspaper association asked the government Friday to review its practice of "excessively" keeping information secret under a privacy law that came into force a year ago.
EDITORIALS
Apr 8, 2006

Problems in textbook screening

The Education, Science and Technology Ministry has screened and approved 306 textbooks, most of them for first-year high-school students, for use from next spring. Departing from the original screening policy, the ministry has accepted inclusion of topics and concepts beyond the scope of the current...
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

April WTO deal difficult: Japan, U.S.

Japan and the United States believe it will be difficult for World Trade Organization to strike an accord on the details of farm and industrial goods trade liberalization by the April 30 deadline, Japanese officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

TSE could resume regular hours by month end: Nishimuro

The Tokyo Stock Exchange could resume regular market hours by the end of the month, TSE President Taizo Nishimuro said Friday, a move that would bring an end to some three months of curtailed trading.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Apr 8, 2006

In America, a smile gets you everywhere

A couple of weeks ago in this column, I gave some tips for foreigners visiting Japan. One reader suggested that in my next column, I give some tips for Japanese visiting the United States. So here goes: Amy's rigorous guide to what NOT to do when visiting the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 8, 2006

Mary Kerwin

Born the eldest of five sisters in Minneapolis, Mary Kerwin said that superficially hers was an insular upbringing. Her grandfather was an immigrant from Norway. Her father was a Lutheran pastor and her mother a schoolteacher. "But while I was still very young, the Viking ancestry won out," she said....
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

Matsushita, NEC mull venture with TI

Electronics giants Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and NEC Corp. are in talks with Texas Instruments Inc. of the United States to form a joint venture on making key components and software for third-generation mobile phones, it was learned Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 8, 2006

Clothes as a threat to society from 1950s to now

Told in advance by his publisher that Paul Gorman would be waiting in the reception area of Hotel New Otani, I find him jet-lagged, with a cold, and wearing a 25-year-old T-shirt that in suitably faded fashion screams "SEX PISTOLS" across his chest.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2006

Foreign reserves rewrite record high

Japan's foreign-exchange reserves totaled $852.03 billion at the end of March, up $1.97 billion from a month earlier and renewing a record high logged in January, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 7, 2006

Darvish slams door on Hawks

Will the real Yu Darvish please step forward?
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2006

Pickpockets mace station; 27 hurt

Tokyo commuters had a flashback to the March 1995 sarin attack on the subway system Thursday when four suspected pickpockets released what appeared to be mace at a railway station while trying to flee police, injuring 27 people.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2006

Diet to grill air carriers' leaders over safety ills

The House of Representatives transport committee will summon the presidents of Japan Airlines Corp. and Skymark Airlines Co. to a hearing Tuesday to testify on maintenance errors and blunders found recently at the two carriers, panel sources said Thursday.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
Trump would make U.S. Supreme Court history by attending tariffs case
There is no record in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 235-year history of a sitting president ever attending arguments, according to Clare Cushman, director of publications and resident historian at the Supreme Court Historical Society.
Dodgers clinch back-to-back World Series titles as Blue Jays downed in thriller
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto and teammates celebrate after winning the World Series against the Blue Jays. Yamamoto was named MVP for the series.
How airlines are refining their in-flight food in Japan's tourism boom
All Nippon Airways' gourmet program, The Connoisseurs, showcases the Japanese concept of "shun" (peak season for ingredients), giving passengers a preview of the refined cuisine that awaits them in Japan.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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