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JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Raid on North Korea-linked offices nets two

, the police said. According to the police, the two men allegedly sold unapproved medicines, including those supposedly for cancer and AIDS, to consumers between May 2004 and September 2005 in violation of the pharmaceutical law.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2005

Aoki finishes with 202 hits

Norichika Aoki went 1-for-4 to finish the season with a Central League record 202 hits and claimed the league batting title with a .344 average in the Yakult Swallows' 5-2 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Friday. Aoki, who has become the first CL player to have 200 hits in a single season, singled to...
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

Renault recalls vans

Renault Japon Co. said Friday it will recall 1,839 Renault Megane station wagons due to a defective brake disk.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Police, GSDF plan joint counterterror drill for Hokkaido

Police and the Ground Self-Defense Force plan to hold a joint counterterrorism drill in Hokkaido on Oct. 20 designed to address the possibility of armed terrorists entering the country, officials of the National Police Agency and Defense Agency said.
COMMENTARY
Oct 15, 2005

Statesman test for Koizumi

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has demonstrated that he is a brilliant politician. His resounding victory in the Sept. 11 Lower House Diet elections provides him with an opportunity to demonstrate his brilliance as an international statesman as well.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 15, 2005

Man Zhuang

This year Man Zhuang is exhibiting for a second time in the print show sponsored by the College Women's Association of Japan. This young woman is Chinese, an art student from Shanghai. She is also a dentist.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

G-20 finance chiefs set for talks

Finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 industrialized and emerging economies were to start a two-day meeting Saturday in China where they are expected to discuss the impact of soaring oil prices on the global economy, development issues and possibly China's currency reforms.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Indian minister seeks more tourists

The Indian government has designated 2007 "Japan-India Friendship Year" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a cultural-exchange agreement between the two countries, a visiting Indian minister said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 15, 2005

The 'Winter Sonata' blues -- revisited

He's baaack. Not that he ever went away.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

Sumitomo Trust to get First Credit

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. said Friday it will acquire First Credit Corp., a mortgage-backed loan company, from U.S. investment fund Lone Star Group for 130 billion yen at the end of November.
COMMENTARY
Oct 15, 2005

Asia's tough but not impossible journey

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps the prospects of would-be Asian political unity can best be described as a "pipe dream." But even that description might be too optimistic, unless you imagine a water pipe filled with wildly psychedelic substances that are imbibed in huge amounts!
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 15, 2005

Learn to live and love consciously in workshop

Katie (Kathlyn) Hendricks sounds as clear as a bell on a three-way line between California, to which she has just returned from Colorado, and Japan. "I was in Boulder, Colo., facilitating a workshop not dissimilar to the three-day foundation training in conscious living and loving that is being arranged...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Cops nab eight in credit card scam

Eight people were arrested Friday over alleged involvement in credit card forgery, Tokyo police said.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2005

Reining in medical expenditures

The Japanese spent 31.4 trillion yen for medical services in fiscal 2004, or about 246,000 yen per person, an increase of 2 percent from the previous year. The figure of 2 percent may be a small and acceptable growth, requiring no stricter lid on the rise of the nation's medical spending. But Japan's...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

TBS set to fight Rakuten's bid

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. may take countermeasures against online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc., which has suddenly emerged as the TV station's biggest shareholder and takeover threat, market sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

Toyota, GM at center of global auto shift

The ongoing realignment of the global auto industry may accelerate, with General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. set to play pivotal roles in this seismic shift.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

U.S. realignment talks set for Oct. 29

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday that Japan and the United States have begun arrangements for a top-level security meeting on Oct. 29 in Washington.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Ishihara names Olympics panelists

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Friday announced the members of a metropolitan government panel set up to discuss ideas for the city's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 15, 2005

Get all animalistic and 'manner up!'

There is no doubt that Japanese people are losing their good manners. Alarmed, the government and private organizations are doing their part to encourage the public to "manner up!" by displaying posters and signs. These signs, probably designed by elementary school teachers with a grudge, seem to be...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Tsunami survivor returns to help Sri Lanka

and TECH Japan members Suvendrini Kakuchi and Akiko Ozaki show off an apron made at a sewing center for tsunami and civil war survivors here in northern Sri Lanka.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 14, 2005

Swallows' Iwamura shelves move to majors

Yakult Swallows infielder Akinori Iwamura indicated Thursday he would give up on trying to move to the major leagues, at least this offseason.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2005

Governors seek action on hay fever

The government should adopt measures aimed at easing the plight of hay-fever sufferers, the governors of Tokyo and neighboring municipalities said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 14, 2005

Nuclear program raises issues

The Atomic Energy Commission is expected to adopt a long-term nuclear program by the end of the month. In its draft, the commission has stated its desire to continue its policy of establishing a nuclear-fuel cycle that reprocesses all the spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium for future use as nuclear...

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