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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 10, 2005

Ferguson risks legacy being rise and fall of Man United

LONDON -- When your club has spent £65 million on four strikers, all of whom played in the 2-1 Champions League defeat by Benfica on Wednesday you have a right to expect better than the powder-puff display by Manchester United in the Stadium of Light -- none of which is at the end of the Old Trafford...
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Navy admits Haneda radar disruption

A U.S. Navy vessel mistakenly emitted unauthorized radio waves on Oct. 17, disrupting an aircraft guidance system at Tokyo's Haneda airport and causing delays to commercial flights, the U.S. forces said Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 10, 2005

Matsui still missing

Sadaharu Oh is leaving the door unlocked for Hideki Matsui.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2005

Protecting children from danger

The successive murders of two first-grade elementary schoolgirls in Hiroshima and Tochigi prefectures who went missing on their way home from school have sent alarm bells ringing across the nation. The brutal killings have raised security concerns particularly among parents with children of similar ages,...
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Frustrated bureaucrats pen reform ideas

When Ichiro Asahina, a 32-year-old bureaucrat at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, was studying at Harvard University between 2001 and 2003, he had time to think about what Kasumigaseki, Tokyo's governmental hub, meant to him and to Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

JP Morgan sells most of MMC stake

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BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Ministry adopts conditions for lifting of U.S. beef ban

The farm ministry adopted conditions Friday for ending the two-year-old import ban on U.S. and Canadian beef, and the government is expected to end the ban as early as Monday, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

New firm to set up postal successor

The government will introduce a planning company Jan. 23 that will set up a holding firm in 2007 tasked with overseeing Japan Post's privatization, the posts minister said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Road tax revenue to be freed up

The government and the ruling parties agreed Friday to devise ways to widen the uses for auto-related tax revenue away from only road construction.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Foreigners face checks on Japanese ancestry

The Justice Ministry said Friday it will tighten standards for granting long-term resident status to foreigners of Japanese descent in the wake of the murder last month of a 7-year-old girl in Hiroshima, allegedly by a Peruvian man who may have Japanese ancestry.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

ODA offered ahead of WTO talks

Japan plans to provide the world's least-developed countries with $10 billion in official development assistance over a three-year period to help energize their foreign trade, government sources said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 10, 2005

Of countries big and small

"It's a big country," rings an oft-repeated line from a 1958 Gregory Peck-Burl Ives Western about love, honor and territory in the old West, a film appropriately titled "The Big Country."
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Panel wants four liquor tax segments

The Liberal Democratic Party's tax panel plans to cut the number of liquor tax categories to four from the current 10 and put beerlike alcoholic beverages in the same category as beer, panelists said Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Host-nation support pact pared

Japan and the United States agreed Friday to extend a bilateral special accord on host-nation support for U.S. forces in Japan for two years and not the usual five due to the ongoing U.S. military realignment talks between the two nations.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

High court reversal convicts peace activists of SDF trespass

, Sachimi Takada (center) and Toshiyuki Obora face reporters Friday in Tokyo after the high court ruled their antiwar-leaflet distribution constituted trespassing.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Matsushita to cut 1,400 jobs from foreign cell phone units

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Friday it will downsize its struggling overseas mobile phone operations and trim as many as 1,400 jobs.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Aneha agrees to testify next week

Architect Hidetsugu Aneha will appear before a Diet committee next week to give sworn testimony about his role in the growing quake-resistance data falsification scandal, the secretariat of the House of Representatives said.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

TSE won't let Mizuho duck J-Com fiasco

The chaos created by Mizuho Securities Co.'s mistaken attempt to sell 610,000 shares of J-Com stock for 1 yen apiece deepened Friday as it was learned that the Tokyo Stock Exchange is trying to prevent the brokerage from reneging on the transaction, TSE officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Civil servants' get modest increase in bonus this year

Employees of the central and local governments received Friday slightly larger winter bonuses than last year.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Trailblazing volunteer reflects on path to NGO icon status

When Keiko Kiyama went to Yugoslavia in the early 1990s to help people in the war-torn region, many Japanese probably thought her a bit eccentric.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2005

Hanging sparks Aussie debate

SYDNEY -- Singapore has hanged a convicted Australian drug runner and some Australians are demanding a boycott against this key trading partner. Rarely before have Australians been so upset over what they see as obsolete "Asian values."
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Second quarter GDP downgraded

Japan downgraded its real GDP growth figure Friday for the July-September quarter to 0.2 percent from the previously reported 0.4 percent.

Longform

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