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BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Sompo hits staff for padding contracts

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said Tuesday it punished 527 people, including sales staff and their supervisors, last month for illegally padding the number of new contracts they sold to meet internal sales goals.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 15, 2006

Japan Times wins award for animal rights coverage

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) today announced that The Japan Times is this year's winner of its prestigious International Genesis Award, given in recognition of its Nov. 30, 2005 "breakthrough expose" headlined: " 'Secret' dolphin slaughter defies protests."
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Keidanren to promote Nakamura

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) said acting Director General Yoshio Nakamura will succeed Ryuko Wada as head of the powerful business lobby's secretariat.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

E-mail alleges Livedoor told unit to make false purchases

Livedoor Co. asked an online marriage information company suspected of playing a part in its alleged accounting fraud to provide a fictitious profit of 120 million yen to a Livedoor group company in 2004, a Livedoor e-mail message obtained Tuesday by Kyodo News showed.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2006

Point man on N. Korea takes academic post

Japan's former top negotiator with North Korea, Hitoshi Tanaka, will become a guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo in April, school officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 15, 2006

Underwater walker beggars belief

The winter's snow gathers first as a dusting on the riverside vegetation. The wiry dwarf bamboo bows slowly under the accumulating blanket; shrubs and bushes disappear beneath duvet-like domes of crisp whiteness. The surrounding Hokkaido forest becomes hushed; the trees white-coated, their branches laden...
EDITORIALS
Feb 14, 2006

Ottawa's distance from Washington

A new administration led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party, which won the general election Jan. 23, has been inaugurated in Canada. The Conservatives have not held the reins of government since November 1993.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 14, 2006

Tolossa wins Tokyo marathon

Ethiopia's Ambesse Tolossa won the Tokyo International Marathon for the first time on Sunday, wrecking local favorite Toshinari Takaoka's hopes of becoming the first runner in the race's history to successfully defend his title in the process.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

Cancer risk halts sales of Agaricus mushroom goods

Kirin Well-Foods Co. will stop sales of and recall all of its products using the Agaricus mushroom due to a possible cancer risk, the company said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

Firm searched over sensitive tech exports

Tokyo police raided on Monday the Kawasaki headquarters of Mitutoyo Corp. on suspicion the manufacturer of precision equipment illegally exported products that could be used to make nuclear weapons to China and Thailand from 2001 to 2002.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

Convicts' personal info leaked on Net

Personal information on as many as 10,000 convicts has been leaked over the Internet from a prison officer's computer infected with a virus, Justice Ministry officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

Wrecking ball swings on Aneha-tainted hotel

Demolition workers got to work Monday tearing down a business hotel in central Tokyo less than a year old that had been deemed unsafe because its resistance to earthquakes was falsified by disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

Sumitomo Trust's suit rejected

The Tokyo District Court rejected a lawsuit Monday filed by Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. seeking compensation from UFJ Holdings Inc., now part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., for scrapping the planned integration of the two banks' trust units.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 14, 2006

Takatsu resigns with Swallows

Former New York Mets pitcher Shingo Takatsu, who filed for free agency during the off season, has rejoined the Yakult Swallows, club officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2006

LDP to study keeping male-line succession

A panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will study a wide range of issues related to revising the Imperial House Law, including ways to preserve the male line of Imperial succession, LDP policy chief Hidenao Nakagawa said.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2006

Top chip makers' capital spending nears 1 trillion yen

The country's seven major semiconductor makers are expected to spend a total of 984 billion yen on capital investment in the current fiscal year ending in March, according to data released by the companies Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2006

Foreigners buy up record 14 trillion yen in stock

Net Japanese stock purchases by nonresident investors hit an all-time high of 13.96 trillion yen in 2005, the Finance Ministry said Monday, underscoring the key role nonresidents' active buying played in last year's stock market rally.
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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