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JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Japan's sexual slavery focus of museum

In a bid to keep wartime sexual violence against women in people's minds, female activists in Japan are set to open a museum in Tokyo to collect and display materials mainly about those who were forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Minister eyes China talks as gas dispute boils over

Japan and China should resolve a bilateral row over gas projects in the East China Sea through dialogue, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Maglevs may be fast but costs make linear motor trains more practical

Linear motor trains are seeing more use in major subway systems thanks to their compact size, cheaper cost and safety.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Medicine group goes after sleeping sickness in Africa

A group supplying drugs to the poor in developing nations signed an agreement Friday in Tokyo with the Kitasato Institute to conduct a joint project to develop a cure for sleeping sickness, currently spreading across Africa.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Tokyo quake fault 17 km shallower than thought

The earthquake fault beneath the Tokyo metropolis is much shallower than previously thought and thus potentially more dangerous, according to a report in Science magazine released Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Idemitsu Snorre hits oil in North Sea

Idemitsu Kosan Co. announced Friday that Idemitsu Snorre Oil Development Co., its joint venture with Osaka Gas Co., has struck oil in the North Sea off Norway.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jul 16, 2005

Kirk R. Patterson

This year, Temple University Japan received formal designation as the Japan campus of a foreign university. Before that, since 1982 in Tokyo, TUJ had the status of branch campus of Temple University in Philadelphia. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer in giving the keynote address at this year's TUJ commencement...
MORE SPORTS
Jul 15, 2005

Tomizawa tosses Japan past Hawaiian squad at Tokyo Dome

Yuichi Tomizawa threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Takao Mizuguchi for the winning score with 1:34 to play Thursday, leading Team Japan to a 20-16 come-from-behind triumph over Team USA-Hawaii in the Japan-USA Bowl 2005.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 15, 2005

Noguchi to run Berlin Marathon

Mizuki Noguchi, the gold medalist in women's marathon at the Athens Olympics, said Thursday she is planning on competing at the Berlin Marathon this fall.
EDITORIALS
Jul 15, 2005

Preventive care for the elderly

A revision in the nursing-care insurance law, which passed the Diet in late June, will go into effect in April 2006, representing a significant turn in the direction of the government's approach since the insurance system was introduced in fiscal 2000.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Supreme Court sides with revisionist authors over library's trashing of texts

The Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a lower court decision that rejected a damages claim filed by the authors of a revisionist history textbook against a municipal library that had discarded a large number of other books they wrote.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Shiseido, Kose, Kao eye Kanebo

Shiseido Co., Kose Corp. and Kao Corp. have joined the bidding process to sponsor the rehabilitation of Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. along with U.S. consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co., cosmetic house L'Oreal SA of France and U.S. investment fund RHJ International SA, sources said Thursday....
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Koizumi softness covers hard resolve

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi may have attempted the soft sell when presenting his contentious postal privatization bills in the House of Councilors this week, but his remarks Thursday show his resolve to get the legislation passed is as strong as ever.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Interest now obsessive for first 'otaku' test

Thousands of young Japanese men are expected to take a nationwide exam next month that would, if they pass, grant them recognition as experts in the field of "otaku," or geeks.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Upper House postal foes add LDP 10

Ten House of Councilors members from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party attended a meeting Thursday of the party's opponents to a set of postal privatization bills now before the chamber.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Sagawa acquires Mitsui's Thai unit

Sagawa Express Co. said Thursday it has obtained a Thai subsidiary of trading house Mitsui & Co. in a bid to bolster its business in Asian markets.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Pension fund group sues key Seibu trio

The umbrella body for about 1,400 corporate pension funds filed a suit Thursday against Seibu Railway Co., its parent Kokudo Corp. and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the effective owner of the Seibu group, demanding 4.26 billion yen in damages for the investment loss it incurred due to the falsification of Seibu's...
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Pension program invested into black

The public pension program cleared its books of red ink in fiscal 2004, with a weak yen helping it offload foreign stocks and bonds for a profit, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Wanted Pyongyang agent taught Korean to Yokota, Soga

A former North Korean agent on an international wanted list taught the Korean language and North Korean philosophy to two Japanese abducted to the country in the late 1970s, sources said.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

India factor cools Dhaka to 'G4' resolution, Zia hints

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia stopped short Thursday of supporting a U.N. resolution compiled by the "Group of Four" to expand the Security Council.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2005

Security threat from disease

SINGAPORE -- Given the real possibility of a global pandemic, possibly from the possible outbreak of a virulent influenza, it's time to ask: Should states treat infectious diseases as security threats?
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Japan could sell new missiles: Ono

Interceptor missiles that will be jointly developed by Japan and the United States could be offered to third countries, Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Uniqlo chief hands helm back to founder Yanai

Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, said Thursday that President Genichi Tamatsuka will step down Aug. 31 and be replaced by Chairman and CEO Tadashi Yanai.

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