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JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Koizumi's next target: the bureaucracy

With the Diet's enactment of the postal privatization bills earlier this month, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi now has a new punching bag he can use to maintain his political momentum: the bloated bureaucracy.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Iraqi minister seeks continued SDF deployment

A visiting Iraqi Cabinet member asked Japan in a meeting with Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura on Monday to extend the Self-Defense Forces' humanitarian and reconstruction mission in southern Iraq beyond the current deadline of mid-December.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Kin of abductees leave for U.S.

victims also from Southeast Asia and Europe, and thus strengthening pressure on North Korea," Masumoto said before departing.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Nonaka denies involvement in donation scandal

The mystery over a 100 million yen political funds scandal deepened Monday as a former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party appeared in court claiming an alibi: He was not at a meeting where the covert donation was allegedly handed over to an LDP faction on July 2, 2001.
EDITORIALS
Oct 25, 2005

Postal reform just the start

With the Diet's Oct. 14 passage of the postal-services privatization bills, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has reaped a reward for his daring decision to dissolve the Lower House. But the postal privatization is only the first of many issues that the government has to address to streamline its operations...
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Issues involved in U.S.-Japan base talks

The following questions and answers deal with the deadlock between Japan and the United States over the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture -- the main topic of bilateral working-level talks that began Monday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2005

Income tax cuts should end in 2007: panel chief

The head of the government's tax panel said Monday income tax cuts and residential tax breaks should be abolished in January 2007.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Interpretation mistakes marring justice in Japan's courts

In June 2003, British national Nicholas Baker was sentenced to a 14-year prison sentence for drug smuggling.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Let consumption tax pay for welfare: panel

A Liberal Democratic Party panel called Monday for converting the consumption tax into a welfare tax, a step that would certainly boost the tax rate to more than 10 percent from the current 5 percent.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Koizumi breaks fast with Muslims

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hosted a dinner at his office Monday to break the day's fast for diplomats from about 40 Islamic nations, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
COMMUNITY
Oct 25, 2005

Helping out in the community

NPO, NGO listings Follows is the Tokyo area monthly English listing of nonprofit, NGO, CBO and community service events.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 25, 2005

Miyazato to join men

Japan LPGA star Ai Miyazato will compete on the Japanese men's tour at the Asia Japan Okinawa Open in December, tournament organizers said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Woman's body found in trunk of car

A woman's body was found Monday in the trunk of a car in a parking lot in Tama, western Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 25, 2005

How did you end up in Japan?

Paul Tronsgard Teacher, 26 My coming and living here was basically an accident. I was living in Hong Kong and thinking about moving on. I was debating where to go to next and my friends said, "Come to Tokyo" so I did and I've been here almost a year now.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 25, 2005

Japan sees beginning of change

Writer Alex Kerr first came to Japan in 1964, since when he has worked as a translator, art dealer and in real estate during the "bubble" economy.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2005

First-half net profit up at Kao

Kao Corp. said Monday its consolidated net profit in the April-September first half of the 2005 business year rose 1.9 percent over the same period the previous year to 38.49 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2005

Hitachi to merge three subsidiaries in integration plan

Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it will integrate Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co. and two other subsidiaries as well as its social and industrial infrastructure division on April 1.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 25, 2005

Shoichiro Satake

At 46, Shoichiro Satake, owner of Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, is Japan's biggest dealer of works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While more than 3,000 Warhols and 100 Basquiats have passed through his hands, their essence has stayed with him.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2005

Yamaha's electric cycles, Toshiba's 'Wearable Star' series, Naoto Fukasawa's Aroma Pot, AU's Penck, the Boing collection

When it comes to the promotion of design in Japan, there's hardly any honor more significant than the annual Good Design Award. Developed by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), each year the Good Design Award heralds the best of the best. In its 49th year, and with over 30,000...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 24, 2005

Triple bliss for Deep Impact

KYOTO -- Sunday saw the birth of Japan's sixth Triple Crown champion as Deep Impact rocked a record Kikkasho crowd of nearly 137,000 with a race that had hearts in mouths till the very end.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2005

Marines batter toothless Tigers

CHIBA -- The Chiba Lotte Marines keep losing bodies, but the Hanshin Tigers keep losing games.

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