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JAPAN
Nov 16, 2005

Iraq, beef, bases, bird flu on agenda for Bush-Koizumi meeting

KYOTO -- U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Tuesday evening for a two-day visit that will include a summit with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on trade and regional security.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Yosano downplays criticism of BOJ

Economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano downplayed criticism Tuesday within the government over the Bank of Japan's plan to explore an end to its ultra-loose monetary policy.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2005

Princess enters the world of cooking and cleaning

Cooking, cleaning, driving, shopping at supermarkets and possibly taking out the trash -- Princess Nori's marriage Tuesday to Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee Yoshiki Kuroda opens the door to a new life as a commoner and homemaker.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2005

Princess Nori ties knot, now Mrs. Kuroda

After a year of traditional preparations and rites, Princess Nori married Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee Yoshiki Kuroda on Tuesday morning as Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko observed their only daughter's last moment as a member of the royal family.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Suzuki Swift named car of the year

Suzuki Motor Corp.'s Swift has won the 2006 RJC Car of the Year award from the Automotive Researchers' & Journalists' Conference, the 87-member group said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Ishinomori's work eyed for movie

Major trading house Itochu Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed with several domestic firms and a U.S. movie production company to develop a live-action film based on the work of late cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Bankruptcies return to rising ways

The number of corporate bankruptcies rose 4.1 percent in October from a year earlier to 1,171, eclipsing the year-before level for the first time in two months, credit research agency Tokyo Shoko Research said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

TSE releases new computer measures

The Tokyo Stock Exchange released Tuesday a set of measures to prevent future computer system breakdowns like the one that shut down the world's second-largest equity market on Nov. 1.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 16, 2005

Taking delight in decomposition

The autumn carpet of leaves along woodland and mountain trails deepens as each breath of wind spins more and more foliage from the trees and sends flakes of colors whirling across the landscape. Storms rip whole canopies of leaves away, snapping off branches and sending twigs raining down. Below, the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2005

Brokers pitch the 'affluent life' to baby boomers

An increasing number of financial institutions are offering seminars on health care, travel, wine tasting and food, targeting baby boomers now approaching mandatory retirement age with money to spend and invest.
COMMENTARY
Nov 16, 2005

No wonder anti-free traders are angry

If you want to understand why anti-free-trade demonstrators in Argentina were so angry nearly two weeks ago, visit a small metal-working factory in a humdrum Japanese village near where I spend weekends. Outside it looks nondescript. But inside it is a technological wonder -- CAD/CAM-operated machine...
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Koizumi wants bond issues cut

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi instructed his Cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party leaders Tuesday to keep new issues of government bonds "as near 30 trillion yen" as possible in the fiscal 2006 budget.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2005

Murakami Fund cleaned up in sale of TBS shares

An investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami raked in an estimated profit of more than 10 billion yen by selling a large chunk of its stake in Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc., according to a report presented by the fund to the government Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 15, 2005

Radcliffe, Ndereba to run in Chiba

Women's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe of Britain and Athens Olympic silver medalist Catherine Ndereba of Kenya will run in the upcoming Chiba international ekiden race, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

34 modern novels to be translated for P.R.

The Cultural Affairs Agency has selected 34 modern Japanese novels to be translated into English, French and other languages to promote understanding of Japanese culture abroad, agency officials have said.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Rokkasho drawing proliferation flak

OSAKA -- As Japan moves forward with plans to conduct further uranium tests in the near future at the Rokkasho nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture in preparation for full operations in 2007, it faces growing pressure from the international community to give up some control of the process....
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Teen says hatred from being snubbed drove him to kill

The 16-year-old boy arrested in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old schoolmate said he felt snubbed by the victim and bore a grudge, investigative sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Tower exhibit adds weight to public debt

If you were to stack up 10,000 yen bills equal to the value of the country's estimated public debt in 2005 of 773 trillion yen, the pile would easily reach the stratosphere, according to a government-sponsored exhibit set to open at the Tokyo Tower.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Action plan for bird flu includes ban on gatherings

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry unveiled a plan Monday empowering the government to ban public gatherings and quarantine people to counter the potential outbreak of a new strain of bird flu against which humans have yet to develop an effective defense.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Icebreaker departs for Antarctica

The 11,600-ton icebreaker Shirase left Tokyo Monday, bound for Antarctica on Japan's 47th observation mission there.

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