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BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

Canon president to take up top Keidanren post

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) on Monday appointed Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai to head the country's most powerful business lobby, taking over from Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda in May.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

Poverty fight using wristband sales finds skeptics

The "whiteband" movement in Japan to eradicate poverty in developing countries, using celebrities in a tieup with a public relations company, has had some unexpected results, with misunderstandings and allegations about how the money raised is being used.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 8, 2005

Speed trap

It must have taken him by surprise. Kenji Kobayashi, former member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party of Japan had just lost his seat a week previous.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

Key gauge continues positive

A key economic gauge remained above the boom-or-bust threshold of 50 percent in September for the second straight month, spurred by brisk industrial output and large-lot electricity consumption, the government said Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

October recorded 2.4% rise in sales of imported vehicles

Sales of imported vehicles, including those produced by Japanese manufacturers, rose 2.4 percent in October from a year earlier to 18,133 units, an industry body said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 8, 2005

The art of having fun in style

Agnes Trouble Bourgeois, known to the world as Agnes B., started to design clothes at the age of 19 and opened her first boutique in Les Halles in Paris in 1976. Twenty-nine years later, her company has 129 boutiques, selling clothes, accessories and travel goods around the globe. While there are 32...
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2005

NHK head apologizes for arrest

ponders a question during a news conference at the public broadcaster's headquarters in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2005

Special legislation eyed to bear U.S. Marines relocation costs

The government plans to establish special legislation that would allow it to pay the expected several hundred billion yen to relocate U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, a government official said.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2005

Timing of consumption tax bill argued

The top policymaker of the governing Liberal Democratic Party came out Sunday against submitting a bill to raise the 5 percent consumption tax in early 2007.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 7, 2005

LDP fiscal policy report laudable in balancing tax hike, spending cuts

An interim report compiled Oct. 24 by the Liberal Democratic Party's study group on fiscal reform has drawn public interest as an indicator of the future direction of fiscal policy b the ruling party and the government.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2005

Amway ready for greater triumph in China after tough years in Japan

For direct-selling giant Amway Co., China is fast becoming its most lucrative overseas market, far surpassing sales in the massive yet troublesome Japanese market.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2005

Draft revision tosses principles aside

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has long claimed that the present pacifist Constitution was imposed on the Japanese people by the Occupation Forces, has announced a draft revision. Although the text begins promisingly enough with "The Japanese people, based on their own will and determination, establish...
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 6, 2005

Apache top Albirex in OT as bj-league debuts

The bj-league couldn't have asked for a more exciting beginning to its inaugural season.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2005

Tepco eyeing 4% cut in spring rates

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is thinking about cutting its rates by an average of 4 percent next spring, company sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2005

Japan to write off 690 billion yen of Iraq's debts

Japan has agreed in principle to write off 690 billion, yen or 80 percent, of Iraq's $7.3 billion debts to Tokyo, and the rest will be repaid over 23 years with a six-year deferment, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2005

Government to fight Hansen's ruling

The government is getting ready to appeal a district court ruling ordering it to pay damages to a group of Hansen's disease patients in Taiwan who were forced to live in a sanitarium during Japan's colonial rule of the island, sources said Saturday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 6, 2005

Hot hibachi league heating up; can Jojima cut it in majors?

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