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JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Japanese expected to head ITER project

The head of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project organization is expected to be Japanese, because the parties involved have agreed to support a candidate to be recommended by Japan, the science and technology ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Koizumi tells acolytes to stay away from factions

Despite the Liberal Democratic Party's overwhelming victory in Sunday's Lower House election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appears to want to exert even more control over the LDP.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Centenarians to hit 25,606 by October

The number of centenarians in Japan will set a new record of 25,606 by the end of the month, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said ahead of Respect for the Aged Day.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

Koito plans Saga plant as Kyushu car output rises

Koito Manufacturing Co. will set up a plant in Saga Prefecture to make automobile lights to accommodate planned production boosts in Kyushu by Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

July mobile-phone shipments down

Domestic shipments of mobile phones, including personal handy-phone system devices, fell 11.4 percent in July from a year earlier to 3.66 million units due to a decline in mobile- and car-phone shipments, an industrial body said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

Nitto, Fuji Flours to merge on April 1

Nitto Flour Milling Co. and Fuji Flour Milling Co. announced Tuesday they have signed an agreement to merge on April 1, creating the nation's fourth-largest flour milling firm.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

ANA fires pilot over theft scandal

All Nippon Airways has fired a pilot who allegedly stole flight manuals that were subsequently sold on an Internet auction site, the company said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Support for Koizumi Cabinet hits 59%

Public support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet rose to 59.1 percent this week, up 11.8 percentage points from last month, according to a Kyodo News survey released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Bill afoot to offer victims of asbestos-caused mesothelioma aid

The government plans to introduce a bill that will give financial aid to people with asbestos-related mesothelioma and the next of kin of those who have died from the disease, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Sep 14, 2005

Taking it slowly to savor eco-exploring

These days, "eco" has become something like a random, loosely attached, brand name. Not associated with any particular company, nor with any particular product, eco -- which "Webster's" defines as a combining form meaning "environment or habitat" -- is applied seemingly indiscriminately.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

Namco Bandai projects 55 billion yen in fiscal 2007

Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., which officially starts business Sept. 29, said Tuesday it expects 55 billion yen in operating profit on sales of 550 billion yen for the year ending in March 2008, or 24 percent over what the two companies' combined profit would likely have been for the current fiscal year....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Four CPAs arrested over Kanebo scandal

Four certified public accountants at a Japanese unit of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group were arrested Tuesday for allegedly collaborating with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. to falsify accounting reports.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2005

Hitachi sells part of Elpida stake

Elpida Memory Inc., the sole Japanese supplier of dynamic random access memory chips, said Tuesday that its major shareholder, Hitachi Ltd., sold part of its stake the same day.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 13, 2005

Abe tops voting

JEF United Chiba midfielder Yuki Abe became the top vote getter for the second straight year as the 32-man list for the J. League All-Star match was announced Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2005

Haneda luggage system breaks down

A computer system that automatically sorts baggage broke down at Haneda airport's second terminal Monday, delaying more than 100 flights and affecting about 36,000 customers, airport officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2005

Ailing DPJ prepares to pick new boss

A day after being clobbered in Sunday's general election, the Democratic Party of Japan said it will vote for a new party leader this weekend.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2005

Mr. Koizumi wins his mandate

Sunday's general elections gave overwhelming approval to the continuation of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform policy. The clear-cut, simple rhetoric employed by Mr. Koizumi, who focused on postal-service privatization and called it the cornerstone of reform during campaigning, won the hearts...
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2005

Competition heats up in household energy market

Fierce competition is heating up among electric, gas and oil companies to win more household customers and increase sales.
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2005

Koizumi's next act to be his toughest yet

By MAYUMI NEGISHI and HIROKO NAKATA Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's landslide victory has given him a broad mandate to privatize the postal services and downsize the bloated public sector.
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2005

GDP for April-June sharply revised to 0.8% on strong capital spending

The economy expanded a real 0.8 percent in the April-June period from the previous quarter for the third straight quarterly growth, revised upward from a 0.3 percent increase in the initial report, the government said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 13, 2005

Back to the original balanced diet

When Kit Kitatani was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1986, he went through the usual procedure of having the tumor surgically removed and starting chemotherapy treatments. But his white blood-cell count was too low to continue the chemo. His doctor said he had less than six months to live.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2005

Reform mandate may help boost diplomacy, experts say

The sweeping victory by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party may have given the reformist leader a strong mandate for reform, but political experts are hoping the decisive gains will also give him the power needed to resolve sensitive issues on the diplomatic front.

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