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BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

Matsushita 65-inch PDP TV under 1 million yen

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday it will offer the world's first full high-definition 65-inch plasma display panel TVs with a price tag of less than 1 million yen.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

Oil bonanza spurs imports, trims surplus

Soaring crude oil prices pushed Japanese imports to record highs in July, trimming the nation's customs-cleared trade surplus for a fourth straight month, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

Japan Post outlets to start selling investment trust products

Japan Post has chosen three investment-trust products, offered by Nomura Asset Management Co., Daiwa Asset Management Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Japan Ltd., to sell at post offices in October, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2005

Capital recoups most of late hotelier Yokoi's tax

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has collected nearly three-fourths of the 400 million yen in residency tax owed by the late Hideki Yokoi, the controversial businessman and disgraced owner of Hotel New Japan, through a property sale held by his relatives, it was learned Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

FSA going after businesses pushing risky forex trading

The Financial Services Agency is tightening its grip on financial futures businesses over high-risk foreign-exchange trading, with business suspension orders issued to three small firms in the past month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2005

Typhoon Mawar bears down on Kanto

A powerful typhoon was expected to make landfall somewhere between the Tokai and Kanto regions by early Friday, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2005

North Korea deports asylum-seeker

North Korea has deported a Gunma Prefecture man who illegally entered the communist country, Pyongyang's state-run news agency, KCNA, reported Thursday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Aug 26, 2005

Playing war in the Far East

MOSCOW -- Chinese walk into Vladivostok, Russians occupy Qindao. Amphibious armored vehicles negotiate the surf, jet fighters refuel in the air, troops land on barren beaches. A Hollywood World War III movie? An Internet prank? A hallucination from a crazed war veteran? Nope, they are joint military...
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

10 firms honored for aiding economy

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced Thursday it will honor 10 companies for promoting Japanese technology and culture abroad, or introducing new business models to Japan through investment.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2005

MPD trio to join Beirut probe into assassination

Japan will send three police experts to help a U.N. team investigate the February car-bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to sources.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2005

Toyota top income earner in Japan for a sixth year

Toyota Motor Corp. was Japan's biggest corporate income earner in fiscal 2004 for the sixth straight year, credit research agency Teikoku Databank said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 26, 2005

Visitors become statuesque in Kawagoe

Tokyo may be big, but it's not big on history. The city's most popular historical spot, Asakusa, is centered on Asakusa Kannon temple, and its main hall was built in 1958. Frank Lloyd Wright's sublime Imperial Hotel survived the onslaughts of the 1923 earthquake and 1945 fire bombing, but didn't survive...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 26, 2005

Weekend trance party picks 08.26

Saturday, Aug. 27-28
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 25, 2005

Hit piece on Valentine, Marines another black eye for journalism in Japan

Is it just me, or has the level of media assaults on prominent foreign sports figures in Japan increased markedly in the past few months?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Teacher hopes flag badges gladden forlorn foreigners

Yoko Hijikata, a Japanese-language teacher, often hears students complain how Japanese tend to turn a blind eye to foreigners they see experiencing trouble on the streets.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Lawmaker quits new party to join another in poll ploy

An Upper House member who quit the Liberal Democratic Party last week to help found a new party to challenge Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration switched to another new party Wednesday in a campaign ploy for the Sept. 11 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Japan, China eye restart of six-way talks

Chief delegates from Japan and China to the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions agreed Wednesday in Tokyo to work together on resuming the meetings, now in recess, next week as scheduled.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 25, 2005

JCP hits Koizumi reforms as good for big business, bad for the people

Japanese Communist Party Chairman Kazuo Shii hopes his party will make a vigorous case against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform drive, prospective tax hikes and moves to amend the pacifist Constitution as it braces for the Sept. 11 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

JAXA optical test satellites reach orbit from Kazakstan

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched an optical communications test satellite and a piggyback satellite from a launch site in Kazakstan early Wednesday Japan time.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2005

China and Russia: brothers in arms?

Last week, China and Russia began their first ever joint military exercises. The drills have some armchair strategists warning of a new entente between Beijing and Moscow that could pose a threat to the existing regional security order. The truth about the exercises is considerably less exciting. For...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

New Takaratomy expects good sales

Takara Co. and Tomy Co. said Wednesday their new company to be created through a merger in March will book 200 billion yen in group sales in fiscal 2008.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Teen indicted for parents' murders

Prosecutors charged a 16-year-old boy Wednesday with killing his parents and blowing up their apartment in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward in June.

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