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BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

ADB chief urges China anew to ease rigid currency regime -- gradually

Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda repeated his call Tuesday for Beijing to adopt a less rigid currency regime at an early date because it would benefit China and the rest of the world.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2005

Speaking with one voice

Resolution of the North Korean nuclear crisis depends to a large degree on the ability of the other five countries in the six-party talks -- the United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia -- to speak with one voice. It is vitally important that Washington and Seoul, in particular, closely coordinate...
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Yahoo Japan, DeNA to draft voluntary antipiracy rules

Yahoo Japan Corp. and DeNA Co. said Tuesday they have begun compiling voluntary regulations on the trading of illegally copied brand-name goods and counterfeit software.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

People taking shorter domestic trips

Japanese travelers spent fewer than two nights on domestic trips on average last year, according to an annual government report on tourism released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Regional banks turn profit, cut bad-loan ratios

Regional banks swung back to the black in fiscal 2004 as a whole for the first time since fiscal 1999 with a combined net profit of 800 billion yen, the Financial Services Agency said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Shareholders' meetings poised for takeover debates

The season for general shareholders' meetings is just around the corner, and a growing number of companies plan to use them to propose measures against hostile takeovers.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Did Nakayama apologize over sex-slave gaffe?

Education minister Nariaki Nakayama apologized Tuesday for "causing trouble" to the government with his recent remark hailing the removal of references to wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops from revised history textbooks, top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Government eyes policing of Internet

The government may go after what it regards as harmful information on the Internet following last week's bombing of a Yamaguchi Prefecture classroom by a youth who claimed he learned how to make explosives from a Web site, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Spying for the Kims — ex-agent tells a bit

OSAKA — A 62-year-old man who lives in Kobe claims he spent a quarter century as a North Korean spy.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Ex-Mitsui officials held in diesel filter scam

Tokyo police on Tuesday arrested two former Mitsui & Co. employees and a former executive of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Steel Partners denies Kanebo report

U.S. investment fund Steel Partners on Tuesday denied a newspaper report that it and the so-called Murakami Fund had jointly become a major shareholder of Kanebo Ltd.
COMMENTARY
Jun 15, 2005

Free to take exceptions to 'free trade'

The harsh treatment handed out to European Union ideals by French and Dutch voters this month was in part a reaction to excessive EU bureaucracy and expansionism. But it was also a gut rejection of so-called globalization -- the foolish effort to deny economic and social differences between nations....
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Yamato undercuts Japan Post price

Yamato Transport Co. will offer overseas delivery of printed material in the same amount of time Japan Post promises , but at a lower rate, company officials said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 14, 2005

Aoyama Gakuin wins college championship

Kazushi Natsui drove in the game-winner with a two-out single in the 10th inning, lifting Aoyama Gakuin University to a 2-1 victory over Kinki University in the final of the national collegiate baseball championship on Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 14, 2005

The G8 agrees on debt relief

Group of Eight finance ministers agreed last weekend to write off more than $40 billion in debt owed by the world's poorest countries. The agreement is a critical first step in efforts to help lift these nations out of grinding and enduring poverty. The deal is only a beginning, however. Success will...
MORE SPORTS
Jun 14, 2005

Obic Seagulls win Pearl Bowl title

Manabu Tatsumura completed 12 of 16 passes for 192 yards and two touchdowns Monday to lead the Obic Seagulls to a 27-2 rout of the Asahi Beer Silver Star in the Pearl Bowl final.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2005

Radioactive soil may be shipped to U.S.

A governmental nuclear research and development organization is considering shipping soil contaminated with uranium from Yurihama, Tottori Prefecture, to the United States for disposal.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2005

JSAT to link Net to remote areas

JSAT Corp. will begin satellite-based high-speed Internet service for municipalities, schools and hospitals on Japan's remote islands and mountainous areas to help narrow the so-called digital divide, company officials said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 14, 2005

Do you think violent entertainment leads to real-life violence?

Naomi Kutsuna Art teacher, 32 Yes -- to get ideas, or just to get used to violence. It looks so easy in video games. But it doesn't make people more violent -- people still have their own decision-making abilities.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 14, 2005

What's the deal with leaving Japan?

Leaving Japan DAVE WRITES: I am considering whether or not to return to my country after having worked in Japan for almost 10 years. I would like some information on what official procedures are necessary to end my stay here, particularly with respect to my visa, income taxes, pensions, and health insurance....
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2005

Kanebo is delisted, ending 116-year run on Tokyo bourse

Kanebo Ltd., a maker of food, pharmaceutical and household products, was delisted Monday from the Tokyo Stock Exchange for overstating its earnings for years.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2005

January-March growth revised down to 1.2%

The economy expanded a real 1.2 percent in the January-March period compared with the previous quarter, the government said Monday, revising the initially reported growth of 1.3 percent downward due to slower than expected inventory growth and a fall in exports.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2005

Japan's beneficent potential

During my 7 1/2 years of service in the 1990s as deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, I initiated a research project that produced, in 1997, a report titled "The World in 2020: Toward a New Global Age." In the course of this research I assumed that the...
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2005

Koizumi says he's mindful of Asia on Yasukuni

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi claimed Monday he is in fact mindful of Japan's Asian neighbors when he visits Yasukuni Shrine — trips that are denounced by China and South Korea.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
Japanese and South Korean leaders agree to boost ties in first meeting
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ahead of their talks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Thursday.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Japan’s government ramps up bear control efforts amid rise in attacks
A bear roams around a field in the town of Kuzumaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Oct. 12.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
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