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BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2004

Kuehnert to head Rakuten team

Internet services company Rakuten on Tuesday introduced American Marty Kuehnert as the general manager of the company's new professional baseball club.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

When it comes to first-class, women prefer Coach

Walking down a street in Tokyo, it doesn't take long to spot women clutching Coach bags.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Oct 6, 2004

A leaf out of a scrapbook of depravity?

In this world, most people get to be teenagers for exactly seven years. And then there's the artist Larry Clark. Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1943, Clark has been living and reliving the teen experience for some six decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2004

Gadget helps bathroom-bashful

When Naoko Ito uses a public bathroom, she cringes in embarrassment at the thought other patrons can hear the sounds coming from her stall.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

Softbank sells off eAccess holdings

Softbank Corp. said Tuesday its wholly owned subsidiary Japan Telecom Co. has sold all of its shareholdings in eAccess Ltd., a broadband Internet service company, for 18.3 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

Sharp rolls out LCD TV boasting a 65-inch screen

Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it has developed the world's largest liquid crystal display TV, featuring a 65-inch screen.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2004

Racist or realist, Ishihara vents his spleen

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is a gracious host, settling comfortably into a white leather chair and patiently listening to a question from a visitor.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

Aeon reports record-high earnings thanks to malls and credit cards

Aeon Co., the nation's largest retailer, said Tuesday its first-half net profit jumped 54 percent to a record 28.35 billion yen, with its shopping mall development and credit card businesses making up for the poor performance of its general merchandise stores.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2004

Missing pin caused copter crash: report

A missing cotter pin caused the U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crash on a university campus near the Futenma Air Station in Okinawa in August, according to a U.S. investigation report submitted Tuesday that laid the blame on poor maintenance.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 6, 2004

Heart music in 'Big River'

It is a tale that many of us know, that of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi River while helping a slave, named Jim, to escape. One of the greatest novels of American literature, Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is set in the 1840s, long before the Civil War, and is a touching...
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2004

Paralympic athletes to get awards

The government will give citations and silver gifts to Japanese athletes who participated in last month's Athens Paralympics for winning a record number of medals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

Fears over digital sector, personal consumption cloud outlook

Although the economy is now in its fifth-longest expansion in postwar history, the outlook is clouded by worries over the future course of the digital industry and personal consumption.
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Oct 6, 2004

Singapore citizens urged to register as overseas voters

The Singaporean Embassy is urging Singaporean nationals here to register as overseas voters.
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2004

International hubris may throttle Labour

LONDON -- There has been more money at the Labour Party conference the past few years than the delegates' parents might ever have dreamed of, let alone the impoverished founders of the workers' party. There has been, and is, more money because the power is with the parliamentary leaders of this party....
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2004

Endo pulls out of qualifier

Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo has pulled out of the Japan squad for the crucial upcoming World Cup qualifier away to Oman because of injury, the Japan Football Association said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2004

Japan, Mexico agree to push FTA

Japan and Mexico said Tuesday they will put their free-trade agreement into effect as soon as possible, according to Foreign Ministry officials.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

Team thinks it may be close to Genghis Khan burial site

A team of Japanese and Mongolian researchers have discovered a structure in Mongolia they believe is connected with the burial site of Genghis Khan (around 1162-1227), the founder of the Mongol Empire, team members said Monday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

Hosoda coy on award for Ichiro

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda played it safe Monday when asked whether the government will offer baseball star Ichiro Suzuki the prestigious People's Honor Award.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

Certification for cancer experts eyed

An association of medical doctors and researchers specializing in cancer treatment said Monday it plans to establish a system to certify cancer specialists in an effort to provide better treatment and reduce medical accidents.
EDITORIALS
Oct 5, 2004

Another step toward Cooperstown

Mr. Ichiro Suzuki (better known as Ichiro), the left-handed hitting outfielder for the Seattle Mariners, on Sunday concluded the 2004 playing season with the unprecedented single-season record of 262 hits. Three singles in Friday night's game against the Texas Rangers already had propelled him past George...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

U.S. fighters brush in mid-air; no one hurt

Two U.S. F-15 fighter planes brushed each other over the sea near Okinawa on Monday, but both returned to base safely and there were no injuries, the U.S. military said.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

Sustainable development program tall order

KYOTO -- Next year marks the start of the U.N. mandated Decade of Education for Sustainable Development -- an ambitious program pushed by UNESCO to promote international resource development that is socially desirable, economically viable, culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

Hosoda denies North negotiator to be moved

The government will not transfer Akitaka Saiki, the diplomat heading Japan's working-level delegation discussing North Korea's nuclear threat and abductions, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 5, 2004

Trouble in paradise

It is one of the more uneven fights in the history of Japanese protest movements.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2004

BOJ should maintain monetary easing: IMF

The Bank of Japan should maintain its current easy monetary policy until deflation is reined in, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2004

NPA upgrades abduction profile

The National Police Agency on Monday boosted the profile of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, declaring it an issue requiring the attention of police nationwide.

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