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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 30, 2004

Healthy food and immigration

Immigration update Tony writes regarding a recent Lifelines column which instructed foreign residents with immigration issues living in the metropolitan area and surrounding prefectures to head for the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau at 5-5-30 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo (03-5796 7112 -- Web site: www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/IB/ib-18.html...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 30, 2004

Get on their case

"I don't like black people! Shoo!"
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2004

Mizuho to offer IC-based ATM cards

Mizuho Bank will make automated-teller machine cards with integrated-circuit chips available in March for all customers to help prevent counterfeiting, bank officials said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2004

Chinese sub highlights underseas rivalries

HONOLULU -- The incursion of a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine into Japanese territorial waters Nov. 10 has illuminated the mounting competition under the surface of the Pacific and Indian oceans and their adjacent seas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Top court nixes sex slave, Korean vet suit

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a damages suit against the government by Korean wartime sex slaves and former Korean soldiers forced to serve the Imperial Japanese Army during the war.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2004

Daihatsu launches Mira Gino minivehicle

Daihatsu Motor Co. on Monday launched its new Mira Gino minivehicle, fully remodeled for the first time in five years.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Japan and Philippines sign basic agreement on FTA

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed a basic accord for a free-trade agreement Monday but left tough talks on stickier issues for the months ahead.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Anniversary of diplomats' slaying marked

Foreign Ministry officials offered a silent prayer Monday to mark the first anniversary of the assassinations of two Japanese diplomats and an Iraqi driver by unidentified gunmen in northern Iraq.
COMMENTARY
Nov 30, 2004

One voice on N. Korea issue?

Multilateral efforts to stop North Korea's nuclear-weapons program are gaining momentum. Leaders of the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, meeting bilaterally on the sidelines of the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Santiago, Chile, agreed that six-nation talks...
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Asahara lawyers seek suspended trial

Lawyers for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara said Monday they have asked the Tokyo High Court to suspend his appeal case on the grounds that he is incompetent to stand trial.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Team's 3-D hologram set to take phone booths into new dimension

It's an idea that was popularized by Princess Leia's plea for help in "Star Wars": sending a 3-D hologram.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

DPJ to launch group for China economic ties

Lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Japan will launch a group this week aimed at promoting economic ties between Japan and China amid souring bilateral relations at the political level, they said Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Ono eyes Iraq exit in December 2005

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono raised the possibility Sunday that the Self-Defense Forces' mission in Iraq will end in late 2005.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Ono says prelaunch action needed

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Sunday the government should authorize mobilization of the Self-Defense Forces when signs are detected that an enemy is conducting missile prelaunch activities.
EDITORIALS
Nov 29, 2004

Heading for higher taxes

The latest report from the government's Tax Commission has a sobering message: In the long run, taxes in Japan have nowhere to go but up. As the commission's chairman, Mr. Hiromitsu Ishi, points out, there is no way to avoid tax increases in order to put the nation's fiscal house in order.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Hashimoto projected to win in Kochi

Daijiro Hashimoto was poised to win the gubernatorial election Sunday in Kochi Prefecture, according to initial returns and Kyodo projections.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Four men found dead in apparent suicide pact

Four men were found dead early Sunday inside a Tokyo apartment, apparently after carrying out a suicide pact, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Suspected hepatitis E cases tied to restaurant's pork

One of six people suspected of contracting hepatitis E after eating pork intestines at a barbecue restaurant in Kitami, Hokkaido, has died, health ministry and Hokkaido government officials said Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 29, 2004

Home-bred horses tops in Japan Cups

Japanese runners landed a knockout one-two punch to claim both the Japan Cup Dirt and the Japan Cup on Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse, keeping the winner's share at home for the second year in a row.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 29, 2004

Remains of the Occupation mentality

NEW YORK -- Sometimes a perception formed during an era, however unthinking, never seems to leave you. When I read, in a detailed chronology of Yukio Mishima (1925-70), that Meredith Weatherby visited Mishima at a New York hotel for an all-day discussion about his translation of Mishima's "Confessions...

Longform

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