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JAPAN
Oct 21, 2004

JAL hijacker's wife appeals ruling

The wife of one of the radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 appealed Wednesday the suspended sentence she received from the Tokyo District Court for violating the Passport Law.
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2004

Struggling Daiei expected to appoint managing director as next president

Ailing retail giant Daiei Inc. is likely to name Managing Director Toshio Hasumi as the successor to Kunio Takagi, who will step down as president Friday to take responsibility for the firm's financial problems, informed sources said Wednesday.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 21, 2004

Cutting back on 3-pointers is not a good idea

NEW YORK -- Can't say I'm the least bit surprised the NBA's deep thinkers are considering banning the 3-point shot until the last five minutes of regulation; and, what, long distance field goals only will count as three points in the last 30 seconds of overtime?
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2004

Yahoo Japan profit jumps 46% on robust ad revenue

Yahoo Japan Corp. said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit jumped 46 percent to 8.64 billion yen, buoyed by continued growth in advertising revenue.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2004

Osaka eyes putting its homeless to work

OSAKA -- Facing central government cutbacks in financial aid to the homeless, Osaka officials are teaming up with the local business community to create a new program that will put some of Osaka Prefecture's estimated 7,700 homeless to work.
COMMENTARY
Oct 21, 2004

Exacerbating Pakistan's democratic predicament

ISLAMABAD -- A decision by Pakistan's ruling party to push a bill through Parliament that would extend President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's tenure as head of the influential military establishment as well as give him wide-ranging powers marks a new setback for the nuclear-armed South Asian country's troubled...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Oct 21, 2004

Disabled children at regular schools: inclusion isn't easy

When we moved to Japan and enrolled our sons in local schools, both they and I had a lot to learn. Every day was a challenge, and I was so focused on the basics that I missed a lot of things that should have been obvious. Like the fact that there was a disabled child in my son's kindergarten.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Oct 21, 2004

Candidates focus on battleground states

WASHINGTON -- Regardless of what you thought of the idea before the debates came off, chances are you will have to admit that the 2004 U.S. presidential debates provided a rare and welcome opportunity to get a better understanding of the two candidates, U.S. President George W. Bush and Massachusetts...
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2004

Empress seeks help for Princess

Empress Michiko marked her 70th birthday Wednesday by urging palace officials to help her troubled daughter-in-law to recover from a stress-related illness.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2004

Power of opinion rising in Muslim Asia

SINGAPORE -- Three major political events in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Bandar Seri Begawan the past month could have profound effects on the rising power of civil society and of party and public opinion in Southeast Asia.
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2004

Kokudo withheld info in rail share deal

Kokudo Corp. sold some of its shares in Seibu Railway Co. without telling buyers that the railway firm's stock ownership conditions met delisting standards, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2004

ANA mulls hike in domestic fares

All Nippon Airways Co. President Yoji Ohashi said Wednesday the carrier is thinking about hiking domestic airfares to cope with soaring oil prices.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 21, 2004

Playing God, designing people

Playing "The Sims 2" the way I played it is like touring the major countries of Europe and only visiting the bowling alleys.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 2004

Frustrations in Beijing

Russian President Vladimir Putin has just completed a three-day visit to China, his third as president and the first of his second term. The meetings were cordial and productive, marked by the usual rhetoric with which the former allies, who were once estranged but now eye each other anxiously, are so...
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

LDP foes of foreign suffrage meet

A group of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers said Tuesday they will continue efforts to block Diet debate on a bill aimed at giving foreign residents voting rights in local elections, claiming the move to be unconstitutional.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

Japan's population shrinks for first time in history

Japan's population has grown so little since last year that an exodus of travelers abroad during the holiday season in May triggered the first-ever fall in the country's year-on-year monthly population, according to government data obtained this week.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

Takebe, 78 other lawmakers visit Yasukuni for fall festival

Seventy-nine lawmakers, including Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe, visited Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday for its annual fall festival.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

Daiei rehab may lead to loss of 27,000 jobs

As many as 27,000 Daiei Inc. workers could face the ax if the struggling retail giant specializes in food supermarkets under its rehabilitation drive, according to informed sources.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

Japan, U.S. should broaden scope of security pact: Ono

The Japan-U.S. security alliance should be upgraded to contribute to "international peace," not just security in the Asia-Pacific region as currently defined under the bilateral security pact, Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

MMC workers mark accident date

Workers at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. observed a minute of silence Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of a fatal accident in Yamaguchi Prefecture caused by a defective Mitsubishi truck.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2004

Minister unveils ideas to boost local economies

Reinforcing Japanese-language education as well as teaching Chinese and Korean are just two of 140 ideas the central government has received from regional governments as part of a project to further deregulation and boost local economies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2004

Aichi's futuristic expo to spotlight the past with 10,000-year-old mammoth

Shuttle buses without drivers, trains floating on magnetic fields and other visions of the future will be on display at the Aichi world fair next year. But Expo 2005's centerpiece will be rooted deep in the past -- the frozen remains of a woolly mammoth.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Oct 20, 2004

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BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2004

Rengo seeks wage hikes, job security

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, better known as Rengo, plans to prioritize wage hikes for workers at small companies and overall employment security in next spring's labor-management negotiations, Rengo sources said Tuesday.

Longform

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