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JAPAN
Feb 18, 2006

Takebe denies DPJ Horie fund allegations

The war of words continued Friday at the Diet as Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe fended off opposition claims of shady financial ties between his son and jailed Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2006

Taiwan's quake-stricken areas rise from the ashes

TAIPEI -- The world still remembers the month of September for the terrorist attacks in New York. For most Taiwanese, however, the month will stay long in memory for another tragedy -- the devastating earthquake that hit central Taiwan on Sept. 21, 1999.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2006

JAL chief snubs demand to quit

Japan Airlines Corp. President Toshiyuki Shinmachi has expressed his intention to stay in his post until March 2007, rebuffing a recent request to step down to take responsibility for the airline group's poor business performance, a major JAL shareholder said Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2006

Ex-liquor union exec arrested

Police arrested a former official of a liquor retailer union Thursday on suspicion of damaging the group by losing most of the 14.4 billion yen in pension funds that had been invested in foreign bonds, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2006

Spike in postal remittances to North Korea scrutinized

Japan has seen a sharp increase in the number of postal remittances to North Korea in recent years, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2006

State eyes selling prime property

Surrounded by Izumi Garden Tower, the Saudi Arabian Embassy and luxury condominium complexes in Tokyo's Roppongi district, an ugly old apartment block stands.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2006

LDP's Ito had IRCJ meet tender favor-seeking Huser

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kosuke Ito asked a senior official of the state-backed corporate bailout agency last June to meet the head of a property developer now accused of selling structurally unsound condominiums, according to sources.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Brokers to give up J-Com spoils

Fifty Japanese and foreign brokerages have offered to give up a combined 20.9 billion yen in profits they made by exploiting a trading error involving shares of staffing firm J-Com Co. in December, an industry group said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2006

Most U.S. beef processors safe: LDP team

Most U.S. beef processing facilities looking to export beef to Japan are taking sufficient measures to satisfy the criteria agreed upon between the United States and Japan, an inspection team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 14, 2006

Takatsu resigns with Swallows

Former New York Mets pitcher Shingo Takatsu, who filed for free agency during the off season, has rejoined the Yakult Swallows, club officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2006

English abusers finally get their day in the sun

"Please be careful to forget valuables" has received the Sign Language Award at the Amazing English Hunt 2005 awards, the English-Speaking Union of Japan, a nonprofit organization to promote international exchanges through English, and eigoTwown.com, which runs a Web site offering English education information,...
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

Media is issue in referendum bill

The ruling coalition is considering a nonbinding provision in a constitutional referendum bill calling on the media to be politically neutral when forecasting vote results, lawmakers said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

LDP sends inspectors to U.S.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday sent an inspection team to visit U.S. beef processing facilities after beef parts banned under an agreement that partially reopened the Japanese market to U.S. exports were discovered last month in a shipment from New York.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2006

Fukui upbeat, cautious on recovery

Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui voiced stronger confidence Thursday in the ongoing recovery, but said the central bank needs to confirm the economy's strength against various external risks.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2006

North's abduction charge irks NGOs

Members of nongovernmental organizations trying to help North Koreans who have fled their impoverished country find safe haven lashed out Thursday over Pyongyang's claim this week that they were kidnapping its people.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 10, 2006

BMX Bandits

Every regional music scene has its petrie-dish band from which members crawled off to spawn other bands with the same stylistic DNA. In Seattle it was Green River; in Omaha it was Commander Venus. Glasgow has had an internationally recognized rock scene for longer than those two cities, and while Orange...
EDITORIALS
Feb 9, 2006

Iran tests the United Nations

Iran seems intent on confronting the world. Remarkably, the international community has mustered a unified response to the Tehran government's seeming determination to build a nuclear weapon. But brinkmanship continues: Last weekend Tehran said it was ending its commitment to the Additional Protocol...
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2006

Referendum bill to pass by June: LDP

Lawmakers will probably pass a bill by the end of the Diet session to set up national referendum procedures that would enable the Liberal Democratic Party to introduce amendments to the Constitution to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces, according to a senior LDP official.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2006

JAL shareholder calls for president's ouster

Former lawmaker Eitaro Itoyama, the biggest individual shareholder in Japan Airlines Corp., is calling for the resignation of JAL President Toshiyuki Shinmachi, given the carrier's poor business performance, it was learned Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2006

Enough of make-believe bidding

The arrests last week of senior officials of the Defense Facilities Administration Agency (DFAA) confirmed that bid-rigging on public-works projects remains an entrenched practice in Japan. What happens, basically, is that a contract is awarded at a price higher than if it were put out to bid through...
Luxury Tokyo penthouse sold for over $65 million in new record
Sales of luxury properties in Tokyo, like Azabudai Hills’ Aman Residences, have pushed up average real estate prices in the capital.
Bags of rice at half price will hit stores by early June, Koizumi says
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a supermarket to check the prices of rice on Friday in Koto.
U.S. Marine arrested for Okinawa hit-and-run that injured four
Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Police and the U.S. military conduct a joint patrol in the city of Okinawa in April. Prefectural police arrested a U.S. Marine for an alleged hit-and-run case on Sunday.
Ukraine's key allies no longer limiting range of weapons, Germany's Merz says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion during the opening of the 'Re:publica 25' digital conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Eagle nest discovery sparks opposition to megasolar project
The white-tailed eagle's wintering grounds include Hokkaido, northern Honshu, the Russian coast, the southern Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.
Fighters already showing last season's playoff run was no fluke
Fighters starter Hiromi Ito pitches against the Hawks in Fukuoka on April 29.
A moving meditation: Finding serenity in tea ceremony across space and time
Drawn to tea ceremony while volunteering at a Japanese garden in Phoenix, Arizona, Michele Laudig (right) came to learn a “common language of movement and ritual” that brought her into new communities in New York City and Tokyo.
Are microplastics hurting our fertility?
A worker sorts plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo in 2019. Japan has been criticized by environmental groups for its strategy on plastics, which is heavily reliant on recycling instead of reduction.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?
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