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BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2004

Japan, U.S. to talk beef next week

Japan's ban on U.S. beef imports will be the subject of working-level talks between the two countries next week in Colorado, the farm ministry said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2004

FTA concessions needed: Nakagawa

Japan may have to make more concessions to push forward free-trade negotiations with Southeast Asian nations, according to Shoichi Nakagawa, minister of economy, trade and industry.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2004

Toward ASEAN integration

SINGAPORE -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has begun a more promising phase of its integrative process in the face of three formidable challenges:
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 1, 2004

Godzilla hits 29th, 30th HRs; Yanks sweep Twins

NEW YORK -- Hideki Matsui homered in both games of a doubleheader on Wednesday against the Minnesota Twins as the New York Yankees swept the twinbill, 5-3 and 5-4, to move to the verge of clinching their seventh straight AL East title.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 1, 2004

Ramirez's two-run blast keeps Dragons waiting

Alex Ramirez hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning, denying the Chunichi Dragons their sixth league title in a 5-3 defeat to the Yakult Swallows in the Central League on Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Girl to be institutionalized over boy's fall

The Tokyo Family Court decided Thursday to institutionalize a 13-year-old girl for pushing a boy from an apartment building in Tokyo in June, saying she has trouble thinking rationally.
EDITORIALS
Oct 1, 2004

No illusions about Iraq

The situation in Iraq is deteriorating. That is not a popular view, but it is hard to dispute. The government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi cannot claim to control the entire country, and insurgents are stepping up attacks in an attempt to delay elections planned for January. Failure to hold that vote...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Ministry to widen scope for pursuing graduate studies

Graduates from the Japanese branches of qualified foreign universities will be eligible for admission to graduate programs in Japan, and credits earned at those branches can be transferred to Japanese institutions and vice versa, an advisory panel to the education ministry decided Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Funds sought for vaccine program

The head of an international organization that funds vaccinations in developing countries urged the government Thursday to contribute money to the program.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Kitagawa to back second runway for loss-making Kansai airport

Newly appointed transport minister Kazuo Kitagawa says he will push for construction of a second runway by 2007 at the debt-strapped Kansai International Airport.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

LDP promise to revise political funds law shrouded in doubt

Responding to recent money scandals involving Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers, the secretaries general of the two ruling parties agreed Thursday they would make an effort to revise the Political Funds Control Law.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Euthanasia meet begins in Tokyo

An international nongovernmental organization calling for terminally ill patients' right to euthanasia convened a conference in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss living wills. The 15th World Conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies consists of 38 member societies in 23 countries and will...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Kids tutored on fear-, anger-management

Naoto Araki, a 15-year-old Yokohama high school student, persistently kicked the chair Bill Pozzobon was sitting on, just to make him mad.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

JAL, ANA eye smaller jets to meet changing needs

Large jetliners have flown most of the nation's domestic routes for years, but this is about to change.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Intel-Disney broadband service eyed

Intel and The Walt Disney Co. Japan will start offering a new service in Japan next month that lets computer users add their own special effects as they watch Disney cartoons set to classical music.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 1, 2004

Rooney's debut helps Manchester fans overlook his roots

LONDON -- Mancunians, generally speaking, do not like Liverpudlians and that is putting it mildly. The feeling is also mutual and just about the only thing the folk from the two cities have in common is their opinion of each other.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

DoCoMo to halt prepaid services

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to discontinue offering prepaid mobile phone services as they are increasingly being used to commit crime, DoCoMo President Masao Nakamura said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Bank need not replace stolen cash, court rules

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday rejected a demand from two theft victims that Chiba Bank replace money withdrawn from their accounts with stolen passbooks and personal seals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Tax increases on the table: Tanigaki

With the economy relatively steady, Japan is ready for debate on tax increases and government program cuts to put the nation's finances in order, according to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Oct 1, 2004

Up and down the byways of Yotsuya

Koshu Kaido, one of the five official highways laid by Shogun Ieyasu in Edo (present-day Tokyo), which is now known as Route 20 or Shinjuku-dori, runs west from Hanzomon, the rear gate of the Imperial Palace, formerly Edo Castle, heading straight toward the Province of Koshu (now Yamanashi Prefecture)....
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Rain forest advocacy NGO notes decline in ramin wood imports

OSAKA -- An Osaka-based environmental nongovernmental organization fighting to save tropical rain forests says both legal and illegal imports of ramin wood to Japan have been greatly curbed in recent years.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Asahi Breweries shelves plan to sell beer in plastic bottles

Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Thursday it will abandon a plan to sell beer in plastic bottles later this year following objections from environmental groups.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Pay phones vanishing as mobile use spreads

Pay phones have been disappearing as mobile phone use spreads.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2004

Plea to start Diet session next week ignored

The ruling coalition proposed Thursday that a 53-day extraordinary Diet session be opened Oct. 12, brushing aside the opposition's demand that the session begin next week and run for more than two months.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Mitsukoshi to shut down 10 unprofitable outlets

Department store chain Mitsukoshi Ltd. said Thursday it will close 10 unprofitable outlets across the country in 2005 in an effort to boost profitability amid weak sales.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

End of an era as Haneda hotel shuts its doors

The only hotel operating on the premises of Tokyo's Haneda airport and the scene of many historic events shut down Thursday after four decades of operation.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

Sales at overseas units grow 15.5%

Sales at the overseas subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturers grew 15.5 percent in dollar terms in the April-June period from a year earlier for the ninth consecutive quarterly rise.

Longform

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Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell