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JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Special Diet session may be extended to a week

The government and ruling coalition parties are considering extending an originally planned three-day special Diet session to about one week, partially meeting requests by opposition parties, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Doctors' medical bills lower than average joe

Unlike salaried workers, who despite health insurance must pay 30 percent of their medical bills, most doctors in Japan are paying less under a different scheme that favors medical professionals, insurance union officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Xenophobia aside, Japan said to need foreign labor

OSAKA -- Although immigrant labor can play a key role in creating economic growth and vitality in Japan, serious debate on the issue has been stymied by traditional reluctance to welcome foreigners, sensationalized media coverage of the rise in crimes by foreigners and xenophobic comments by rightwing...
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Women appeal gender-discrimination ruling

Six women who claimed they suffered gender-based wage discrimination at trading house Kanematsu Corp. lodged an appeal Thursday at the Tokyo High Court against an earlier ruling rejecting their damages suit.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2003

Divisions within Sri Lanka

Ending the 20-year civil war in Sri Lanka was never going to be easy, but that task has become considerably more difficult with the outbreak of fighting within the Sri Lankan government. The battle between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe over the peace talks has...
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Ashikaga Financial bailout denied

The government denied a news report Thursday that the Financial Services Agency is considering injecting public funds into regional bank Ashikaga Financial Group Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Tokyo deaf to Chongryun tax gripes

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has rejected complaints filed by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun) over taxes levied on the pro-Pyongyang group, officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

State flip-flops yet again on SDF dispatch

The escalating violence in Iraq has forced the government to once again step back from its on-again, off-again schedule for an SDF mission to the country.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Wholesale price skein reaches 38th month

Wholesale prices nationwide fell 0.4 percent in October from a year earlier for the 38th straight monthly fall, the Bank of Japan said in a preliminary report Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Nov 14, 2003

On the road to wine-country romance

There has always been a friendly rivalry between Napa and Sonoma, California's two premier wine-growing regions. We think of Napa as Kyoto -- containing stunning vistas, but marred by a tour-bus mentality. To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, we sometimes feel "there's no there there." Sonoma, on the other...
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

NEC seeks cancer diagnosis system

NEC Corp. and its subsidiary NEC Soft Ltd. said Thursday they have reached an agreement with U.S. venture LifeSpanBioscience Inc. to develop a system to help diagnose cancer.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Bilateral talks suit abductions issue: Dai

Dai Bingguo, visiting Chinese vice foreign minister, on Thursday urged Japan to resolve the abductions issue via bilateral talks with North Korea rather than through six-way negotiations.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Taiwan's spas bubbling over with popularity

TAIPEI -- Chu Chien-huei stretches her arms in a hot tub full of orchid petals on a sunny day at Spring City Resort, a hot spring hotel in Peitou, with her 5-year-old daughter at her side.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 14, 2003

Letting the plane take the strain

There can be fewer more ostentatious trappings of wealth than a private jet. However, the perception of such aircraft as mere playthings of the rich and famous has tended to detract from their more mundane role as effective, hassle-reducing business tools.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Sony forms e-publishing joint venture

Fifteen companies, including Sony Corp., have established a joint venture to provide paid electronic publishing services to member customers, Sony and four other major partners said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Pretax profits at major firms up 14%

The combined pretax profits of 434 major Japanese companies rose 14.2 percent in the six months to Sept. 30 from a year earlier to 6.82 trillion yen due to greater cost-cutting efforts, the Shinko Research Institute said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Mitsubishi profit soars in first half

Mitsubishi Corp., the nation's largest trading house, said Thursday its first-half net profit jumped 39 percent to 60.56 billion yen, thanks to brisk auto trade in Asia.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

European business group makes pitch for robust deregulation

The European Business Community in Japan called Thursday for an improved investment climate through drastic deregulation to achieve Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's pledge to double foreign direct investment by 2008.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Koizumi makes choice on Japan Highway chief

The government decided informally Thursday to appoint a House of Councilors member and former businessman as president of Japan Highway Public Corp.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Corporate pension plans on the verge of collapse

Faced with huge investment losses brought on by depressed stock prices and the prospect of baby boomers nearing retirement, corporate pension funds are on the verge of collapse.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Beerlike drink shipments may fall

Shipments of "happoshu," the low-malt cousin of beer, are expected to post their first year-on-year fall in 2003, according to industry data released Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2003

Doi throws in towel as SDP president

Takako Doi said Thursday she will resign as president of the Social Democratic Party to take responsibility for the SDP's crushing defeat in the general election.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 13, 2003

Tokyo best place for NBA games

It was great to see the NBA back in Japan, after a four-year absence, a couple of weeks ago.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2003

Journalists warned about Taliban

The Japanese government Wednesday warned journalists working in Afghanistan that they could become targeted for kidnapping by members of the Taliban.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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