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Takahiro Fukada
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2008
New cab stand boasts capital service
Had a bad taxi experience? Then try a new cab stand that opened Thursday at JR Shinbashi Station's east exit.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008
Obama to namesake town: Thanks for support
From Obama to Obama, thank you.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2008
MSDF ship, freighter clip sterns in Vietnam port
A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer collided with a Cambodian cargo ship in the port of Ho Chi Minh City around 12:20 p.m. Monday Japan time, less than two weeks after another MSDF warship collided with and sank a small trawler off Chiba Prefecture, MSDF officers said.
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JAPAN / Q&A
Feb 29, 2008
I.D. cards for cigarette machines set to debut
People buying cigarettes out of vending machines will soon have to use a taspo integrated circuit card to verify their age.
JAPAN
Feb 29, 2008
Smoking ban elusive despite WHO warning
The World Health Organization issued a report in February on the global tobacco epidemic, urging countries to enforce effective smoking bans in public places.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2008
Horie's appeal starts at Tokyo High Court
The counsel for Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie pleaded not guilty to charges of accounting fraud Friday as Horie's Tokyo High Court appeal trial began.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2008
Displaced dwellers sue over Aneha design scam
Fifty-two residents displaced from a condominium complex in Tokyo's Sumida Ward sued the ward and disgraced architects Hidetsugu Aneha and Kazuyoshi Sasaki for a combined ¥1 billion in damages Friday over the loss of their homes in connection with the earthquake-resistance falsification fraud.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2008
JAL to pay ¥48 million in employee-data suit
Japan Airlines Corp. agreed Thursday to pay ¥48 million in compensation to 194 former and current flight attendants who alleged that JAL, its largest labor union and five of the union's executives illegally collected and managed private information on them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2008
Radio contact lost with trans-Pacific balloonist
Japanese and U.S. authorities launched a search Friday after radio contact was lost early in the morning with a hot-air balloonist attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from Tochigi Prefecture to North America, one of his supporters said.

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