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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2005

Aoki finishes with 202 hits

Norichika Aoki went 1-for-4 to finish the season with a Central League record 202 hits and claimed the league batting title with a .344 average in the Yakult Swallows' 5-2 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Friday. Aoki, who has become the first CL player to have 200 hits in a single season, singled to...
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

G-20 finance chiefs set for talks

Finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 industrialized and emerging economies were to start a two-day meeting Saturday in China where they are expected to discuss the impact of soaring oil prices on the global economy, development issues and possibly China's currency reforms.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2005

Toyota, GM at center of global auto shift

The ongoing realignment of the global auto industry may accelerate, with General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. set to play pivotal roles in this seismic shift.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

U.S. realignment talks set for Oct. 29

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday that Japan and the United States have begun arrangements for a top-level security meeting on Oct. 29 in Washington.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Ishihara names Olympics panelists

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Friday announced the members of a metropolitan government panel set up to discuss ideas for the city's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2005

Impasse to delay TSE stock listing

Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Takuo Tsurushima said Thursday it will be difficult for the TSE to list the company on the stock market by the end of the current fiscal year as planned.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2005

From national security to human security

The suffering and death inflicted by last December's tsunami and Hurricane Katrina shows the need to reframe security in human terms.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Eight Japanese-Filipinos file for citizenship in Tokyo

Eight Japanese-Filipinos born in the Philippines prior to the end of World War II applied Wednesday with the Tokyo Family Court to be registered as Japanese citizens.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

FamilyMart expanding

Convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. will open some 40 stores in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture in the business year through February 2007, becoming the second convenience chain with a nationwide network after Lawson Inc., its president said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Jenkins hopes book helps settle abduction cases

how they handle the abductions . . . they are doing everything they can do," he said. In his memoir, Jenkins says he met or witnessed many people in North Korea who he believed were definitely abductees from Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong and other parts of Southeast Asia.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2005

Wolfowitz hits poverty, takes Iraq flak

Donor nations, including the United States and Japan, must act now to fight poverty in an interconnected world, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said Tuesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2005

Asbestos-linked cancer deaths doubled in last decade

Deaths from mesothelioma, a rare cancer often caused by asbestos exposure, almost doubled to a record 953 in 2004 from 500 in 1995, according to government statistics.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 9, 2005

America's war criminals pass the buck to underlings

'I was only following orders." With these words, that have entered our language as a cliche reeking of bitter irony, SS-Obersturmbannfurer Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) defended his part in the murder of innocent prisoners in Nazi death camps. The court in Jerusalem, where Eichmann was put on trial in...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 9, 2005

Why has militant extremism become such a strong force for radical Islam?

JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH: Radical Islam in Indonesia, by Greg Barton. Ridge Books: Singapore, 2005, 118 pp., $15 (paper). Eerily the news of the recent Bali bombings broke as I was reading this concise analysis of why radical Islam remains a potent threat in Indonesia and the region. It is believed that there...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

Ruling on benefits for hibakusha abroad stands

The government will not appeal last week's Fukuoka High Court decision upholding a lower court ruling that hibakusha living abroad do not have to come to Japan to apply for health-care benefits, the health minister said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2005

Tapping of oil reserves to be extended 30 days

Japan will extend measures to free oil reserves held by the private sector for a further 30 days, industry minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2005

Stellar play fosters globalized mindset

LOS ANGELES -- Some things are just nice to see, and there's not much more to it than that. In America around this time every year, one of the nicest things to see -- especially for the inveterate sports fan -- is the invariably engrossing finale of the long Major League Baseball season.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2005

Yoshinoya vows 'gyudon' return if U.S. beef arrives

Yoshinoya D&C Co. will put its signature "gyudon" beef-on-rice dish back on the menu within six weeks once Japan lifts its ban on U.S. beef imports, restaurant chain President Shuji Abe told a news conference Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2005

Ships spotted taking pipes toward disputed gas fields

Japan has confirmed that vessels carrying pipes are sailing in the East China Sea toward two gas fields at the center of an energy and border dispute between Japan and China, the trade minister said Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2005

Puerta shown the door at Ariake

Top-seeded Mariano Puerta of Argentina was upset by unseeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-2, 6-7 (11-13), 7-5 Thursday in third round of the Japan Open, a day after denying allegations of doping.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Fujimori to seek Peru's presidency

Fugitive former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori formally announced Thursday he will run in the Peruvian presidential election next April.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2005

Hara named Giants skipper

The Yomiuri Giants announced Wednesday the appointment of Tatsunori Hara as manager of the Central League club to take over from Tsuneo Horiuchi, who is stepping down after the lackluster performance of his team this season.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Kodansha creates Kenzaburo Oe literary award

Publishing house Kodansha Ltd. has created a literary award named after Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe to promote Japanese novels worldwide.

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