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BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2004

Philippines tax treaty set to change

The government is about to propose amending its tax treaty with the Philippines for the first time since the accord took effect in 1980, government officials said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Sep 7, 2004

Scandal deals LDP a blow

The Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, formerly headed by ex-Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, is embroiled in a major scandal. Hashimoto, who allegedly received a check for 100 million yen from the political arm of the Japan Dental Association (JDA) in 2001, resigned about a month ago. Tokyo...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 5, 2004

NHK's documentary on Ashkenazy and more

If you don't think you're up to speed with the history of Japanese anime, check out NHK's BS2 channel this week at 11 p.m.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2004

Assess Daiei's assets first: Kaneko

The state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan should assess the quality of Daiei Inc.'s assets before Daiei turns to the IRCJ for help, Kazuyoshi Kaneko, minister of industrial revitalization and administrative reforms, said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 4, 2004

Elizabeth Gardiner

KEELE, England -- The university in Keele in the English Midlands is only 42 years old. Before 1962, it was the University of North Staffordshire, itself a youthful, postwar institution. The programs put into place at the University of Keele turned away from specialized single degrees in favor of bridging...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2004

Howard, Latham doff gloves

SYDNEY -- Australians had hardly stopped cheering their Olympic champions in Athens -- the highest medal winners in the world on a national per capita basis -- before a general election was announced and the media again went wild.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 3, 2004

Signing of Rooney a big gamble for Manchester United

LONDON -- Incredible.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2004

Nissan unveils six models as part of big sales drive

YOKOHAMA -- Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled six new models that will be released by mid-January to help achieve the automaker's global sales target.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2004

Sustainable growth in reach despite slowdown: Fukui

The nation is heading toward sustainable growth and the central bank will stick with its policy of pumping cash into the economy, Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2004

Uniqlo Plus outlet to open in Osaka

Fast Retailing Co. said Wednesday it will open a large-scale Uniqlo store in downtown Osaka in October, with several more to follow in major cities within a year.
COMMENTARY
Sep 2, 2004

Orphans vex bureaucracy

WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian crises encircle the globe. Violent resistance afflicts Iraq. Mass death from starvation and war threatens Sudan. Millions have died in other conflicts across Africa. No one has much time for Myanmar (formerly Burma).
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2004

Lawson asks Yamato to renew ties

Lawson Inc. said Wednesday it has asked Yamato Transport Co. to maintain their partnership even after Lawson starts handling parcels for Japan Post in mid-November.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 1, 2004

Flickers in the dead of night

Kaidan Shinmimibukuro Rating: * * * 1/2 (out of 5) Director: See review Running time: 92 minutes Language: Japanese Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] The older I get, the harder I am to scare -- with horror movies at least. After a certain age, real life, including medical...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2004

Toothless SESC rues failure to protect investors

Teruko Noda, a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, has a cabinet full of letters, mostly telling the same story: brokers who allegedly lied and individual investors who lost their life savings.
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2004

An example for the real world

Peace is the central message of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The Olympic flame -- the symbol of that message -- will be extinguished late Sunday night (early Monday in Japan), about five months after it was lit in Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympics. In a world riven with hatred and violence,...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 29, 2004

Prospects for altering the status quo in Japan

THE STATE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN JAPAN, edited by Frank J. Schwarz and Susan J. Pharr. Cambridge University Press, 2003, 392 pp., $25 (paper). This impressive and wide-ranging collection of essays explores the problems and potential of Japan's increasingly robust civil society. In analyzing institutional...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 28, 2004

Japanese baseball commissioner wants to keep two-league system

Japanese baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro said Thursday he prioritizes maintaining the two-league system in the debate over whether to realign Japanese professional baseball.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2004

Daiei revival plan fails to win support from creditor banks

Ailing retail giant Daiei Inc. sought support from its three main creditor banks Friday for its plan to turn around its business without help from the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan -- but the bank executives wanted no part of it, company officials said.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2004

JT unit in trouble over alleged smuggling

The Quebec government is seeking a tax payment of 1.36 billion Canadian dollars (about 114.6 billion yen) from JTI-Macdonald Corp., the Canadian unit of Japan Tobacco Inc., for the unit's alleged role in tobacco smuggling from 1990 to 1998, JT officials said.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2004

Daiei must seek IRCJ help: SMFG chief

Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., said Wednesday that supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. has no alternative but to seek help from the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan for its revival.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 25, 2004

While Mom was away

Nobody Knows Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Running time: 141 minutes Language: Japanese Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings]
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2004

Dentsu profit up in first quarter

Dentsu Inc. said Monday that its group operating profit in the April-June quarter jumped 90.3 percent from a year earlier to 10.18 billion yen.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Delay possible in full postal privatization: Takenaka

Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka indicated Sunday he understands the need for a possible delay in dividing postal services into several entities.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Delay possible in full postal privatization: Takenaka

Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka indicated Sunday he understands the need for a possible delay in dividing postal services into several entities.
Japan Times
Features
Aug 22, 2004

'Stray dogs' dig the dirt

"Bluebottle fly" was what he says he was called by the police. But freelance journalist Shunsuke Yamaoka is now getting a buzz from watching the law deal with wrongdoers he exposed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2004

Secondhand personal computer market expanding

The secondhand personal computer market is rapidly expanding as sharp growth in demand for new PCs sends relatively new ones to the used market.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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