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JAPAN
Jan 1, 2005

Tama's population fall shows how baby boom is bust

Tama New Town -- a bedroom community in Tokyo's western suburbs -- is no longer new.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2004

Princess Nori's engagement announced

Princess Nori, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee, the Imperial Household Agency said Thursday.
Japan Times
Dec 31, 2004

Princess Nori's engagement announced

Princess Nori, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee, the Imperial Household Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2004

Japan to expand peace missions to gain UNSC seat

The government plans to expand its participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations and other U.N.-related activities to promote its bid for a permanent seat on the world body's Security Council, according to government officials.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2004

Cyclers plan icy Siberian expedition

Two Japanese men plan to cross the frozen Mamiya Strait from Russia's Sakhalin by bike and head toward Siberia and the Chukot Peninsula in Russia's east.
COMMENTARY
Dec 23, 2004

Mongolia's nuclear-free wish

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea -- Mongolia is a landlocked wilderness the size of Alaska. With a population of only 2.7 million, it is squeezed between two geopolitical giants, China and Russia. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the withdrawal of Russian troops in 1992, leaving the country alone -- and...
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JAPAN
Dec 18, 2004

Japan to join spring resolution to get UNSC reform ball rolling

Japan will work together with other countries to submit a resolution as early as next spring to revise the United Nations Charter and reform the international body, according to Kenzo Oshima, Japanese ambassador to the U.N.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2004

Freelance journalist takes fight against press clubs to court

Japan's "kisha" press clubs have long been criticized for their closed, controlled nature and the various privileges solely accorded their members.
COMMENTARY
Dec 14, 2004

Bush's term to test Koizumi

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will be required to fine-tune Japan's diplomatic strategies to deal with the reshuffle of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration. There is growing speculation that hardliners will gain more power in the second Bush administration following the departures of Secretary...
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JAPAN
Dec 11, 2004

Film depicts Japan's gender equality strife

A documentary film about an American woman's struggle to achieve gender equality in postwar Japan, sponsored and made by Japanese women, is set to be released next April.
COMMENTARY
Dec 9, 2004

U.N. will reform or slide into oblivion

LOS ANGELES -- If the United Nations were somehow to disappear from the face of the Earth, would people care -- or even notice?
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2004

Rightwinger who shot Nagasaki mayor in trouble again

A senior member of a rightwing group who served prison time for shooting a Nagasaki mayor was arrested Monday for allegedly defaming a female lawyer, police said.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2004

Canberra's free trade polka

SYDNEY -- The convening of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations with Australia and New Zealand at ASEAN's meeting in the Laotian capital last week was a landmark for the region's push toward greater security and economic growth. It also started a move toward a free trade area that will...
EDITORIALS
Dec 4, 2004

Asia takes a historic step

Historians may well look back at this week's summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and call it the first real move toward creating a regional economic group that unites all of Asia. It pushed the political agenda forward as well, signaling a shift in the ASEAN-Plus-Three (Japan,...
EDITORIALS
Dec 3, 2004

Lack of self-cleansing power

Former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has indirectly admitted his involvement in a dubious flow of political funds to the faction led by himself. Going back on his previous denial that a 100 million yen check was accepted, Mr. Hashimoto said "it (the alleged acceptance) probably is a fact."
Rugby
Dec 2, 2004

Tokyo's rugby community honors former teammate

Rugby players haven't always enjoyed the best of reputations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 1, 2004

John and Joe: singin' bout their generations

In his famous 1976 essay, "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," Tom Wolfe first put forth the now widely accepted idea that the counterculture of the 1960s had been perverted in the '70s by formerly progressive-minded baby boomers when they realized that genuine social change wasn't as important...
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2004

Latest EU expansion poses more economic problems than benefits

Despite the political significance of completing the reunification of Cold War-divided Europe, this year's enlargement of the European Union creates few near-term economic benefits and poses major challenges for the region, an expert with a British institute told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2004

Ex-Rengo exec to avoid prison time over dental bribes

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former vice president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) to a suspended one-year prison term Friday for accepting bribes from the nation's main dental lobby while serving on a government advisory panel.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2004

Bribery nets ex-dental exec suspended term

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former executive of the scandal-tainted Japan Dental Association to a suspended one-year prison term Thursday for bribing members of a government panel.
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JAPAN
Nov 13, 2004

Machimura admits Koizumi's shrine visits hurt China ties

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura on Friday became the first Cabinet member to openly acknowledge that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine are impeding top-level visits between Japan and China.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2004

Mob boss ordered to compensate victims' kin

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the head of the nation's largest crime syndicate to pay damages to the family of a police officer who was gunned down by members of an affiliated gang.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Koizumi snubs call for GSDF pullout

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected an opposition camp demand Wednesday that the Ground Self-Defense Force troops be pulled out of the southern Iraq city of Samawah when their one-year humanitarian mission expires on Dec. 14.
COMMENTARY
Nov 11, 2004

China pushes for new order

LONDON -- A new Chinese diplomacy is emerging from Beijing. Traditionally reactive to global events, China now sees itself forced to take on a proactive role in world affairs. The revolutionary phase of Chinese foreign policy is dead; now pragmatism has taken center-stage.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2004

Japan rejects shark conservation pact

The government will reject an international agreement to limit trade in great white sharks that was reached last month at a wildlife conservation conference in Bangkok, government sources said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 9, 2004

Making money politics not pay

In yet another case of political corruption, former Lower House member Muneo Suzuki, who once held important posts in the Cabinet and the Liberal Democratic Party, has been sentenced to two years in prison by the Tokyo District Court for bribery and other offenses. Significantly, the court did not grant...

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