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BASKETBALL
Sep 6, 2007

Shaq wants divorce

MIAMI (AP) Shaquille O'Neal has filed to divorce his wife after nearly five years of marriage, his attorney said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 6, 2007

Definition of 'all' in nuclear talks

Emerging from a bilateral meeting in Geneva this week between the United States and North Korea, top U.S. negotiator Mr. Christopher Hill said that both parties agreed that North Korea "will provide a full declaration of all their nuclear programs and will disable their nuclear programs by the end of...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 2, 2007

Filmmaker, writer, little boy

Boy, by Takeshi Kitano, translated by David James Karashima. New York: Vertical Inc., 80 pp., $17.95 (cloth). These three stories by one of Japan's most popular film directors (aka Beat Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular TV comedians) were originally published in 1987. They thus antedate the first...
EDITORIALS
Sep 1, 2007

Historic moment for Turkey

In a historic moment, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected and sworn in as Turkey's 11th president Tuesday. For the first time, a politician with a background in political Islam has become the guardian of strict separation of religion and state, the highest principle of the Republic of Turkey since...
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2007

Indonesia to slash future LNG sales

Indonesia's natural gas sales to Japan's utilities may tumble 75 percent under a 10-year, 25 million metric ton contract that reflects the Southeast Asian nation's dwindling reserves of the fuel. State oil company PT Pertamina will propose slashing the supply when existing contracts with Japanese utilities...
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2007

Hedge fund numbers, assets mushroom as stocks languish

Hiromichi Tsuyukubo ran the best-performing fund in Japan at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., an arm of the nation's biggest lender. Then, after six years, he decided to join a hedge fund.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 29, 2007

Worlds notebook; Day 4

OSAKA — News and notes from Day 4 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Champion ships.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2007

Peninsula poised to enter luxury inn fray

The opening Saturday of The Peninsula Tokyo in Yurakucho, Chiyoda Ward, marks yet another top foreign luxury hotel chain's foray into the capital of the world's second-largest economy.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2007

America's dirty little victory

NEW YORK — "Just about everyone agrees that the recent conviction of Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, is a good thing," wrote rightwing pundit Neil Kressel in The New York Post.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 28, 2007

The blame game

We live in interesting times. With the shortage and high cost of domestic labor, the Japanese government has brought over record numbers of cheap foreign workers. Even though whole industrial sectors now depend on foreign labor, few publicly accept the symbiosis as permanent. Instead, foreigners are...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 26, 2007

Greisinger brings back Yakult memories of Bross & Hodges

Every once in a while, the Yakult Swallows come up with an outstanding American pitcher who takes to Japan and Japanese baseball right away, becoming a league leader and an All-Star.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2007

Distance great Bekele aims for more glory

OSAKA — Kenenisa Bekele is the greatest athlete you've probably never heard of.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2007

Wynn, 'pachislo' wizard Okada await casino boom in Japan

Steve Wynn turned to Kazuo Okada when the gambling magnate needed cash to fund his namesake Las Vegas casino in 2000. Now, Okada could be the ace up Wynn's sleeve in the Japanese businessman's home market.
COMMENTARY
Aug 24, 2007

The unending humanitarian nightmare

NEW YORK — In August 2002, Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, wrote a prescient article in The Wall Street Journal warning of the dire consequences of invading Iraq. His predictions are confirmed in a new report by Oxfam, the British aid agency...
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2007

Seconds shy of a disaster

A Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of Taiwan's China Airlines exploded and burst into flames after it parked at Okinawa's Naha airport Monday morning. Miraculously all 157 passengers and eight crew members escaped unhurt moments before the airline burst into a fireball.

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