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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2005

The rebirth of a salesman

For Atsushi Yamada, conductor of the New York City Opera, his presentation of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" to be staged in Tokyo and Nagoya in May will be something of a triumphant return.
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2005

Laws to protect personal info kick in, criticized

Laws to protect personal information took effect Friday, banning the public and private sectors from using information on a person other than for its intended purpose and from providing it to a third party without permission.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2005

Alleged al-Qaeda link seeks vindication

A Bangladeshi businessman who was incorrectly alleged by police and the media last year as being linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network is seeking vindication.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 2, 2005

800,000 new grads begin life as workers

Some 800,000 new high school and college graduates experienced their first day as regular workers at Friday's start of the new fiscal year, with companies and public offices across Japan holding welcome ceremonies for them.
EDITORIALS
Apr 1, 2005

New era for depositors

Beginning Friday, in a sure sign of the renewed strength at Japanese banks, the government will reimpose the legal cap on deposit-insurance coverage. Nine years ago, in 1996, that ceiling -- 10 million yen in principal plus interest -- was removed amid widespread concern about banks' ballooning bad debt....
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 31, 2005

Japan benefits from Bahrain's bizarre blunder

SAITAMA -- An own goal in the second half gave Japan a priceless 1-0 victory over Bahrain in a Group B qualifying match for the 2006 World Cup at Saitama Stadium 2002 on Wednesday night.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Mar 27, 2005

Swing is the thing for bassist Nakamura

Not many Japanese jazz musicians have played in front of a President of the United States, but Kengo Nakamura is one. After leaving his hometown of Osaka to study at Boston's esteemed Berklee College of Music in 1988, where he switched from electric to acoustic bass, and struggling for a while to find...
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2005

Iwakuma determined to help Eagles soar in Sendai

Hisashi Iwakuma started playing baseball as an elementary school first grader at the age of 6, by throwing a ball against a wall in a game of catch with himself and dreaming of becoming a professional. Now, at age 24, he is arguably the best pitcher in Japanese pro baseball.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 26, 2005

Ando to skate under foreign coach

Japanese figure skater Miki Ando will part company with coaches Nobuo and Kumiko Sato and train under a foreign coach in a bid for a podium finish at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Turin, skating sources said Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 26, 2005

Fukushima to fight for WBA title

Japanese bantamweight boxer Manabu Fukushima will fight Ukrainian WBA champion Wladimir Sidorenko in Tokyo in June in his first shot at a world title in three years, his gym said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2005

Fujita left his heirs 49.1 billion yen

The late Den Fujita, founder and former president of McDonald's Co. (Japan), left his relatives 49.1 billion yen in inheritance subject to taxation, the tax office in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2005

Carmaker pushes hybrids as key environmental technology

The launch Tuesday of two sport utility vehicles featuring hybrid engines highlights Toyota Motor Corp.'s keenness to spread the hybrid system as a core environmental technology.
COMMENTARY
Mar 21, 2005

Antisecession law may have opposite effect

HONG KONG -- The impact of the adoption by China of the antisecession law, widely criticized in Taiwan and in the West even before it was unveiled last Monday, may well be the opposite of what the drafters of the controversial legislation intended.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2005

India can't account for its loss of tigers

MADRAS, India -- The future of the Indian tiger, the country's pride and national animal, does not look bright. It is being butchered not just in the darkness of the night but also in broad daylight.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 20, 2005

Who says you can't teach old baseball teams new tricks?

"New" is the watchword for Japanese baseball in 2005.
COMMENTARY
Mar 18, 2005

China flaunts wish to control

HONG KONG -- At the very moment that the world is captivated with the promise of China rising economically, China itself has provided two vivid examples of the danger that it is plunging politically.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2005

Campaign to shut off idling vehicles to expand to cars

The government is planning to spread the so-called idling-stop campaign from buses, taxis and other commercial vehicles to the general car-owning population to save fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
EDITORIALS
Mar 16, 2005

A vacuum in Chechnya

Russia is claiming a major victory in the war against Chechen rebels with the killing of Mr. Aslan Maskhadov, leader of the Chechen separatist movement. Mr. Maskhadov has long been Moscow's nemesis, but he is also thought to have been a genuine moderate among the Chechen militants. His death may intensify...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 15, 2005

What are you carrying with you today?

Sean Dimmery Telecommunications, 38 Nothing really, except my camera, a CD, some language handbooks, an empty bottle of water, a Larabar, rail maps and a microzen player with Engelbert Humperdink.
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BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

End to deposit guarantee symbolic more than strategic: economist

The upcoming removal of the government's decade-long unlimited guarantee on bank deposits is not expected to drastically change the financial portfolio of the average household, said Paul Sheard, chief economist for Asia at Lehman Brothers.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

JAL to pare 1,400 more jobs to cut costs

Japan Airlines Corp. said Thursday it will slash 1,400 more jobs by the end of March 2008 through attrition and transfers in an effort to counter high fuel prices.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2005

Shinmachi named JAL group CEO

Japan Airlines Corp., the holding company of the JAL group, plans to appoint its president, Toshiyuki Shinmachi, as the group's next chief executive officer.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 8, 2005

Creating laws out of thin air

With terrorists striking fear into governments worldwide, Japan too is currently considering its own version of America's Patriot Act, to be passed in a year or two.
EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2005

Risk-free deposit era nears dusk

With Japanese banks regaining financial health, the ad hoc regime of full-deposit insurance is about to end. Beginning April 1, deposits will be protected only up to 10 million yen in principal plus interest -- the same limit that was in force until 1996 when it was removed temporarily amid growing instability...
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SOCCER / J. League
Mar 6, 2005

Jubilo hands Marinos defeat in season opener

YOKOHAMA -- Jubilo Iwata drew first blood in the race for the new J. League championship with a controversial 1-0 victory over Yokohama F. Marinos at Nissan Stadium on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2005

Yahoo Japan to pay 2004 dividends

Yahoo Japan Corp. said Thursday it will begin paying dividends for fiscal 2004.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2005

Increase pressure on North Korea

Talks with North Korea are deadlocked on two make-or-break issues: that country's nuclear weapons program and its past abduction of Japanese nationals. Last month, declaring that it has nuclear weapons, Pyongyang threatened an indefinite boycott of the six-party talks. It also refused to discuss the...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 2, 2005

Mail bag questions on Bunch, Kiyohara and the minor leagues

Dear Wayne: I read what you posted from Melvin Bunch's e-mail (Feb. 23).

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