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BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2003

Direction error spurs drug recall

Major drugmaker Eisai Co. said Wednesday it will recall a cough medicine and expectorant in view of an erroneous description in the directions inside the package.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Oct 23, 2003

Bush backers open their purses

WASHINGTON -- It has stopped! U.S. President George W. Bush's men have determined that his slide has ended. The latest round of polling has him in the mid to low 50s.
BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2003

JR Tokai wants maglev to shoot for new speed record

Central Japan Railways Co. (JR Tokai) said Wednesday it will try to get its magnetically levitated train to break its own world speed record in late November or early December.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2003

Outside watchdog needed to monitor prisons: U.N. expert

An independent entity comprising nongovernmental organizations and experts is needed to monitor human rights conditions in prisons, according to Dr. Ole Rasmussen of the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2003

Nepalese man loses appeal against life sentence

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a 37-year-old Nepalese man serving a life sentence for the murder of a 39-year-old woman in 1997, it was learned Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2003

Japan slowly pulls head out of sand on smoking ills

During the five years since a landmark suit against tobacco manufacturers and the government was filed, slight but steady progress has been made in regulating cigarette sales and advertising.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2003

Popular antidepressant puts teens at suicide risk

A widely prescribed antidepressant makes pubescent teens who are seriously depressed more likely to commit suicide, the health ministry and industry officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2003

Nikko Cordial to buy back bonds

Nikko Cordial Corp., the holding firm of Nikko group brokerages, said Monday it will pay 73.4 billion yen to buy back convertible bonds it sold in 1998 to Citigroup Inc., its biggest shareholder.
COMMENTARY
Oct 20, 2003

'Swing vote' could usher in two-party system for Japan

A brewing political drama could open the way for a two-party system in Japan. Already the ruling and opposition parties are bracing for the Nov. 9 general election in which a transfer of power between two major parties looms as a real possibility for the first time since the end of World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2003

Scandal-hit Suzuki pulls out of election

Scandal-tainted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki said Saturday that he will not run in the upcoming general election due to health reasons.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 19, 2003

Asian crime scene

Asia 2000, a small publisher in Hong Kong, offers a "Black Butterfly" crime/mystery series by local writers. In a work with Graham Greene overtones, "Cheung Chau Dog Fanciers' Society," by Alan B. Pierce, tells the tale of small-time financial consultant suspected of laundering drug money, who is kept...
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2003

Tokyo unveils latest financial plan

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Friday that it will cut its workforce by 4,000 and raise an additional 30 billion yen from tax revenues to improve its finances by fiscal 2006.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 17, 2003

Boxer Hoshino calls it a career

Former world minimumweight champion Keitaro Hoshino officially called it a career when he turned in his retirement papers to the Japan Boxing Commission on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 17, 2003

Hawks counting on Jojima at bat, behind plate

Daiei Hawks catcher Kenji Jojima had an outstanding season at the plate but it's the defensive numbers he's most proud of.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PARTY LINE
Oct 17, 2003

New Komeito frets over lack of spotlight

Leaders of New Komeito feel a sense of crisis ahead of the Nov. 9 general election for the House of Representatives.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 16, 2003

Jojima best choice for PL MVP

In my Sept. 17 column, I asked the question: Who will be the Hanshin Tigers (and Central League) MVP for 2003?
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 15, 2003

Valentine likely to return to Marines

Lotte Marines deputy owner Akio Shigemitsu hinted Tuesday that Bobby Valentine is positive about replacing Koji Yamamoto as the new manager of the Pacific League club next season and is set to come to Japan next month for final talks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

When three women are company, not a crowd

After a one-month break, I got back to my old haunts last weekend and was delighted to encounter -- by pure chance -- two "three-women" plays on Tokyo stages.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Returnees frustrated over kin-reunion impasse

Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korea but returned to their homeland last year voiced frustration Tuesday over the government's lack of progress in effecting a reunion with the children they left behind in Pyongyang.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2003

Kitajima changes course on competing

Kosuke Kitajima, a double world record holder in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke, has reversed initial plans and will compete in the short course World Cup next year, a report said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 12, 2003

Livin' la vida loca

Charles Darwin must have been a regular at whatever passed for a bar on the HMS Beagle. During the ship's five-week stop at the Galapagos, the scientific superstar-to-be got his kicks from riding the trunk-size tortoises that give the islands their name -- galapago is Spanish for "saddle." Despite the...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2003

Adequate emergency care could have saved 40 percent of patients' lives

About 40 percent of the people who died at emergency medical centers across Japan could have been saved if they had received adequate emergency care, according to a recent study by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

Lower House dissolved

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the House of Representatives on Friday and set Nov. 9 as the date of a general election.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

47 lawmakers decide to call it quits

With the dissolution Friday of the House of Representatives in the leadup to a general election in early November, 47 Lower House members have announced their intention to retire from politics.
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2003

American dream, or nightmare?

Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder and movie star, is the new governor of California. Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, replaced Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, after 54.9 percent of voters Tuesday said "yes" to recalling the incumbent and 48.2 percent picked the Terminator to lead the historically...
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
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.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
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.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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