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CULTURE / Art
May 18, 2006

"Wide Eyed Theatre: Shita No Shita"

La Deco, Shibuya Fridays (8 p.m.), Saturdays (3 and 8 p.m.) and Sundays (3 p.m.) till May 28
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 17, 2006

Barcelona-Arsenal final puts two great stars on a grand stage

PARIS -- There are signs around the Nou Camp reminding everyone that Barcelona is "more than a club." There should also be signs in Catalonia to say that Ronaldinho is "more than a player."
EDITORIALS
May 17, 2006

Revising the Organ Transplant Law

The Organ Transplant Law went into effect in 1997. Between February 1999 and March 2006, organs from 44 brain-dead people were used for 167 transplants, which involved hearts, lungs, livers, pancreases, kidneys and small intestines. But the number is extremely small compared with the United States, where...
JAPAN
May 17, 2006

FTC searches contractors tied to defense bid-rigging

The Fair Trade Commission searched about 10 major contractors Tuesday for evidence that they rigged bids to get construction contracts from the Defense Facilities Administration Agency, sources said.
JAPAN
May 17, 2006

Reduce NHK channels, reorganize NTT: panel

An advisory panel to communications minister Heizo Takenaka proposed Tuesday that NHK user fees be lowered by reducing the number of the public broadcaster's channels.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 16, 2006

Nippon Ham's Ogasawara available for free agency

Nippon Ham Fighters infielder Michihiro Ogasawara has fulfilled the requirements to become a free agent but said Monday he has not considered what course of action, if any, he will take with the Pacific League club.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2006

Cops of the South Pacific

SYDNEY -- Australia is far from happy about becoming the unofficial, reluctant policeman of the South Pacific. The latest tally of young, politically inept countries that expect Canberra to keep the peace for them has risen to four. And that's not counting the nearest potential hot spot, Indonesia's...
EDITORIALS
May 15, 2006

Apolitical support to Africa

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi recently visited Ethiopia and Ghana to underscore Japan's continuing efforts to help Africa fight AIDS and other diseases, eliminate poverty and solve conflicts. His visit to sub-Saharan Africa was the first by a Japanese leader since Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori went...
JAPAN
May 15, 2006

Hijacker's kid to leave N. Korea

A daughter of one of nine Japanese men who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet and defected to North Korea in 1970 will move to Japan next month, sources said Sunday.
COMMENTARY
May 15, 2006

The post-Koizumi gauntlet

Japan's political future hinges on the successor to Junichiro Koizumi, whose tenure as president of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and, hence, prime minister will end in four months. Opinion polls show Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe is by far the most popular potential contender for the premiership,...
JAPAN
May 15, 2006

Consumption tax money to go toward social needs

The government has decided to dedicate revenue from the consumption tax toward financing rising pension, medical and other social security costs, according to sources.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 14, 2006

The interleague season: Japanese baseball's 'wild card'

Japan pro baseball does not have a "wild card" team that gets into postseason playoffs as do the American and National Leagues, but the koryu-sen (interleague) period that got under way May 9 may be considered the Japanese version of a wild card in the sense that anything can happen.
CULTURE / Books
May 14, 2006

Asia needs to fill its brand deficit

ASIAN BRAND STRATEGY by Martin Roll, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 272 pp., $42.50 (cloth). Shizuka Arakawa's graceful spins and spirals enthralled a nation as she won Japan the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympics. But few would have cheered more loudly than Tokyo rice producer Toyorice...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
May 14, 2006

Home and away

AUSTRALIA Respect brings harmony without being workaholic
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 13, 2006

Success stories cap memorable season for Premier League

LONDON -- After a couple of disappointing high-profile matches, those who rarely attend football games but love to put the boot into the national sport were almost at grievous bodily harm level with their attacks.
JAPAN
May 13, 2006

Obituary: Yoshiyuki Kamei

Former agriculture minister Yoshiyuki Kamei died of pancreatic cancer Friday at a Tokyo hospital, his office said. He was 70.
COMMENTARY
May 13, 2006

A quiet burial of a scandal that will haunt Washington

NEW DELHI -- With global attention focused on the U.S.-led face-off with Tehran over the nuclear issue, Pakistan has ingeniously seized the opportunity to give a quiet burial to the worst proliferation scandal in world history, involving the Pakistani transfer of nuclear knowhow and equipment to three...
BUSINESS
May 13, 2006

Household savings up 2.1% in '05, averaging 17 million yen

Households with two or more members held average total savings of 17.28 million yen in 2005, up 2.1 percent from 16.92 million yen the previous year, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 13, 2006

Retired volunteer is a pioneer in world blind golf

Toshitake Hirose is tickled pink to think he is the only Japanese-Aussie in the world to be helping blind golfers play the game they love at the local and international levels.
JAPAN
May 12, 2006

Mitarai favors political donations

Canon Inc. will resume donations to political parties if an amendment to the political funds control law clears the Diet, company President Fujio Mitarai said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2006

Swift suspensions eyed for unsafe road carriers

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry plans to swiftly issue a business suspension order if it sees "malicious" violations of the road transport law by truck, bus or taxi operators that allow drivers to drink and drive or have forced them to work too many hours, ministry sources said Thursday....
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 12, 2006

Pages stages world premiere

Avant-garde Spanish flamenco dancer Maria Pages stages the world premiere of her production "Sevilla" in Tokyo from May 14 to 16.
BUSINESS
May 11, 2006

March key index dives, not fretted

A key gauge of the current state of the economy plunged below the boom-or-bust threshold of 50 percent in March for the first time in eight months, but it should be viewed as a temporary fall, the government said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 11, 2006

Joyu angling for own cult, cut of half of Aum assets

Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Fumihiro Joyu may be looking to form his own group with assets from the cult, according to sources.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 10, 2006

PL officials frown at CL's playoff plan

The Central League failed Tuesday to obtain support from the Pacific League for the planned system of the postseason playoffs to be introduced next year.

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