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MORE SPORTS
Dec 8, 2003

Bonjasky edges Musashi for crown

Remy Bonjasky of the Netherlands won the 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix and a $400,000 jackpot at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday, with a points victory over surprise finalist and home favorite Musashi.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2003

Parking fine cash to go to local authorities

The government plans to transfer some 30 billion yen in annual revenues from parking fines to local governments' coffers from fiscal 2006, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2003

'03 road death toll to be under 8,000

Traffic deaths in 2003 are expected to fall below the 8,000 mark for the first time in 46 years, the National Police Agency said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2003

New life insurance contracts slide

The Life Insurance Association of Japan said Friday that new individual life insurance contracts held by its 42 member firms were down 12.1 percent in the fiscal first half of 2003 from a year earlier.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2003

Wiretap charges clip highflier

Takefuji Corp., Japan's largest consumer finance company, is at the center of an unfolding wiretap scandal. Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested the company's founding chairman, Mr. Yasuo Takei, on charges of ordering his employees to wiretap a freelance journalist who had criticized...
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2003

Mizuho Corporate Bank set to expand China business

Mizuho Corporate Bank President Hiroshi Saito said Tuesday the company will greatly expand operations to take advantage of the rapid growth of the Chinese economy.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 2, 2003

Giants pitcher Kudo to get hefty pay cut

Yomiuri Giants lefty Kimiyasu Kudo, who turned 40 in May, will be given a 20 million yen pay cut, the Central League club said Monday.
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Dec 2, 2003

Casio electronic dictionaries put paper lexicon out to pasture

If Casio Computer Co. has its way, the heavy paper dictionary will be a thing of the past for most consumers.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2003

Contest gets kids to use cell phones for school projects

High school students have found that camera-integrated mobile phones are not only good for exchanging e-mail messages and snapshots but also for carrying out their school projects.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2003

State seizes Ashikaga Bank shares

The government completed procedures Monday to seize all shares in Ashikaga Bank and temporarily nationalize the insolvent regional lender.
COMMENTARY
Dec 1, 2003

Iraq and economy top political agenda

The special session of the Diet that was convened on Nov. 19 following the Nov. 9 general election came to an early close Nov. 27. On the question of the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, which is the most important issue at the moment, fierce debate unfolded between Prime Minister Junichiro...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 30, 2003

Power and glory of temple ruins

ANGKOR: Celestial Temples of the Khmer Empire, text by Ian Mabbett, Eleanor Mannikka, Jon Ortner, John Sanday and James Goodman; photos by Jon Ortner. New York: Abbeville Press, 2003, 289 pages, $95 (cloth).
MORE SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 29, 2003

Top League looking to emulate World Cup final

While the rest of the world was watching the final stages of the action Down Under at the Rugby World Cup, it was business as usual for the players in the Top League.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2003

Sensible plan for South Korea

WASHINGTON -- Even those who admire U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld rarely consider his diplomatic skills among his strongest suits. Capable of being charming and engaging in person, he tends to come across less well when sniping at allies across oceans over the chief foreign policy issues...
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2003

Shinsei Bank reports net profit rise

Shinsei Bank said Friday its group net profit rose 28.6 percent in the fiscal first half of 2003 from a year earlier to 34 billion yen.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 28, 2003

Duff acquisition paying immediate dividends for Chelski

LONDON -- Somewhere on this planet the man working for Decca Records 40 years ago who told the Beatles they wouldn't make it and should try another career, may still be alive.
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2003

Japanese youths jobless, unworried

Many unemployed Japanese youths have no intention of finding a job, according to a recent Cabinet Office report.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 26, 2003

Matsui, the Yankees and the PL's new free-agent trend

Hot stove league time, fans. Or should that be the hot hibachi league here in Japan? Lots going on during the off-season, so let's take a look at a few interesting happenings from last week.
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Nov 26, 2003

Matsui Securities owes success to efficient online trading service

A Tokyo-based securities house that posted first-half operating revenue of just 10 billion yen happens to be one of the nation's strongest brokerages, as its profit margin was 50 percent.
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2003

Between a rock and a hard place

China continues to grow at a blistering pace. It is emerging as one of the drivers of the global economy, sucking in exports from its neighbors and providing returns for investors. Increasingly, however, there are concerns that China is overheating: Growth is bound to stall as the business cycle asserts...
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2003

Financial Services chief vows to avert bank crisis

Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka tried to offer assurances Sunday that the government would do everything it can to avert a financial crisis if some banks are found to have serious problems after releasing their midterm business results.
SPORTS
Nov 23, 2003

England wins Rugby World Cup

SYDNEY - The unerring boot of Jonny Wilkinson had been the talk of the 2003 Rugby World Cup to date and in a fitting end to an epic final it was his magical right-footed drop goal that won England the William Webb Ellis Trophy for the first time in Sydney on Saturday night.
Events / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 23, 2003

Kobe German school to host Christmas market

Deutsche Schule Kobe, a German school in the city's Nada Ward, is hosting a Christmas market between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Nov. 29.
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
A V-22 Osprey
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
Nissan to end production of compact van as Honda rescue looms
A trailer transports Nissan’s NV200 Venette minivans in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
BOJ likely to raise rates this week in absence of immediate Trump tariffs
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda is still signaling caution ahead of the central bank's January meeting.
'Quad' diplomats meet in signal of Trump commitment to grouping
Top "Quad" diplomats — Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi (left to right), Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong — walk to their meeting at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday.
'America first' returns as Trump ditches focus on allies and rules-based order
U.S. President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.

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