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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 14, 2006

WBC Notebook

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki saw daylight for one at-bat, but now he's back in the dark.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 14, 2006

USA edges Japan after call controversy

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The United States went from double trouble to double play in an instant, and Team Japan walked away puzzled and angry.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006

Animal smuggler tally over 1,000

A 39-year-old man currently on trial on charges of smuggling various endangered animal species into Japan has told police he had a hand in illegally importing more than 1,000 rare animals in the six years to 2005, it was learned Monday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Mar 13, 2006

U.S. current account deficit may trigger shift in global savings

The current account deficit of the United States topped $800 billion in 2005. Ben Bernanke, who recently became chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, told a lecture in the spring of last year that the U.S. deficit level is "passively" determined by income, asset prices, interest rates, currency exchange...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 12, 2006

Money laundering and global debt

CAPITALISM'S ACHILLES HEEL: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, by Raymond W. Baker. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2005, 438 pp., $27.95 (cloth). Reviewed by JEFF KINGSTON The scandalous tolerance of massive money laundering by global financial institutions contributes to poverty...
LIFE
Mar 12, 2006

Times of change

This story is part of a package on women in Japan. The introduction is here.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 12, 2006

California dreamin' and the way the world's wheels could now be

Earlier this year it was widely reported that Toyota is soon likely to overtake General Motors as the world's largest car manufacturer.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2006

Teen faces criminal trial for slaying

The Tokyo Family Court said Wednesday a 16-year-old boy should stand criminal trial for the brutal 2005 slaying of a 15-year-old girl in her home in the Tokyo suburb of Machida.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2006

Working women still battle bias

Setsuko Honma was dismayed when she learned of the contents of a bill to revise the Equal Employment Opportunity Law that was submitted Tuesday to the Diet.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 8, 2006

Central League to add playoffs

Japan's Central League decided Tuesday to introduce postseason playoffs next year to help boost sagging attendance, following the success of the Pacific League.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2006

Can Do chain pulls jewelry over lead risk

The operator of the Can Do 100-yen discount store chain pulled imported metal accessories from its shelves because they may contain high levels of lead, as announced by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government the previous day.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2006

Car thefts nationwide dip under 50,000 for first time in six years

The number of car thefts reported to police during 2005 across Japan went down 20.4 percent from the previous year to 46,728, dipping below the 50,000 line for the first time since 1999, according to the National Police Agency.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2006

Party to a lack of maturity

In a statement issued last week, the Democratic Party of Japan acknowledged that a fellow lawmaker used a fake e-mail to cook up a scandal implicating a senior official of the governing Liberal Democratic Party with the disgraced former president of Internet startup Livedoor Co.
BUSINESS
Mar 5, 2006

Softbank looks to acquire Japan unit of Vodafone

Softbank Corp. said Saturday it is in talks with Vodafone Group PLC of Britain about buying a controlling stake in Japanese subsidiary Vodafone K.K.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

Japan may hire controversial firm to dismantle camp in Iraq

The Defense Agency is considering hiring a U.S. firm to dismantle the Ground Self-Defense Force's camp in Samawah, Iraq, after the troops pull out by late May, informed sources said Saturday.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 5, 2006

Evolution of Japanese cinema and the design of its creators

A HUNDRED YEARS OF JAPANESE FILM, by Donald Richie. Kodansha International, 2005, 320 pp., $22 (paper). Among Japanophiles, Donald Richie doesn't need an introduction, having written over 40 books on Japan, including the definitive works on directors Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, and the first-ever...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 5, 2006

Japan's social norms shaped by law

LAW IN EVERYDAY JAPAN: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, by Mark D. West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 279 pp., $19.95 (paper). This is a superb book that explores the interaction of law, society and culture over a range of intriguing topics. In seven captivating case studies, Mark West...

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A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.
Shed your skin and reinvent yourself in the Year of the Snake