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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2011

Libya faces period of reliance on foreign help

Six months after Libyan rebels took up arms against the country's leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, they have finally toppled him.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2011

Maehara admits he unknowingly got more donations from foreigners

Kyodo Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, who hopes to become the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's next leader, said Saturday he received a combined ¥590,000 in illegal contributions from four foreign nationals and a firm headed by a foreigner between 2005 and 2010.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Aug 28, 2011

Building excitement in Shirokanedai

Exiting the Nanboku Line at Shirokanedai Station in west-central Tokyo, my sandaled feet immediately start to sizzle. So instead of walking to Meguro's Institute of Nature Study as planned, I bolt down the first shaded slope I find.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2011

Contenders' backgrounds

Seiji Maehara Seiji Maehara represents Kyoto's No. 2 electoral district, a cultural cornucopia where in some ways he could be considered an outsider.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2011

1953 records on handling U.S. forces released

The Foreign Ministry on Friday released previously classified records dating from 1953, including a section stating that Japan didn't intend to exercise its primary right of jurisdiction over U.S. military personnel involved in crimes unless cases were deemed of "material importance."
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2011

Ban on beef shipments lifted

The government on Thursday lifted the last bans on shipments of beef cattle — from Iwate, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures — suspended due to leaks of radioactive material from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2011

Accelerate decontamination

Some 100,000 people are still living as evacuees away from their homes in the wake of the severe accidents at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Kyodo News has reported that some 17,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture have changed schools or kindergartens because of radiation...
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2011

Crisis probe has quizzed 126 people

Some 126 people have appeared before the independent panel investigating the causes of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, testifying for a total of almost 300 hours, but it will take more time and effort to identify the root reasons for the accident, panel leader Yotaro Hatamura said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Aug 21, 2011

Three Mile Island's lessons for Japan

In the early hours of March 28, 1979, human errors and mechanical failures combined to cause a cooling system to stop working at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One of the station's two nuclear cores overheated, thrusting the plant into a crisis that would...
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2011

An economic dark cloud ahead?

An Aug. 15 preliminary report by the Cabinet Office shows that Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) in real terms in the second quarter of 2011 dropped 0.3 percent or an annualized 1.3 percent from the previous quarter — for the third straight quarter of minus growth.
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2011

Steps to a higher autopsy rate

The number of bodies inspected by the police has been rising year by year, but in 2010, autopsies were conducted on only about 11 percent of them. On July 26, Cabinet ministers concerned decided to start a working team to study how to raise the autopsy rate to 20 percent in five years. The team will...
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2011

Yen gains spur worst slump for inflation-linked bonds since Lehman

Japan's inflation-linked bonds are poised for a second monthly fall as the stronger yen exacerbates deflationary pressure on an economy still reeling from the quake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2011

Lower yield on U.S. Treasuries hampers BOJ effort to rein in yen

The Bank of Japan, struggling to keep the strengthening yen from derailing efforts to repair the economy, is facing a new challenge — the shrinking yield gap between two-year sovereigns and Treasuries.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2011

NGOs, academics call for abolition of nuclear plants

Antinuclear nongovernmental organizations and academics called for the complete abolition of nuclear power plants in Japan on Monday, the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II.
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 2011

Mr. Kan counts the days

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the two main opposition parties, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, on Tuesday struck a deal, making it certain that the Diet will pass by Aug. 26 a bill to float government bonds needed for the fiscal 2011 initial budget, and a "feed-in-tariff" bill to...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2011

Machinery orders continue to rise on rebuilding efforts

Domestic machinery orders rose for a second month in June as companies increased spending to restore businesses and production lines disrupted by the March 11 quake and tsunami.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2011

Noda: Yen rise may foreclose on growth

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Wednesday that one-sided moves in the yen can hurt growth as the currency strengthened against the dollar to close to the level where authorities intervened last week.

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