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EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2010

Economic package on deck

The Kan Cabinet has adopted a ¥5.05 trillion spending package to help the economy overcome persistent deflation and the yen's recent rise in value against the U.S. dollar. It will submit a supplementary budget consisting of the package to the Diet by the end of this month, with the hope of getting it...
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Oct 17, 2010

Korean peerage, national census, assasinaton of party leader and sanctions for South Africa

100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Oct. 12, 1910
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2010

Nago eyed for Pacific islands summit

The government wants Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, to host the 2012 summit of Pacific island countries, its top spokesman said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2010

Ozawa sues government over indictment process

Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa sued the government Friday, claiming a judicial panel's move to indict him for falsifying political funds reports is illegal and invalid.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2010

Don't count Thai Prime Minister Abhisit out

BANGKOK — For a man who has faced seemingly endless efforts to oust him by both parliamentary ballot and by bullet, by the slippery devious machinations that are meat and drink to Thai politicians and by street protesters who took over the commercial heart of Bangkok for more than two months, Prime...
COMMENTARY
Oct 11, 2010

Is Japan's disease curable?

Since the 1990s, often called Japan's "lost 10 years," many parts of Japanese society have been disintegrating. Japan's influence has been in decline in the international community and on the global economic scene.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Oct 10, 2010

Creative battle for boost in regional tourism heads to Japan's big screen

In recent years, many regional governments in Japan have set up "film commissions" to help production crews shoot motion pictures and TV dramas in their neighborhoods, in the hopes of attracting tourists and revitalizing local communities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2010

Yanagida won't meddle with prosecutors

New Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida said he is confident the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office will conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged evidence-tampering at the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office that led to the arrest of three of its senior ranks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2010

Seiko Noda's most coveted post: motherhood

At age 50, Seiko Noda's ardent wish to become a mother looks on track to come true.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2010

New center provides day care for Diet mothers

On a sunny September day, a nurse held a 3-month-old baby while another fed a hungry 7-month-old. Outside, two boys played in a sandbox in a spacious yard, where in the summer a wading pool will be set up so the children can splash about.
COMMENTARY
Oct 5, 2010

Mr. Kan, stop wasting time

It has taken the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) two long months to settle on the continuation of Kan Naoto as prime minister. Whatever past grudges or future intricacies might exist, the Kan Cabinet must get down to work without further delay.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2010

Ozawa inquest panel rules for indictment

Former Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa should be indicted over falsified reports from his political fund management body, an independent judicial panel announced Monday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2010

Mr. Kan's to-do list trumps vision

As Japan faces serious domestic and diplomatic challenges, a 64-day extraordinary Diet session started Friday with Prime Minister Naoto Kan's policy speech. The speech drew particular public attention because it was his first policy speech following his re-election as head of the Democratic Party of...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 3, 2010

Kusanagi's grass challenge; new faces, new lives; CM of the week: Suntory Torys Whisky

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, the SMAP member whose drunken, naked midnight lark in a Roppongi park several years ago gave him an extra layer of notoriety, seems more than willing to suffer for his art, whatever that is, on the three-hour TV Asahi special "Neo Variety Matsuri: Kusanagi Tsuyoshi no Tame ni Naru"...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2010

Kan vows measures to protect economy

Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed Friday to fix the suffering economy with a stream of measures aimed at putting the brakes on deflation and coping with the strong yen.

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