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JAPAN
Mar 16, 2006

Abe issues call for all to snub Winny

Faced with government information leaks from privately owned computers, Tokyo issued a warning Wednesday to ministries, local governments and companies dealing with public infrastructure about the risks of using the Winny file-sharing software on computers used for work.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2006

New traffic plan aims to cut deaths to 5,500 per year

The government said Tuesday it has drawn up a five-year plan for bringing traffic deaths under 5,500 a year by calendar 2010.
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2006

British troop adjustment no factor for SDF: Aso

Japan's decision on when to pull its troops from southern Iraq will not be affected by Britain's announcement Monday that it will scale down its military presence in the country, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006

Iwakuni vote won't halt U.S. move: Abe

The central government will go ahead with plans to move 57 U.S. carrier-based warplanes and support personnel to the U.S. Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, despite the overwhelming opposition expressed in a nonbinding local plebiscite, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Monday....
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 14, 2006

Country kids need language support

Ji Young was 13 when she moved from Seoul to a small village in Yamagata in 1999. Her mother had arrived from Korea a few months earlier to marry a Japanese man.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 14, 2006

Who is paying the price of health care?

Japan's health-insurance program is touted as being egalitarian, with treatment available at any medical institution in the nation to those people who pay monthly insurance premiums and 30 percent of their medical treatment, including diagnoses, tests and prescriptions.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Substitute prison reform bill gets OK

The Cabinet approved a bill Friday to improve the treatment of criminal suspects before trial or defendants awaiting sentencing while in police custody.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Bill targets pension premium refusers

The Cabinet OK'd legislation Friday for presentation to the Diet the same day to establish a new pension services agency in 2008 to replace the Social Insurance Agency and enhance collection of pension premiums.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Koizumi's crowning bill gets government OK

The government approved a bill Friday that gives the timeline for administrative reforms planned for the next several years, positioned as the capstone to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform agenda.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Wanted: Pilot to pull DPJ out of dive

The decade-old Democratic Party of Japan is facing what members describe as its biggest crises ever.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2006

Japan rejects China's Senkaku gas offer

Japan on Wednesday rejected a Chinese proposal to jointly develop two gas-rich areas in the East China Sea, one of which is on the Japanese side of the median boundary near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2006

Coincident index continues its high

A key gauge of the current state of the economy stayed above the boom-or-bust threshold of 50 percent in January for the sixth straight month, spurred by all-time high indexes of production, industrial production shipment and electricity consumption by large-lot users, the government said Wednesday....
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2006

Japan to ratify U.N. fish protection treaty

The government will ratify the 1995 U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement that aims to protect tuna, bonito and other types of migratory fish that primarily live in the high seas, officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2006

Bill would stiffen penalties against IP rights violators

The government plans to submit a bill to the Diet that would strengthen penalties against violators of intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks and design rights by imposing a maximum 10-year prison term and 10 million yen fine on violators, officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2006

Dialogue with S. Korea resumes

Japan and South Korea resumed on Monday a sub-Cabinet-level strategic dialogue to improve bilateral ties that have been strained due to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine and differences in historical perception.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Bid-riggers to be barred for a while

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday that 178 companies will be temporarily barred from bidding for defense facilities contracts following a series of bid-rigging incidents.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2006

CPI registers third increase in a row

In a move expected to push the Bank of Japan to start specific debate on ending its ultraeasy monetary policy next week, the government said Friday the January core consumer price index rose 0.5 percent from a year before, marking the third consecutive year-on-year increase and the biggest jump since...
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2006

Trying too hard to get ahead

When Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata spoke during a Feb. 16 Lower House Budget Committee session, it appeared that he possessed a strong political weapon for blowing up the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2006

DPJ's Nagata apologizes but not for allegations

Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata apologized Tuesday for failing to prove allegations he raised in the Diet that Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie made a shady fund transfer to a son of Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2006

Ex-South Korean diplomat pens book on Hirobumi Ito

A former South Korean diplomat who spent more than a decade in Japan recently published a book on the roles of Hirobumi Ito, Japan's first prime minister and widely considered the archenemy of the Korean people, in the modernization of Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Winny strikes again: Clerk's PC leaks court info

Internet file-sharing software Winny wreaked havoc in Japanese authorities' computers for the second straight day Friday, with the Tokyo District Court's internal information on public auctions leaked onto the Internet.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Bills OK'd to tighten juvenile laws

The Cabinet approved bills Friday to revise juvenile and related laws, including elimination of a stipulation that minor offenders must be at least 14 years old to be detained at juvenile reformatories.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

Police get warrants for Pyongyang agents

Prefectural police in Fukui and Niigata obtained arrest warrants Thursday for North Korean agents Sin Guang Su and Choe Sung Chol (phonetic spelling) on suspicion of abducting Japanese nationals in 1978, and are waiting for a warrant on another operative suspected of abducting two other Japanese the...
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

Japan rebuts Russia protest over Aso's isles remarks

Tokyo told Moscow on Thursday that it finds "unacceptable" the Russian Foreign Ministry protest over Foreign Minister Taro Aso's recent remarks on the disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, Japanese officials said.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2006

January records first trade deficit in five years

Japan posted a customs-cleared trade deficit of 348.9 billion yen in January, the first monthly deficit in five years and the largest in 23 years, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2006

Race is on at the United Nations

The race to succeed Mr. Kofi Annan as the next U.N. secretary general has begun. The job is one of the most high-profile in the world, and one of the most thankless. For all its prestige, the United Nations is a dumping ground for many of the world's most intractable concerns. The secretary general must...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

'Takeshima Day,' rhetoric just Shimane affair

MATSUE, Shimane Pref. -- Shimane Prefecture on Wednesday celebrated its first "Takeshima Day" by declaring that the tiny islets controlled by South Korea are part of Japan and calling on the government to pressure Seoul to hand them over.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2006

Moderate dropped from recovery plug

The government Wednesday upgraded its assessment of the economy for the first time in six months as rising production and exports as well as solid consumption provided yet more evidence the nation has entered a period of sustainable growth.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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