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EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2003

For freer budget management

In his opening shot at fiscal 2004 budget reform, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is calling for a substantial cut in government subsidies -- those strings-attached payments that have been roundly criticized for depriving local governments of fiscal freedom. Last week he told a meeting of Cabinet ministers...
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2003

SDF said going to Iraq despite security threat

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi renewed his pledge Wednesday to dispatch Self-Defense Forces units to Iraq even if the security situation is not completely stable.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

Drill simulates chemical terror attack on Kawasaki

Amid deepening jitters that Japan may become a target of terrorists, government officials on Tuesday held a drill simulating massive casualties in an urban chemical attack.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

Review of arms export ban sought

Some ruling bloc lawmakers and Defense Agency officials have been calling for a review of Japan's self-imposed ban on weapons exports.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2003

Japan racing deadline for continental shelves

Japan is hoping to find under the sea what it lacks under the ground -- natural resources.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2003

Postal privatization options mulled

A government panel said Tuesday it will discuss new business models for Japan's postal services, including dividing them by region, in view of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatize the services.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

Koizumi again vows Iraq dispatch

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated on Tuesday his intention to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq but admitted it will be "difficult" to draw demarcation lines between combat zones and noncombat zones in the country.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

TV Asahi chief contrite over report

TV Asahi Corp. President Michisada Hirose accepted some blame Tuesday for provoking accusations that the station's recent election coverage was biased.
EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2003

New Diet must debate deployment

The Iraq issue will dominate the two-day debate that begins today in the Diet, which opened for a special nine-day session last Wednesday following the Nov. 9 Lower House election. The central question is whether Japan should send noncombat troops to a country where fighting is still rampant. The answer...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2003

Hashimoto faction mending old wounds

The Liberal Democratic Party's biggest faction is apparently regaining unity after a bitter split during the party's presidential election.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 24, 2003

Japan's economic momentum reveals private-sector progress

Japan's gross domestic product for the July-September quarter, according to preliminary figures released by the Cabinet Office on Nov. 14, grew 0.6 over the previous quarter for an annualized expansion of 2.5 percent. Some have pointed out that this was slower than in the April-June quarter, when the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2003

East Asia needs a stable yuan: banker

Despite mounting international pressure for revaluating the yuan, a sharp fluctuation in the currency would only destabilize the Chinese economy, whose rapid expansion has aided not only Asian growth but global growth as well, a Chinese banker told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

Bill outlines how Japan can deal with foreign attack

The government unveiled the outline of a bill Friday on how to protect Japan in the event that it is attacked.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

'Remorseful' Nakao's bribery sentence cut by two months

The Tokyo High Court on Friday reduced the prison sentence handed to former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao for taking 60 million yen in bribes from Wakachiku Construction Co. in 1996.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

Lawmakers seek Pyongyang sanctions

A group of nonpartisan lawmakers said Friday it will try to submit a bill to the Diet next year that would allow the government to impose economic sanctions on North Korea.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

Embassies crank up security amid wave of terror attacks

Japan has tightened security at the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad and at other overseas consulates following a recent wave of terrorist activity, including Friday's rocket-bomb attacks in Baghdad.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2003

On a slow but steady track

Japan's economy, though beset by uncertainties, is recovering steadily. That is the message of the latest government report on the gross domestic product (GDP), which was published last week by the Cabinet Office. In the third quarter, July through September, the real GDP -- excluding effects of falling...
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Koizumi wins Diet approval to stay on as prime minister

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected Wednesday for a second term following the Nov. 9 House of Representatives general election that returned his coalition to power.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Tanaka rips Koizumi on reform

Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, after joining a parliamentary group led by the Democratic Party of Japan, lashed out Wednesday at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's policies as she formally made her comeback to the Diet.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

SDF will go to Iraq despite recent security incidents, Fukuda asserts

Japan will not back down from its plan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2003

NPSC chief admits more donations from rightist

The head of the agency that oversees the nation's police forces has admitted to receiving 1 million yen from a construction company whose chairman is a senior rightist.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2003

Japan will ink ASEAN peace pact

Bowing to strong overtures from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan has decided to sign a regional nonaggression treaty, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2003

Kelly, Japanese officials mull North Korea issues

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly and Mitoji Yabunaka, a senior official at the Foreign Ministry, held an "intensive discussion" Monday in Tokyo focusing on how North Korea may be given security assurances.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 18, 2003

Unusual election full of promise

It may be difficult to take an interest in Japan's election last week, since many readers cannot vote. But results this time may be critically important for Japan's future as a democracy.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2003

Bill outline defines duties in event of military attack

The national government has drafted the outline of a bill stipulating how it and local governments should protect the public in foreign attacks on Japan, according to government sources.
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2003

SDF dispatch plan needs a review

The worsening security situation in Iraq is raising serious doubts about Japan's plan to send troops for humanitarian and reconstruction aid. It looks as if the whole country is slipping into a new "war," with terrorists and guerrillas stepping up attacks on occupation troops as well as civilians. Reinforcing...
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2003

NPSC chief Ono accepted meeting fee from rightist

National Public Safety Commission chief Kiyoko Ono accepted payment from a company linked to a rightwing group, Ono and her aides said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2003

Consumer sentiment up in October

Consumer sentiment improved in October for the first time in four months due to a better economic outlook, according to a bimonthly report released Friday by the public Nippon Research Institute.
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Jetstar Japan fined for failing to provide adequate cabin crew breaks
The logo of Jetstar Airways on an aircraft parked outside a maintenance hangar in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 27.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.

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