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JAPAN
Sep 28, 2006

Populist, unambiguous Koizumi tough act to follow

Shinzo Abe, the new prime minister, is one of the country's most popular politicians. His problem is that the one before him, Junichiro Koizumi, is even more popular.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2006

Abe will mend Asian fences, Shiozaki says

Holding summits and mending strained ties with China and South Korea are Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's priorities, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said Wednesday as the new Cabinet got down to their first day of work.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 26, 2006

Latin America struts into the fashion spotlight

Ever since Gisele Bundchen attained supermodel status, Brazil has been going catwalk crazy. Now the country is hoping that the fashion world will recognize it as not only an exporter of top models but also as a center for the creation of designer clothing.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2006

Schieffer praises sales of U.S. beef

U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer on Sunday welcomed the "very positive" response from consumers to the resumption of U.S. beef exports since last month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 22, 2006

Accolades for Afrobeat originator

Producer Brian Eno has been variously quoted as saying Nigerian drummer and songwriter Tony Allen is "the most important musician," or "the best drummer" of the last 50 years. Whatever Eno actually said there is no doubt of the high regard Allen is held in, not only for his rhythms, so tight and complex...
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2006

Tougher financial sanctions on North being sought

have testified that billions of yen in cash have been sent to North Korea in this manner. One Japanese man living in Osaka, who worked for two decades at a North Korean-funded trading company in Japan, said Tuesday's ban will have only a short-term effect.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2006

Miyauchi now says Horie unaware of scams

A major witness in the trial of Internet maverick Takafumi Horie contradicted his earlier statements Wednesday and testified that he believes the entrepreneur didn't know about the dubious dealings he is charged with.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2006

Firms halt production after Thai coup

Some Japanese manufacturers suspended production in Thailand Wednesday after a bloodless military coup took place overnight.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LASTING IMPACT
Sep 18, 2006

Aum's crimes marked start of growing public safety fear

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JAPAN
Sep 16, 2006

Horie ordered profit inflation tactics, Miyauchi says

Livedoor Co.'s former Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi testified about his former boss Takafumi Horie in court Friday and said that he and other former executives acted on orders from Horie to inflate the company's earnings for the business year to September 2004.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2006

Mixi skyrockets in stock market debut

Shares of Mixi Inc., Japan's most popular social networking site, shot up during the company's stock market debut Thursday as buy orders swamped sell orders and more than doubled its initially offered price.
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2006

DoCoMo tests activity-tracking service

NTT DoCoMo Inc. began a test-run Wednesday of a new system that monitors cell phone customers' activities in certain areas and analyzes the patterns to ascertain their needs and send relevant information to their handsets.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2006

METI submits criminal complaint on Mitutoyo

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry filed a criminal complaint on Friday against precision instrument maker Mitutoyo Corp. and its executives on suspicion of unlawfully exporting two measuring devices that could be used to make nuclear weapons to Malaysia in 2001, ministry sources said.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 3, 2006

Japanese beauty doesn't come easily

BEAUTY UP: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics, by Laura Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 256 pp., $21.95 (paper). Beauty is big business. In Japan there are more people working in the beauty business than there are in wedding and funeral services, auto repair and software...
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2006

Mitutoyo tied to Iran, North nuclear quests

Mitutoyo Corp., a precision instrument maker at the center of an export scam linked to weapons of mass destruction, has exported some 10,000 sensitive devices, most of them illegally, since around 1995 and in the process may have helped North Korea and Iran go nuclear, investigative sources said.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2006

Abe declares bid for LDP helm

and Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki face delegates Friday at a Liberal Democratic Party chapter convention in Hiroshima. KYODO PHOTO
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2006

ChuoAoyama reopens doors as Misuzu Audit

Scandal-tainted ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, now renamed Misuzu Audit Corp., resumed regular operations Friday, ending a two-month statutory auditing suspension for former employees' involvement in window-dressing at Kanebo Ltd.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2006

Japan may extend fiber import duties

Japan said Thursday it will consider extending past next June its antidumping duties levied on South Korean and Taiwan firms for cheap fiber imports.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2006

M.crew offers work in the day, cheap bed at night

Three years ago, a 19-year-old man arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu to work at a security company.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2006

New tours with military theme score direct hit for Hato Bus

Travel agents are always looking for new ways to entice the fickle Japanese customer, and Hato Bus Co. has landed a direct hit with a set of new military-themed tours.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2006

Sony unveils Bravia TVs for fall

Sony Corp. on Wednesday took the wraps off its new Bravia flat-panel televisions for the domestic market, hoping to consolidate a recovery in its mainstay electronics business during the yearend sales competition.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2006

JT to stub out 12 cigarette brands for good

Japan Tobacco Inc. will cut 12 relatively new cigarette brands, nine of which have been marketed in target areas to gauge consumer interest, company officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / DISABILITY IN JAPAN
Aug 27, 2006

Unseen sufferers take self-help route

This story is part of a package on "Disability in Japan". The introduction is here.

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