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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Itoyama gets Akutagawa; Higashino receives Naoki

Akiko Itoyama on Tuesday was named the recipient of the 134th Akutagawa Prize for promising new fiction writers, while Keigo Higashino was given the 134th Naoki Prize for experienced writers of popular fiction.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Serial killer Miyazaki must hang: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty for Tsutomu Miyazaki in the brutal late-1980s serial killings of four girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture that stunned the nation.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Carrier leaks fuel

The Associated Press An undetermined amount of diesel oil leaked Tuesday from the aging USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in the port of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, officials said.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 18, 2006

J. League to expand second division

The J. League plans to expand the second division to 18 teams in 2010 from the current 13 in response to an increasing number of clubs hoping to join the league, J. League officials said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 18, 2006

Cases highlight custody issues

Two recent incidents have drawn public attention to the Japan-U.S. agreement on handling U.S. military members suspected of committing a crime in Japan. In one case, a sailor arrested after a car accident was transferred to U.S. military authorities. In the other -- the robbery and fatal beating of a...
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Ito named new Tokyo police chief

The National Public Safety Commission on Tuesday named Tetsuro Ito, currently head of the National Police Academy, to be the next chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Computer to predict terrorist damage

The government plans to put into operation a computer simulator that can predict the damage caused by a large-scale terrorist attack, an official said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Prison urged for Muraoka in JDA-LDP fund scandal

Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded one year behind bars for former senior lawmaker Kanezo Muraoka for his alleged involvement in concealing a 100 million yen political donation by a dentists' group.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Huser boss clams up before the Diet

Huser Ltd. President Susumu Ojima refused to answer most questions under oath Tuesday before a Diet committee in connection with the nationwide building safety scam in which his condominium development firm is a key player.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2006

Cold weather cools beer shipments

Shipments of beer and beerlike alcoholic beverages by the top five breweries fell 3.1 percent in 2005 for the first decline in two years due to the colder than usual winter, industry figures showed Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Miracle fruit tablets can be bought online

Tablets made from miracle fruit, which makes sour food taste sweet, are now for sale on the Internet, the developer of the technology said.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jan 18, 2006

Half-truths to the aid of conservation

Let's just imagine for a moment that you are a conservationist. You discover, or become aware of, the breeding location of a rare mammal or bird, or of a site where there is an endangered plant growing. What do you do?
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2006

Ex-NEC exec to lead chip venture

A computer chip production company to be set up jointly by Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. will be headed by Hirokazu Hashimoto, a former vice president at NEC Electronics Corp., sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2006

Livedoor raid stirs up fear of Net stocks

The Nikkei stock average fell below the 16,000 line Tuesday as worried investors sold off Internet stocks amid the dust kicked up by prosecutors' search of Livedoor Co. over suspected securities law violations.
SUMO
Jan 17, 2006

Hokutoriki plows Aminishiki to win ninth

Surprise package Hokutoriki beat Aminishiki to emerge as the sole leader with a ninth victory while grand champion Asashoryu continued to circle like a shark at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 17, 2006

Koshi, Inada named to Turin team

The Japan Bobsleigh and Luge Federation on Monday named veteran skeleton athlete Kazuhiro Koshi and Masaru Inada to a 12-member team for the Winter Olympics, bringing the final number of Japan's Turin-bound athletes to 113.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 17, 2006

Kanazawa, Yoshida wrap up titles

Chinese-born table tennis players Saki Kanazawa and Kaii Yoshida won the singles titles at the national championships Sunday, while teenage star Ai Fukuhara was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Ministry again orders JAL to improve safety

The transport ministry has ordered Japan Airlines to revise measures it came up with last April to prevent operational errors, following a string of mishaps since late last year, ministry sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

1.34 billion yen embezzlement at Mizuho nets arrest

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a former Mizuho Bank employee Monday on suspicion of embezzling 22 million yen from customers' savings accounts, part of 1.34 billion yen allegedly misappropriated by the suspect.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Internet drugstores want bill to limit online trade killed

Dozens of companies that specialize in selling pharmaceuticals over the Internet will ask the health ministry to scrap a bill that would limit such sales, some of the firms said Monday.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 17, 2006

Japan midfielder Ono rejoins Reds

Japan midfielder Shinji Ono returned to Japan from the Netherlands on Monday to rejoin J. League first-division club Urawa Reds.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 17, 2006

Hiroshima adds ex-Sox prospect

The Hiroshima Carp agreed Monday to a one-year deal with pitcher Felix Diaz, a Dominican right-hander who played for the Charlotte Knights, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, in 2005.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Cell phone, credit card linkup to exploit 60 trillion yen market

Using cell phones with credit card functions to make purchases is expected to be a big thing this year as major credit card firms scramble to get shops and stores to accept such payments.
Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?
Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, Bangladesh's army chief, arrives at Dhaka International Airport to receive Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Aug. 8 to lead the country's interim government.
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
Japan sees joint hottest summer on record
People at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo in July. The three months between June and August were 1.76 degrees Celsius hotter than average in Japan.
New unproductive forces: the Chinese youth owning their unemployment
Job seekers crowd a job fair at Liberation Square in Shijiazhuang, China, in 2018.
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
The man who opened MLB's door to Japanese players
Masanori Murakami poses with a Willie Mays-themed clock during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Monday.
Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
Clocking off: Japan’s hotter summers put limit on outdoor work
A construction worker in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Aug. 21. With 886 cases, 54 of them fatal, during the period from 2019 to 2023, the construction industry leads Japan’s tally for occupational heatstroke.

Podcast

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

Longform

A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
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