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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2005

Invest in Russia now? Forget about it

MOSCOW -- I recently attended a conference in Moscow aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to Russia. It was a high-level conference, organized by Interfax and Chatham House and attended by ministers, senior bureaucrats and leading businessmen, both Russian and foreign.
Features
Dec 11, 2005

Discordant history mars neighbors' friendship overtures

Japanese actress Yoshino Kimura was the lone main guest at the Chuo Kokaido Hall in Osaka in October. She appeared without her Korean counterpart in the opening ceremony to celebrate this year's 40th anniversary of the 1965 Japan-South Korean Treaty that normalized Tokyo-Seoul relations.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 11, 2005

Judicial execution: the way to a better world?

The most gruesome photograph of people that I have ever seen in a newspaper is that of convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg just before their execution in the electric chair on June 19, 1953.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 10, 2005

Sao Paulo focused as tourney nears

Sao Paulo coach Paulo Autuori is taking nothing for granted ahead of the Club World Championship.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 10, 2005

J. League plans away goal rule

The J. League is taking another step toward conforming to international standards with a plan to introduce the away goal rule for the League Cup and promotion/relegation playoffs. Soccer sources said Thursday the league is expected to finalize the plan later this month and start using the away goal rule...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 10, 2005

Ferguson risks legacy being rise and fall of Man United

LONDON -- When your club has spent £65 million on four strikers, all of whom played in the 2-1 Champions League defeat by Benfica on Wednesday you have a right to expect better than the powder-puff display by Manchester United in the Stadium of Light -- none of which is at the end of the Old Trafford...
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Navy admits Haneda radar disruption

A U.S. Navy vessel mistakenly emitted unauthorized radio waves on Oct. 17, disrupting an aircraft guidance system at Tokyo's Haneda airport and causing delays to commercial flights, the U.S. forces said Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 10, 2005

Matsui still missing

Sadaharu Oh is leaving the door unlocked for Hideki Matsui.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2005

Protecting children from danger

The successive murders of two first-grade elementary schoolgirls in Hiroshima and Tochigi prefectures who went missing on their way home from school have sent alarm bells ringing across the nation. The brutal killings have raised security concerns particularly among parents with children of similar ages,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Frustrated bureaucrats pen reform ideas

When Ichiro Asahina, a 32-year-old bureaucrat at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, was studying at Harvard University between 2001 and 2003, he had time to think about what Kasumigaseki, Tokyo's governmental hub, meant to him and to Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

JP Morgan sells most of MMC stake

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BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Ministry adopts conditions for lifting of U.S. beef ban

The farm ministry adopted conditions Friday for ending the two-year-old import ban on U.S. and Canadian beef, and the government is expected to end the ban as early as Monday, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

New firm to set up postal successor

The government will introduce a planning company Jan. 23 that will set up a holding firm in 2007 tasked with overseeing Japan Post's privatization, the posts minister said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Road tax revenue to be freed up

The government and the ruling parties agreed Friday to devise ways to widen the uses for auto-related tax revenue away from only road construction.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Foreigners face checks on Japanese ancestry

The Justice Ministry said Friday it will tighten standards for granting long-term resident status to foreigners of Japanese descent in the wake of the murder last month of a 7-year-old girl in Hiroshima, allegedly by a Peruvian man who may have Japanese ancestry.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

ODA offered ahead of WTO talks

Japan plans to provide the world's least-developed countries with $10 billion in official development assistance over a three-year period to help energize their foreign trade, government sources said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 10, 2005

Of countries big and small

"It's a big country," rings an oft-repeated line from a 1958 Gregory Peck-Burl Ives Western about love, honor and territory in the old West, a film appropriately titled "The Big Country."
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Panel wants four liquor tax segments

The Liberal Democratic Party's tax panel plans to cut the number of liquor tax categories to four from the current 10 and put beerlike alcoholic beverages in the same category as beer, panelists said Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Host-nation support pact pared

Japan and the United States agreed Friday to extend a bilateral special accord on host-nation support for U.S. forces in Japan for two years and not the usual five due to the ongoing U.S. military realignment talks between the two nations.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

High court reversal convicts peace activists of SDF trespass

, Sachimi Takada (center) and Toshiyuki Obora face reporters Friday in Tokyo after the high court ruled their antiwar-leaflet distribution constituted trespassing.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2005

Matsushita to cut 1,400 jobs from foreign cell phone units

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Friday it will downsize its struggling overseas mobile phone operations and trim as many as 1,400 jobs.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2005

Aneha agrees to testify next week

Architect Hidetsugu Aneha will appear before a Diet committee next week to give sworn testimony about his role in the growing quake-resistance data falsification scandal, the secretariat of the House of Representatives said.
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.
Slow-moving storm Shanshan downgraded to tropical depression
Elevated water levels on the Tama River in Kawasaki on Friday after Shanshan dumped torrential rain on wide areas of Japan.
Apparent suicide jumper falls onto pedestrian in Yokohama, killing both
Two women died near Yokohama Station on Saturday after one of them apparently fell from a building and landed on the other, who was walking below.
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.
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.
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.
Japan seeks another record-breaking defense budget for fiscal 2025
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force hold a live-fire exercise at the GSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May. Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking another record-breaking budget for fiscal 2025.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.

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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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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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