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JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

NPA plans hotline for 'harmful' Internet content

The National Police Agency plans to set up an online hotline for the public to report illegal or harmful content they spot on the Internet, such as that related to drug trafficking, child pornography or the production of explosives, NPA officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Emissions data put Kyoto target in doubt

Japan emitted 1.329 billion tons of greenhouse gases in fiscal 2004, up 7.4 percent from the benchmark year of 1990 set under the Kyoto Protocol, the Environment Ministry announced Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Press curbs infuriate media body

The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association urged the government on Friday to reconsider proposed legislation that would give police the discretion to withhold the identity of crime victims, saying this information is essential for reporting.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Meiji Yasuda execs to fall on their swords

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. said Friday that company President Ryotaro Kaneko and two other top executives will resign to take responsibility for a scandal involving the firm's failure to pay insurance claims.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Overfishing threatening too many species: expert

efforts, after a few years the population will be rebuilt and we catch more," Pauly said. To help depleted fish stocks recover, 10 percent to 30 percent of the world's oceans should be protected, he said. Currently, less than one percent of the ocean is protected.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Livedoor may act as white knight for TBS: sources

Internet portal operator Livedoor Co. has cranked up its rivalry with online shopping mall Rakuten Inc. by offering to answer a potential SOS call from Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc.
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 2005

How not to manage U.S.-Singapore ties

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps the last thing that the well-run city-state of Singapore needs is for some outside columnist to defend it. Among the many natural-born rhetorical defenses available on this amazing island is the redoubtable Lee Kuan Yew. Even at 82, the founding prime minister of modern Singapore...
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2005

Leveling the finance playing field

A review of the nation's eight government-affiliated financial institutions is gaining momentum in response to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's drive to abolish, integrate or privatize them. Shortly after Mr. Koizumi took power in 2001, he included the reform of those institutions in his "reform without...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

U.S. realignment talks in danger

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Friday that Japan and the United States might not hold realignment talks next week if the two sides fail to agree on where to move the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2005

Sex inequality slows growth

NEW YORK -- A growing number of countries have adopted population and development policies to meet the health-care and education needs of women, including their reproductive health needs. In spite of that, gender inequality persists in most countries around the world. According to the United Nations...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 22, 2005

Naive 'gaijin' meets Paparazzi Parakeet

Japanese people have a reputation for loving to take photos. In Japan, it's not uncommon for complete strangers to ask you to join in their photo just so they can be in a picture with a "gaijin."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 22, 2005

Margarita Carrillo de Salinas

"The most important room in our house in Mexico was the huge kitchen. We six children went in with our bicycles; our mother was cooking, we all helped. Our grandparents were there -- our father, a lawyer, was always encouraging family life around the table. That is the way I got my interest in food,"...
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Japan eyes 27.2% duties on Hynix DRAMS

The government said Friday it has notified South Korea that it may levy a 27.2 percent import duty on computer chips made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Livedoor aims to control mail-order firm Cecile

Internet services firm Livedoor Co. said Friday it is trying to set up a Cecile Co. subsidiary and will acquire a majority stake in the mail-order business for more than 20 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2005

Kabu.com boosts first-half revenue

Online brokerage kabu.com Securities Co. said Friday its unconsolidated operating revenue in the April-September period shot up 52.6 percent from a year earlier to 8.21 billion yen on robust stock trading.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 22, 2005

Professional Design Solutions on a steady incline

There is a small graphic on Jeremy D. Thomson's name card that says a lot about him: two light bulbs inspired by Thomas Edison, who in failing hundreds of times chose to see the experience as having learned hundreds of ways not to make a light bulb.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

Japan asked to continue Iraq airlift

The U.S. government has requested that Japan continue providing reconstruction assistance to Iraq in the form of airlift support from the Air Self-Defense Force -- even if it withdraws its ground troops from the country, sources familiar with the issue said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2005

LDP expels nine postal reform rebels

defied the party policy by voting against the postal privatization bills and formed new parties to interfere with LDP candidates. Their act was in violation of party discipline," said Mayumi Moriyama, chairwoman of the 18-member Party Ethics Committee, which made the decision. "They have submitted their...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 21, 2005

Deep Impact a win away from Triple Crown

Deep Impact -- it was a movie; it was a NASA mission; it's a super colt poised to make history this weekend in Kyoto when he makes his bid for the Triple Crown.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 21, 2005

Lotte Marines ready to tackle some unfinished business in Japan Series

CHIBA -- The atmosphere around Chiba Marine Stadium in the hours leading up to Saturday is not one of over- jubilation.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 21, 2005

Eagles hire Nomura

Katsuya Nomura has accepted a request to take over as new manager of the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles next season, team president Toru Shimada said Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 21, 2005

Ishihara hopes marathon boosts bid

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Thursday he believes the inauguration of a large-scale urban marathon in Tokyo in 2007 will help the Japanese capital's bid to hold the 2016 Olympics.

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