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BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Industrial union leader is elected new Rengo chief

Japan's largest labor organization elected Tsuyoshi Takagi, head of a federation of textile, chemical and other industrial workers' unions, as its fifth president Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Ricoh drops Taiwan patent suits

Ricoh Co. said Wednesday it has dropped its patent infringement lawsuits against Taiwanese companies because settlements have been reached.
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2005

Breaking the cycle of hatred

The suicide bombings that devastated three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali over the weekend come as a chilling reminder that the world has yet to break the cycle of terrorist violence. The coordinated attacks reportedly killed at least 22 people, including a Japanese tourist,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 7, 2005

Psychedelic radar 10.07

Saturday, Oct. 8
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 7, 2005

Kumazawa Brewing Company: Brews worth the trip

Drink locally, eat bountifully: It's a rule of thumb that has served us very well over the years in Japan. Places that specialize in good nihonshu invariably serve food of similar quality. So it would stand to reason that, if a brewer of fine jizake were to open its own restaurant, then the results would...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 7, 2005

Beautiful truths woven in lyricism

If poetry is an art then songwriting is a craft. Verbal phrases and musical phrases each have their own modes of logic and the trick is to match them up in a way that sounds natural. All songwriters try to do that to a certain extent, but Joanna Newsom seems more conscious of the actual work involved...
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2005

FC Tokyo handed hefty fine

The J. League fined first-division club FC Tokyo 10 million yen Wednesday for crowd trouble at a league match in July, which led to the arrest of one of its supporters.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2005

Hara named Giants skipper

The Yomiuri Giants announced Wednesday the appointment of Tatsunori Hara as manager of the Central League club to take over from Tsuneo Horiuchi, who is stepping down after the lackluster performance of his team this season.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2005

J. League referee suspended for mistake

Referee Yoshitsugu Katayama has received a suspension until the end of the month along with two other match officials for an officiating blunder in a J. League first-division match between Vissel Kobe and Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Arrests widen over home renovation scam

Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested two former executives of the parent firm of a housing renovation company involved in fraudulent home repairs that mostly targeted elderly people.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Weekly admits plagiarizing wire poll stories

The weekly magazine Shukan Kinyobi has apologized to Kyodo News and Jiji Press for plagiarizing stories from the two news agencies about the Sept. 11 general election.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Labs not storing anthrax and resistant TB properly, study finds

Samples of anthrax and drug-resistant tuberculosis that could be used for bioterrorism are kept in at least 114 medical and research facilities in Japan, half of which do not have manuals on how to handle the dangerous pathogens, a government study showed Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Redress again rejected as another high court weighs in on Yasukuni

TAKAMATSU, Kagawa Pref. -- The Takamatsu High Court on Wednesday rejected compensation demands in a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs in Shikoku over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine, without ruling on the constitutionality of the trips.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Six held in bogus mushroom ads

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested six people Wednesday including an executive of a Tokyo-based publisher on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law by advertising in books a type of mushroom as a treatment for cancer.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 6, 2005

Swede Arvidsson dumps Asagoe out of AIG Japan Open

Seventh-seed Shinobu Asagoe was overwhelmed by Sofia Arvidsson in a battle of stamina Wednesday, failing to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals at the Japan Open in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Bangladeshi sues Kyodo for libel

A Bangladeshi businessman and his company filed an 11 million yen libel suit against Kyodo News on Wednesday, saying the news agency falsely reported last year that he was linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Kodansha creates Kenzaburo Oe literary award

Publishing house Kodansha Ltd. has created a literary award named after Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe to promote Japanese novels worldwide.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Toyota to buy Fuji shares in GM selloff

Ltd. Fuji Heavy can reduce its research and development and manufacturing costs by working with Toyota, while GM will be able to pull out of an alliance that is no longer benefiting either GM or Fuji Heavy, Matsumoto said.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2005

Australia gets tough on terror

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JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Lump-sum asbestos redress elusive goal

The government agreed Sept. 29 on the outline of a special bill to help asbestos victims, but officials admit the legislation provides no lump sum compensation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Princess Nori wedding date formally set

Princess Nori, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, underwent one of the traditional rites Wednesday leading up to her wedding, with the Imperial Palace formally setting the date of her marriage to Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee Yoshiki Kuroda.

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