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JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Crown Prince to visit Saudi Arabia

Crown Prince Naruhito and former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will visit Saudi Arabia to offer condolences over the death of Saudi Arabian King Fahd, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Yumeshin seeks greater financial disclosure from Japan Engineering

Yumeshin Holdings Co. said Tuesday it will ask Japan Engineering Consultants Co., its target in a hostile takeover bid, to disclose more of its financial statements.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Ex-teachers denied jobs sue Tokyo

Five former high school teachers filed a damages lawsuit Tuesday claiming they were denied part-time teaching jobs after retirement because they refused to stand and sing the national anthem during a school ceremony.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Scrap Byrd Amendment, trade minister tells U.S.

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa repeated his demand Tuesday that the U.S. scrap the Byrd Amendment but expressed concern that Japan's retaliatory duties on U.S. steel products could spill over to the bilateral row over the ban on U.S. beef imports.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

1.17 million refuse to pay NHK fee

The number of households that refused to pay subscription fees to scandal-tainted NHK soared to around 1.17 million as of the end of July, from 970,000 two months earlier, the public broadcaster said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Cops campaign for info on Setagaya slaying

Police began a major campaign Tuesday in front of the Keio Line's Seiseki-Sakuragaoka Station in Tokyo to solicit any information from passersby that could solve the murder of a family of four in Setagaya Ward in late 2000.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Diet excludes strong terms from WWII anniversary resolution

The House of Representatives adopted on Tuesday a resolution for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II that says Japan expresses "deep regret" over its past conduct, but it does not use the terms "colonial rule" and "acts of aggression" that were in the 1995 resolution.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Control-tower power blackout amid inspection shuts Haneda

Tokyo's Haneda airport, the nation's busiest domestic air hub, was forced to shut down for an hour after the control tower lost power during an inspection of its electrical switchboard.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Over half of top firms fret Japan-China ties: survey

More than half of major companies surveyed recently are afraid strained relations between Japan and China could adversely affect their business with China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Noguchi relishes his space-shuttle instant noodles

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi on Tuesday described his encounter with instant noodles aboard the space shuttle Discovery with zeal.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 3, 2005

New dimensions in dance

Noism is a veritable supernova in the rapidly expanding universe of Japanese contemporary dance. It burst on the scene in 2004 as the residential company of the Niigata Ryutopia Theater, two years after its founder, 30-year-old Jo Kanamori, returned from Europe.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2005

Monetary base up 1.5% in July

Japan's monetary base increased 1.5 percent in July from a year earlier, its 54th straight month of expansion, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Asbestos probe chief exits over industry ties

Environment Minister Yuriko Koike said Tuesday the head of the ministry panel studying the asbestos problem has resigned due to his close ties to the asbestos industry.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 3, 2005

Shimmying Around Town

If you're interested in watching or learning bellydancing, here is a quick list of performers/instructors in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2005

Water-treatment companies searched over bid-rigging

More than 10 major water-treatment plant makers, including Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., were searched Tuesday by the Fair Trade Commission on suspicion of repeatedly rigging bids for contracts from local governments.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 2, 2005

Olympian Murofushi pulls out of worlds

Japan's Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi has decided not to compete at the upcoming athletics world championships in Helsinki after failing to fully recover from health problems, athletics sources said Monday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 2, 2005

Verdy holds off Fiorentina in preseason friendly

J. League struggler Tokyo Verdy edged Fiorentina 2-1 in the Italian Serie A side's final match of their preseason tour in Japan on Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

University of Tokyo starts rare push for recruits

Japan's declining birthrate has finally put the nation's most prestigious university on alert.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

Ex-Kanebo vice chief bullied accountants into cooking books

Former Kanebo Ltd. Vice President Takashi Miyahara, under arrest on suspicion of violating the Securities and Exchange Law, allegedly threatened the company's accounting executives into creating falsified financial statements, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

South Koreans lobby against texts

Board of education officials in Japan have received letters from South Korean teachers and students urging them not to adopt contentious textbooks written by nationalist scholars for junior high schools, board sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2005

Tax revenues shrank 3.7% in June

Tax revenues were down 3.7 percent in June from a year earlier, falling to 1.98 trillion yen, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

Koizumi evasive with Hastert about resuming beef imports

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi avoided giving a clear answer Monday to visiting members of the U.S. Congress who are pressing for a quick resumption of beef imports, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

U.S. steel imports face levy on Sept. 1

Japan will slap 15 percent levies on U.S. steel imports starting Sept. 1 in retaliation for American steel industry protection measures, the trade ministry said Monday, turning up the heat on a long-festering dispute between the world's two largest economies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2005

LDP lawmaker Nagaoka found hanged

House of Representatives lawmaker Yoji Nagaoka was found hanged Monday morning at his home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, in an apparent suicide attempt and died later in a hospital, police and hospital officials said.

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