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BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

Sompo Japan, Omron unit plan health support venture

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. and Omron Healthcare Co. said Monday they have agreed to set up a joint venture Oct. 1 to offer health-care support services.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

Taisho inks tieup with Yomeishu

Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. said Monday it has concluded a business tieup with Yomeishu Seizo Co., including acquiring a 6.6 percent equity stake in the herbal beverage maker, to develop new health-care products.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2005

Some hope from the G8

It is easy to be cynical about G8 summits. The annual meetings of the heads of state of the leading industrialized nations are equal parts political theater, photo opportunity and security nightmare. Each summit produces a lofty statement that echoes its predecessors, is invariably bland despite (or...
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Tokyo University joins global tieup

Eight prestigious universities in seven countries have formed a union to promote academic exchanges between students and cooperation in research, the University of Tokyo said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 12, 2005

A skittish reform pendulum

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills cleared the Lower House on July 5 by only five votes, demonstrating the strength of anti-Koizumi forces in the governing Liberal Democratic Party. The narrow margin reflected severe criticism of not only the legislation but also Koizumi's...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 12, 2005

Are you worried that Tokyo could be a target of terrorism?

Mike Hora Teacher, 34 No, not at all. It's the same as an earthquake. If something's going to happen, it's going to happen. I'm much more afraid of Mount Fuji erupting or the earth splitting beneath me.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Bid-rigging smacks of 'amakudari' to core

As the No. 2 at the Japan Highway Public Corp., the unidentified bureaucrat wielded enormous power over Japan's major road-builders.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Toyota chief says fuel-cell tieup with GM almost a done deal

Toyota Motor Corp.'s president said Monday a tieup with U.S. rival General Motors on fuel-cell vehicles is in its final stages -- but he promised to do his best to beat GM and Ford.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 10, 2005

Tokyo Dome crowd responds to return of legend Nagashima

The atmosphere was electric when Shigeo Nagashima waved to the crowd at Tokyo Dome on July 3 before and during that evening's Yomiuri Giants-Hiroshima Carp game.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 10, 2005

Iwakuma, Yamasaki lift Eagles over Marines

Hisashi Iwakuma went the distance Saturday as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles downed the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-2.
EDITORIALS
Jul 10, 2005

Terrorism in London

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize: to scare or intimidate a society. The perpetrators of the bombings in London on Thursday may claim to have some lofty purpose, but attacks on ordinary citizens are barbaric, pure and simple. And, once again, the murderers have failed: They have not broken or...
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2005

Ministry plans comprehensive scholastic testing

The education ministry plans to conduct nationwide scholastic ability tests, starting in the 2006 school year, that would cover every student in selected grades, ministry sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
Features
Jul 10, 2005

Drug firms cashing in

For depression sufferers, medicines to relieve their misery are nothing less than godsends. So they are, too, for those firms pumping ever-more antidepressants into the drug-friendly Japanese market.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 10, 2005

Author asks Japanese courts, 'Where is your mind?'

Sensational crimes are defined by the media since sensations fuel the media engine. Murder has the greatest potential for sensationalism, but some murders attract more attention than others. Through a certain confluence of motive, money, and methodology some hog headlines for weeks while others never...
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2005

Detention, deportation of asylum seekers protested in Tokyo

Around 150 people including asylum applicants, lawyers and supporters gathered Saturday in a park in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, to protest the forced detention and deportation of people seeking asylum.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 10, 2005

Cedar Walton: "Midnight Waltz"

Ever since playing on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" in 1959, Cedar Walton has been one of the hard-bop pianists of choice. Though he famously declined to solo over the knotty chord changes of that classic (there were too many, too fast), he has written many an intricate tune of his own over the years....
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2005

Mitsubishi Heavy offers to purchase U.S. power plant titan Westinghouse

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has offered to buy major U.S. nuclear power plant builder Westinghouse Electric Co. in a multibillion yen deal, company officials said Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 10, 2005

Contort yourself, by any means necessary

"No New York," the 1978 compilation produced by Brian Eno, remains a snapshot of lower Manhattan's music scene at that time. The pioneering punk club CBGB's was thriving, the influential performance space-cum-disco, the Mudd Club, was about to open and a musician could still afford to live in the East...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 10, 2005

NTV's "Otona no Natsu Yasumi," Fuji's "Rodo Kijun Kantokukan" and more

Several years ago, actress Shinobu Terashima won a Japan Academy Award and lots of overseas critical praise for her portrayal of a troubled young woman in the movie "Vibrator."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 10, 2005

Chicago's fertile ground

Traditionally, American musicians who want to reach the masses gravitate to Los Angeles or New York, where the big record labels and artist-management companies are headquartered. However, pop music tends to have a regional pedigree, and with the rise of truly independent labels in the 1980s musicians...

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