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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 4, 2005

Spiritual journeys to the Inland Sea

I was sitting having a drink with an American girl in San-chan's Bar. I had just met her, a young doctor who had come directly from Osaka's Kansai airport to Shiraishi Island. She was staying five days on the island and when she left, she would go directly back to Kansai airport.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005

Tokyo denies excessive JCG force in South Korea boat standoff

Tokyo on Friday dismissed accusations that Japan Coast Guardsmen used excessive force when they boarded a South Korean boat suspected of poaching and roughed up one of its crew members.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005

Guardrails in all prefectures apparently sabotaged to hurt

Sharp pieces of protruding metal blamed for injuring passing cyclists and pedestrians have been found on guardrails in all 47 prefectures, central and prefectural government officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2005

BOJ lets liquidity target slip again

The Bank of Japan skipped an open market operation Friday for the injection of funds into the banking system, an indication the BOJ is allowing the balance of commercial banks' reserves to remain below the central bank's liquidity target for the second straight day.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2005

IY Bank plays name game

It may be just a name -- but it matters a whole lot to the people who count.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005

Diet OKs use of high-tech passports

The Diet on Friday approved revisions to the Passport Law that will facilitate the introduction of a new type of passport featuring integrated circuit chips.
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JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005

New weapon wielded in old tomb debate

A law enacted six years ago has given historians a new powerful weapon to challenge a long-held taboo preserved by the Imperial Household Agency: investigating the secrets of ancient emperors' tombs.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005

Iwakuni to take in Atsugi jets?

Tokyo plans to propose that the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft be moved from the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture to the U.S. Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japanese government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2005

Softbank, eAccess to try cell phone market

Japan's telecommunication regulators said Friday they will allow two newcomers into the mobile phone market for the first time in 12 years to prompt more competition in a realm dominated by three top providers.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 3, 2005

Nobody believes Brown's latest charade

NEW YORK -- This farce has gone far enough.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 3, 2005

Miyaji, Matsunaka blast flying Hawks to win over the Tigers

Katsuhiko Miyaji hit a three-run homer in the second inning Thursday and Nobuhiko Matsunaka added a two-run blast in the third as the surging Softbank Hawks defeated the Hanshin Tigers 9-7 in interleague play.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Man allegedly held women captive for months at two flats

Police served a fresh arrest warrant Thursday on a 24-year-old man who allegedly held a 23-year-old woman captive for about four months last year.
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JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Lowly loincloth making a comeback

Tartan, paisley and geometric patterns in red, blue and other colors are catching the eyes of young shoppers in the men's clothing section of Mitsukoshi Ltd.'s Ginza store.
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JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Aardvark posed as a penguin?

A runaway southern tamandua was found unharmed in a penguin enclosure at a Tokyo aquarium Thursday, some 20 hours after it had vanished, aquarium officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

96,000 people listed as missing in '04

About 96,000 people nationwide disappeared from their homes last year, the first time in four years the figure has dipped to below the 100,000 mark, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
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BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2005

Jakarta leader backs FTA talks but balks on UNSC bid

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agreed Thursday to launch talks for a free-trade accord as part of a comprehensive bilateral economic partnership.
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2005

Premise of mutual confidence

The long-standing problem of the Northern Territories has been weighing heavily on relations between Japan and Russia. Summit talks between the two countries in the past have lifted hopes for a new development toward a settlement. Each time, though, hopes waned in due course because a new Soviet or Russian...
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Narita offers to cut landing fees by 20% but add new charges

Narita International Airport Corp. said Thursday that it has submitted a proposal to the International Air Transport Association to cut its landing fees by an average of more than 20 percent.
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LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Jun 3, 2005

A bridge through time

The arched bridge highlighted in the accompanying wood-cut print is Senju Ohashi on the northern perimeter of Edo City. Built in 1594 at the head of the Sumida River, close to its junction with the Ara River, Senju Ohashi was the only bridge Shogun Ieyasu allowed to be built across a major river around...
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Japan to hold major fashion event in autumn

A group of Japanese designers, apparel industry experts and textile makers will organize a major fashion event in Tokyo this fall after the Paris Collection in France, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
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JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Fishing boat standoff resolved

Japan and South Korea reached an accord Thursday to end a 33-hour standoff over control of a South Korean fishing boat suspected of poaching in Japan's exclusive economic zone, the Japan Coast Guard said.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Nihon Keizai hit for dodging income tax on 840 million yen

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has found that business newspaper publisher Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. failed to declare about 840 million yen in income for three years to December 2003, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2005

Sumitomo card unit in China tieup

Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co. said Thursday it has forged a tieup with China UnionPay Co. that will allow Chinese travelers to use UnionPay credit and cash cards in Japan, beginning in the current fiscal year.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Burglary-slaying suspect extradited

Police said Thursday they have arrested a South Korean man handed over to Japan under a bilateral extradition treaty in connection with a series of burglaries in Tokyo in 2003 and his possible involvement in a robbery-murder.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005

Koizumi cites 'creed' as defense for remarks on shrine visits

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday brushed aside criticism of his earlier remarks urging other countries not to interfere with his contentious visits to Yasukuni Shrine and said the trips are based on his "creed."

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