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BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2004

Daiei may ask founding family to offer up assets

Daiei Inc. might ask its founding family to bear some responsibility for the company's financial troubles by providing some of its personal assets to help with the retailer's rehabilitation, company sources said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 12, 2004

Eagles will pay big for foreign star

Hiroshi Mikitani, president of Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc., said Wednesday he is willing to use some of his own money to help the company put up as much as 1 billion yen to acquire a top-class foreign player for its newly formed baseball team.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2004

Schwarzenegger pitches state to Cho

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met with Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho in Tokyo on Thursday in an apparent bid to persuade the Japanese carmaker to produce hybrid cars in his state.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2004

'Manga' account of Nanjing Massacre axed amid protests

Publisher Shueisha Inc. said Thursday it will delete or modify parts of a comic depicting the Nanjing Massacre that were carried by its weekly "manga" edition, when it is published in book form, after assembly members complained that the slaughter never happened.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2004

Community service required curricula

Students at all Tokyo Metropolitan Government-run high schools will be forced to engage in community service beginning in the 2007 academic year, metro board of education officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2004

Sweaty summer doubles Tepco's first-half profit

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday its first-half net profit jumped 2.1-fold to 183.03 billion yen, as the sweltering summer pushed up electricity consumption and the resumption of nuclear reactors slashed fuel and generation costs.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2004

Lawmakers question delayed response to sub

Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government's slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan's territorial waters the previous day.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Nov 12, 2004

Great red hope found at Coco

Can quality wine be made in Japan?
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2004

Shipping firms log record profits

Japan's top three shipping companies on Thursday reported record earnings for the first half, enjoying a historic boom in the global sea freight market, driven by China's red-hot economic growth.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2004

Yomiuri has stakes in 42 media firms

The Yomiuri Shimbun Group Honsha admitted Thursday that it effectively owns stocks in 42 media organizations under the names of third parties.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 12, 2004

D'Antoni has Phoenix on move

NEW YORK -- Coaches love to blame the rules for the godforsaken plunge in scoring over the last decade while the league (and the rest of us) likes to blame the control freaks on the sidelines who don't seem to care or comprehend that basketball is an instinctive game not a rehearsed ritual.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 11, 2004

Kashiwa cruises to 3-1 win

Japan international striker Keiji Tamada eased Kashiwa Reysol's relegation worries by masterminding his side's 3-1 win over Albirex Niigata in a rescheduled J. League first division match Wednesday night.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Japanese embassy worker hit for under-reporting income

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday and upheld penalty taxes imposed on a Japanese employee of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for under-reporting income.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

State urged to pare, eventually end yen loans to aid-donor China

Japan should reduce its yen loans to China with an eye to eventually abolishing them because such official developmental assistance is no longer needed, says a report released Wednesday by the House of Councilors.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Koizumi snubs call for GSDF pullout

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected an opposition camp demand Wednesday that the Ground Self-Defense Force troops be pulled out of the southern Iraq city of Samawah when their one-year humanitarian mission expires on Dec. 14.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Okinawans feel state leaving them in limbo

Near the northeastern Okinawa Island fishing port of Nago, some 50 men and women in their 60s through their 90s have been staging a daytime sit-in at a makeshift camp for more than 200 days.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

More study of climate change needed: scientist

Studying the ozone layer is essential to curbing global warming, says a U.S scientist who has just been awarded the 2004 Blue Planet Prize.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2004

Power Rangers' slide in U.S. bites into Bandai profit

Bandai Co. said Wednesday its first-half net profit plunged 42 percent to 3.88 billion yen, with Power Rangers products trounced by Spider-Man in the United States.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2004

Rationale for a carbon tax

Thanks to Russia's ratification, the Kyoto Protocol on global warming is set to take effect in February. The treaty requires industrially developed nations to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by specified degrees from 1990 levels in five years from 2008 to 2012. Japan...
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Two U.S. scientists, German philosopher get Kyoto Prizes

Two American scientists and a German philosopher received prestigious Kyoto Prizes -- awards for achievement in the arts and sciences -- at a ceremony in Kyoto Wednesday, according to a foundation official.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Nov 11, 2004

Mute swan

* Japanese name: Aosagi * Scientific name: Ardea cinerea * Description: Gray herons, the largest of herons, grow to be almost 1 meter tall, with a wingspan of 2 meters. Despite their Japanese name (which means "blue heron"), these birds are more gray than blue, with a white neck and a black underside....
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2004

Five-day-week schools get shorter summer break

To make up for classroom hours lost since the introduction of a five-day school week, students at the 24 junior high schools in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward will lose one week from their summer vacation beginning next year, according to ward officials.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2004

EBC upset over bill to ban prepaid cell phones

The European Business Community in Japan on Wednesday criticized a plan by Japan's governing coalition to present a bill to the Diet, possibly during the current session, to ban the use and sale of prepaid mobile phones on grounds that they are often used in crimes.
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
'Very strong' Typhoon Shanshan could see Kyushu landfall on Thursday
The Meteorological Agency forecasts that warm, moist air surrounding the typhoon will create unstable atmospheric conditions, leading to thunderstorms.
Around 1 in 4 married couples in Japan under 40 used dating apps, survey finds
Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. The lack of opportunities to meet people was the biggest hurdle for marriage for both married and unmarried respondents, which may explain the rise in popularity of dating apps.
Japan calls Chinese military aircraft incursion 'unacceptable' threat to safety
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Black myth, Black samurai and gaming nationalism
A cardboard cutout of the Monkey King character, or Sun Wukong, from the Chinese action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong is displayed on the day of its launch in Beijing on Aug. 20.
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan
A Rapidus factory construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido, on July 24. The plan to ramp up renewable energy usage in the region to 60% by 2030 is part of a larger concept known as “Hokkaido Valley.”
Masterful and stirring, ‘Pachinko’ returns with more depth
Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family as they move through the 20th century.
How Japan's health care system is gearing up for more heatstroke cases
An ambulance is parked at the entrance of the emergency room of Saitama Hospital in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, on July 24.
Japan calls Chinese military aircraft incursion 'unacceptable' threat to safety
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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