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JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Wounded war veterans archive in works for '05

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to build a public archive next year to document the hardships of wounded Japanese war veterans and their relatives, ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Sudanese foreign minister to visit over Darfur crisis

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail will arrive in Japan on Sept. 5 for a five-day visit to discuss the conflict in the African nation's Darfur region, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2004

Daiei revival plan fails to win support from creditor banks

Ailing retail giant Daiei Inc. sought support from its three main creditor banks Friday for its plan to turn around its business without help from the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan -- but the bank executives wanted no part of it, company officials said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 28, 2004

From mom dancing with Hitler to Holiday on Ice

I've been locked into a very enjoyable and productive exercise pattern over the last six weeks, swimming early morning at my local outdoor pool in Zushi. So too has Yoko Matsumoto.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

School kids becoming more violent

Public elementary school children committed a record 1,777 violent acts in the 2003 academic year, the education ministry said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Ministry to file objection to Isahaya Bay court order

The agriculture ministry said Friday it will file an objection to a court order earlier this week to suspend construction work on a land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay in Kyushu.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Bureaucrat admits taking JDA bribes

A former member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council pleaded guilty Friday to accepting bribes from Japan Dental Association executives between 2001 and 2003 in return for providing them favors.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Another reactor pipe at Kepco plant worn thin

A coolant water pipe in another reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture -- site of a fatal steam rupture earlier this month -- has also worn down to below the minimum thickness, government officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2004

Tokyo CPI falls for 59th month as deflation drags on

The key gauge of consumer prices in Tokyo fell 0.2 percent in August from a year earlier, marking a record 59th straight month of decline, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2004

MMC plots comeback; analysts still unconvinced

For the last six months, scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has been trapped: It has felt compelled to refrain from sales promotions despite its desperate need to boost plunging sales.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Nogami named ambassador to Britain

Former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami will be named new ambassador to Britain in September, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2004

TSE OKs J-Power public offering

Power wholesaler Electric Power Development Co. said Friday it has received approval from the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public on the bourse Oct. 6, which will complete its privatization.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 28, 2004

Words to live by . . . like it or not

Searching for that perfect word to express your truest, dearest, innermost special feelings? Well . . .
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Japan pro ballplayers seek injunction against planned merger

The Japan baseball players association filed with the Tokyo District Court on Friday for an injunction against the planned merger between the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2004

Halfway home is far from a China deal

MADRAS, India -- The Dalai Lama is still the leader of Tibet. He may be just a figurehead, but China, which annexed Tibet in 1959 and drove the Dalai Lama and his followers into India, knows that only this monk can convince his people to reconcile to Beijing's control over Lhasa.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2004

Kawaguchi adds her voice to UNSC clamor

The Foreign Ministry will step up its efforts to achieve Japan's goal of gaining a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council after the fall U.N. General Assembly session.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2004

Flagging sense of partnership

Earlier this month, a U.S. military helicopter crashed and burst into flames on a university campus in Okinawa Prefecture. The accident has highlighted dilemmas faced by the island that hosts two-thirds of the U.S. troops stationed in Japan. At the same time, it has exposed some of the flaws in the Japan-U.S....
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

U.S. forces chief defends right to bar cops from crash probe

The U.S. Forces Japan commander on Thursday defended the U.S. handling of the probe into the marine helicopter crash in Okinawa and refusal to allow local police to participate.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Record-high medal haul prompts award debate

As the nation rejoices over its largest medal haul in an Olympic Games, speculation is rife in Tokyo over whether politicians will try to capitalize on the athletes' popularity by giving them awards.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Board OKs nationalist-bent history text

The Tokyo metropolitan board of education adopted a controversial, nationalist-inspired junior high school history textbook Thursday that critics say glosses over Japan's wartime atrocities.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Aug 27, 2004

Nice-guy DJ spins it nasty

Every week for the past eight years, I have compiled a weekly club listing for an online infozine called Tokyo Q ( www.tokyoq.com ). For the first few years I had to walk around and collect fliers to generate my data. But these days, organizers use the Web to get the word out and I can now simply surf...
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Ex-Rengo exec admits accepting bribes

A former vice president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) pleaded guilty Thursday to taking bribes while serving on a government advisory panel.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2004

Highway toll discounts to be expanded

Japan Highway Public Corp.'s highway toll discounts only for cars equipped with the electronic toll collection system will be expanded to 220 billion yen a year from the current 40 billion yen in September, government officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2004

Wife of JAL hijacker faces 18-month term

Prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison term Thursday for the wife of a Japanese hijacking fugitive charged with ignoring a Foreign Ministry order to surrender her passport.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2004

ACCA admits customer data leak

High-speed Internet access provider ACCA Networks Co. said Thursday that personal data on 339,177 customers has been leaked.

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