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JAPAN
Aug 5, 2006

Man admits killing mom, moving corpse around

A man was arrested Friday in connection with the slaying of his mother, whose body was found in her apartment in Kiyose, Tokyo, police said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 5, 2006

Paving over the Kyoto Protocol realities

The Kyoto Protocol aimed to slow down global warming, but I have a better way of dealing with global warming in Japan. It requires each person to walk outside of their house with a jackhammer and remove a 1-meter slab of concrete.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

First U.S. beef since botched veal to arrive Sunday

U.S. meatpackers are shipping beef to Japan again and the first batch is expected to arrive in Tokyo by air Sunday, industry officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

Mizuho in trouble over 'fixed' loans

Mizuho Bank tried to sell fixed low-interest housing loans without telling customers that there was a possibility the interest rate could actually rise before they got them, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 5, 2006

Renu Arora

In 1982, Renu Arora, from Bombay and living in Japan, began her Gourmet Trips to India from here. Married and the mother of a son, she was teaching Indian home cooking to groups of interested Japanese people. Some were men, some young unmarried women, some housewives. Some of them aimed to become professional...
SOCCER
Aug 5, 2006

Celtic's Nakamura left with mixed feelings after return to former club

YOKOHAMA -- It was a bittersweet return to Yokohama for Shunsuke Nakamura on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

BOJ repeating history, board exec from 2000 warns

When the Bank of Japan ended its "zero-interest-rate" policy at its two-day Policy Board meeting last month, Nobuyuki Nakahara recalled the last time the central bank made the same move, when he was a board member in August 2000.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

Commentator advises savers to stay cautious

With the Bank of Japan lifting its nearly six-year-old "zero-interest-rate policy," the days of rock-bottom interest rates are finally over.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

Toyota shrugs off safety woes; logs record profit

Toyota Motor Corp., unscathed by an investigation over its failure to promptly recall faulty vehicles, announced record group sales and profits for the April-June quarter Friday, thanks to strong sales in North America and Europe.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

Namco Bandai gives up Zapf bid

Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. said Friday its tender offer bid to buy more than 75 percent of German toy maker Zapf Creation AG's outstanding shares was unsuccessful because the number of shares offered by current stockholders was far below its target.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2006

Israel-Hezbollah conflict: the end game

LONDON -- The kill ratio is becoming a problem: Israel has been killing about 40 Lebanese civilians for every Israel civilian who is killed. They are all being killed by accident, of course, but such a long chain of accidents begins to look like carelessness, and even in Israel and the United States...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 5, 2006

'Gimme Wings' raises singer-songwriter's profile

Sixteen years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote a song entitled "Feel Like a Bird." The lead song and the title of his first album, released June 17, is "Gimme Wings." "I guess that suggests I haven't got very far," he jokes. In fact he's come quite a distance, but with still a way to go.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 4, 2006

Marinos spoils Nakamura's homecoming

YOKOHAMA -- Yokohama F. Marinos ruined Shunsuke Nakamura's homecoming with a convincing 3-0 win over Celtic in a friendly at Nissan Stadium on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Toyota vows to improve quality, recall regime

Toyota Motor Corp. submitted a report to the government Thursday outlining measures it will take to improve its quality control, defect monitoring and recall systems in response to a transport ministry mandate stemming from an accident involving a defective Toyota sport utility vehicle.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Gap in real estate prices between big, small cities continues to widen

The gap in land prices between large and small cities continues to widen even though the average price in select areas has moved higher for the first time in 14 years.
COMMENTARY
Aug 4, 2006

Disaster in the Middle East

LONDON -- This time Israel has surely gone too far.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Films for kids

The 14th Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival takes place Aug. 4-6 and Aug. 8-13 at Hino City on the outskirts of western Tokyo and at Aoyama's Round Theater, aiming to introduce high-quality films to children.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Cops log 120 child abuse cases in first half

Child abuse cases uncovered by police in the first half of this year rose 14.3 percent over the same period last year to a record of 120, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Traditional Bali music

Based near Bali's capital city of Negara, Suar Agung have played jegog (traditional bamboo music from West Bali) to audiences in Japan on more than 30 occasions in the last decade.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2006

U.N. takes a hard line against Iran

The United Nations Security Council this week passed a resolution that gives Iran a stark choice: suspend its uranium-enrichment activities or face possible economic sanctions. The move is a victory for those who fear that Iran's nuclear programs threaten to unravel the global nuclear nonproliferation...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Traveling to Earth's depths

United States-born Charles Glover has been taking photographs since he was aged 10. Since that tender age, he has visited all seven continents and 70 countries. Glover's exhibition from his travels in Antarctica runs through August 31 at Maison Franco Japonaise museum in Ebisu, Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Konica Minolta ups group net profit

Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. said Thursday its April-June group net profit rose 44.3 percent from a year earlier to 10.56 billion yen on double-digit sales and profit growth for its information equipment and optics divisions.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years