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COMMENTARY
Aug 7, 2004

LNG can lighten California's energy load

WASHINGTON -- California, America's most populous state, risks tumbling into yet another energy crisis. The only answer is increased supplies, which require new investment -- including in facilities for liquefied natural gas (LNG).
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Asahi news reporter axed for breaching promise with secret source

The daily Asahi Shimbun has forced a 46-year-old reporter to leave the company for secretly recording a conversation with a news source and giving a copy of the recording to another source.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2004

State to stop civil servants' pay cuts

The government will stop cutting the basic salaries of civil servants in fiscal 2004, for the first time in six years, now that the gap has lessened between salaries in the public and private sectors.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2004

Quarantine dogs to be sicced on undeclared meat products

Japan plans to introduce quarantine dogs at international airports to help detect undeclared meat products, which could be infected with mad cow disease or other ailments, government sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Japan Post faces four-way split under compromise plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top policy panel unveiled plans Friday to split Japan's mammoth postal operations into four separate entities by 2017 at the latest.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2004

Daiei creditors to seek IRCJ help; Hawks may go

Daiei Inc.'s three main creditor banks are in the final stages of hammering out a plan to seek the help of the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan to rescue the embattled retailer, sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Jenkins meets with military lawyer for second day

Accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins met a U.S. military lawyer from South Korea for the second day Friday in Tokyo, government sources said, offering no details on how the talks progressed.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

DPJ loses another ploy to derail pension reforms

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down an opposition camp no-confidence motion against Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi and a Democratic Party of Japan bill to repeal recently enacted pension reform legislation.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Mayor seeks U.S. base housing tradeoff

Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakata told the Defense Agency on Thursday that he might accept construction of additional U.S. military housing units in Kanagawa Prefecture if the United States reduces the number to be built and returns more facilities to Japan.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 6, 2004

Toda to stay

Shimizu S-Pulse said Thursday that former Japan midfielder Kazuyuki Toda will remain with the J. League first-division club at least until the end of this season.
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2004

Expectations of impartiality

There are rising expectations that Ms. Chikage Ogi, the first female president of the House of Councilors, will do a good job. She has impressive credentials, having been elected to the Upper House for a fifth 6-year term -- a record number for an incumbent Upper House member. Ms. Ogi once headed the...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Kamei urges action on hog cholera

Yoshiyuki Kamei, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said Thursday he has urged ministry officials to investigate a hog cholera outbreak in Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

DPJ loses another ploy to derail pension reforms

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down an opposition camp no-confidence motion against Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi and a Democratic Party of Japan bill to repeal recently enacted pension reform legislation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Jenkins meets with U.S. military lawyer

A U.S. military lawyer met with accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins at a Tokyo hospital on Thursday to offer advice on his options in facing the charges against him, government sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Japanese bluefish being cut from restaurant menus

More and more restaurants are dropping Japanese "gin mutsu" bluefish from their menus as environmentally certified fishing and seafood products become popular in Japan.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Mayor seeks U.S. base housing tradeoff

Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakata told the Defense Agency on Thursday that he might accept construction of additional U.S. military housing units in Kanagawa Prefecture if the United States reduces the number to be built and returns more facilities to Japan.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2004

TV Tokyo makes strong TSE debut

Newly listed TV Tokyo Corp. was popular Thursday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, fetching an initial price of 3,350 yen per share on the first section.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2004

LDP plan keeps Japan Post intact

A special committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday proposed an alternative to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's privatization plan for the nation's postal services.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Crimes reported in half off 4.5%; serious offenses also see second drop

The number of crimes reported to police in the first half of this year declined 4.5 percent from a year earlier to 1,277,872 cases, the National Police Agency said Thursday.

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