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BUSINESS
May 25, 2006

Crecia to increase wholesale prices

Crecia Corp. said Wednesday it will raise wholesale prices for its facial tissue and other household paper products by around 25 percent on July 18 due to surging crude oil prices.
JAPAN
May 25, 2006

Education bill won't promote militarism: Koizumi

heavy importance on an education suitable to a new era and is aimed at nurturing admirable manpower for the benefit of Japan," he told a special parliamentary committee. The bill -- drafted by the ruling coalition and approved by the Cabinet on April 28 -- is a longtime goal of the conservatives, who...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 25, 2006

Determined Giants knock down Fighters

There was no way the Yomiuri Giants were going to fall out of first place Wednesday night.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2006

ChuoAoyama faces uncertain future as clients defect to rivals

More and more clients of major auditing firm ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers are switching to rival outfits after the Financial Services Agency ordered ChuoAoyama to suspend its business for two months starting in July.
SOCCER / J. League
May 24, 2006

J. League promotes Onitake to chairman

The J. League decided Tuesday to appoint vice chairman Kenji Onitake to the post of chairman, taking over from Masaru Suzuki, who is stepping down from the helm of the Japanese professional soccer league at the expiration of his current tenure.
JAPAN
May 24, 2006

Three firms hit for tax evasion

Chubu Electric Power Co. failed to declare about 7.6 billion yen in taxable income in the two-year period to March 2005, while Brother Industries Ltd. failed to declare about 2.2 billion yen in the two-year period to March 2004, tax agency sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 24, 2006

Obituary: Chuichi Yone

Chuichi Yone, former executive director of Jiji Press, died of kidney cancer Monday at a hospital in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. He was 74. His funeral will be held Wednesday in the city.
JAPAN
May 24, 2006

Danish director films 'most soothing' robot

A Danish director is making a documentary on Japan's therapeutic Paro robot, which looks like a baby harp seal, to show how "the world's most soothing robot" helps patients.
JAPAN
May 24, 2006

Man found guilty in '63 murder case seeks retrial

, convicted in the infamous Sayama Incident murder case, faces reporters in Tokyo while his lawyer holds up evidence of his handwriting that they say proves his innocence.
JAPAN
May 24, 2006

Engineering officials held over bid-rigging

Seven senior officials from seven major engineering companies were arrested Tuesday over their alleged involvement in fixing bids for sewage and sludge plant projects financed by local governments, investigative sources said.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2006

ACCJ names Kidder exec director

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan said Tuesday Samuel Kidder will become executive director June 1, succeeding Donald Westmore.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2006

One-time gains lift major banks but long-term strategies still needed

Buoyed by a wide-ranging business recovery and a massive one-time gain caused by reductions in loan-loss reserves, the nation's top banking groups have reported record-breaking profits for the 2005 business year ended in March.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 24, 2006

Schlegel's green tree frog

* Japanese name: Schlegel-aogaeru * Scientific name: Rhacophorus schlegelii * Description: Schlegel's green tree frog is a medium-sized tree frog, which at a few centimeters long still makes it smaller than most other frogs and toads. The back is green, although some frogs have small yellow spots on...
SUMO
May 24, 2006

F2 is born -- you read it here first!

F2! F2! F2! Rather a strange way to start an article on the recently completed Natsu Basho but as the dust continues to settle and as sumo fans around the world slowly adjust to life after the tournament, I for one believe the man with the Emperor's Cup now sat proudly on his sideboard is increasingly...
BUSINESS
May 24, 2006

Leopalace21 chief to quit over loans

Furnished rental apartment provider Leopalace21 Corp. said Tuesday its president, Yusuke Miyama, will resign June 1 to take the blame for his alleged inappropriate lending practices.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
May 24, 2006

A road to ancient history's ruin

Irish politician Dick Roche is in the business of government, and his two-decades-long career has touched on public administration, finance, transportation and economic planning and development.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2006

Shinsei Bank profit hits record 76 billion yen

Shinsei Bank has reported a record group net profit of 76.01 billion yen for the fiscal year to March 31, up 12.8 percent from a year earlier.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Kyoto gets its own teamLab installation, the largest in Japan
Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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