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JAPAN
Apr 22, 2006

96 Diet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

Ninety-six Diet members from various parties jointly paid a visit Friday to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 Class-A war criminals are honored as well as more than 2 million Japanese war dead, as the shrine launched this year's three-day spring rites.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 22, 2006

Life in balance with sweets, stitches and the sea

Every Tuesday, Hideki Okubo heads her car from the Tokyo suburb of Chofu towards the Shonan coast, and the oldest and possibly the largest windsurfing school in Japan.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2006

Wellington cautious about regional FTA

New Zealand Associate Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton has cautiously welcomed a recent proposal by Japan to create a 16-nation free-trade zone in Asia-Oceania, saying further research is needed to examine its feasibility.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2006

Kimura knew about faked data on hotel, took fee: cops

Kimura Construction Co. accepted partial payment for building a hotel in Nara Prefecture in November even though its president knew the inn was designed based on fabricated structural-strength data provided by now-disqualified architect Hidetsugu Aneha, police sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2006

Gates pitches his software to NPOs

Visiting Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Friday that nonprofit organizations will be able to better communicate with donors and the public if they use software from Microsoft, which launched a campaign in Japan to offer free technology lessons for NPOs.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 22, 2006

Peter Bernick

"Now that I have been involved with Tokyo English Life Line and gotten some experience in the mental-health field, I realize that this is very much what I want to do long-term, and in Japan," said Peter Bernick.
SOCCER
Apr 21, 2006

Japans draw China, Taiwan, Vietnam in Women's Asian Cup

Japan has been drawn against China, Vietnam and Taiwan in Group A at this summer's Women's Asian Cup in Australia, the Japan Football Association said Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 21, 2006

Buffaloes grind out win over Fighters; Darvish pitch hurts Kiyohara

The Orix Buffaloes needed a win, and they took their sweet time about getting one Thursday night at Tokyo Dome.
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2006

Reforms for nursing-care insurance

Under a revision of the nursing-care insurance law, the nation's care system for the elderly (people aged 65 or older) entered a new stage on April 1, the first day of fiscal 2006. This stage boosts efforts to prevent the health of senior citizens from deteriorating to the point that they need expensive...
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

Reform timeline approved by Lower House

The House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday giving the timeline for a range of administrative reforms to be implemented in the next several years.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

China's anti-Japan protests led to 77 million yen in damages

Japanese diplomatic missions in China and Japanese-owned businesses operating there suffered a combined 77 million yen in damage from massive anti-Japan demonstrations a year ago, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

BOJ staff seen traveling on cheap, getting reimbursed in full

The Bank of Japan has overpaid on domestic air travel expenses claimed by many of the 2,150 employees at its head and branch offices since fiscal 1999, officials admitted Thursday after the Board of Audit reportedly ordered it to correct the practice.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

Tokyo, Seoul scurry to avert islet clash

Japanese and South Korean negotiators raced Thursday to avert a clash over disputed islets as Seoul accused Tokyo of neocolonial ambitions and warned of a possible high seas confrontation.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

China academy woos Ken Takakura

Veteran Japanese actor Ken Takakura has been named a visiting teacher at the Beijing Film Academy, alma mater to famed Chinese directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, the school and a local news report said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2006

TSE to reinstate normal trading hours Monday

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Thursday it will resume regular trading hours Monday, three months after it began delaying its afternoon session to deal with surges in transactions caused by the Livedoor Co. scandal.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2006

Yahoo Japan sets another profit record

Yahoo Japan Corp. reported Thursday that it set an all-time high for earnings for the ninth consecutive year, helped by an increase in advertising and the popularity of its Internet auction and shopping businesses in 2005.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2006

USTR change clouds WTO talks: official

The resignation of Rob Portman as U.S. trade representative will probably impede the progress of trade liberalization talks taking place under the World Trade Organization, Mamoru Ishihara, Japan's vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 21, 2006

Olympic champs Kitajima, Shibata beaten at national c'ships

Kosuke Kitajima failed to make the medals podium in the men's 200-meter breaststroke and fellow Olympic champion Ai Shibata was unable to keep her 400-meter freestyle title on the opening day of the national swimming championships Thursday.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2006

China spy plane intrusions hit record

Japan scrambled fighter jets a record 107 times in the year ending in March to intercept what appeared to be Chinese spy planes approaching Japanese air space, a top general said Thursday, amid growing concern in Tokyo over China's recent arms buildup.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2006

Exports, imports soared in '05 but oil hit surplus

Japan's exports and imports hit the highest levels on record in fiscal 2005, but larger growth in imports spurred by surging oil prices dented the customs-cleared trade surplus for the first time in four years, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2006

Turning point at Chernobyl

MOSCOW -- The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there...
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2006

McDonald's to boost 24-hour shops

McDonald's Co. (Japan) plans to open more 24-hour outlets and raise the price of its main products, according to its business plan for fiscal 2006.

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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