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JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Jewel shop heist nets 3.5 billion yen

Two men robbed a jewelry shop in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward of 3.5 billion yen worth of jewelry Friday, police said.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2004

Paying inventors their due

How much should a company pay an employee for his or her invention? The question has stirred controversy in Japan since January when a lower court ruled in favor of a mind-boggling 20 billion yen payment requested by Mr. Shuji Nakamura, a former chemical company employee and now a University of California...
MORE SPORTS
Mar 6, 2004

Sato back on track

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Almost a full season out of Formula One racing didn't dull Takuma Sato's appetite for the sport, or his sense of adventure.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Police search Sato's Diet office

Investigators searched the Diet office of Kanju Sato on Friday for evidence over allegations that he misappropriated a secretary's state-paid salary.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

DPJ plans to expel Sato over salary scam

The Democratic Party of Japan said Friday it will expel Kanju Sato over his alleged pocketing of the state-paid salary of a woman falsely registered as his secretary.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Upstart KDDI backs DoCoMo into a communications corner

NTT DoCoMo Inc. is at a crossroads.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

LDP OKs weakened whistle-blower bill

The Liberal Democratic Party on Friday endorsed a watered-down bill that was drafted by the Cabinet Office to protect corporate whistle-blowers, party officials said.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Japan to provide $450 million to Iraq

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday that Japan will provide $450 million to international trust funds to promote the reconstruction of Iraq and disburse 2 billion yen to nongovernmental organizations.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

University to begin financial studies

The University of Tokyo will open a financial research center in April.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 6, 2004

It's all written in the 'Wa Handbook'

I took a road trip skiing with some Japanese friends to Nagano Prefecture for the weekend, a 10-hour drive by behemoth four-wheel drive. No problem though, there would be six of us. That averages out to 1.7 hours of driving per person. Wrong! In Japanese math, that adds up to 3.3 hours per person, because...
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 6, 2004

Baseball legend Nagashima suffers stroke; right side numb

Shigeo Nagashima, manager of Japan's national baseball team, was diagnosed at a Tokyo hospital Friday as having suffered a stroke the previous day.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Pension funds set to make a profit

Japan's public pension funds are expected to generate an investment profit of around 3 trillion yen in fiscal 2003, thanks to a global stock market recovery since the spring, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Economy expanded again in January

The government said Friday that its key gauge of the state of the economy stayed above the boom-or-bust line of 50 percent for the ninth straight month in January.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Household spending rises 1.3%

Overall household spending in January rose 1.3 percent in real terms from a year earlier for the third straight month of increase.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Group cranks up rhetoric over isles

A group of former and current Diet members demanded Friday that Japan Post issue stamp sheets featuring images of three sets of islands embroiled in territorial disputes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 6, 2004

'Tokyo Stories' wittily points up the expat scene

Two years ago, as a balance to researching and writing up projects for financial institutions in the U.S. and preparing reports for fund managers in Japan, Christine Cunanan-Miki began a novel -- a series of interrelated tales about expats in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Lower House OKs '04 budget

The House of Representatives on Friday passed Japan's 82.11 trillion yen fiscal 2004 budget, paving the way for the House of Councilors to begin deliberations.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2004

Talks on FTA with Mexico close on pessimistic note

Japan and Mexico made little headway toward signing a free-trade agreement during the latest round of talks that ended Friday in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Mar 6, 2004

Sun sets on Russian democrac

MOSCOW -- Relapses are always regrettable, particularly when the gains lost had been won at such a high cost.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Tanba kids stay cool amid bird flu as parents, merchants fret

TANBA, Kyoto Pref. -- As the bell rings to end the day, students at Komono Junior High School file out.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

More war-displaced to sue state over perceived lack of aid

More Japanese who were left behind in China at the end of World War II and have returned to live in Japan plan to sue the central government for failing to promptly repatriate and resettle them, sources said.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Tokyo stock indexes hit 21-month highs

Key Tokyo stock indexes rode optimism over the outlook for the Japanese economy to 21-month highs Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Group decries protesters' arrest

The arrest of three members of an antiwar group who distributed fliers opposing the Self-Defense Forces dispatch to Iraq represents a threat to freedom of speech, members of the group said Friday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 6, 2004

Despite track record, scrutiny of Ferguson remains relentless

LONDON -- Perhaps the real truth as opposed to what we have been told will never be known.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2004

A maritime nightmare in the making

HONOLULU -- A nightmare in the making is a potential lash-up between seagoing pirates and organized terrorists in Southeast Asia, and it has Asian and American security officials sweating.
Japan braces for typhoon landfall early next week
Severe Tropical Storm Shanshan is seen in a satellite image from Friday afternoon
Typhoon Shanshan gains steam as storm projected to hit broad swath of Japan
Typhoon Shanshan is forecast to approach or make landfall on the islands of Honshu or Shikoku by Tuesday afternoon, with rough weather expected from western to eastern Japan through Wednesday before hitting the country’s northeastern areas late Wednesday into Thursday.
High temperatures expected to continue in Japan through October
A construction worker in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo, on Wednesday. High temperatures are projected to linger on past the summer.
Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
Inside the mouth of a mouse whose teeth were missing due to congenital anodontia (left) and the inside of the mouth after teeth were grown after taking medicine.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
In Japan’s flyover country, 72 hours of hidden gems
Okayama and Tottori prefectures are some of the least-visited regions in Japan among foreign tourists — which is why they offer such a welcome break from crowd-clogged cities like Tokyo and Kyoto.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
High temperatures expected to continue in Japan through October
A construction worker in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo, on Wednesday. High temperatures are projected to linger on past the summer.
Summer Sonic: The heat doesn’t matter when the lineup works
British hard rock outfit Bring Me the Horizon delivered a dramatic set that featured a surprise appearance from local metal-meets-idol group Babymetal.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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The volunteer lifesavers of Nishihama Surf Lifesaving Club never know what's in store at the start of their day.
It's no simple day at the beach for Japan's volunteer lifesavers
By Yuko Tamura

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