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BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Matsushita profits up 39% despite heater fiasco

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday robust sales of plasma display panel TVs and digital cameras boosted its earnings for the third quarter of fiscal 2005, raising its net profit by 39 percent to 49.3 billion yen.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

'80s serial killer Miyazaki's death sentence finalized

SAITAMA (Kyodo) The death sentence for serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, 43, who was convicted of killing four girls in 1988 and 1989, is final now that the Supreme Court has rejected an objection filed by his counsel over a technical detail.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

New games bring more people to video consoles

There may be no monsters to slay or racing cars to spin, but new video games that claim to stimulate the brain or translate languages are being snapped up by a new crowd of gamers.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Nissan operating profit sets record

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday its group operating profit for the first nine months of the year through March 31 rose 3.1 percent from a year before to a record 631.16 billion yen, chiefly due to brisk demand in Japan, North America and Europe.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

Key banks now ax ties to North-linked Banco Delta

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Corporate Bank have suspended transactions with Macau-based Banco Delta Asia SARL, designated by the United States as a major facilitator of North Korean money-laundering activities, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Cafe culture brings style to banking

It's easy to find a cafe in Tokyo's chic Omotesando district, but finding one with online banking service is a different matter altogether.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

TSE's new IT czar has big task

The newly installed chief information officer at trouble-plagued Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. vowed Thursday to improve the computer trading system of Asia's largest bourse to make it more competitive in the global capital market.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Monetary base up 1.4% last month

Japan's monetary base expanded 1.4 percent in January from a year earlier for the 60th straight monthly rise, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 3, 2006

Avoiding energy ultimatums

LONDON -- The recent break in energy supplies to Georgia after a natural gas pipeline and power pylons were blown up inside Russia near the border with Georgia came during a bitter cold wave, causing considerable hardship and the risk of death from hypothermia for some.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

Iwakuni joins base bid-rigging snafu

The bid-rigging scandal involving the Defense Facilities Administration Agency widened Thursday after investigators said bids for a runway relocation project at the U.S. Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture were also rigged.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 3, 2006

M.I.A. terrorizes the dancefloor

Maya Arulpragasam sighs into the phone. I've asked her if journalists have accurately depicted her life story, and she seems tired of the question.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Feb 3, 2006

Counting Nakano among the best

There's no better word than "counter" to encapsulate Nakano, a ward in Western Tokyo. It's an area of counterculture, counterintelligence, casino-card counters and, of course, lunch counters; perhaps even a place where you might find your counterpart in life.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Livedoor stock keeps falling, hits 85 yen

Livedoor Co.'s stock price skidded to 85 yen Thursday as individual investors stepped up selling of the Internet services firm, which was raided by prosecutors last month on suspicion of securities law violations.
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Feb 3, 2006

Psychedelic radar 02.03

Friday, Feb. 3
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 3, 2006

Siblings' sweet harmony

From their look and sound to their history and attitude, The Magic Numbers contradict most of the conventions that define the British obsession for next-big-thing-ism; at the moment, this is best exemplified by Arctic Monkeys, who have sold more than 100,000 copies of their debut album in two weeks with...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 3, 2006

Tableware,pottery fest

A variety of tableware will be displayed at the Tableware Festival 2006, to be held at Tokyo Dome Feb. 4-12.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 3, 2006

Jim Hall and Geoffrey Keezer

Jim Hall is the preeminent jazz guitarist. His tone, technique and style have put him above all partisan guitar and traditional jazz controversies -- everyone likes him, and no one minds crediting him as an elder. At 75, Hall has influenced a generation of guitarists, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Pat...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 3, 2006

Rare instruments put up for auction

Music-box collectors will have a chance to get their hands on rare items when a total of 140 antique mechanical musical instruments, which have been displayed at Orugoru no Chiisana Museum in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, are auctioned off. The museum closes its doors March 31.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 3, 2006

Kuro-hitsuji: Ghengis Khan gets hip

Until recently, the distinctive style of cooking mutton known as jingisukan -- the Japanese transliteration of the name of a well known Mongolian butcher -- was thought far too uncouth to be considered seriously. So how did this coarse, blue-collar dish, so long a staple of smoky grills in the godless...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 3, 2006

Kabuki duo turn Bard into a mythical folktale

Ryutopia Company shot to prominence in December 2003 with its Noh staging of "Macbeth." Since then, Ryutopia's 48-year-old director Yoshihiro Kurita has twice more pulled off the feat of breaking the Tokyo-Osaka stranglehold on Japanese theater by luring the nation's critics north through the snows for...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 3, 2006

Zazen Boys "Zazen Boys III"

Exploding out of Fukuoka in the late 1990s, Shutoku Mukai's previous band, Number Girl, never compromised their lo-fi sound, but caught the zeitgeist by tapping into feelings of directionless teen angst. As Bob Dylan would probably tell you, though, being the voice of a generation is a tiring job, especially...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 3, 2006

Robert Pollard "From A Compound Eye"

During two decades with Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard became one of the strongest songwriters on the American underground rock scene. With his uncanny knack of turning out pieces of pop perfection, Pollard and his roving cast of backing musicians were lauded by critics and fans who remain baffled...
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.

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