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BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2003

Imports of calves' brains revealed

Some 40 kg of calves' brains has been imported into Japan from the United States this year, with 23 kg having been consumed at five restaurants in Tokyo and other cities, the health ministry said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 27, 2003

Rabinder Malik

Almost 10 years ago when Rabinder Malik celebrated his 60th birthday, his family and friends put on a surprise party for him. "Sixty persons came," he said. "That was awesome."
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2003

New airline to link Kyushu, Tokyo

A startup airline plans to begin flights between Kitakyushu and Tokyo, primarily targeting business travelers, when a planned new airport opens here in 2005, the company's president said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2003

Too soon to say who will foot Yamaichi bill

Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Friday that the outstanding balance of emergency loans by the Bank of Japan to Yamaichi Securities Co., which collapsed in 1997, must first be determined before discussing who will foot the final bill.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2003

Shedding light on Kissinger's dark legacy

NEW YORK -- Recently released documents from the U.S. National Security Archive shed important light on former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's role in Argentina. These documents indicate that Kissinger approved of the Argentinian military junta's ruthless tactics to eliminate any opposition to its...
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

New expressways to cost taxpayers 2.4 trillion yen

An advisory panel to the transport minister on Thursday approved construction of some 700 km worth of expressways at a cost of roughly 2.4 trillion yen.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

Video-based drug sales get qualified ministry OK

A health ministry panel has compiled a draft report conditionally removing the ban on overnight videophone-based sales of over-the-counter drugs by retailers.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

Most feel men should help raise kids

Most respondents to a welfare ministry survey think men should help care for children, and many women with partners who help in raising kids want a bigger family.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

Court reverses order to halt expropriation of Tokyo land

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday repealed a lower court order that the national and local governments suspend expropriation of land in Akiruno, Tokyo, for a highway project.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 26, 2003

It's time for Premier League players to grow up

LONDON -- A former footballer once confided to me that after his retirement he and his wife decided to go on the dream holiday they had never been able to take while he was a leading international.
EDITORIALS
Dec 26, 2003

Privatizing the highway corporations

Finally the stage has been set for the privatization of the debt-ridden highway corporations. The government plans to send related bills to the next Diet session, which opens in January. If the package is approved as scheduled, a new tollway system will go into operation in fiscal 2005 under the management...
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

Japan to probe U.S. mad cow case

Japan will send a mission to the United States next month to gather information on the country's first case of mad cow disease, a senior farm ministry official said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 26, 2003

Tuffy inks two-year, $10 million pact with Giants

Reigning Pacific League home run king Tuffy Rhodes signed a two-year contract with the Yomiuri Giants carrying an annual salary of $5 million (about 543 million yen), officials of the Central League club said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Matsumotokiyoshi to buy Tobu unit

Matsumotokiyoshi Co. said Thursday it will acquire Tobu Railway Co.'s drug store chain in January as part of a strategy to open its outlets in railway properties.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

RCC expected to get lawyer named as its next president

Attorney Yoshihiko Okuno is expected to succeed Akio Kioi as president of the Resolution and Collection Corp.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Koizumi tapes foreign-investment ads

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has taped TV and DVD advertisements as part of a government campaign to attract more foreign direct investment to Japan, government officials said.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Sales of electric appliances fall 1.36%

Sales at major electric appliance retailers fell 1.36 percent in November from a year earlier to 178.41 billion yen, down for the first time in four months, the Nippon Electric Big-Store Association said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

National wealth down to 2.79 quadrillion yen

Japan's national wealth, or net assets, at the end of 2002 shrank by 3.4 percent from a year earlier to 2.79 quadrillion yen, marking the fifth consecutive year of decline, the Cabinet Office said Thursday in a report for fiscal 2002.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

Takefuji charged in wiretap case

Tokyo prosecutors on Thursday charged Takefuji Corp. with violating the Telecommunications Business Law by wiretapping a freelance journalist.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Government to clarify fiscal surplus goal

The government is ready to clarify the fiscal policy goal of achieving a surplus in the primary balance by fiscal 2013, moving a step forward from the vague target of early in the next decade, government sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Softbank buys Nissho Iwai Securities

Softbank Investment Corp., aiming to strengthen operations targeting institutional investors, acquired Nissho Iwai Securities Co. from trading house Nissho Iwai Corp. for 1.187 billion yen on Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Dec 26, 2003

Round 'bout midnight

It's that time of the year again, when everybody is steadily moving into party mode as the big countdown approaches. Some punters will simply be dancing in the streets to celebrate. Others will take to the expressways: Reportedly over 6,000 bosozoku (hot-rodders and hot-doggers on motorcycles) choked...
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Fujitsu set to forge chip alliance with Sumitomo Electric

Fujitsu Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will merge their compound semiconductor operations this spring in response to growing demand for chips used in digital products and communications devices, Fujitsu officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2003

SDF to aid Iraq in democratization, Koizumi tells Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he informed the Al-Jazeera Arabic TV network of Japan's peaceful intentions in dispatching Self-Defense Forces units to Iraq, hoping the mission will help the Iraqi people create a democratic government.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 26, 2003

Slip into slo-mo Shiga-style

OMIHACHIMAN, Shiga Pref. -- Tired of group-tour hell? Does a four-cities-in-five-days' trip to Europe, or being herded like hyperactive cattle through the temples of Kyoto make you wish you could take a vacation from your vacation?
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2003

Industries told to curb accidents

Three government agencies on Thursday urged industries, and company chiefs in particular, to do more to prevent plant fires and other accidents of the kind that occurred in a string this year, government officials said.
Japan braces for typhoon landfall early next week
Severe Tropical Storm Shanshan is seen in a satellite image from Friday afternoon
Tokyo under assault by ‘guerrilla rainstorms’
Torrential rain in Tokyo on Wednesday night
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.
Yen’s rebound threatens earnings growth in Japan
The yen's rebound is clouding an outlook for Japanese firms' earnings that have enjoyed a boost from the weak yen.
Japan warms to audacious Canadian bid for 7-Eleven operator
Seven & I Holding’s logo is seen at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo on Aug. 19. Apart from 7-Eleven, Seven & I also owns, has stakes in or operates a number of other iconic properties, including Denny’s, Tower Records and Ito-Yokado.
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.
Shinjiro Koizumi's criticism of LDP factions could return to haunt him
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 43, is the son of Junichiro Koizumi, who was prime minister between 2001 and 2006.

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