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Oct 16, 2003

Yokota to make comeback at 42

Former Japanese super bantamweight champion Hiroaki Yokota will return to the ring and become the oldest Japanese boxer in action, officials of the Japan Boxing Commission said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Drunken driving costly for JR Bus

JR Bus Kanto Co. will have to suspend the operations of 10 of its buses for up to 35 days over a case of drunken driving this past summer.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 15, 2003

Valentine likely to return to Marines

Lotte Marines deputy owner Akio Shigemitsu hinted Tuesday that Bobby Valentine is positive about replacing Koji Yamamoto as the new manager of the Pacific League club next season and is set to come to Japan next month for final talks.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Japan prepares to give Iraq $1.5 billion in grants in 2004

Japan is making final preparations to provide Iraq with grants worth $1.5 billion in 2004, the first in a series of handouts that could total $5 billion over a four-year period, government sources said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2003

Settling for less than peace

The Israeli government's recent announcement that it planned to build more than 600 homes in West Bank settlements is another stake through the heart of the "road map" for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. There is no reason to expand this construction -- other than a desire to create "facts on...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Rotary meet to eye poverty, health

OSAKA -- Poverty and public health issues will be tackled during the International Rotary Convention here in May, the head of Rotary International said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2003

37th Tokyo Motor Show to feature hybrid, concept cars

Concept models of advanced hydrogen-powered vehicles and gasoline-electric hybrid cars are expected to dazzle visitors to the 37th Tokyo Motor Show beginning Oct. 25, Japanese carmakers said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Plastic surgery makeovers luring the insecure

Risa Arato never liked her hooded eyes -- even her friends said she had a perpetually stony gaze. And she hated the way her sunglasses slipped down her nose. But the clincher was meeting her estranged father for the first time since childhood and being told she hadn't turned out very cute.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2003

Japan, Mexico work late into night on FTA

Japan and Mexico, racing against the clock ahead of President Vicente Fox's visit to Tokyo, extended talks late into the evening Tuesday to hammer out a free trade agreement.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Public pension funding increase may be phased in

The government might increase its share of the public pension burden in phases, not all at once next year as promised, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Fujii demands an open hearing

Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii has requested that an administrative hearing, scheduled for Friday, be opened to the public.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

The razzle-dazzle of Edo life, art

The allure of the Japanese folding screens of the Edo Period (1603-1867) lies in their elegance, their dazzling schemes of silver and gold, and the painstaking detail of their form and decoration. A wonderful opportunity to appreciate such pieces is the exhibition "Paintings of the Edo Period," now showing...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

CWAJ print artists and scholars create a good impression

This week sees the College Women's Association of Japan print show approach its half century, as the 48th annual selection of prints goes up at the Tokyo American Club Oct. 17-19. The print show, inaugurated in 1956, began as a fundraiser to send Japanese students abroad; today it's bringing the best...
COMMENTARY
Oct 15, 2003

Schwarzenegger should learn from Asia's strongmen

LOS ANGELES -- It looks as though California is getting some Southeast Asian strongman-style leadership. But will Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's new governor, prove half as effective as the two dominant personalities that have run Malaysia and Singapore these past decades? Or, in the end, will Schwarzenegger...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 15, 2003

When three women are company, not a crowd

After a one-month break, I got back to my old haunts last weekend and was delighted to encounter -- by pure chance -- two "three-women" plays on Tokyo stages.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2003

Lawson sees profits soar despite 4.2% revenue fall

Lawson Inc. said Tuesday its group net profit more than doubled during the first half of the current business year, thanks to the absence of huge restructuring costs booked last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Oct 15, 2003

Shopping site Rakuten thinks empire

The nation's largest online shopping mall operator appears to be building an empire, or what its president calls a new zaibatsu in the world of Internet retail.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2003

FSA official to join Basel Committee

A Financial Services Agency official has been formally appointed secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the FSA said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2003

Seiyu loss for first half -- 8.4 billion yen

Seiyu Ltd.'s group net loss for its business first half through Aug. 31 narrowed to 8.43 billion yen, thanks to the absence of hefty one-time losses booked a year ago, the troubled retail giant announced Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Returnees frustrated over kin-reunion impasse

Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korea but returned to their homeland last year voiced frustration Tuesday over the government's lack of progress in effecting a reunion with the children they left behind in Pyongyang.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2003

Mad cow incident resembles cases in Italy

A cow in Ibaraki Prefecture confirmed as Japan's latest case of mad cow disease has exhibited a similar prion structure to that found in two cases in Italy, a Japanese expert said Sunday, referring to recently announced Italian research.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2003

Ishihara alleges Fujii tried to blackmail him

Land minister Nobuteru Ishihara charged Sunday that Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii tried to blackmail him by indicating knowledge of shady land deals involving influential politicians.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2003

Quake shakes eastern Hokkaido

Eastern Hokkaido was jolted Sunday morning by an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.5, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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