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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 11, 2003

Peter Miller

Peter Miller's becoming an original photogravure print artist was, he says, a gradual development. "It didn't come to me in a flash. I taught myself through trial and error, mostly error," he said. "There is no limit to it, and I am still learning. I etch and print the plates myself, as the entire process...
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

47 lawmakers decide to call it quits

With the dissolution Friday of the House of Representatives in the leadup to a general election in early November, 47 Lower House members have announced their intention to retire from politics.
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

Beer drinkers splurged in September

Combined shipments of beer and low-malt "happoshu" in September rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier for the first year-on-year gain in five months, according to data released Friday by Japan's five top brewers.
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

Bank lending falls by 5%

The average daily balance of Japanese bank lending fell 5 percent in September from a year earlier for the 69th consecutive month of decline, the Bank of Japan said Friday in a preliminary report.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2003

A ruse so clever it destroyed its creator

HONOLULU -- U.S. Sen. John Rockefeller came out of a hearing in Washington on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, to ask an intriguing, if rhetorical, question: "Did we misread it, or did they mislead us?"
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2003

Argentina faces the recall of impunity

NEW YORK -- In August the Argentine Congress voted to annul two statutes aimed at halting criminal prosecutions against military officers. These "impunity laws," in essence, had granted a blanket amnesty for past human rights abuses committed by the military during their rule. The goal of the annulment...
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

Famed lawyer caught in own net

Renowned lawyer Kohei Nakabo's sudden announcement Friday that he would give up his practice over his alleged involvement in a swindle in connection with debt collection was greeted with a mixture of surprise and coolness.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

War-displaced struggle to live in Japan

After serving as president of a public athletics college in China for decades, Bunji Tanaka resettled in Japan in 1988 at age 47 and found work at a liquor wholesale warehouse in Yokohama.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

Night landing drills set for bases

Warplanes from the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk will conduct night landing practice from Oct. 18 through Oct. 27 on Iwojima Island and the Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa Prefecture, the U.S. Naval Forces Japan announced on Friday.
COMMUNITY
Oct 11, 2003

Find your writer's voice via the Amherst method

As a break from academia in 2001, American-born Ella Rutledge decided to try her hand at creative writing.
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2003

Honda fuel cell can start at subzero temperatures

Honda Motor Co. said Friday that it has developed a fuel-cell power generator, known as a stack, that enables a hydrogen-powered vehicle to start up at temperatures below freezing.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2003

Homegrown chopsticks pitched in project to boost forest-thinning

"Waribashi," or disposable wooden chopsticks, are usually hated by environmentalists as a symbol of deforestation.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2003

Prostitute buying not systematic, company says

An Osaka-based construction firm again denied it had been involved in any systematic procurement of prostitutes during a recent employee trip to China, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aizawa said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2003

Antiterrorism law extension OK'd

A House of Councilors committee endorsed a bill Thursday for extending a special law to allow the continued deployment of Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels to the Indian Ocean until 2005 to support the U.S.-led antiterrorism operations.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 10, 2003

English football's problems make mockery of 'beautiful game'

LONDON -- Had the Turkish Football Federation hatched a plan to severely disrupt England's preparations for Saturday's decisive Euro 2004 qualifying tie they could not have done a better -- or worse, depending on your viewpoint -- job than the visitors have done themselves.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2003

LDP has last laugh as reform plan crumbles

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi compromised with his Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday and agreed to leave the timing of the privatization of the nation's postal services ambiguous in the party's campaign policy.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2003

BOJ policy panel to focus on impact of strong yen on nascent recovery

The Bank of Japan policy-setting panel began a two-day meeting Thursday that is expected to focus on how the yen's recent appreciation will affect the nation's budding economic recovery.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2003

Thunderbird forum offers keys to business success

Japanese and American business executives agreed on Thursday on the need to improve the education and training of employees to nurture next-generation leaders who can cope with fast-changing global markets.
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2003

American dream, or nightmare?

Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder and movie star, is the new governor of California. Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, replaced Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, after 54.9 percent of voters Tuesday said "yes" to recalling the incumbent and 48.2 percent picked the Terminator to lead the historically...

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