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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 5, 2005

What do you think of file-sharing on the Internet?

Shannon Clark Teacher, 32 People don't think it's stealing because they don't go into a store and pocket something, so there's no guilty feeling, but most of the people who do it wouldn't steal from a store.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2005

Postal bills headed for Lower House vote

A special House of Representatives committee approved a hotly contested package of postal privatization bills Monday, setting up a showdown between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and postal privatization opponents within his Liberal Democratic Party.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2005

'04 tax revenue up 5.3% as jobs, dividends grow

In a sign the economy is growing stronger, tax revenues in fiscal 2004 rose 5.3 percent from the previous year to 45.59 trillion yen for the first increase in four years, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 5, 2005

Making sense of kanji

Kanji query Two very interesting responses to the letter of June 7 about pronouncing kanji.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 5, 2005

The whaling debate

Stay away Why should a country who has exhausted the whale population in their country come over and hunt a mysterious creature we have all looked after in our country.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2005

China, India key to containing AIDS pandemic

KOBE -- Providing effective AIDS prevention and treatment in China and India will determine whether the global epidemic can be contained, officials at the 7th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific warned Monday.
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Jul 5, 2005

Makers read the leaves: green tea is where it's at

A rowdy tea party is brewing in the soft drink industry as companies crank up already-intense competition in the rapidly growing market for bottled green tea.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2005

Monetary base grew 1.7% in June

The nation's monetary base edged up 1.7 percent in June from a year earlier for its 53rd straight month of expansion, the Bank of Japan said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2005

MMC to move back to original HQ

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Monday it will move its head office at the end of next year back to a building near JR Tamachi Station in Tokyo that it occupied until April 2003.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2005

Lawmakers' average income drops to new low

The average annual income reported by members of both houses of the Diet dropped to a record-low 23.59 million yen in 2004, down 5 percent from the previous low of 24.81 million yen in 2003, according to a tally by Kyodo News based on annual reports released Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2005

Postal bills headed for Lower House vote

A special House of Representatives committee approved a hotly contested package of postal privatization bills Monday, setting up a showdown between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and postal privatization opponents within his Liberal Democratic Party.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2005

More travel information

Vladivostok is most easily accessible by plane from Niigata, which is served two or three times weekly by Air Vladivostok. Flights also depart twice a week from Toyama and Kansai International.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2005

Eastern Europe in the Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia For generations of expatri ates in the days before jet travel, the first stop on the journey back to Europe from Japan was Vladivostok, Russia's easternmost city and the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2005

Thai woman admits selling girl into sex trade

A Thai woman in Kanagawa Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of selling a teenage Thai girl to a woman who manages prostitutes, and a Japanese man in Tokyo was taken into custody for introducing the girl to another man for purposes of solicitation, police said Monday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 4, 2005

Carp beat Giants as Nagashima returns

Even the return of Shigeo Nagashima couldn't inspire the underachieving Yomiuri Giants.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 4, 2005

Japan ends volleyball campaign on high

Japan beat Portugal for the second time in as many days Sunday but finished at the bottom of the group standings in the men's volleyball World League preliminary round.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

DPJ scores big gains in Tokyo assembly

Amid low voter turnout Sunday, the Democratic Party of Japan replaced New Komeito as the No. 2 force in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in a closely watched election.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

Iimura picked as next envoy to China

Yutaka Iimura, a career diplomat who is currently Japan's envoy to Indonesia, will soon replace Koreshige Anami as ambassador to China, according to government sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

Fundamentalism seen hurting AIDS effort

KOBE -- Religious fundamentalism that rejects condom use and scientific treatment of people with HIV/AIDS is threatening to reverse a quarter century of progress in battling the disease, participants at an international conference warned Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

Daiei to sell 100 additional properties to cut debt

Daiei Inc. plans to sell an additional 100 real estate assets for 20 billion yen to cut huge interest-bearing debts as a key part of its rehabilitation plan, company sources said Sunday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jul 4, 2005

Ministries should seek corporate input when revamping statistics

There have been complaints that the economic statistics compiled by the government no longer reflect the developments of the times or the changing structure of the Japanese economy.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

Reactor shuts down; no leak reported

A reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture shut down automatically Sunday afternoon, but no radioactivity leaked from the plant and no other environmental damage was observed, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

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