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BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2005

Hara named Giants skipper

The Yomiuri Giants announced Wednesday the appointment of Tatsunori Hara as manager of the Central League club to take over from Tsuneo Horiuchi, who is stepping down after the lackluster performance of his team this season.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2005

J. League referee suspended for mistake

Referee Yoshitsugu Katayama has received a suspension until the end of the month along with two other match officials for an officiating blunder in a J. League first-division match between Vissel Kobe and Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Arrests widen over home renovation scam

Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested two former executives of the parent firm of a housing renovation company involved in fraudulent home repairs that mostly targeted elderly people.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Weekly admits plagiarizing wire poll stories

The weekly magazine Shukan Kinyobi has apologized to Kyodo News and Jiji Press for plagiarizing stories from the two news agencies about the Sept. 11 general election.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Labs not storing anthrax and resistant TB properly, study finds

Samples of anthrax and drug-resistant tuberculosis that could be used for bioterrorism are kept in at least 114 medical and research facilities in Japan, half of which do not have manuals on how to handle the dangerous pathogens, a government study showed Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Six held in bogus mushroom ads

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested six people Wednesday including an executive of a Tokyo-based publisher on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law by advertising in books a type of mushroom as a treatment for cancer.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 6, 2005

Swede Arvidsson dumps Asagoe out of AIG Japan Open

Seventh-seed Shinobu Asagoe was overwhelmed by Sofia Arvidsson in a battle of stamina Wednesday, failing to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals at the Japan Open in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Bangladeshi sues Kyodo for libel

A Bangladeshi businessman and his company filed an 11 million yen libel suit against Kyodo News on Wednesday, saying the news agency falsely reported last year that he was linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Kodansha creates Kenzaburo Oe literary award

Publishing house Kodansha Ltd. has created a literary award named after Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe to promote Japanese novels worldwide.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Toyota to buy Fuji shares in GM selloff

Ltd. Fuji Heavy can reduce its research and development and manufacturing costs by working with Toyota, while GM will be able to pull out of an alliance that is no longer benefiting either GM or Fuji Heavy, Matsumoto said.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2005

Australia gets tough on terror

SYDNEY -- Tough new laws enforcing preventive detention of suspected terrorists will soon drastically change the laid-back response that Australia has so far allowed to the growing world threat of terrorism. But even before new laws start, the wails of protests from civil-liberty groups are deafening....
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Lump-sum asbestos redress elusive goal

The government agreed Sept. 29 on the outline of a special bill to help asbestos victims, but officials admit the legislation provides no lump sum compensation.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Princess Nori wedding date formally set

Princess Nori, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, underwent one of the traditional rites Wednesday leading up to her wedding, with the Imperial Palace formally setting the date of her marriage to Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee Yoshiki Kuroda.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 6, 2005

You cannot force them to sing it in Japan, or to listen in London

"In this 60th anniversary year of the end of the war . . . I thought it was the right time to ask about Japan's current movement toward constitutional revision -- especially the revision of (war-renouncing) Article 9," said 53-year-old Ai Nagai, founder of Nitosha (Two Rabbits) Theater Company, as she...
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2005

Police to ask ISPs for tips on Net-arranged suicide bids

industry," an NPA official said. The move follows the communications and Internet service industry's decision in August to provide police with such information, including privacy data, by setting its own guidelines. They require providers to disclose information to police as an emergency step when suicide...
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2005

Goal eyed for government lending cut

The government plans to set a target year for halving the ratio of outstanding loans by eight governmental lenders to the gross domestic product, officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2005

Rengo to stress part-, full-time gap

The nation's largest labor organization said Wednesday it will give priority to narrowing social disparity in its policies for fiscal 2006 by extending support for part-time and temporary workers and small and midsize companies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Oct 6, 2005

New fairy tales of gloom

I have been an admirer of Miwa Yanagi since encountering her series "My Grandmothers" at the 2001 Yokohama Triennale. In that body of work the artist displayed extraordinary skill in using makeup and staging to transform a number of young women into images of their ideal grandmothers, such as screamingly...
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2005

Bigger cut in JGBs planned for 2006

The government plans to reduce the amount of bonds it issues by more than 2.2 trillion yen in fiscal 2006 to improve the nation's debt-ridden finances, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 6, 2005

Give them what they want

When Paul Baron moved to Tokyo three years ago, he was excited to explore the city's vast art world as he had been an avid follower of art events while studying graphic design in London. There was only one problem: Where to find out what was going on. It should have been easy; it should have all been...

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