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BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2004

Banks probing Seibu group's assets

Banks that have given loans to Seibu group companies, including group leader Kokudo Corp., have launched probes to investigate the quality of their assets, financial sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2004

Africa urged to follow Asia in promoting development

Government officials and private-sector specialists from Asia, Africa and Europe agreed with representatives of international organizations Tuesday that African nations should follow the course taken by Asia in promoting economic development.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2004

Ishihara tries to counter city's birthrate-unfriendly nature

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara would probably be happy to learn that when Mayumi Ozaki's 2-year-old daughter caught a cold, her minder went to the girl's home and looked after her for two days.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2004

Sporadic rocket attacks on SDF camp don't constitute combat, officials say

While a rocket attack that damaged a storage container at the Ground Self-Defense Force camp in Samawah, southern Iraq, on Monday rattled the government, Japan remained adamant that the area is still a noncombat zone and that the troops can stay.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2004

How one council can speak for the world

There is almost universal agreement that the U.N. Security Council has become increasingly unrepresentative over the past 59 years. Its five perma- nent members are a self-appointed oligarchy who wrote their own exalted status into the U.N. Charter. International stratification is never rigid, and states...
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2004

Pyongyang turns over records of two Japanese

North Korea has provided medical records and other documents pertaining to two of the eight Japanese it admitted kidnapping and claimed died in the Stalinist state, ahead of bilateral talks starting Nov. 9, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

2.3 trillion yen in high-tech bills enter nationwide circulation

Newly designed bank notes went into circulation Monday for the first time in 20 years, featuring cutting-edge technology aimed at combating a rising tide of counterfeits.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

Private rocketeers start small, think big

When Harunori Nagata launched a 1.6-meter rocket for the third time in March, it was still an experiment.
EDITORIALS
Nov 2, 2004

The world holds its breath

A mericans go to the polls on Tuesday, with President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry running neck in neck down to the wire. Once again it is an election too close to call -- a reminder of the 2000 race, whose final outcome hung in the balance for 36 days because of disputes over vote counting. One...
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

Ehime approves MOX-burning nuclear reactor

The Ehime Prefectural Government on Monday approved a pluthermal project by Shikoku Electric Power Co. to burn plutonium-uranium mixed-oxide fuel at one of its nuclear reactors in Ikata.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

Rocket damages GSDF camp in Samawah; no one injured

A rocket fired Sunday night at the Japanese military camp in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah damaged a facility but did not explode, a government source in Tokyo said Monday. No one was injured.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

Weak-dollar policy said needed by 2008

The U.S. administration to emerge from Tuesday's presidential election will have to shift to a weak-dollar policy at some point in the next four years, a U.S. expert on trade issues told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Oki Electric sets up chip subsidiary in Shanghai

Oki Electric Industry Co. said Monday it has established a semiconductor marketing and design company in Shanghai to expand its business in China, with the aim of achieving a threefold increase in sales there by March 2007.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Kanebo announces new president

Kanebo Ltd. announced Monday that a 43-year-old former bureaucrat has replaced Akiyoshi Nakajima as president as part of the company's rehabilitation efforts.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Asian-African trade conference kicks off

An international conference hosted by Japan and the United Nations to help expand exports from Africa to Asia for the sustainable growth of African economies got under way Monday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

NEC to launch TV cell phone in China

NEC Corp. on Monday unveiled the N940, touted as the first cell phone aimed at the Chinese market capable of receiving TV programs.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Suburban 'shinkin' banks to merge

Three "shinkin" credit banks in Tokyo's Tama area said Monday they have agreed to merge operations in January 2006.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 2, 2004

Justice reaches dead-end

In accusing 1,039 Japanese of war crimes at the Yokohama War Crimes Tribunals, 123 of whom were sentenced to death, U.S. officials apparently sought not to seek justice in a legal sense, but to establish the principle of ultimate accountability and set a benchmark for the punishment of future war criminals....
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Toyota sets record half-year profits, sales

Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday reported record first-half profits and sales due to cost-cutting and higher performance in all regions that more than offset the impact of a stronger yen.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 2, 2004

Who do you think will win the U.S. elections, and will it make a difference?

Ibraham Quraishi Conceptual artist, 33 If Bush wins, the basic policy in the Middle East will continue to be a non-policy and useless rhetoric. If Kerry wins, there just might be an impetus to find a multinational solution to the Iraq problem.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2004

Koda was not executed because of SDF: officials

Government officials Monday defended the activities performed by the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq, saying the recent execution of a Japanese hostage there was the work of terrorists and was not triggered by local Iraqi people's anger toward the troops.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / BY THE NUMBERS
Nov 2, 2004

Free the workers to be better consumers

The government is encouraging companies to ensure their employees take time off because it wants workers to get out and be better consumers.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 2, 2004

Immigration, acting and yellow pages

Otemachi still open? Dave was in a panic last week. He had just realized his three-year visa required renewal, and wondered if the immigration office in Otemachi was still open.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2004

Okuda ups sales forecast by 1 million

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda said Monday that Japan's top automaker plans to sell 8.5 million vehicles worldwide in 2006 and to double its overseas production in the 2010s.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2004

Bin Laden exploiting Western divisions

SEOUL -- Ban Ki Moon, ordinarily a mild and discreet gentleman, could barely contain smoldering anger over the "October surprise" as he sat down for breakfast with me just hours after Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language news network, released a videotape apparently starring the inimitable Osama bin Laden....
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japan dispatches five language education 'partners' to India
Five members of the Japan Foundation's Nihongo Partners program (front) gather at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday.
End of U.S. de minimis exemption causes headaches for some businesses in Japan
Proxy-shopping services — companies that ship Japanese products ranging from cosmetics and snacks to limited-edition stationery on behalf of customers abroad — are already feeling the impact of the U.S. suspending de minimis exemptions.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
Struggling train firm in Chiba Prefecture turns to self-deprecating humor
"Laughter is important when you're in a difficult situation," said Katsunori Takemoto, president of Choshi Electric Railway, on Aug. 5 in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.

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