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EDITORIALS
Feb 22, 2003

'Shunto' has lost steam

Wage bargaining is the stuff of the annual springtime labor offensive known as "shunto." This year's wage round, however, is essentially different from previous ones because wage increases are not the main subject of labor-management negotiations. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, the...
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2003

Shibui uncertain for Nagoya race

Yoko Shibui, who finished third at last October's Chicago Marathon, has injured herself while training in Kunming in southwestern China and returned to Japan a week earlier than expected for treatment, coach Hideo Suzuki said Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2003

Ex-pros allowed to join company clubs

The Japan Amateur Baseball Association will amend its articles of association to allow former pro baseball players, managers and coaches to join corporate baseball teams on a legitimate basis, officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Ad firm Hakuhodo in Malaysia move

Advertising agency Hakuhodo Inc. said Friday it has agreed to acquire a 25 percent equity stake in Malaysian ad agency People & Rich-H Sdn. Bhd.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Karzai sends out a reminder

Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday called on the international community to continue providing support to help rebuild his nation, even while the eyes of the world are focused on Iraq.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Hitachi in talks to scrap seniority wage system

Hitachi Ltd. will abolish its seniority-based salary system in favor of one based on performance, a senior Hitachi official said.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Tokyo taking flak for apparent backing of U.S. attack on Iraq

The government has been deflecting a growing amount of criticism, even from within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, since it came out in clear support of adopting a new resolution against Iraq at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

ACCJ revamps Net employment site

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan said Friday it has launched an Internet job site to line up companies with professional staff and help job-seekers find Japan-based positions.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Feb 22, 2003

Antiwar fever rises as the economy sinks

WASHINGTON -- Two big questions have dominated Washington this week. When will this horrible, cold winter end? And when will the war in Iraq begin? While they are different subjects with different consequences, they are getting about equal time in the capital's conversation content.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Moriyama vows to examine prisoners' complaints

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said Friday she has begun personally reading all complaints filed by prisoners following revelations that a 43-year-old Nagoya Prison inmate was fatally brutalized by guards in December 2001.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Sumo group again bars Ohta from men-only ring

OSAKA -- The Japan Sumo Association on Friday notified Osaka Gov. Fusae Ohta that it will not allow her to enter the sumo ring to present the governor's prize to the winner of next month's Spring Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 22, 2003

Go Girls offers safe place for learning languages

There are many ways to learn a language. And there are several introduction services that brings students and teachers together. None, however, have the commitment and organizational safety net of Go Girls.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Funds sent by Iranians tied to deals for weapons

Two Iranian men remitted money to several countries from Japan between 2000 and 2002 that may have been spent on the development of nuclear weapons and missiles, according to police.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

FSA targets sham capital boosts

The Financial Services Agency will get tough on banks that offer conditional loans to convince borrowers to buy their stocks as a way to boost their capital base, FSA officials said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 22, 2003

Connie Chung

CNNj, a team product of CNN and JCTV, is to launch in March a new service for Japanese viewers. It plans to combine content from three of CNN's award-winning networks, and to increase the use of the Japanese language in its news and feature programs. Amongst the U.S. shows that it will make accessible...
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Nankai to pay 110 million yen over hidden income

OSAKA -- Nankai Electric Railway Co. failed to declare about 350 million yen in taxable income over three years to March 31, 2001, and tax authorities slapped the carrier with back taxes, industry sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

JCP fields candidate for Tokyo gubernatorial race

The Japanese Communist Party became on Friday the first political party to field a candidate for the April 13 Tokyo gubernatorial election.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Needy find welfare elusive, demeaning

After living homeless in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward for seven years, a 53-year-old former leather tanner was finally helped off the street last year with public livelihood assistance.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Bill seeks to ensure genetic engineering doesn't get out of hand

The government is facing an unusual challenge -- regulating a science that has not yet proved harmful.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Bridgestone's profits surge 161%

Bridgestone Corp., Japan's biggest maker of automobile tires, said Friday that its group net profit in the business year through December 2002 surged 161 percent to 45.38 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Publisher Kodansha slips into red

Kodansha Ltd. fell into the red for the first time since World War II in the year through Nov. 30, due to weakening magazine sales, a company spokesman said Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2003

Ethnic schools hit extra test rule

Officials of schools for foreign residents urged the education ministry Friday to allow their students to take university entrance exams without having to pass a separate qualifying test.
COMMENTARY
Feb 22, 2003

Best policy Seoul can buy?

HONOLULU -- The unmaking of a hero is never pretty, but the fall of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has been especially ugly. The statesman leaves behind a shredded legacy and he, like many of his predecessors, is but one step ahead of the prosecutor. Even his Nobel Peace Price has been tarnished:...
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Feb 22, 2003

Kochi's Tokyo outpost cashing in via discerning clientele; eyes expansion

In the three years since Kai Ishiguro took the helm of the satellite shop Kochi-ya in Kichijoji, western Tokyo, the 29-year-old representative has managed to turn its sluggish business around.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Asahi group's pretax profit sinks 5.1% on weak sales

Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Friday its group pretax profit for the business year to Dec. 31 fell 5.1 percent from the previous year to 57.55 billion yen due to weak sales.
Takayuki Kobayashi set to announce LDP presidential bid
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters during a visit to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
The rule of law is coming for Putin
Efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable for the war in Ukraine have begun, with the International Criminal Court already issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and others for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
'The Box Man': Absurdist Kobo Abe adaptation speaks to the present
A Tokyo man who scuttles around the city in a dirty cardboard box finds himself fighting off odd characters in Gakuryu Ishii’s “The Box Man.”
Love was a most subversive affair in Edo Japan
Only two other class of persons were treated with anything like the merciless ferocity meted out to lovers: subversives and Christians.
Prepare for a new wave of anime-born bands
Produced by Toei Animation, “Girls Band Cry” follows five young women who form a band and navigate the Japanese rock landscape.
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
Hurdles remain in Japan for transplants of pig organs into humans
Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.
New tales in translation to give you chills and thrills this summer
For centuries, Japanese people have been scaring themselves with horror stories as a way of cooling down during the stifling summer months.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.

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