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JAPAN
Nov 30, 2004

Team's 3-D hologram set to take phone booths into new dimension

It's an idea that was popularized by Princess Leia's plea for help in "Star Wars": sending a 3-D hologram.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

DPJ to launch group for China economic ties

Lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Japan will launch a group this week aimed at promoting economic ties between Japan and China amid souring bilateral relations at the political level, they said Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Ono eyes Iraq exit in December 2005

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono raised the possibility Sunday that the Self-Defense Forces' mission in Iraq will end in late 2005.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Ono says prelaunch action needed

Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Sunday the government should authorize mobilization of the Self-Defense Forces when signs are detected that an enemy is conducting missile prelaunch activities.
EDITORIALS
Nov 29, 2004

Heading for higher taxes

The latest report from the government's Tax Commission has a sobering message: In the long run, taxes in Japan have nowhere to go but up. As the commission's chairman, Mr. Hiromitsu Ishi, points out, there is no way to avoid tax increases in order to put the nation's fiscal house in order.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Hashimoto projected to win in Kochi

Daijiro Hashimoto was poised to win the gubernatorial election Sunday in Kochi Prefecture, according to initial returns and Kyodo projections.
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JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Four men found dead in apparent suicide pact

Four men were found dead early Sunday inside a Tokyo apartment, apparently after carrying out a suicide pact, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2004

Suspected hepatitis E cases tied to restaurant's pork

One of six people suspected of contracting hepatitis E after eating pork intestines at a barbecue restaurant in Kitami, Hokkaido, has died, health ministry and Hokkaido government officials said Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 29, 2004

Home-bred horses tops in Japan Cups

Japanese runners landed a knockout one-two punch to claim both the Japan Cup Dirt and the Japan Cup on Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse, keeping the winner's share at home for the second year in a row.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 29, 2004

Remains of the Occupation mentality

NEW YORK -- Sometimes a perception formed during an era, however unthinking, never seems to leave you. When I read, in a detailed chronology of Yukio Mishima (1925-70), that Meredith Weatherby visited Mishima at a New York hotel for an all-day discussion about his translation of Mishima's "Confessions...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2004

A new dawn for Myanmar?

Many Myanmar watchers might have been surprised when they got news of the pending release of nearly 4,000 prisoners who had been inappropriately jailed by the notorious Military Intelligence (MI) wing of former Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt's regime.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 29, 2004

National security may prove weak link in maintaining economic ties

Last week, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao met -- for the first time in a year -- on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Chile. Ever since Tokyo and Beijing restored diplomatic ties in the 1970s, there has been an underlying belief...
COMMENTARY
Nov 29, 2004

Know what reform can't do

It looks as though Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is determined to push through postal privatization as the ultimate goal of his structural reform efforts.
EDITORIALS
Nov 28, 2004

Found in translation

I n the field of law, Japan certainly cannot yet be said to be sufficiently open vis-a-vis other countries. In order to improve this situation, a law-and-ordinance translation group set up within the government's Office for Promotion of Justice System Reform has unveiled a project to translate legislation...
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2004

UFJ, Misawa Homes reportedly to seek IRCJ aid

UFJ Bank and Misawa Homes Holdings Inc. are finishing preparations to seek help from the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan to restructure the struggling home builder, sources close to the move said Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2004

MMC, Merrill Lynch eye car-loan business

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Saturday it is considering setting up a joint venture with Merrill Lynch & Co. to engage in North American financing operations as part of the struggling automaker's rehabilitation efforts.
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COMMUNITY
Nov 28, 2004

A clotheshorse for all seasons

"What will she be wearing?"
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 28, 2004

Light remains green for Filipinos in Japan -- well, kind of

The announcement of a basic free-trade agreement between Japan and the Philippines at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Santiago, Chile, was met with a positive response in the Japanese media. Japan, after all, clearly came out ahead: Tariffs on Japanese imported steel products will be substantially...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 28, 2004

"Chikyu: Fushigi Daishizen" on NHK and more

It's easy to believe that whenever humans come into contact with nature, nature suffers. However, this week's installment of NHK's nature show, "Chikyu: Fushigi Daishizen" (The Earth: Wondrous Nature; NHK-G, Monday, 8 p.m.), visits an area of Japan where people and nature have been living in harmony...

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo