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JAPAN
Mar 12, 2004

Koizumi backpedals, supports certain cases of 'amakudari'

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday backpedaled on his recent pledge to bar retired bureaucrats from heading semigovernmental special companies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

Plants built amid digital gadget boom

With more and more Japanese households using digital appliances that can be monitored and controlled via the Internet and mobile phones, many firms are planning to build more plants in Japan to make components for these smart products.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Mar 12, 2004

Flowers blossom above the Californian fog

The red wines of Burgundy are often cited as the Holy Grail for New World makers of Pinot Noir, but the results have almost invariably fallen short. So we were surprised to see wine guru Robert Parker recently laud a Pinot from New World upstart Flowers Winery as "evocative of a Domaine de la Romanee...
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

NTT in U.S. patent suit since 2001

The University of Texas filed a damages suit in the United States in 2001 against NTT Corp. over NTT's patented battery technology, which the school claims was taken from it by a former student who worked as an engineer for the firm, NTT officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2004

Toyota trumpets walking robots

Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled four humanoid robot prototypes Thursday, some of which can walk and play the trumpet.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 12, 2004

Museums bid to widen leisure appeal

Museums want you to drop by, of course, but they also want you to linger, to explore, take your time -- the whole afternoon, if possible. To this end, no respectable museum can be without cafes and shops to enhance the experience.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2004

Chinese being frozen out of student visa process

Things are looking pretty grim for Chinese students who have their sights set on pursuing their Japanese language studies here.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

LDP, FSA clash over bank plan

Liberal Democratic Party panels on financial policy and research voiced opposition Thursday toward a Financial Services Agency plan aimed at lifting all restrictions on banks entering the insurance business.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

Vodafone to offer Global Mail service

Vodafone K.K. said it will launch a new service Thursday that enables its mobile phone users to exchange e-mail with photo and video data with overseas users who have compatible handsets on participating networks.
Japan Times
Events
Mar 12, 2004

Diagnosing what really ails Japan, Germany

BERLIN -- Japan and Germany, once the powerful engines of the global economy together with the United States, have had stagnant years since the 1990s.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

Yoshinoya hopes discount pork dish will draw crowd

Restaurant chain Yoshinoya D&C Co. launched a five-day campaign Thursday to promote sales of pork-on-rice dishes, which it introduced after running out of beef last month due to a ban on imported U.S. beef.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2004

Fukui fears sowing seeds of inflation

Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui said Thursday the seeds of inflation may be disseminated by the extremely accommodative monetary policies of many developed countries.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 11, 2004

Under-23s under the weather

The Japanese Under-23 team is still suffering from a stomach bug that struck many of its players during last week's tour to the United Arab Emirates in the first round of Asian qualifiers for the Athens Olympics.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Koizumi admits state fault in '50s emigration plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday the government should not have promoted emigration to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Kobe killer set free

A 21-year-old man who strangled and decapitated a boy and bludgeoned a girl to death when he was 14 in one of Japan's most notorious juvenile crimes was paroled Wednesday, having spent more than six years at a medical reformatory, the Justice Ministry announced.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 11, 2004

Preakness winner dies in Japan

Tabasco Cat, winner of the 1994 Preakness and Belmont Stakes, has died in Japan of a heart attack.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Panel to probe ANA copilot's illness

A transport ministry panel will look into an incident Sunday in which the copilot of an All Nippon Airways flight from Narita to Singapore came down with an acute stomachache and the captain had to fly the aircraft alone.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 11, 2004

Nagashima showing improvement

Former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima has started moving his upper body and is enjoying classical music while he recovers at a Tokyo hospital from a stroke he had last week, members of his family said on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2004

Current account surplus up 135.2% in January

Japan's current account surplus soared 135.2 percent in January from a year earlier to 1.054 trillion yen for the seventh straight month of expansion, due to brisk exports and a continued drop in overseas tourism, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2004

OS devised for nonstandard kanji

The creator of the Tron computer operating system said Wednesday he has developed technology to show nonstandard kanji characters on Western operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2004

Slain diplomats' car may go on show at ministry

A monument to the dead or merely a gruesome exhibit?

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