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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Motive in Japanese Stabbings: A Dead Dog
The Japanese police say the motive in last week’s stabbing deaths of a former health ministry official and his wife appeared to be anger over a long-dead dog.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Tokyo Killings May Be Tied to Scandal on Pensions
The grisly knifing death of a former health ministry official and his wife by an unknown assailant has thrown this normally low-crime nation into an unusual uproar.
Mexico: Man Makes One Long Layover
A Japanese man has been living in a layover at the Mexico City airport for nearly three months, and he has no plans to leave.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Japanese Are Irked by U.S. Interest in Pitcher
As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation’s leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Japan’s Economy, World’s Second Largest, Is in Recession
Japan’s economy has been hurt by weak export growth and steep cuts in corporate spending amid the worsening global slowdown.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Neighborhood in Japan Files Lawsuit in Bid to Oust Mafia
Organized crime, considered a necessary evil, is tolerated by, and sometimes allied with, the authorities in Japan.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Panasonic and Sanyo Aim to Merge by End of Year
The deal would bring together two well-known brands with combined annual sales of more than $111.5 billion.
Small Investors in Japan Jump In
Tens of thousands of household savers — many of them first-time investors — are pouring into the market, seizing the world financial crisis as the greatest buying opportunity in a generation.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
An Enclave of Brazilians Is Testing Insular Japan
Japanese-Brazilians pose an elementary test case for a difficult transformation in Japan, which is notoriously unwelcoming to immigrants but facing a demographic squeeze.
Japan Fires General Who Said a U.S. ‘Trap’ Led to the Pearl Harbor Attack
A high-ranking Japanese military official was dismissed for writing an essay stating that the United States had ensnared Japan into World War II.
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