2006.01.20

Japan-CNMI Aviation (Saipan Tribune) Charter airline planning flights between Japan and Saipan. 2006.01.20

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Japan-BSE Consumers (Kyodo) Japanese consumers express outrage over spinal bones found by customs inspectors in shipment of U.S. beef. 2006.01.20

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Japan-Afghanistan (VOA) Japan, which already has sent $1,000,000,000 in aid to Afghanistan in the past four years, is being asked to give more. 2006.01.20

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Japan-BSE (Kyodo) Update Japan again bans all American beef imports. 2006.01.20

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Japan-BSE (Kyodo) Japan makes new charges against U.S. beef -- saying spinal bits -- which could carry mad cow disease -- may have been imported in the country. 2006.01.20

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Japan may allow women to ascend throne (AP). Prime Minister Koizumi tells the Diet that the government will submit a bill that would allow women to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. 2006.01.20

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Japan-Stock Market (Kyodo) Tokyo Stock Exchange promises to boost trading capacity from next week. 2006.01.20

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ROK says Japan to levy tarrif on Hynix (AP). Japan plans to levy import duties of 27.2% on computer memory chips made by Hynix Semiconductor. 2006.01.20

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Japan-Livedoor Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie likely to be called in for questioning in criminal probe from Monday. Developing... 2006.01.20

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Making Way for Empresses. [IPS] Feminists in Japan have mixed feelings about moves to amend the imperial succession law to allow princesses to ascend Japan's revered Chrysanthemum Throne. 2006.01.20

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Japan-Media (AP) Cerberus suing Mainichi for report on linking the investment firm to the yakuza. 2006.01.20

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USA, ROK urge DPRK to return to nuke talks (AFP). The United States and South Korea call for North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons drive as China made a new push to break the impasse over the three-year-old crisis. 2006.01.20

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Japan-Stocks Stock indexes shoot sharply higher after the opening bell for the second day in a row -- heralding that the Livedoor Shock may be over. But high volume of shares remains a concern. 2006.01.20

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