Japanese & Asian news 29/12 2007

Travelers crowd airports, stations

61% of teachers had mental illness

30 hospitals refuse woman, 89

Japan to give 1,000 tents to UNHCR

6 freed fishermen return to Japan

Politics

Nukaga to visit India, Vietnam

Japan may review aid to Pakistan

China rolls out red carpet for Fukuda

Japan condemns Bhutto killing

Diet goes into recess until Jan 7

Crime

Shoplifter lived in hotel for 2 years

MSDF lieutenant cmdr indicted

Ex-teacher gets suspended term

Asahara's daughters file suit

Kano's father held for assault

Man arrested for torching his house

Winny found in SDF suspect's disk

Missing Kagawa woman found dead

Business

Mister Donut to raise prices in Feb

Mitsubishi to make cars in Russia

Toshiba sues Italian firm

Retail sales up 1.6% in November

Japan stays out of currency markets

Tax revenues up 2.2% in November

Technology

NTT to cut fiber-optic access fees

Samsung sues Sharp over patent

Amazon, Warner Music team

NEC wins Polish 3G mobile contract

S'tomo Seika to up polymer output

Orders for chipmaking gear dip

MHI to market new nuclear reactor

Asia

63 dead, 90 missing in landslides

Taiwan court clears Ma

Nepal votes to abolish monarchy

New party launched in Nepal

U.S. wants full nuke list from NK

S Korean troops to stay in Iraq

Police in China arrest villagers

Vietnam looks at regulating blogs

Aussie rescued from pub chimney