Japanese & Asian news 26/12 2007

Narita eyes 300,000 annual flights

Panel urges flexible school system

Top court rejects appeal by Koreans

China family get wartime ship money

JALways served pork with bite marks

Politics

PM gets global warming adviser

DPJ wants lower road taxes

Gov't to streamline 6 entities

Japan, U.S. eye climate summit

Japan to scrap plan for NSC

Japan welcomes Thai election

Crime

Woman strangled in Utsunomiya

Man falls from office bldg

Court upholds life for 2 kidnappers

Boy falls from bus; 2 arrested

Sanyo admits to illegal dividends

Reckless driver gets 18 years

Prosecutors get Aegis data leak info

Man robs Gifu pachinko parlor

Business

Toyota expected to pass GM in 2008

Fuji introduces new Subaru Forester

Fukuchi elected NHK president

Gov't to help ease oil price shock

Washable suit to go on sale

Technology

JR Tokai to build maglev train

Itochu buys U.S. power station

NTT DoCoMo to tie up with Google

Nikon eyes friendly rivalry with Canon

Asia

61 feared dead in landslides

Indonesian woman dies of bird flu

Land seizures raise fears in China

'No-smoking center' in Pyongyang

11 dead in bridge collapse in Nepal
U.S. welcomes Thai election results