Asahi Shimbun predicted the prime minister would come under pressure to jettison other cabinet members.
But for sheer whimsy, nothing matches Asahi's Super Dry Hall (Philippe Starck, 1989) in Asakusa district.
It cited a poll by the left-leaning Asahi Shimbun in which a majority of respondents registered such opposition.
The Asahi torch is close by the Sensoji Temple, one of Tokyo's oldest and most traditional Buddhist sites.
Asahi hopes that the extra cash will boost its finances and allow it to restructure its remaining operations.
The Asahi Shimbun report said a rise in Toyota's prices in the US would also reflect increased raw material costs.
At Sumitomo Bank, for example, staff are encouraged to drink only Asahi beer because the brewery is in its keiretsu.
In August Asahi Denka Kogyo, a chemicals firm, said it would sell its distribution and heavy-machinery businesses to their managers.
Excerpts of an interview with Robinson, portions of which appeared in Asahi Shimbun's weekly magazine AERA on 2 April, are attached.
The test result was good enough to attract Asahi TV in 1990.
In Japan, Asahi Shimbun says U.S. President Bush will now face difficulties in advancing his trade policies because of the Democrats, who favour protectionism.
To keep up with demand, Corning and Asian rivals like Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass have been running at full out and boosting capacity.
On a related note, Japan's Asahi Shimbun recommends changes in Japan's energy policy, hoping for a quick shift towards more use of natural sources of power.
The world's second largest brewer, SABMiller, is trying to buy Foster's, with Mexico's Groupo Modelo and Japan's Asahi also thought to be eyeing up a bid.
Of the 100 companies included in a poll this week by the Asahi Shimbun, a leftish daily, a quarter had experienced difficulty in borrowing from banks.
Mitsubishi is also said to be seeking an injection of tens of billions of yen from the Japan Development Bank, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Friday.
On the Asian crisis, he told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in November that Japan needs to stimulate its economy and boost imports to help its neighbors recover.
Asahi in Japan offers the first word on how the 3DS achieves its 3D-ness by suggesting that the new portable game machine with feature a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp.
Reporters for the Asahi Shimbun in the Osaka area have received death threats from gangsters, and for security reasons, many are living apart from their families, according to an Asahi reporter there.
"She is certainly a pioneer among female entrepreneurs, but I see her as an inspiring figure regardless of her gender, " says Higuchi Hirotaro, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries and a respected business leader.
As for a rise in the consumption tax, an opinion survey conducted at the polling stations by Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper, found that more voters favoured a doubling in the tax, to 10%, than were against it.
Where a huge, neon Asahi beer sign was once a beacon, there now looms what can only be described as an objet, a kind of golden beet resting on a black obsidian-like pedestal (which doubles as a restaurant).
As The Asahi Shimbun reports, that system isn't the best for producing deep bass (making them less than ideal for music), but it apparently fares considerably better with the medium and high-pitched sounds of birds and rustling tree branches.
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