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JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Teenagers held in store tear-gassing

OSAKA -- Police arrested three teenagers Aug. 14 for allegedly releasing tear gas in a supermarket in Hirano Ward, Osaka, earlier this month, causing about 500 customers respiratory problems.

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

'Date club' manager faces prosecutors

The Metropolitan Police Department will soon turn over to prosecutors the case of a manager of a "date club" in Shinjuku Ward who allegedly listed a 17-year-old girl as a client to skirt child-protection laws. The case represents the first implementation of an ordinance that went into effect Aug. 13...

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Draft plan aims to cut ministries to 15

Japan's 22 ministries and agencies will be reorganized into either 13 or 15 by January 2001, with a new Economic Ministry to be created by a merger of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the monetary policy division of the Finance Ministry, according to a draft plan being discussed by...

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Tokyo sharpens ax to cut 310 billion yen deficit

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, saddled with a deficit of roughly 310 billion yen this fiscal year, released a financial reconstruction plan Aug. 14 that singled out 30 items to be reviewed for possible budget reductions. The plan aims to cut the next fiscal year budget by 126.8 billion yen to 1.5...

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Provisional fisheries pact considered

Japan and South Korea agreed Aug. 14 to seek a provisional agreement in their fisheries talks by shelving the sensitive matter of the establishment of 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones in disputed seas, according to Foreign Ministry officials.

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Typhoon 13 bears down on Okinawa

An extraordinarily large typhoon was nearing the Okinawa Islands late Aug. 14, the Meteorological Agency said. The storm was forecast to reach seas south-southeast of Minami-Daitoshima Island Aug. 15 and bring strong winds to the main island of Okinawa early Aug. 16, the agency said.

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Sorge hanging was unfair: Yokohama lawyers

The November 1944 execution of convicted Soviet spy Richard Sorge and his accomplice, Hotsumi Ozaki, was unfair, the Yokohama Bar Association said in a report based on 10 years of research.

JAPAN

Aug 14, 1997

Yamaichi employee dies after street stabbing

An employee of Yamaichi Securities Co. was stabbed in the stomach on a Tokyo street late Aug. 14. He was rushed to a hospital but died soon afterward from loss of blood, police said. The man, identified by business cards found on the body, was 57-year-old Koichiro Tarutani, chief of the securities company's...

JAPAN

Aug 13, 1997

Nago voters petition for heliport plebiscite

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. -- Residents in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, presented a petition with 19,734 voter signatures to the municipal election management commission on Aug. 13, calling for an ordinance to provide for a plebiscite on construction of a U.S. Marine Corps offshore heliport.

JAPAN

Aug 13, 1997

Japan should consider tightening money policy later this year: IMF

The International Monetary Fund suggested Aug. 13 that Japan should tighten its monetary policy later this year, saying that the current low level of short-term interest rates are not appropriate over the medium term.

JAPAN

Aug 13, 1997

Community cheers as Osaka's name announced

OSAKA -- Some 600 people including politicians, businesspeople and citizens gathered at the Osaka Municipal Central Public Hall to watch the live broadcast of the Japanese Olympic Committee's announcement that Osaka has been named as a candidate to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

JAPAN

Aug 13, 1997

Parties and politicians jockey for power

By Kaoruko Aita

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.

A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan

By Hanako Lowry

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