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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 4, 2001

Felix

Most passengers boarded the RMS St. Helena in Cardiff, South Wales. Some went on board in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Felix, who is of Spanish-Cuban descent, joined the ship in Tenerife, as the resort island is his home. He had never set foot on St. Helena.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2001

METI to test hydrogen fuel gas stations

Hydrogen gas stations for fuel-cell vehicles will open in April on a three-year trial basis.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2001

National interests to dictate Kyoto ratification: Howard

Visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that his country will decide on the basis of national interests whether to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, even if Japan goes ahead without the United States.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2001

Kato named U.S. ambassador

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka formally gave in to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ministry personnel requests Friday, agreeing to appoint Deputy Foreign Minister Ryozo Kato as the next ambassador to the United States, replacing Shunji Yanai.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2001

Bureaucrats declare 2,625 gifts, rewards and entertainment

The National Personnel Authority has released a report documenting gifts, rewards and entertainment expenses worth 5,000 yen or more that were reported by senior government officials in fiscal 2000, more than half of which were reported by Foreign Ministry officials.
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 2001

ARF beginning to lose its bite

Remember the ASEAN Regional Forum? That was the experiment in multilateralism that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations had hoped would become a real forum for regional security discussions. ASEAN would use that foundation to become an institution of truly global significance, offering a model...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2001

Trade, security top agenda

SYDNEY -- A new regional security mechanism involving the United States, Japan and Australia that risks offending China is high on the agenda of Australian Prime Minister John Howard for his Tokyo visit.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2001

Shades of hubris in Kumaratunga's political offensive

NEW DELHI -- The July 24 rebel attack on Sri Lanka's only international airport at Colombo further underscored that peace cannot be easily achieved in the island nation that has witnessed an ethnic crisis for almost two decades now. The minority Tamil-speaking people have been demanding an independent...
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2001

Protest lodged by Tokyo over fish row

Japan lodged an official protest Thursday with Moscow and Seoul after South Korean boats started fishing for saury around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2001

Japan gets China's vote for ICJ

Japan has found an unlikely ally in its intensifying campaign to secure a judge's seat at the International Court of Justice.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 3, 2001

BayStars run win streak to nine

Dave Doster and Motonobu Tanishige both had three RBIs as the Yokohama BayStars won their ninth straight game by edging the Hiroshima Carp 11-9 at Hiroshima Stadium on Thursday night.
COMMUNITY
Aug 3, 2001

Togetherness with calisthenics

School is out for the summer but still, remarkably, kids in this fitness-savvy society turn out -- at 6:30 a.m., no less -- at parks, shrines and quiet streets across Japan for NHK's daily "Radio Taiso" workout, a 15-minute live broadcast of morning calisthenics.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2001

Prince Akishino, wife off to Thailand

Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, left Thursday for an unofficial visit to Thailand through Sunday, where the prince will receive honorary degrees from two universities.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2001

Tanaka gives in to Koizumi; U.S. envoy to be removed

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka backed down Thursday in a feud with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over personnel changes at the Foreign Ministry, agreeing to replace Japan's ambassador to the United States, a government source said.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2001

ETFs proving darling of online traders

Having long shunned investment trust funds, online investors have reacted positively to the launch of exchange traded funds. There is good reason.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 3, 2001

J. League All-Star roster change

J. League All-Star players Jubilo Iwata midfielder Hiroshi Nanami and Avispa Fukuoka defender Takashi Hirashima were replaced by midfielders Toshita Fujita of Jubilo and Daisuke Nakahara of Avispa, respectively, the J. League announced on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's game.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2001

Nasdaq Japan trade value fell for fifth month in July

The total value of transactions on the Nasdaq Japan stock exchange fell 22 percent to 32.1 billion yen in July, marking the fifth straight monthly decline, according to the Osaka Securities Exchange.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2001

Average life spans up to record level in 2000

The average life spans of Japanese women and men rose in 2000 to records of 84.62 years and 77.64 years, respectively, according to a survey released by Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2001

The Thai dilemma: ethics or stability?

BANGKOK -- Is Thailand's prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra just an entrepreneurial businessman in a hurry, anxious to bring to the country the same benefits that he won in the telecom business, where he became a U.S.-dollar billionaire and very quickly, one of the world's richest 500 people? Or does...
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2001

DoCoMo ups expectations for demand

NTT DoCoMo Inc. has revised upward its projection for domestic demand for mobile phones in 2010 in a sign that it is pinning high hopes on the popularity of phone functions in digital cameras, TV sets and refrigerators, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2001

Carrefour nixes store-opening plan

Carrefour Japan Co., the Japanese unit of major French retailer Carrefour, has canceled plans to set up shop in the failed Sogo Co.'s department store in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, industry officials said Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 3, 2001

Waka signs to play in Japan's X League

Masaru Hanada, well-known as former yokozuna Wakanohana, has given up his attempt to play in the National Football League for now and decided to play in the X League, Japan's non-professional company league, this fall. The Onward Skylarks, one of the X League's elite clubs, announced Wednesday that they...

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