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SOCCER / J. League
Mar 7, 2001

Cup dates lined up

Shimizu S-Pulse will visit BEC Tero Sasana at Bangkok for the first leg of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup quarterfinals March 24, the J. League club announced Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Stock slump offers bargains if floor forms

The Tokyo Stock Exchange remains mired in a depressed price range, with the benchmark Nikkei average flirting with its lowest level in more than 15 years.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Coalition may consider redenominating the yen

The government gave mixed signals Tuesday following a press report that some Liberal Democratic Party members advocate redenominating the yen to enhance the currency's international status.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Drug firms team up to battle impotence

Japan's major pharmaceutical maker, Tanabe Seiyaku Co., said Tuesday it has teamed up with Vivus Inc. of the United States on an anti-impotence drug currently being developed.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Norwegian king to visit March 25

King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway will make a weeklong visit to Japan starting March 25 to deepen friendly relations between the two countries, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Embezzlement scandal documents have not been destroyed, Kono says

Foreign Ministry documents related to alleged embezzlement by a diplomat who has since been dismissed have been kept, even though the ministry routinely destroys documents considered unnecessary after five years, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Nissan's Barcelona plant to make X83 compact van

Nissan Motor Co. and French partner Renault SA will jointly invest 250 million euros (27.53 billion yen) on production of a new compact van, code-named the X83, at the Japanese automaker's plant in Barcelona, Spain, the two carmakers said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Government to ensure banks provide funds for small firms

The government will meet next week with government-related and private-sector financial institutions to ensure that adequate funds for the end of the fiscal year are available for small and medium-size companies, Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa said Tuesday.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 7, 2001

Jo gets the call

Yokohama F. Marinos striker Shoji Jo has been called up for Japan's tryout camp ahead of its friendly against France, the Japan Football Association announced Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Japan, Cuba to back Honduras medical project

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and his visiting Cuban counterpart, Felipe Ramon Perez, have agreed on a joint project to support medical activities in Honduras as part of efforts to strengthen ties between Japan and Cuba.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

One in every four Tokyo elementary, junior high students has a cellphone

One out of every four elementary and junior high school students in the Tokyo metropolitan area has a mobile phone, according to a survey released Tuesday by NTT DoCoMo Inc.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

February sales of new cars rise 2.4%

February saw 371,482 new cars sold, up 2.4 percent from February last year, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Changes to attorney law allow lawyers to establish legal firms

The government approved a bill Tuesday to amend the attorney law, enabling lawyers to establish law firms.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Guests, failure of display cited at start of Greeneville inquiry

HONOLULU -- The presence of civilian guests and deficiencies in the personnel and equipment aboard the USS Greeneville before it collided with the Ehime Maru were highlighted Monday in the U.S. Navy's formal inquiry in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Domestic violence bill on Diet agenda

The increasing problem of domestic violence is being addressed by a nonpartisan group of female lawmakers who plan to submit a bill to the Diet next month aimed at protecting victims.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

SDP leader to visit Koreas in April

Takako Doi, leader of the Social Democratic Party, will visit North and South Korea next month as head of a mission organized by the Socialist International, officials of the London-based group said Tuesday.
LIFE / Digital
Mar 7, 2001

Bluetooth hopes to deliver 'new dimension in wireless technology'

Can't get enough of the Internet at your home and office?
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Technical glitch forces J-Phone to delay launch of 3G mobile telephone

Cellular operator J-Phone Group announced Tuesday that it will postpone the planned launch of the next-generation mobile phone service (3G) from December to June 2002, due to technical problems caused by the latest version update of an international standard for the multimedia cellular phone.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Deadline on breakup of NTT unlikely to be issued

A set of telecommunications-related bills the government aims to pass in the current Diet session is unlikely to include a proposed two-year deadline for the breaking up of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., the telecom minister said Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 7, 2001

Climb rain forests to the clouds

If you've climbed Mount Kinabalu in Sabah Province, Malaysian Borneo, under the impression that you were heroically scaling the highest peak in Southeast Asia, I have bad news.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Blackman account gets name change

A Japanese bank has changed the name of an account holding money for a trust set up in memory of slain Briton woman Lucie Blackman from "Lucie Blackman Fund" to "Lucie Blackman Trust," the bank said.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Japan bans European pork over foot-and-mouth disease

Japan has banned imports of pork and pork products from France, Belgium and Northern Ireland following suspected outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease there, farm ministry officials said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2001

Agribusiness at a crossroads

LONDON -- Every industrialized country in the world has this idealized image: the farmer, full of robust common sense, tending his pig or his flock on his small land-holding, sturdily helped by his hardworking wife and children. He is close to the earth and nature. It is true that, in Japan or America's...

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