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EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 2000

Reform is key to winning IT race

The world is gripped with IT fever. Despite linguistic differences, IT, shorthand for information technology, is a buzzword even here. It is believed to hold the key to the future development of the Japanese economy. That is why Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is leading the drive for an IT revolution. ...
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 8, 2000

Hawks dump Nieves

The Daiei Hawks have released Puerto Rican outfielder Melvin Nieves, officials of the Pacific League club said on Tuesday.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 8, 2000

Gamba eyeing title as second stage set to resume

After a 2 1/2-month break due to the Sydney Olympics and the Asian Cup, the J. League's Division One resumes Wednesday night.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Sea of Japan ports to berth fast coast guard patrol boats

The Japan Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it will station three special high-speed patrol vessels on the Sea of Japan coast by the end of March. The move comes in the wake of last year's failed chase of apparent North Korean spy boats.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Suspended term handed down in mauling death

The president of an animal leasing firm in Machida, western Tokyo, was sentenced Tuesday to a suspended two-year prison term in connection with the death of an employee who was mauled by a Bengal tiger in February.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Obituary: Kozaburo Yoshimura

Film director Kozaburo Yoshimura, known for famous works such as "Anjoke no Butokai" ("A Ball at the Anjo House"), died of heart failure Tuesday morning at his home in Yokohama, his family said. He was 89.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Diet begins debate on cloning bills

The Lower House plenary session began deliberations Tuesday on two separate bills, one each from the government and the Democratic Party of Japan, to ban human cloning and punish offenders with a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
COMMUNITY
Nov 8, 2000

More than just a nice cuppa tea

Having succeeded in convincing consumers of the health benefits of green tea, Japanese tea manufacturers are now aiming to expand into a new market: the production of pharmaceuticals containing green-tea extracts for use in the prevention of cancer.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Court grants recognition of man's A-bomb illness

OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision legitimizing a 74-year-old man's claim that radiation from the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima caused his health problems.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Shops continue discriminatory practices

A year has passed since the Shizuoka District Court issued a landmark ruling that awarded damages to a Brazilian journalist for being refused service at a jewelry shop in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, simply because she was foreign.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 8, 2000

Matsui, Ichiro golden

Outfielders Hideki Matsui of the Yomiuri Giants and Ichiro Suzuki of the Orix BlueWave were named to the Central and Pacific League "Golden Glove" teams on Tuesday for their stellar fielding in the 2000 season.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

DaimlerChrysler Japan recalls Neons

DaimlerChrysler Japan Holding Ltd. told the Transport Ministry on Tuesday that it is recalling 348 Neon passenger cars made in the United States, ministry officials said.
LIFE / Digital
Nov 8, 2000

Nintendo's new boy has bigger byte

SEATTLE --In 1989, a few short weeks after the worldwide launch of Nintendo's Game Boy, rival Atari released a handheld game system with a backlit color screen. The engineers at Atari considered Game Boy and its dim, low-resolution monochrome screen to be a technological joke.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2000

Blood brothers, blood feuds

"In the year Sakalat 185, year of the Horse, the Thai came to tattoo all the inhabitants of the Lao cities." -- Oden Meeker, "The Little World of Laos"
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Alleged rapist kept notes on victims

A Tokyo businessman suspected of raping two foreign women kept notes including the names and other information on other women he allegedly had contact with, it was learned Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2000

Wreck and return of the Mary Rose

The man o' war, moving gracefully under billowing canvas sheeting, moved purposefully through the water. The pride of King Henry VIII of England's navy, HMS Mary Rose was a state-of-the-art warship tasked with repelling a French invasion across the Channel.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Ministry to survey Japanese on Sakhalin

The Health and Welfare Ministry next month will survey Japanese still living on Sakhalin since being detained there by the Soviet Union after World War II to determine how many of them want to relocate to Japan permanently.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2000

Researchers to test DNA of King Tut

Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo said Tuesday that they will test the DNA of Egypt's legendary King Tutankhamen to determine the country's royal lineage and the cause of his death.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2000

Catching Dolly Varden trout in Hokkaido's Churui River

After quickly catching my daily limit of pink salmon during a recent fishing trip to eastern Hokkaido's Churui River, I spent the next couple of hours pursuing smaller game, the oshorokoma, Japan's little native Dolly Varden char. This is a fish that makes up in looks and spunk what it lacks in size....
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2000

A chance to reshape U.S.-Japan ties

Foreign policy is never a cutting-edge issue in U.S. presidential elections, and this year's campaign is no exception. Even when the candidates have ventured into the territory, the focus has been on China, North Korea or the role of U.S. forces in Europe or Africa or even Haiti. When Japan makes the...
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2000

Cracked earth: A journey through Thailand's arid and impoverished Northeast

"In a bad year, it is not only the plows that break, but the hearts too." -- Pira Sudham, "People of Isan"
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 8, 2000

Nihongo dekiru?

Nihongo dekiru? Since Amazon.com opened for business, its biggest foreign market has been Japan. The company has about 193,000 customers here and they ring up about $34 million worth of sales. Mind you, the domestic Japanese market for online book sales is only $46 million. (In the name of full disclosure,...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2000

The outlook after 100 days

The June summit in Pyongyang kicked off a summer of symbolic and historic "firsts" on the Korean Peninsula, marked by the dramatic symbolism of inter-Korean reconciliation after more than five decades of stalemate. Sufficient time has now passed to evaluate what might be called the "honeymoon period"...
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2000

Falling through the cracks

Twenty-five million people around the world have been forced to leave their homes as a result of conflict or natural disasters. Yet as a result of a legal quirk, these individuals -- unlike the 13 million others whose flight takes them across international boundaries -- have no special status and enjoy...
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

Ouchi gets eight years for role in cultist killing

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a one-time senior Aum Shinrikyo figure to eight years in prison Monday for his role in the 1989 murder of a 21-year-old cultist and the cremation of a follower who died during training in 1993.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

Mori to recognize Paralympians

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will present silver cups to Japanese gold medalists of the Sydney Paralympic Games, including swimmer Mayumi Narita, who bagged six gold medals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

American fears for ecology on his island

To Japanese elsewhere, Jack Moyer may be a "gaijin," but to the people of Miyake Island, he is fellow islander Jack-san.

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
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