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JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Fact-finding team to visit Libya

A joint government-private sector economic mission will be sent next month to Libya, which has abandoned its weapons of mass destruction and is seeking foreign investment.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Man says he killed teacher in '78

Police found a body Sunday buried under a house in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, after a man walked into a police station and said he killed a female teacher 26 years ago.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Ozawa asserts peacekeeping is OK

Veteran lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa of the Democratic Party of Japan reiterated Sunday that Japanese troops can participate in U.N. peacekeeping activities, which could involve the use of force, without revising the Constitution.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Delay possible in full postal privatization: Takenaka

Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka indicated Sunday he understands the need for a possible delay in dividing postal services into several entities.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Fact-finding team to visit Libya

A joint government-private sector economic mission will be sent next month to Libya, which has abandoned its weapons of mass destruction and is seeking foreign investment.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2004

Annual troop, equipment goals to end

The Defense Agency will discontinue drawing up a target list for Self-Defense Force personnel and equipment levels when it compiles a revised defense strategy by the end of this year, according to agency sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2004

Africa's oil boom benefiting all too few

NEW YORK -- Since the mid-1990s, several countries in sub-Saharan Africa -- Nigeria, Angola, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea -- have experienced strong revenue growth from the petroleum industry. In most cases, this new wealth is not being directed toward the countries' economic development or toward improved...
COMMENTARY
Aug 23, 2004

Foreign workers at the gates

negotiations with South Korea and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan faces mounting pressure to open its labor market to foreigners. Among industrial nations, Japan has maintained the toughest exclusion policy toward foreign workers and remains extremely cautious. Japan should...
EDITORIALS
Aug 22, 2004

Soul-searching in South Korea

South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun announced Aug. 15, the day his country celebrates liberation from Japanese occupation, that the legislature would form a special commission to investigate who benefited under Japanese rule. The call for such an inquiry is understandable: The occupation was a dark and...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 22, 2004

Ryukyu Underground: "Ryukyu Remixed"

"Respect Records" perfectly describes the way this label feels that obscure styles of music, such as Okinawan, calypso, Hawaiian and Irish music, should be handled. Clearly, the folks at Respect are unusually dedicated. However, their recent release, "Ryukyu Remixed," is poised to gain recognition far...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 22, 2004

Sexual, textual and visual boundaries

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (BFI Film Classics), by Joan Mellen. London: British Film Institute, 2004, 88 pp., with photographs. £8.99 (paper).
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2004

'Fahrenheit 9/11' opens to big, enthusiastic crowds

OSAKA -- "Fahrenheit 9/11," American film director Michael Moore's savage attack on the policies of President George W. Bush, opened nationwide Saturday to long lines and enthusiastic crowds.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 22, 2004

Looking for an idyllic tribe, finding cultural revelation

DREAM JUNGLE, by Jessica Hagedorn. New York: Viking, 2003, 325 pp., $23.95 (cloth). In 1971 a wealthy Filipino, Manuel Elizalde, discovered a lost tribe in a jungle on Mindanao living in a manner apparently unchanged since the Paleolithic period. This group of hunters and gatherers, called the Tasaday,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2004

Zushi residents up in arms over more U.S. military housing

Until about two decades ago, poet Mutsuo Takahashi considered the city of Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, virgin territory.
Features
Aug 22, 2004

Keeping it in the club

On Oct. 16 last year, Hans van der Lugt, a correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, telephoned the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry with a simple inquiry.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight