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JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 2, 2003

Neo Universe speeds home to capture Nippon Derby

Neo Universe, without even a single lash of the whip, landed the 70th Nippon Derby on Sunday by half a length to claim his second title in Japan's Triple Crown series.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 2, 2003

Consequences of eternal stability may mummify Japan's economy

Stability is a good thing. But you can always have too much of a good thing. Too much stability turns into rigidity. Rigidity begets stagnation. Stagnation leads to decline. Decline leads to death. Such is the dynamics of economic activity.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

U.S. military says Yokota fuel-spill cleanup over

The U.S. Air Force's Yokota base has told nearby local governments that it will soon complete cleanup operations stemming from a fuel-spill at the base in 1993.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Number of foreigners highest ever

A record 1,851,758 foreigners were registered with Japanese immigration authorities as of Dec. 31, a 4.1 percent increase from the record high logged the year before.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2003

Keep political donations transparent

Stung by a series of corruption scandals since last year, the ruling-coalition parties have begun talks aimed at updating some of the rules governing the financing of political campaigns in Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party seeks to raise the legal limit on donations that do not require disclosure...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2003

Police investigate boy's death at Tokyo hospital

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy at a hospital in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of professional negligence, it was learned Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 2, 2003

U.S.-Japan global alliance

Last week's summit between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush ushered in a new era for the Japan-U.S. security alliance: The bilateral system is beginning to change into a global alliance.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Big Issue Kansai magazine to help homeless help themselves

OSAKA -- Hoping to imitate the success of its British namesake, a company was recently set up here to publish a magazine called Big Issue Kansai, which will help homeless people earn money by selling the paper on the street.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Typhoon loses some of its sting

Typhoon Linfa, the first typhoon to strike Japan in May since 1965, weakened into a temperate depression Saturday morning, after coming ashore at Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 1, 2003

S. Korea claims revenge

South Korea avenged a 1-0 home defeat to Japan in April by the same scoreline at a rain-swept National Stadium on Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Medicines for colds linked to potentially deadly pneumonia

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has identified 28 cases of pneumonia since 1996 that it suspects were side effects of nonprescription drugs for common colds, it was learned Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2003

Medicines for colds linked to potentially deadly pneumonia

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has identified 28 cases of pneumonia since 1996 that it suspects were side effects of nonprescription drugs for common colds, it was learned Saturday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 1, 2003

Rumor mill churns on Beckham, Wenger

LONDON -- The truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction and the ongoing Spanish inquisition involving David Beckham and Arsene Wenger is becoming, to borrow a line from Alice In Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 1, 2003

Face to face from worlds far apart

The miracle is no blood was shed. On the contrary, the Americans and the Japanese rather liked each other. That too is something of a miracle.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jun 1, 2003

You gotta walk the walk, talk the talk

DJ Seen does have tales to tell. After I get all five members of Pico System to play a game in which they have to decide what kind of animal each of the others is most like (this does, believe me, occasionally yield some illuminating responses), Seen is voted a cheetah. Maybe it's got something to do...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 1, 2003

The flowered margin

TATTOOS OF THE FLOATING WORLD, by Takahiro Kitamura; foreword by Donald Richie. Hotei Publishing, 2003, 120 pp., 2,600 yen (cloth). In an age excessively concerned with outward appearances, official disapproval of tattoos in Japan is perhaps understandable. The Japanese are less seriously spooked by...

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers