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JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

Customs shows off World Cup fakes

OSAKA -- Customs officers at Japan's ports and airports prevented about 65,000 fake World Cup items from entering the country, according to the Finance Ministry.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 5, 2002

Swallows swoop ends Tigers' winning streak

Roberto Petagine hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning and Kevin Hodges threw 6 1/3 scoreless innings Thursday as the Yakult Swallows beat the Hanshin Tigers 2-0 in the Central League.
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Jul 5, 2002

Hoops stars Tabuse, Takahashi out of Kirin Cup

With three of the more experienced national players out, the Japanese men's national squad preparing to face Spain in the Kirin Cup Basketball 2002 was left pondering on one word: youth.
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Jul 5, 2002

Nagashima, Fukushima to shoot for WBC crowns

Japanese challengers Kengo Nagashima and Manabu Fukushima will get their shots at World Boxing Council (WBC) championship titles in late August when both fight at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Japanese boxing sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

Time said ripe for colleges to regroup

Two students spend an hour each week with a professor; one presents a paper while the other critiques.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

Universal Studios served food past expiration date

OSAKA -- USJ Co., which runs the Universal Studios Japan theme park, provided food items with old expiration dates to all 21 restaurants in the facility from June 2001 to February, USJ officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

Tax revenues short preliminary 1.7 trillion yen for 2001

Tax revenues in fiscal 2001 came to 47.943 trillion yen, falling 1.681 trillion yen short of government projections, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

MOX fuel's return just the start for Kepco

TAKAHAMA, Fukui Pref. -- Kansai Electric Power Co. is hoping that Thursday's return of mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel to Britain will put an end to nearly three years of nationwide controversy over Japan's MOX program.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

Nippon Columbia triples new shares issue

Nippon Columbia Co. said Thursday it will issue 49,646,000 new shares at 141 yen per share in and outside Japan to boost its capital base.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

Nakata stars in U.N. antidrug commercial

The National Police Agency will air a U.N. antidrug advertisement featuring soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata on big-screen street TVs in major cities, NPA officials said.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

BTM to lend 1 trillion yen by '05

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi plans to make 1 trillion yen in new loans to corporate and individual customers by March 2005, bank officials said Thursday.
LIFE / Language / THE PARENT TRIP
Jul 5, 2002

Equal but different

My 18-month-old daughter, Marin, was involved in a tug-of-war over a toy with a little friend a few months older. The boy gave my daughter a small shove and won possession of the coveted toy, and Marin promptly burst into noisy sobs. The other mother hurried over. Handing the toy back to Marin, she scolded...
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

Farm credit federations post first losses in six years

Agricultural cooperative credit federations ("shinren") in 46 prefectures across the nation posted combined net losses of 54.9 billion yen in fiscal 2001, Norinchukin Bank said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

New public postal corporation faces funding problems

A public postal corporation scheduled to be created in April must be capitalized at 14 trillion yen and have a capital adequacy ratio of 4 percent, mirroring the requirements imposed upon several domestic banks, posts minister Toranosuke Katayama said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

Shenyang consul chief removed from post

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on Thursday removed Kiyoshi Okazaki as Consul General in Shenyang and took punitive action against 11 other officials who failed to deal appropriately with five North Korean asylum-seekers who sought refuge at the consulate two months ago.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 5, 2002

Our yankii are different from your yankees

You know you're old when the slang expressions so fashionable in your youth go right over the heads of 22-year-olds who stare blankly as though you've just spoken to them in ancient Egyptian. One remembers a time when mecchanko (extremely superduper) was the adjective of the day, used to describe everything...
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

Osaka business lobbies set to merge

OSAKA -- The Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Osaka Industrial Association agreed Thursday to merge into a new group on April 1, according to the head of the OCCI.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2002

METI plots against R&D subsidy fraud

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will consider preventive measures against subsidy embezzlement following a series of corporate scandals involving its research and development support, a top ministry official said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

JAL-JAS to give up slots at Haneda

Japan Airlines and Japan Air System said Thursday they will give up a combined nine slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport in connection with their integration plan in October, although two of the slots will be returned to the tieup.
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Jul 5, 2002

Bringing our schools out into the open

I'm pretty happy with the Japanese elementary school my children attend. But I have to say one thing: I hate the building itself. It's the standard four-story concrete block. Drab, institutional and uninviting. What I dislike most is that it's closed off from the surrounding neighborhood, hidden away...
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jul 5, 2002

July may be hot for stock if U.S. avoids shock

In June, Japan's stock market suffered direct hits from the three concerns that were depressing stock prices in the United States -- dismal corporate earnings, shady corporate accounting and the specter of terrorism.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002

Takagi tapped to be next FSA commissioner

The government on Thursday decided unofficially to appoint Shokichi Takagi, director general of the Financial Services Agency's Supervisory Bureau, as the agency's next commissioner, officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 5, 2002

Brace yourself for "The Delta Force"

As hot as the trance music scene may seem right now, the electronica sub-genre itself is about "five years behind" where it should be, according to Marcus C. Maichel.

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