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JAPAN
Jul 4, 2002

Tokyo fire prevention guru advocates household use of special safety system

Masanao Hirose, who oversees fire prevention at the Setagaya Fire Station, wants more households to deploy a special safety system set up by the Tokyo Fire Department.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2002

Ruling bloc submits diluted postal bills to chamber

The ruling coalition parties on Wednesday submitted a watered-down version of a postal services deregulation bill to the House of Representatives.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jul 4, 2002

Fundamentals, intervention to rein in yen

The dollar's slide remains unstoppable. After U.S. President George W. Bush remarked that the unit's value should be determined by market forces, the currency rapidly plunged below 120 yen, despite the Bank of Japan's market intervention.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2002

Edo Period maps by Ino on display at Tokyo Big Sight

An exhibition of Japan's first maps based on an actual coastal survey by Ino Tadataka, a surveyor in the Edo Period, opened Wednesday at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition hall in the Odaiba district.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE EXTRA
Jul 4, 2002

Henry, Horan sing praises of Japanese rugby

The Japan rugby team has, particularly in the last 30 years, had a number of false dawns. The 1970s saw it lose narrowly to England (6-3 in 1971 and 21-19 in 1979); the 1980s saw it lose to Wales 29-24 in 1983 and beat a weakened Scotland team 28-24 in 1989, and in 1999 it beat Samoa 37-34 to win the...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2002

The Cyprus connection: How Milosevic evaded arms sanctions

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- On Dec. 27, 1998, a Yugoslav named Drakomir Stojkovic flew from Belgrade to Cyprus's Larnaca airport on a private jet carrying bags stuffed with 35 million deutsche marks -- worth roughly $17 million.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jul 4, 2002

Welcome to the world's most successful societies

Ants have an amazing lineage. They have been around for at least 100 million years, since the middle of the Cretaceous Period, and for at least the last 50 million years they have been among the most abundant of all insects. We think we're successful? Our population has recently topped 6 billion, but...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 4, 2002

Solving the nation's waste problem and raising bilingual kids

Everyone is aware of the problem of garbage. With Tokyo alone throwing away 6,000 tons of food a day, kitchen waste in particular is a practical as well as a moral concern.
LIFE / Digital
Jul 4, 2002

The Simpsons on DVD -- hi-fi Americana

Fox Home Video has just released "The Simpsons Season Two DVD Collection." If you have not heard of the Simpsons, you have a little catching up to do.
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2002

Major life insurers stress soundness of their finances

Four of the nation's leading life insurance companies emphasized Wednesday the soundness of their finances during annual meetings of their representative policyholders.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 4, 2002

Summertime fun to seek, avoid

It's been more than a year since Nintendo released Game Boy Advance -- a much, much more powerful Game Boy with a bigger, color screen and several times more processing power.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jul 4, 2002

A woodland to call not my own

On May 31 this year, our woodland here in Kurohime was finally designated as a Nagano Prefectural Trust, whose aim is to foster the rehabilitation of abused and neglected woodland, and to return it to greater and balanced biodiversity through continuing research and education.
COMMUNITY
Jul 4, 2002

The land of the early rising, and setting, sun

The issue of daylight-saving time is back in the news.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Japan reaped benefits from World Cup: survey

Many Japanese believe the World Cup improved its ties with South Korea and spread information about the nation's culture, although it might not have produced the economic benefits many were hoping for, according to poll results released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Doctor allegedly ordered falsification of records

A doctor arrested Friday for alleged negligence in connection with a 12-year-old girl's death at a Tokyo hospital last year also ordered that records be falsified, investigative sources alleged Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Nissan lauds NPO-study scholarship recipients

Nissan Motor Co. has marked the completion of the fourth term of its Nissan-NPO Learning Scholarship Program and held an orientation seminar for the start of the fifth.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jul 3, 2002

Dollar declining, intervention efforts or no

I have long warned against Japan's political leadership shortcomings, expressed doubt about a real economic recovery and predicted the yen will be weak this year.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Mori to undergo cancer operation

Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Tuesday he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer next week at a hospital in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Kim invites Emperor to South Korea

South Korean President Kim Dae Jung on Tuesday invited Emperor Akihito to visit South Korea.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2002

Nation must focus on better uses for IT, white paper says

Japan should aim to make more sophisticated use of information technology now that Internet access has become widespread, the government said in an annual white paper released Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Program empowers disabled Asians

Lokesh Khadka, a 23-year-old deaf Nepalese, is determined to change the society of his home country so that it will accept people with hearing disabilities.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 3, 2002

Igawa silences Swallows

Kei Igawa struck out 13 and allowed only two hits Tuesday to lead the Hanshin Tigers to a 2-0 victory over the Yakult Swallows in the Central League.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2002

Matsushita unit's first-half profits plunge 83.2%

Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said Tuesday its group net profits for the first half of this business year plunged 83.2 percent from a year earlier to 1.84 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2002

Monetary base increases 27.6%

Japan's monetary base rose 27.6 percent in June from a year earlier to 85.43 trillion yen, the 17th straight month of expansion, the Bank of Japan said in a report released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

TV Tokyo paid heist informant

Television Tokyo Channel 12 Ltd. employees paid 350,000 yen to an informant who told them about a planned heist at a Tokyo company that the broadcaster filmed and aired in May, it was acknowledged Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2002

Overtime hours down for 15th month

Average overtime hours for all industries in Japan fell 2.5 percent in May from a year earlier to 9.1 hours, marking the 15th consecutive monthly decline, according to a recent government survey.

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