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JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Tokyo wards move toward same-day counts for July poll

Officials in some of Tokyo's 23 wards who were planning to count ballots for the Upper House election the day after the vote are now leaning toward conducting same-day counts.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Two die as loaded van flips during U-turn

OSAKA -- Two high school students were killed and seven other people injured early Sunday after a van they were riding crashed into a lane divider in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, police said.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
May 28, 2001

Progress made in how Japan sees Korea

The latest instance of textbook controversy has reminded me of the changing descriptions in the entry on Korea in different editions of a well-known Japanese-language dictionary. Reports have it that the South Korean government was so upset by a certain textbook that its protests brought on a diplomatic...
BUSINESS
May 28, 2001

Dollar likely to fall against yen this week

The U.S. dollar is expected to ease against the yen this week due to possible declines in the euro against the yen, dealers said.
COMMENTARY
May 28, 2001

Junichiro Koizumi: Can stardom become success?

LOS ANGELES -- Quality political leadership is so frequently conspicuous by its absence that even the slightest whiff of its sudden presence can electrify a political region. Is Japan finally experiencing the dynamic quality leadership it deserves? That's the question intriguing Asia.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Man arrested in platform beating; victim dies

Police arrested a vocational college student early Sunday after he turned himself in for assaulting a railway passenger at a Tokyo train station Saturday afternoon. The passenger later lost consciousness and died.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Nakasone predicts five-year run for Koizumi team

Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone predicted on a television program aired Sunday morning that the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will last about five years.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Niigata village says no to MOX fuel use at nuke plant

KARIWA -- A majority of residents of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture objected Sunday to a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at a local nuclear power plant, in Japan's first plebiscite on use of the controversial fuel, early returns showed.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 28, 2001

Leos' Cabrera clobbers two more

Alex Cabrera slammed a pair of homers and drove in five runs to power the Seibu Lions to a 6-3 victory over the Daiei Hawks at the Seibu Dome on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
May 28, 2001

Jungle Pocket wins 68th Japan Derby

Race favorite Jungle Pocket topped the all-male field of 18 and fellow "super trio" horses Dantsu Flame and Kurofune to capture the 68th running of the Japan Derby Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse.
BUSINESS
May 28, 2001

Isuzu plans to cut 9,000 jobs by 2004

Isuzu Motors Ltd. plans to cut costs by slashing 9,000 jobs over the next three years, reducing its 38,000-strong group workforce by 25 percent, company sources said.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Koizumi eyes higher burden for seniors

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is intent on capping medical expenditures and calling on wealthy senior citizens to bear more of the financial burden for social security, according to a draft version of his economic and fiscal policy seen by Kyodo News on Sunday.
JAPAN
May 28, 2001

Tanaka gets approval to visit U.S. in June

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka obtained a provisional green light from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday to make a trip next month to the United States before the prime minister's planned bilateral summit with President George W. Bush in late June or early July.
BUSINESS
May 28, 2001

Sea change in Japan's values

Japan is in the midst of change in its social value system.
BUSINESS
May 28, 2001

A successful model for privatizing Japan's special-purpose entities

In revitalizing the Japanese economy with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the helm, Japan should look to France as a model for privatizing its special-purpose entities in light of years of debate and analysis that have resulted in little action.
COMMENTARY
May 28, 2001

British conservatives fighting an uphill battle

LONDON -- The campaign leading up to the June 7 election has been dominating the news in Britain. The Labor government is described as center left, but its policies are generally more conservative than those of the Liberal Democrats, who are really social democrats. The Conservative opposition have been...
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
May 28, 2001

Time for Bush to test his healing powers

Washington is not in an area normally vulnerable to earthquakes, but on Tuesday, the earth began to shake all over town. The epicenter of the quake was up on Capitol Hill; specifically, in Suite 728 of the Hart Senate Office Building, the office of Sen. James Jeffords, the junior senator from Vermont....
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

More teachers punished for sexual harassment

National universities penalized 16 teaching staff in the 2000 academic year for sexual harassment, a sharp increase from the three instructors punished a year earlier, according to documents released Saturday by the Education Ministry.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

China faces cut in ODA; focus of loans moves to interior

Japan is planning to concentrate its financial assistance to China on environmental conservation and improving the standard of living in inland provinces, according to a framework of Japan's new aid program obtained Saturday.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

Roland creator follows his own tune to international success

OSAKA -- From its humble beginnings almost 30 years ago, Roland Corp. today is one of the world's top electronic musical instrument manufacturers. In fact, nearly any musical performance features the ubiquitous brand name somewhere on stage.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

73% of Japanese in favor of increased competition

Seventy-three percent of Japanese polled rated competition among enterprises as positive because it results in cheaper products and services, according to a Cabinet Office poll released Saturday.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

Nifco announces leadership shuffle

Nifco Inc., a manufacturer of industrial fasteners, has elected Ryuji Watanabe, 64, to succeed Toshiaki Ogasawara as president. Ogasawara will become company chairman.
EDITORIALS
May 27, 2001

When borders are better

Aliens come in many guises. There is the extraterrestrial kind, variously envisaged over the years as little green men, wrinkly creatures homesick for their own planet, curious kidnappers and genocidal invaders. There is the human kind -- people who fetch up in some foreign country and find themselves...
SOCCER / J. League
May 27, 2001

Brazil tops Tokyo's Verdy in soccer friendly

Forwards Washington and Julio Batista scored goals in the second half to give Brazil a 2-0 win over Tokyo Verdy 1969 in an exhibition game at Tokyo Stadium on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

Mizushima blows smoke in questioning

Hiroo Mizushima, the arrested former chairman of failed department store operator Sogo Co., told police he asked a relative to keep 100 million yen in cash at his home out of "fear (it) might be lost in a fire," police said Saturday.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped