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LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
May 10, 2001

A few sites for baseball fans

http://mariners.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/sea/homepage/sea_homepage.jsp The Seattle Mariners' official site is part of Major League Baseball's sprawling footprint on the Web. MLB did a very smart thing this year in taking over every team's site and hiring beat writers to go head-to-head with the ink-stained...
JAPAN
May 10, 2001

Tanaka again reverses a personnel transfer

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka kicked up some more dust Wednesday by ordering the former chief of the Financial Affairs Division to return to his post despite being named minister to France earlier in the week.
MORE SPORTS
May 10, 2001

Ex-Giants GM Hasegawa dies

Former Yomiuri Giants general manager Jitsuo Hasegawa died at his residence in Tokyo of pneumonia early Wednesday, family sources said. He was 90. His funeral will be held on Friday in Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
May 9, 2001

WHO takes on the tobacco lobby

Tobacco causes 4 million deaths each year -- one life every eight seconds. Unless action is taken, that number is expected to grow to 10 million by 2030. Government representatives convened in Geneva last week under the auspices of the World Health Organization to resume discussion on the world's first...
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

Shiokawa rules out leap to austerity

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday that he will strive to carry out the two-step approach to fiscal reform unveiled this week by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, although he ruled out an immediate shift to belt-tightening policies that could hurt the fragile economy.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Matsuo fraud claims hit 267 million yen

Katsutoshi Matsuo, a former Foreign Ministry official accused of swindling the government, was served a third arrest warrant Tuesday, bringing the total amount he is suspected of embezzling to 267 million yen, police said.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Mischievous staff prompt Tanaka to freeze transfers

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Tuesday she has frozen ministry personnel transfers after bureaucrats reassigned a staff member against her specific orders.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Koizumi, Putin to stay the course on treaty talks

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin have confirmed their two nations will continue peace treaty negotiations based on the same line taken by Putin and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.
CULTURE / Film
May 9, 2001

Crowd-pleasing in Udine

Given the media frenzy over "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Western interest in Asian cinema may be news, but it's hardly new. Back in 1998, the organizers of Udine Incontri Cinema, a small film festival in a quiet Italian town near the Austrian and Slovenian border, shifted their focus to commercial...
COMMENTARY
May 9, 2001

Why India endorses NMD

NEW DELHI -- U.S. President George W. Bush's publicly announced plan to push ahead with defenses against nuclear missiles reflects his administration's unilateral determination to assertively advance U.S. national interests and put some muscle into foreign policy. From repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol...
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Guatemalan president to visit Japan

Guatemalan President Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera, who will visit Japan for a week from May 15, hopes to enhance relations between the two countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Norio Hattori said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

LDP puts emergency stock-buying body on hold

Hakuo Yanagisawa, minister in charge of financial affairs, indicated Tuesday that it will be difficult to propose legislation to establish a new government body to buy banks' shareholdings during the current Diet session.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Emperor decorates 17 with awards

The Emperor decorated the top 17 recipients of spring awards, including former House of Representatives Speaker Soichiro Ito, in a ceremony Tuesday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Coalition agrees on bill to destroy ozone-harming gases

The ruling coalition agreed in principle Tuesday to legislation that would mandate the collection and destruction of chlorofluorocarbon gases known to deplete the ozone layer and induce global warming, coalition officials said.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Koizumi orders changeover to low-pollution autos by '05

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi instructed Cabinet members Tuesday to replace the central government's fleet of cars with low-pollution vehicles by March 2005.
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Newspaper agent faces tax charges

Tax authorities have filed charges against a Yomiuri Shimbun sales agent who allegedly evaded 78 million yen in income tax, sources close to the case said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

Yen's rise unlikely to continue unchecked

The yen has gained ground against the dollar in recent days, but the long-range direction of its value remains unchanged -- downward.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 9, 2001

Giants' Iriki shuts down Carp

Yusaku Iriki (4-0) scattered four hits, struck out eight and walked two over the distance en route to his first career shutout as the Yomiuri Giants blanked the Hiroshima Carp 2-0 on Tuesday at Hiroshima Stadium.
CULTURE / Film
May 9, 2001

Am I the girl you're looking for?

Suzhou River Rating: * * * *Japanese title: Futari no Ningyo Director: Lou Ye Running time: 115 minutes Language:Cantonese, with Japanese subtitlesNow showing "If I leave you someday, would you look for me forever? Your whole life?"
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

Pioneer earnings up in '00

Japanese audio equipment maker Pioneer Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit in fiscal 2000 rose 39.9 percent to 18.30 billion yen thanks to brisk sales of its plasma display panels.
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2001

Maverick Koizumi set to buck the system

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is committed to breaking up factions in his Liberal Democratic Party. "You'll see that I'm determined to eliminate the factions," he told reporters immediately before he started forming his Cabinet. He had just reshuffled the lineup of party executives by appointing men...
JAPAN
May 9, 2001

Shinmachi takes lead in sports for kids

Kyodo News Shinmachi, a small town of about 13,000 people in Gunma Prefecture, has drawn the attention of several municipalities because of its comprehensive regional sports club -- a concept common in Europe but relatively new to Japan.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

Fuji Photo Film announces increased group net profit

Fuji Photo Film Co. announced Tuesday a 38.9 percent jump in group net profit in fiscal 2000 from the preceding year to 117.90 billion yen, boosted mainly by appraisal profit in stockholdings that it transferred to its pension fund. The group's pretax profit rose 45.8 percent to 197.33 billion yen in...
BUSINESS
May 9, 2001

Takefuji reports 10th straight year of record profits

Takefuji Corp., the nation's largest consumer finance company, on Tuesday reported a record group net profit for fiscal 2000 for the 10th straight year on the strength of ultralow interest rates that have dramatically reduced its fundraising costs.

Longform

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