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COMMUNITY
Nov 30, 2000

1,000 yen shops offer customers discount-shopping thrills

In response to the continuing economic slump, 100 yen shops have popped up everywhere in the last few years, but their popularity may soon be overshadowed by the emergence of 1,000 yen shops.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2000

U.S. mulled nuclear SDF during '60s China buildup

The U.S. State Department considered arming Japan with nuclear weapons in the early 1960s as a strategic counterweight to China's military buildup, which included an atomic weapons program, according to a document obtained by Kyodo News.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 30, 2000

Ignore the skipper and go west, young men

What on earth has Bobby Valentine been smoking these days? The guy is a great manager and he keeps us sportswriters in business with witty quotes and humorous antics. But this time he's gone too far. We're talking Siberia here. In a recent interview with the Boston Herald, Valentine expressed his feelings...
CULTURE / Art
Nov 30, 2000

Famed Reiko portrait to go under hammer

One of Ryusei Kishida's famous Reiko portraits will be put up for public auction at a Tokyo hotel Saturday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 30, 2000

With election at a stalemate, coverage shifts into overkill

As is usually the case when I'm in California, the talk turned to real estate. A 75-year-old retiree told me exactly how much it cost him to buy all the cacti surrounding his pool. A stockbroker from Seattle said the house she recently bought was originally owned by Col. Tom Parker and had a TV room...
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2000

Suffrage bill may be unconstitutional

Debate on a controversial bill that would grant permanent foreign residents the right to vote in local elections will probably be carried over to the ordinary session that is to convene in January.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 30, 2000

Chorus sings 'Messiah' for charity

Academia Consort, a Tokyo-based chorus group mainly consisting of amateur singers, will hold a charity concert Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Meguro Catholic Church, a five-minute walk from JR Meguro Station.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2000

Ex-KSD chief now faces breach-of-trust charge

Prosecutors on Wednesday afternoon served a fresh arrest warrant on a former chief of KSD, a government-linked group that provides industrial accident insurance to small businesses, on suspicion of breach of trust, investigative sources said.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 30, 2000

Alex: Dreadlocks in deadlock at S-Pulse

SHIMIZU, Shizuoka Pref. -- It's an image that sticks very firmly in the mind. Sixty seconds into a crucial game against the Yokohama F. Marinos, a brilliant 60-meter pass out of defense by Kazuyuki Toda catches a flurry of dreadlocks on the run.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2000

The Russian Far East reaps peace dividend

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Bunkered in a hillside above the port city where Russia's Pacific Fleet anchors, Slavyansky Khleb may be one of the most secure bakeries on the planet.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2000

FTC raids firms on suspicion of fixing prices for X-ray film

The Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday searched more than 30 branches of several medical product manufacturers on suspicion that they formed a price cartel for film for hospital X-ray machines.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2000

Defense dialogue with Russia set to resume in January

The top Defense Agency bureaucrat will visit Russia in January, marking a resumption of defense dialogue suspended when a Japanese naval officer was found in September to have passed classified documents to a Russian military attache, according to Japanese defense officials.
EDITORIALS
Nov 29, 2000

Sinking the climate talks

The sixth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP6, collapsed in failure last weekend. In retrospect, the failure of negotiations that focused on cutting fossil-fuel emissions -- which would have a powerful impact on economic development -- and involved...
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Foreigners progress toward suffrage

After his three-year campaign to abolish mandatory fingerprinting of foreign residents bore fruit in 1992, Lee Young Hwa decided more needed to be done to address the larger, more fundamental human rights issues they face.
JAPAN / FREEDOM OF PRESS IN THE BALANCE
Nov 29, 2000

Media considering best way to handle public's loss of faith

An amendment in June to Japan's 54-year-old Canon of Journalism apparently reflects the sense of crisis within the nation's news organizations over the apparent growing public dissatisfaction with the industry.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Mori sympathizes with water-tosser

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who has come under fire a number of times for making controversial remarks, on Tuesday expressed sympathy for a lawmaker facing suspension from the Diet.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 29, 2000

Boca Juniors crowned club champs

If Real Madrid's Luis Figo is worth $56 million, what price Juan Roman Riquelme of Boca Juniors?
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

In vitro initiative to rid sperm of HIV

Doctors at Niigata University's medical department are planning in December an in vitro fertilization initiative using the sperm of an HIV-positive man after removing the AIDS-causing virus, university officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Fujimori to be allowed to stay in Japan: Kono

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be allowed to remain in Japan, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said Tuesday, without confirming whether the ousted leader has Japanese citizenship.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Nissan Motor to recall 128 cars

Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday it will recall its Tino hybrid car with continuously variable transmission to fix a defective transmission system.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Tax money to prop up ailing public firms

The government will consider spending taxpayers' money on public works projects undertaken by financially weak public corporations in line with the reform of its fiscal investment and loan program, government officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Diet enacts revisions to Juvenile Law

The Diet on Tuesday enacted revisions to the 1949 Juvenile Law, paving the way for the state to drastically toughen its rehabilitation-oriented juvenile policy by lowering the minimum age at which children can be held criminally liable for their deeds.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Farm co-op fined for hiding income

The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zenno) hid about 1.4 billion yen in taxable income over three years through March 1999, industry sources said Tuesday.

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear