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BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2003

Suzuki names new president, launches hybrid

Suzuki Motor Corp. made a number of announcements Wednesday, naming its new president, unveiling fiscal 2003 sales projections and launching what it says is the world's first commercially available hybrid minivehicle.
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ENVIRONMENT / GARDEN PATHS
Jan 23, 2003

The bare essentials

This column is the first in a series of articles to take us strolling along some garden paths. Hopefully, along the way, we will come across some good ideas for our own patch of greenery, whether that is a garden, containers on a balcony, or just a few potted plants on the kitchen window.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Genome research council launched

A council tasked with promoting genome research in the Tokyo area was launched Wednesday, seeking to make the capital an international center for genome-based life sciences.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Japanese re-enters country after escaping North Korea

The adult child of a Japanese woman who accompanied her Korean husband to North Korea decades ago under a repatriation program secretly entered Japan last summer with the help of the Japanese government, sources said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2003

Forge national consensus on taxes

One year ago the government published a five-year budget projection showing how it expected to make ends meet in fiscal 2002-06. Now, the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, chaired by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, has revised the plan -- downward. The basic picture is that the budget deficit...
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JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Landmark ruling in day-care case

The former president of a nationwide chain of day-care centers was sentenced Wednesday to a suspended one-year prison term for professional negligence resulting in the death of a 4-month-old boy.
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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 23, 2003

Casting light on the aurora

"The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound and fiery crimson like the fires of...
COMMENTARY
Jan 23, 2003

Restructure job stress levels

LONDON -- Stress seems to be the most common reason for absence from work. Stress at work is not a new phenomenon, but in the past it was often called something else, such as exhaustion. In the worst cases, it led to what was termed a nervous breakdown. Some of the tougher or macho bosses regarded such...
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Police believe Korean gang to blame for killing

The Metropolitan Police Department suspects that a gang of Koreans may be responsible for the killing of a company president during a house robbery in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward early Tuesday, according to investigative sources.
LIFE / Digital
Jan 23, 2003

Who are these people?

From where does all this good music spring? Through the good offices of the caring, quality-conscious trading community, which goes to great pains to ensure, in a manner likened to eugenics, that the "seeding" of the musical gene pool is as pure and defect-free as possible before the recording is prepared...
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 23, 2003

Imaoka finally signs with Hanshin

Hanshin Tigers infielder Makoto Imaoka agreed to a 78.5 million yen pay raise and a 120 million yen annual salary for the upcoming season, officials of the Central League club said Tuesday.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 23, 2003

Nintendo lights up Game Boy Advance

There is no mistaking it anymore, Nintendo does better in the United States than in Japan. Nintendo sold more than twice as many Nintendo 64 game console in the United States than in Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Ex-wrestler loses assault suit appeal

The Tokyo High Court dismissed an appeal by former professional wrestler Akira Maeda on Wednesday and ordered him to pay damages for assaulting the owner of a rival combat-sport promotion company.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Food poisoning hits American Club

Thirty-nine Japanese suffered food poisoning after dining at the Tokyo American Club in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Jan. 11, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday.
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SUMO
Jan 23, 2003

Dejima keeps pace with Asashoryu

Ozeki Asashoryu scalped his 10th victim Wednesday to remain in a two-way tie for the lead with Dejima at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.
LIFE / Digital
Jan 23, 2003

Move over MP3; purists demand 'lossless'

There's a whole industry built around the MP3 data-compression format, but did you know that by using MP3s to burn music CDs, you lose part of the original recording as the data compressor does its work?
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Pet cats in Okinawa to carry microchips

The Environment Ministry will begin implanting microchips in pet cats in northern Okinawa that will carry data about the animal and its owner.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Gunma firm evaded tax on income from NEC unit

A firm linked to a labor organization that staged street demonstrations in 2000 against then NEC Corp. adviser Tadahiro Sekimoto had received 100 million yen in undeclared money from an NEC affiliate, industry sources said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 22, 2003

Saito to remain with BayStars

Free-agent pitcher Takashi Saito has weighed his options and chose to re-sign with the Yokohama BayStars over major league clubs for the upcoming season, baseball sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Burglars kill homeowner and make off with loot

Four men broke into an elderly couple's home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, early Tuesday, killed the husband and made off with money and jewels, police said.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Man awarded damages for detention unit abuse

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court ordered the government on Tuesday to pay damages to a Ugandan man for abuse he received while detained at an immigration facility in Osaka.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Murakami swears innocence as his trial draws to a close

Former LDP heavyweight Masakuni Murakami, on trial for allegedly taking bribes from industrial mutual-aid organization KSD, maintained his innocence as his trial drew to a close Tuesday.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 22, 2003

Asian tourney set for Tokyo

Champions from three major Asian professional soccer leagues will compete in Tokyo next month in a new tournament, the A3 Mazda Champions Cup 2003, organizers announced Monday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

80% of teens favor ban on sex with minors met via Internet

A police report released Tuesday says that some 80 percent of respondents to a recent survey on Internet dating sites favor a ban on the pursuit of sexual relationships via the Web with anyone who is 18 years old or younger.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight