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JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Airlines told to take fees from deportees directly

The Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau has ordered airlines not to enlist security companies to collect money from passengers awaiting deportation to cover the costs incurred during their detention, bureau officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Government debt surpasses 500 trillion yen, GDP

The government's outstanding debt at the end of June totaled 502.3687 trillion yen, up 9.1 percent from a year earlier and topping the 500 trillion yen mark for the first time, the Finance Ministry reported Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Domestic auto output up for seventh month

Domestic motor vehicle production in August rose 7.1 percent on the year to 695,620 units for the seventh straight month of year-on-year rise, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Youths on motorcycles mug four; three hurt

Four people were attacked, three of whom were severely wounded, in separate robberies carried out early Monday by four young men on two motorcycles in northern Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2000

More facts, less politics, on education

At first glance, the interim report from the National Commission on Educational Reform, an advisory panel of the prime minister, appears cautious about revising the 1947 Fundamental Law on Education. In marked contrast to an earlier subcommittee report that explicitly supported a revision, the panel's...
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Taiheiyo gains Philippine foothold

Taiheiyo Cement Corp., Japan's top cement maker, said Monday it has agreed to take a stake of about 90 percent in Grand Cement Manufacturing Corp. of the Philippines for about 9 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

New PCs come equipped with PHS

DDI Pocket Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. announced Monday that they will release personal computers with built-in devices that allow wireless transmission of communications data.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Subsidized temps to cover holidays

The Labor Ministry has requested budget appropriations to partially fund temporary staff to replace vacationing workers at small and midsize companies so that workers can take longer holidays, ministry officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Bridgestone offers free tire checks

Bridgestone Corp. said Monday that it will offer free inspections of nine types of imported Firestone tires produced in Decatur, Ill., since 1992.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Belgian royal couple visits museum

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess on Monday took Belgian Crown Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde to the Tokyo National Museum to view artifacts unearthed in Japan from the Neolithic period.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Share prices give up most of recent gains

Although the Tokyo stock market is still in a bit of a corrective phase, a light is beginning to flicker at the end of the tunnel.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Hopes to retool energy policy confounded

Kyodo News One year after a disastrous nuclear accident in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan is still trying to formulate a new national energy policy.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Obituary: Tokujiro Namikoshi

Tokujiro Namikoshi, a pioneer of shiatsu massage whose clients included Marilyn Monroe, died of lung cancer early Monday at a hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, his family said. He was 94.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Firms must set goals to reduce benzene

The Environment Agency will call on every factory in the petroleum, chemical, iron- and paper-making industries to set their own targets for reducing emissions of the suspected carcinogen benzene, agency sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

'IT cards' dropped from supplementary budget

The government decided Monday that the supplementary budget for fiscal 2000 will not cover "IT cards" that would have subsidized tuition for Internet-related courses, government officials said.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 26, 2000

Tokuyama to meet challenger Nago

super flyweight champion Masamori Tokuyama will take on ninth-ranked Akihiko Nago in his first title defense at a rearranged date and venue, boxing officials said Sunday. The bout, which was originally scheduled to take place on Dec. 3 or Dec. 11 at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium, will now take place on...
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Miyazawa returns from G7 Summit

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa returned to Japan Monday morning from Prague, where he attended a meeting Saturday of finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of Seven.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Obituary: Eiichi Kudo

Eiichi Kudo, 71, director of a string of samurai films, including the 1963 classic "The Thirteen Assassins," died Saturday of a brain stem hemorrhage at a Kyoto hospital, his family said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

1,200 try out new combined train-subway service

About 1,200 people tried out a new combined train-subway service linking lines in Kawasaki with those in Tokyo's Kita and Itabashi wards on Monday, ahead of today's official launch of operations.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 26, 2000

Welcome return of four classics

THE IZU DANCER, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward Seidensticker. THE COUNTERFEITER; OBASUTE; THE FULL MOON, by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Leon Picon. Singapore, Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000, 144 pp., $14.95. Here is a new, reset quality-paperback edition of one of the staples of modern...
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Sep 26, 2000

Voices of power and purity lilting out of Africa

I seem to see certain of my favorite African musicians whenever I take a trip away from Japan. I have now seen Senegal's Cheikh Lo in several European cities and in Co^te d'Ivoire, and am about to see him again at a festival in South Africa.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 26, 2000

Aussie singer-songwriter finds an authentic musical voice

"I must admit the music I do is a bit daggy," says Tokyo-based singer-songwriter Donna Burke with a laugh, rejecting any slick, "groovy" image in favor of the old-fashioned, down-to-earth comfort the colloquial Australian term implies.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Thai Airways ordered to pay 34.5 million yen

The Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered Thai Airways International to pay 34.5 million yen to the family of a Japanese victim of a 1992 crash in Nepal that killed 113 people.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 26, 2000

'New Order' was an old nightmare

INDONESIA: The Long Oppression, by Geoff Simons. London: MacMillan/ N.Y.: St. Martins, 2000, 289 pp. $35. Indonesia is just beginning the long process of coming to terms with and overcoming the consequences of three decades of dictatorship under President Suharto. His New Order regime was dominated...
COMMENTARY
Sep 26, 2000

Hazards of electoral reform

The tripartite ruling coalition is moving to submit to the Diet a bill for a new Upper House proportional-representation voting system that would allow voters to choose either individual candidates or political parties when casting ballots. The Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the New Conservative...
OLYMPICS
Sep 26, 2000

Observers stunned by Takahashi's feat

SYDNEY -- The Olympic host nation has taken a break from self-aggrandizement to applaud Naoko Takahashi for raising the standard for all marathons to come with her record-breaking time in the women's marathon Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 26, 2000

Japan advances to softball final

SYDNEY -- Seasoned veteran Reika Utsugi provided the power and youngster Mariko Masubuchi the pitching on Monday as Japan edged Australia 1-0 to reach the championship final of the Sydney Olympic softball competition.

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