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JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Big drop expected in overseas travel

Travel agency JTB Corp. predicted Monday that the number of Japanese tourists traveling overseas during the yearend holiday season will be 437,000, a 33.3 percent decline from the previous year.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 11, 2001

Antlers win J. League Championship

KASHIMA, Ibaraki Pref. -- The Kashima Antlers, the Division One second-stage champion, became the J. League champion after edging the first stage winner Jubilo Iwata 1-0 in extra time in the J. League Championship final second leg on Saturday night at Kashima Soccer Stadium, and taking the final on a...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Extremism fills intellectual void?

The profiles of the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States remind scholar Hiromi Shimada of senior Aum Shinrikyo members.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Kansai businessmen push to continue second runway

OSAKA -- Kansai's economic leaders expressed their determination Monday to push forward with plans for a second runway at Kansai International Airport, despite some in the central government calling for a freeze.
Events
Dec 11, 2001

Kansai / Who & What

Herb park extends hours until Christmas Nunobiki Herb Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward will operate for extended hours from Wednesday until Dec. 25.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Swiss drug giant Roche to get control of Chugai

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. announced Monday that they will enter a strategic tieup that will place the Japanese drug maker under the umbrella of its Swiss partner but retain the Chugai name.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Targets of extra budget decided upon

The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on Monday established four general spending priorities for a planned second supplementary budget for the fiscal year.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Stem cells used to heal monkey spines

Doctors at Keio University in Tokyo have succeeded in restoring mobility to monkeys crippled with spinal cord injuries, by transplanting neural stem cells obtained from the spinal cords of fetuses, Hideyuki Okano, the team leader, said Monday.
JAPAN / LAST CALL FOR SAKE
Dec 11, 2001

Bell tolls on last sake class

NIIGATA -- Yoshikawa High School in Niigata Prefecture is the only high school left that teaches students how to brew sake. But the current class will be the last to learn this ancient art.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Teikyo accused of hiding 180 million yen in income

Teikyo University has been accused by tax authorities of hiding 180 million yen in income over three years through fiscal 1998, it was learned Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

METI to urge steelmakers to cut production

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to urge steelmakers to cut their combined production capacity for crude steel from 145 million tons to under 125 million tons within three years, ministry officials said Monday.
BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Dec 11, 2001

Nikkei set to test 11,500

Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange have begun rebounding since the key Nikkei average confirmed its second bottom at 10,030 on Nov. 12 following its fall to 9,504 on Sept. 17.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Cable & Wireless eyes PSINet unit

Cable & Wireless PLC of Britain announced Monday it has agreed to acquire the Japanese subsidiary of PSINet Inc. of the United States for 7.2 million British pounds to expand Net-related business here.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 11, 2001

Ichiro returns to Japan

American League MVP Ichiro Suzuki returned to Japan for the first time in 11 months on Sunday after ending his stellar rookie season with the Seattle Mariners.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 11, 2001

Poor from war, rich in culture

The serpentine road to Luang Prabang winds around mountains that rise above green valleys and rocky gorges, alongside ramshackle villages with no electricity and past fields of corn and rice. If you're not much of a daredevil, then don't get a window seat, because the bus has to navigate hairpin turns,...
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Credit cards used less in October

Commercial transactions made with credit cards dipped 1.1 percent in October from a year earlier, marking the first contraction since the government started compiling statistics in October 1993, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

UFJ to sell United California to BNP Paribas

UFJ Holdings Inc., the nation's fourth-largest banking group, said Monday that it will sell all outstanding shares in United California Bank, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, to French financial group BNP Paribas for 300 billion yen.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 11, 2001

Admire Don tops Futurity Stakes

FUNABASHI, Chiba Pref. -- Race favorite Admire Don, with Shinji Fujita up, stepped into the limelight for next year's classics as he bested the 16 colts of the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes on Sunday at Nakayama Racecourse.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Obituaries: Chieko Hara / Edoya Nekohachi III

Chieko Hara, a pioneer Japanese pianist who performed throughout Europe, died of old age at a suburban Tokyo hospital Sunday, her family said Monday. She was 86.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Machinery orders drop 10.1%

Core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 10.1 percent in October from the month before to a 14-year low of 790.6 billion yen, with orders from manufacturers tumbling to a record-low 281 billion yen, the Cabinet Office said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Mongolia monument honors prisoners

A monument honoring Japanese who died while in Soviet captivity after World War II has been erected in Mongolia, according to officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2001

Mental health challenges remain unmet

NEW YORK -- One aspect not frequently considered of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center tragedy, the anthrax scare, and thousands of people fleeing in terror from Afghanistan is that these events may create or exacerbate mental health problems. Unless they are properly treated, many among those involved...
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 9, 2001

Tigers want Hoshino to replace Nomura

OSAKA -- The Hanshin Tigers have tipped Senichi Hoshino, who stepped down as Chunichi Dragons manager in October, to fill the void left by Thursday's resignation of Katsuya Nomura after his wife was arrested on suspicion of tax evasion.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past