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BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2001

Agency offering vacation in New York for 20,000 yen

OSAKA -- A discount travel agency based here will offer a package trip to New York for a mere 20,000 yen, which includes a donation of 3,000 yen for cleanup operations after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 11, 2001

Prodigies in a flash -- but maybe much too soon

"My daughter can solve algebraic differentiation and integration." "My son reads the Nikkei Shimbun every morning." "My child has read 'War and Peace.' "
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Nov 11, 2001

How mold grew to be so unique

There are two things that make nihonshu unique among the world's alcoholic beverages. One is the process known as heiko fukuhakko, or multiple parallel fermentation. In short, this means that saccharification and fermentation take place simultaneously in the same vat, as opposed to sequentially, as in...
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Calls for Cabinet shakeup dog Koizumi

Speculation that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will reshuffle his Cabinet sometime after the current Diet session ends Dec. 7 has not ebbed, despite his repeated denials.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

NTT Data interim profit down 3%

NTT Data Corp. said Friday it registered a consolidated net profit of 10.84 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2001, down 2.8 percent from a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

Beaujolais Nouveau arrives, will be released next week

OSAKA -- Bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau began to arrive at Narita and Kansai airports Friday morning as fans and label collectors waited for Thursday, when the first vintage of the century is to be released on markets worldwide.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges reforms push

The U.S. business community is urging Japan to pursue reforms that will help the economy and attract more American investment, the visiting chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Justice Ministry plans online foreigner-screening system

The Justice Ministry plans to introduce an online computer network to speed up the processing of information on foreigners arriving in Japan and facilitate the tracking of suspected terrorists, ministry sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Survey details male, female eating habits

Around 50 percent of men in their 20s through their 40s have at least one enjoyable meal in the company of other people every day, according to a national nutrition report released Thursday by the health ministry.
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2001

Population growth: a global challenge

The world's population continues to grow at an accelerated pace. It is estimated to hit 9.3 billion in 2050, an increase of 50 percent from 6.1 billion in 2001, according to the latest annual report from the U.N. Fund for Population Activities. The key message from the report is that sustainable social...
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Police to get submachineguns to fight terrorism

Police in 28 prefectures will be issued with 1,379 submachineguns by the end of March to combat terrorism, the National Police Agency said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

MSDF heads for Indian Ocean

Two Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers and a supply ship left Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Friday for a two-month intelligence-gathering mission in the Indian Ocean as part of Japan's noncombat support of the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

LDP pushes JNOC privatization

Senior officials of the Liberal Democratic Party basically agreed Friday on a plan to transfer the oil stockpiling operations of Japan National Oil Corp. to the private sector following the liquidation of the government-affiliated agency.
COMMENTARY
Nov 10, 2001

At last, Mori solution gets reconsidered

The events of Sept. 11 have at least done some good. To bolster its war on "terrorism," the United States seems willing finally to put an end to its highly contrived legacy of Cold War, anti-Beijing policies. Meanwhile, Japan may be ready to end its highly contrived, 50-year Cold War dispute with Moscow...
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Tanaka to visit Pakistan this month

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Friday she will probably visit Pakistan during the three-day weekend starting Nov. 23 to discuss antiterror measures and refugee aid.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Japan pledges $600,000 to UNESCO work

Japan will donate $623,798 to the first phase of UNESCO's Longmen grottoes conservation project to help preserve sculptures carved in cave walls over a millennium ago in China, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Tokyo to host fusion plant confab

The first international conference on a planned experimental nuclear fusion plant ended Thursday night in Toronto with a second conference slated to be held in Tokyo in January, Japanese officials said.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 10, 2001

Troussier happy with team's progress

By KUMI KINOHARA
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

School trips to Okinawa to be subsidized

The government plans to provide about 50 million yen in subsidies for school excursion programs to Okinawa, which has seen a sharp fall in tourism since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, government officials said.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

IYBank ends first term in the red

IYBank Co., a newcomer to the banking industry, said Friday it suffered net losses of 5.7 billion yen in the fiscal 2001 first half as the bank cut fees and expanded its network of automated-teller machines.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

Hitachi promises faster DNA chip

Hitachi Software Engineering Co. plans to launch a next-generation DNA chip that promises to increase the speed and accuracy of the sequencing and mapping of the human genome, company officials said Friday.
COMMUNITY
Nov 10, 2001

Welsh Society to sing its heart out for seeing dogs

Think Welsh and imagine small, dark, tough people with a passion for rugby and choral singing, the red dragon of the national flag, sunny daffodils (the national flower) and the green valleys of southern Wales. Yet here is Ursula Bartlett Imadegawa (known to friends as Ursula Bi) -- a blonde with green...
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2001

Radiation detected in mushrooms

The health ministry has reported that 36.1 kg of porcini mushrooms imported from Italy through Narita airport where found to emit levels of cesium radiation above the government-set level.

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers