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JAPAN
Sep 12, 2001

Experts split on recent Tokai tremors

Seismologists are divided over whether a spate of weak tremors and apparent volcanic activity are warning signs of a much-anticipated major earthquake in the Tokai region.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2001

Epic journey across ice set to break world record

A 57-year-old adventurer from Tokyo hopes to complete a 22,000-km trek by dog sled across the Arctic from central Siberia to eastern Greenland in July, more than five years after setting out on the journey.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2001

January eyed for stock tax reform

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday he hopes to implement securities tax reforms in January after discussing them during the extraordinary Diet session to be convened this month.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2001

Reports scarce on safety of Japanese in New York

Some Japanese companies whose employees worked at offices in the World Trade Center in New York, which collapsed Tuesday after being hit by two planes in apparent terrorist attacks, have confirmed their employees are safe, but many have yet to hear from their staff, company officials said late Tuesday....
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 12, 2001

The White Stripes: 'White Blood Cells'

Detroit duo The White Stripes seem a very confused couple. Jack (guitar, vocal) and Meg White (drums) can't seem to decide whether they are brother and sister or husband and wife. Jack insists it's the former -- and that they started the whole rumor that they were married for nothing more than a laugh....
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 12, 2001

Shared cultures take center stage

These days in Japan, it's easy to see Broadway musicals, Russian ballet, foreign rock acts or even Pavarotti waxing operatic.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2001

Mad cow scare deals blow to beef issues but lifts fish shares

Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease shook stock markets Tuesday, prompting investors to dump shares of beef-dish restaurant chains, meat processors and milk makers while snapping up seafood firms.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2001

Household savings lower than last year: survey

Households have an average 14.39 million yen in savings and other financial assets, down 90,000 yen from a year ago, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by a semipublic organization.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 12, 2001

You ain't nuthin' but a henjin

What a wacky guy Junichiro Koizumi is. When he's not battling bureaucracy or trying to revive the ailing economy, Japan's unprecedentedly popular prime minister likes nothing better than to chill out and listen to the music of the King: Elvis Presley.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2001

MMC tops 1 million green engines

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Tuesday that production of its low-emission, fuel-efficient GDI engine has topped 1 million units since its launch in May 1996.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 12, 2001

Kakraba Lobi

Kakraba Lobi is a virtuoso master of the gyil (pronounced JEEL or JEE-lee), the traditional instrument of the Lobi people of Ghana, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. After stints as a cab driver, farmer and just about every occupation in between, Lobi realized his calling as a gyil player, becoming,...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 12, 2001

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: 'Back to Bogalusa'

Louis Armstrong once said: "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." If any disc ever deserved the "folk music" label it would have to be Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's most recent release, "Back to Bogalusa," with its incredibly rich variety of American styles.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Memorial erected for downed B-29 crew

INA, Ibaraki Pref. -- Before dawn on March 10, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber crashed into the woods outside a rural village some 45 km northeast of Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Tanaka apology seen as a start

Former American POWs and their supporters greeted Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's apology delivered to them Saturday in San Francisco with mixed reactions, saying it was a good start but still a long way from a solution.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 11, 2001

Rhodes on hold at 53

OSAKA -- The great home run chase held steady Monday night, as Kintetsu slugger Tuffy Rhodes went 0-2 with a pair of strikeouts, walked and was hit by a pitch as the Kintetsu Buffaloes beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-3 at the Osaka Dome.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

JOC president dies in sauna after heart fails

OSAKA -- Yushiro Yagi, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, died Sunday evening after collapsing in a sauna at an Osaka hotel, hotel officials said Monday. He was 72.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

15-year term sought for '70 JAL hijacking

Prosecutors on Monday sought a 15-year prison sentence for former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka, who is on trial at the Tokyo District Court for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jet and other charges.
BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Sep 11, 2001

Market rebound likely after end of month

The Tokyo stock market is seeking its downside, with the 225-issue Nikkei average plunging close to 10,000 amid concern over global economic and corporate earnings prospects.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

REITs make their debut on TSE

Funds modeled on U.S. real estate investment trusts debuted Monday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with high hopes in the securities industry that they will lure individual investors amid ultralow interest rates and a slump in stock prices.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Nikkei hits 10,195 in lowest close since 1984

The Nikkei stock average plunged to a fresh 17-year low Monday after Friday's tumble on Wall Street and a negative report on domestic machinery orders erased a rally sparked by a Finance Ministry comment out of Shanghai.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Faster data-reading chip developed

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has developed what it claims to be the fastest noncontact data-reading chip, an achievement that could boost distribution of wireless identification applications.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Patent confab kicks off in Tokyo

A meeting of patent office chiefs from 12 Asian countries started today in Tokyo, the Patent Office said Monday.

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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