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JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Crowd, NGOs gather in park to reflect on tragedy

Thirty nongovernmental organizations and scores of people gathered in Tokyo's Meiji Park on Wednesday to ponder the state of the world one year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

KDDI sends 400 bills to wrong users

Telecom carrier KDDI Corp. said Wednesday it has mistakenly sent hundreds of mobile phone bills for August to the wrong people, and is now collecting them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Japan raises alleged spy ship

A Japanese salvage ship on Wednesday raised the suspected spy ship that sank in the East China Sea in December during a firefight with Japan Coast Guard vessels.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Families of hijackers arrive in Japan

Six relatives of Japanese radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 arrived in Japan on Tuesday night, five of them children of the hijackers who were born and raised in the communist state.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

Kawasaki Steel to spin off bridge unit

Kawasaki Steel Corp. said Wednesday it will spin off its bridge and steel construction division into a separate company in April.
SUMO
Sep 12, 2002

Yokozuna duo keeps the pressure on

It wasn't pretty, but yokozuna Takanohana did enough to muscle out maegashira top gun Miyabiyama on Wednesday and chalk up his third win in the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

U.S. plants tree as symbol of appreciation

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, wife of U.S. Ambassador Howard Baker, thanked the Japanese people Wednesday for their support following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

Oval ends tieup with Emerson unit

Oval Corp., which builds flow meters, said Wednesday it has ended its capital alliance with a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co. of the U.S. by buying all the Oval shares held by the subsidiary.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Public responds to mayors' U.S. barbs

Criticism leveled last month by Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba at the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has provoked a major reaction both at home and abroad.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

Females slowly turning to digital cameras: poll

Nearly half of the female digital camera users surveyed by Konica Corp. have started using the no-film cameras within the past one year.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 12, 2002

Matsunaka's hot bat sees Hawks fly past lackadaisical Lions

Nobuhiko Matsunaka went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and came within a triple of hitting for the cycle Wednesday as the Daiei Hawks beat the Pacific League-leading Seibu Lions 11-3 with a 14-hit attack.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2002

Kashmir polls could be step to dialogue

Elections to the Kashmir Assembly will be held from Sept. 16 to Oct. 8. The million-dollar question is, will they be meaningful and bring about peace in a state that has been a bone of contention since 1947, when the British colonial masters divided the subcontinent into India and Pakistan before leaving?...
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

Last quarter's GDP revised up to 0.6%

The government said Wednesday that the nation's economy grew a real 0.6 percent in the April-June quarter, marking an upward revision from an earlier estimate of 0.5 percent growth.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2002

Mori Seiki to take over Hitachi Seiki

Major machine-tool maker Mori Seiki Co. said Wednesday it has signed an agreement in which a subsidiary will take over the assets and accept the engineers of failed machine-tool maker Hitachi Seiki Co.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Families of alleged abductees demand results from summit

The families of two of the 11 Japanese nationals allegedly abducted by North Korean agents demanded Wednesday that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi push hard to resolve the issue at next week's summit in Pyongyang.
COMMENTARY
Sep 12, 2002

Brave trip to settle the past

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's one-day visit to North Korea on Sept. 17 is likely to have a profound effect on the security situation in Northeast Asia. The two nations started normalization talks in 1991, but thus far no substantial progress has been made because of the alleged abduction of Japanese...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENS FOR ALL
Sep 12, 2002

In praise of grass, glorious grass

Summer's heat is lingering on, but there are hints in the air that the glorious days of autumn are just around the corner. Fall in Japan is exciting for its famed tree foliage, but the weather is also perfect for gardening -- or for visiting parks during your lunch break or on days off.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Colleagues remember 9/11 dead

Colleagues of Japanese victims of last year's terrorist attacks in the United States solemnly observed the first anniversary on Wednesday, with many companies holding a moment of silence in remembrance of those who died when the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 12, 2002

Agreeing to disagree makes no sense at all

The deluge of posters, pamphlets and platitudes that roared out of Johannesburg during the 2002 Earth Summit has ended, though to no one's surprise this summit's conclusions were much the same as those of the first Earth Summit in Rio a decade ago.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2002

Disabled writer Ototake OK'd to drive

The 26-year-old author of a best-selling book about life without normal limbs has acquired a driver's license.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2002

For Arabs, a year of growing darkness

CAIRO -- There is no better place to take the pulse of Arab and Muslim sentiment than Cairo, pioneer or hub of the two great movements that have swept the region in recent times: the pan-Arab secular nationalism of which President Gamal Nasser was the champion and the "political Islam" that came into...
MORE SPORTS
Sep 12, 2002

'Hagitomo' to skip Asian Games

Japanese medal hope Tomoko Hagiwara has withdrawn from the upcoming Asian Games in South Korea, due to a stress-related illness, officials of the Japan Swimming Federation (JSF) said Tuesday.

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