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JAPAN
Jun 18, 2002

Tax relief, deregulation featured in new package

The government and the three ruling parties compiled an additional package of antideflation measures Monday that includes tax cuts in fiscal 2002 and the creation of special deregulation zones to promote private-sector activities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2002

Comparing Botswana, Japan unfair: ambassador

In many ways, Botswana is an African success story, boasting the world's fastest-growing income per capita over the past 35 years.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2002

Strong Japan stocks needn't be Dow-pegged

Although the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average is struggling to get back to the 12,000 level, Tokyo stocks are hardly weak these days.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2002

Ministry plans environment protection bill

The Environment Ministry said recently that it plans to submit to the Diet next year a bill aimed at helping nonprofit organizations and local firms promote environmental protection.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2002

Australia tightens net against illegal aliens

SYDNEY -- Now that the monsoon season is over, the huddled masses of Asia's worst conflict areas, notably Afghanistan and Iraq, are again looking abroad for refuge. As in past years, they see a big, empty island on the map and steer southeast. Unfortunately for them, the folks already here have other...
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2002

Mexico pushes Japan to move forward on FTA

Visiting Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda proposed Monday that Japan and Mexico launch official negotiations on concluding a bilateral free-trade agreement in October, when Mexico hosts the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2002

Economy still bottoming out, government says

The economy has bottomed out, the government said Monday, maintaining its basic assessment of the economy in its report for June.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2002

Prosecutors seek warrant for Suzuki

Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant Monday for lawmaker Muneo Suzuki for allegedly taking a 5 million yen bribe from a Hokkaido lumber firm in 1998.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 17, 2002

Senegal golden against Sweden

OITA -- The Senegalese sensation is still going.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 17, 2002

Spain goes through on penalties

SUWON, South Korea -- Spain went through to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after a nail-biting penalty shootout here against Ireland, the first so far of the tournament.
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Jun 17, 2002

How to avert the risk of war with China

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- In the rolling green countryside of West Sussex in South England, there is an estate called Wilton Park. Some readers of this column may be familiar with the place and the institution it has become: "Wilton Park conferences" occur throughout the year bringing together politicians,...
COMMENTARY
Jun 17, 2002

Cracks in a nonnuclear core

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda's comment on Japan's three nonnuclear principles caused political confusion at home and deepened misunderstanding abroad.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 17, 2002

Japan romps past S. Koreans in crucial World Cup qualifier

The occasion -- a crucial World Cup game. The venue -- National Stadium, Tokyo. The teams -- Japan and South Korea. The result -- a resounding win for Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 17, 2002

Key to corporate survival

Recent revelations about the mislabeling of foods and the use of illegal food additives by Japanese companies suggest a collapse of corporate ethics. The latest incident -- mislabeling of chicken by Zen-Noh Chicken Foods, an affiliate of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations...
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2002

Foreigners sit new admission test

Foreign students on Sunday took the first of new biannual tests for non-Japanese seeking admission to Japanese universities.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2002

Japan demands results from North Korea on 'missing'

Japan has told North Korea that resumption of the suspended talks on normalizing diplomatic ties will depend on progress in the search for missing Japanese that Tokyo believes were kidnapped by Pyongyang, government sources said Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 17, 2002

Marines snap Lions' streak

Derrick May doubled in the go-ahead run in the third inning Sunday and as the Chiba Lotte Marines beat Seibu 5-3 and snapped the Lions' nine-game winning streak.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 17, 2002

Hagiwara takes home four titles

Tomoko Hagiwara became the first swimmer in the history of the national championships to win four titles in a single meet when she won her first women's 100-meter freestyle crown Sunday.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2002

Piracy of intellectual property rampant in Indonesia

JAKARTA -- Piracy of intellectual property rights is found all over Southeast Asia. A short visit to the street markets of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila or Singapore will convince anybody that counterfeits, fakes and so-called look-alike products are big business. In most countries the problem...
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2002

Troussier book offer for readers

The Japan Times is offering free copies of the book "Passion," by Philippe Troussier, Japan's national team coach in the World Cup, to five readers.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2002

Algeria's liberation has lessons for Mideast

VANCOUVER, British Colombia -- Israel's hopes that its massive operation on the West Bank would halt the terror bombing have died with a new wave of attacks. Many bomb-making facilities were destroyed in the operation, but Palestinian rage has increased and the slaughter continues.

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