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BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2001

Marines beat Lions again

Derrick May hit a two-run homer and Nate Minchey scattered six hits over seven innings Sunday as the Lotte newcomers led the Marines to a 6-1 win over the Seibu Lions at the Seibu Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2001

High school baseball tourney kicks off at Koshien

NISHINOMIYA -- Fukui Shogyo rallied for five runs in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Tokyo's Obirin High School 11-9 Sunday and join Tokaidai Daiyon of Hokkaido in the second round of the 73rd Japan high school baseball national invitational tournament.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2001

Hiroshima quake toll up to 161 injured, two dead

OSAKA -- Water supplies remained suspended for some 38,000 households in Hiroshima Prefecture on Sunday, one day after a powerful earthquake that left two people dead and 161 injured.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2001

New global financial products require careful tax treatment

During my time as a Diet member, I often raised the importance of using the Advanced Ruling System.
SUMO
Mar 26, 2001

Kaio captures title in Osaka

Ozeki Kaio won the Osaka Haru Basho on Sunday with a 13-2 record after he defeated fellow ozeki Musoyama and yokozuna Takanohana lost to Musashimaru at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2001

Group seeks vindication of convicted Nepalese

Demanding justice for a Nepalese man convicted for a 1997 murder they believe he didn't commit, about 100 citizens on Sunday inaugurated a support group to help him win vindication through a Supreme Court ruling.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 26, 2001

Never say you've apologized too much

When Ursula Smith, my publisher friend up in Vermont, wrote to say, "I can't close without offering some (futile) form of apology, as one national to another, for that unfortunate accident off Hawaii," I said there was no need to apologize to me. It was an accident, and I wasn't too clear about the meaning...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2001

Bush's crash course in global diplomacy

U.S. President George W. Bush has just concluded a crash course in Northeast Asian politics. In the past three weeks, he has hosted South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen. Now Bush has to make sense of those visits, digest the various messages...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Mar 26, 2001

Bush ignores experts on climate change

The rubber has met the road and we now know that U.S. President George W. Bush is driving under the influence, his judgment impaired by fossil fuel lobbyists.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 26, 2001

Japan's soccer team fails to make the grade in France

PARIS -- Japan never got going during its friendly Saturday on a pitch that looked in awful condition, while the French mastered it well. The Japanese found it difficult to get to grips with the French. It's just amazing how smoothly they play together. They just stroked the ball around the soggy pitch...
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2001

Joint statement from Irkutsk summit

The following is the gist of a joint statement issued by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Russian President Vladimir Putin after a meeting in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, on Sunday.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2001

Matsuo faces new arrest for bill-padding scam

Police are set to serve a fresh arrest warrant on Katsutoshi Matsuo, a former Foreign Ministry logistics chief, later this week on suspicion of a new case of fraud again involving padding hotel bills for overseas trips by prime ministers, police sources said Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 26, 2001

Too little too late for reform?

In a dramatic policy reversal, the Bank of Japan has shifted its priority from cutting interest rates to expanding the money supply. The shift involves changing the key target for monetary adjustment from uncollateralized call-money rates to private banks' demand-deposit balances in the central bank....
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2001

Ghosts on the loose

You may have thought that the big story out of Hong Kong last week was the slumping Hang Seng Index or continuing pressure from Beijing to crack down on the Falun Gong. But no, something much more fascinating was going on, and it was going on right inside one of the places that break, but don't usually...
COMMENTARY
Mar 25, 2001

Campaign-finance reforms stifle free speech

WASHINGTON -- In opening the U.S. Senate debate on campaign-finance reform, Republican John McCain asked his colleagues to "take a risk for our country." But his proposals would stifle, not expand, political debate in America. Congress should instead relax election controls, thereby encouraging more...
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2001

Camera museum a testimony to postwar rise

For anyone pondering the secret behind Japan's postwar economic miracle, a visit to a small museum near Tokyo's Imperial Palace may offer some clues.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 25, 2001

Hot rod 'tribes' roar into the night

It's 2:30 a.m. on a Friday night outside the Shibaura parking area, a thin strip of concrete and pavement stuck to a pillar under the belly of Tokyo's Rainbow Bridge. There's a flash of red taillights as vehicles speed in. New arrivals are greeted by leather-clad bikers revving their engines, spitting...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2001

East Pakistan's bloody death, 30 years on

HONG KONG -- Tonight marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most traumatic Asian events in recent times: the blood-soaked birth of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi voices will be raised to remind the world of what was an enormous crime against humanity. But they may not tell the full story....
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2001

Japan's prison population tops 60,000

The number of inmates at prisons and detention houses in Japan rose last year for the eighth straight year, topping 60,000 for the first time in 34 years, Justice Ministry sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2001

Attitudes toward AIDS contradictory

More than 80 percent of Japanese responding to a poll believe AIDS patients and people infected with HIV should not be discriminated against -- but many are still reluctant to even share an office with them -- according to a Cabinet Office survey released Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2001

Two killed in west Japan quake

Two women were killed Saturday afternoon and at least 80 other people were reported injured, two of them seriously, when a powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted a large area of western Japan, the Meteorological Agency and police said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 25, 2001

Marines tame Lions in opener

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Tomohiro Kuroki finally learned how it feels to win the season opener on Saturday, but Daisuke Matsuzaka will have to wait at least one more year for the same experience.

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