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JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

New alcohol sales law invoked

Police will soon send papers to prosecutors on the owner and an employee of a convenience store in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, for selling alcoholic drinks last week to a minor who died in a scooter accident soon afterward, police sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Ford Japan to launch three new cars

Ford Japan Ltd., a sales subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. of the United States, said Thursday it will launch three new models in Japan to achieve overall sales of 15,000 units this year.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Ford Japan to launch three new cars

Ford Japan Ltd., a sales subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. of the United States, said Thursday it will launch three new models in Japan to achieve overall sales of 15,000 units this year.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Nippon Steel reclaims output crown from Pohang

Nippon Steel Corp. snatched back its title of the world's top steelmaker in terms of crude steel output in 2000 after being second to South Korea's Pohang Iron & Steel Co. for the past two years, Nippon Steel officials announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

Ishihara asks for 1 billion yen to push Japan books abroad

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, also an award-winning novelist, wants an institution established to translate contemporary Japanese literature to enable it to become popular overseas.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

Revised GDP data shows economy shrank 0.6%

Revisions to gross domestic product data show the economy contracted 0.6 percent in real terms in the July-September quarter, rather than growing 0.2 percent as reported earlier, the government said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

Revised GDP data shows economy shrank 0.6%

Revisions to gross domestic product data show the economy contracted 0.6 percent in real terms in the July-September quarter, rather than growing 0.2 percent as reported earlier, the government said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Tepco to put new plants on hold

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the introduction of new power facilities by three to five years in the face of slow growth in domestic power demand, the company said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2001

Musharraf blows chance to end impasse

NEW DELHI -- For a while, it almost seemed that the recent Gujarat earthquake would help advance the peace process for Kashmir, when Pakistan's military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, not only sent relief goods to the victims but also telephoned the Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to convey...
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Tepco to put new plants on hold

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the introduction of new power facilities by three to five years in the face of slow growth in domestic power demand, the company said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Banks' loan balance in 37-month fall

The balance of outstanding bank loans dropped 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier, marking a 37th successive month of decline, according to a Bank of Japan preliminary report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Banks' loan balance in 37-month fall

The balance of outstanding bank loans dropped 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier, marking a 37th successive month of decline, according to a Bank of Japan preliminary report released Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2001

Hope fades for reconciliation in Kosovo

The West's intervention in Kosovo was a reaction to the Serbs' final solution to the problems of the recalcitrant province. The Serbs attempted to drive out the Albanian majority using soldiers and civilians for mayhem and murder. It was not an arbitrary, irrational act, merely a final inhuman escalation...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 9, 2001

Richard Thompson defies death and lives to tell

By his own estimate, Richard Thompson played about 100 concerts last year, "which means you're on the road for about 150 days."
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

Mori pledges to resolve territory row

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has pledged to resolve the territorial dispute involving a group of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

European beef imports face effective deep freeze

Japan will revise a food law to make it compulsory that all imported beef is certified as being free of mad cow disease, officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

European beef imports face effective deep freeze

Japan will revise a food law to make it compulsory that all imported beef is certified as being free of mad cow disease, officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2001

Fear is the winner in Israel

Israelis have elected a new prime minister. Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon has trounced Prime Minister Ehud Barak in a historic vote. The results cap a stunning comeback for Mr. Sharon, who was written out of Israeli politics after the 1982 invasion of Lebanon which he masterminded. The results also...
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Nikkeiren chief irked by Diet debate

To help the nation's economy recover quickly, the government should stop wasting time debating issues like the KSD money-for-favors scandal, the chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Disapproval rating for Mori's Cabinet remains above 70%

Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori remains low at 23 percent while the disapproval rate remains above 70 percent despite a slight improvement in both figures from the previous survey, the latest Kyodo News poll showed Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Swiss forum seeks Japanese delegates

During the era of student protests in the late 1960s, five students at a Swiss business college launched a symposium to encourage dialogue between disaffected generations by inviting corporate leaders and other establishment figures to their campus.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Opposition boycotts budget session

All four opposition parties boycotted the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Wednesday after the ruling coalition refused to meet its demand that LDP members linked to the recent money-for-favors scandal testify in the committee.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Scientists make gene breakthrough

The work of a Japanese-led international scientific consortium on the development of a method for identifying genes hidden in large genome sequences is described in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature, which is released today.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Towel firms seek curb on cheap imports

Domestic towel-makers will ask the government in the near future to impose an emergency curb on towel imports from China, officials of the Japan Towel Industrial Association said Wednesday.

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