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BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Balance of shares purchased on credit up for second week

In a rare development in recent months, the balance of shares bought on credit rose last week for the second consecutive week.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Shinwa Bank chief given four-year term for illicit loans

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former president of Shinwa Bank in Nagasaki Prefecture to four years in prison Wednesday for misusing 6.5 billion yen in bank funds.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Government to rely on bonds for 41% of all revenue by 2004

Rising social security costs will force the government to issue bonds worth 41.1 percent of its total revenue in fiscal 2004, up from 38.5 percent in fiscal 2000, the Finance Ministry says in a simulation report released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Suspected embezzler being audited

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau on Wednesday began investigating the records of a sacked Foreign Ministry official suspected of embezzling state funds to determine whether he avoided paying taxes, sources familiar with the case said.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Auto unions begin spring wage talks

Labor organizations representing employees of major automakers on Wednesday presented their annual list of wage and benefits demands to management as another difficult year looms for Japan's blue-collar workers.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

FTC to discuss holding companies

The Fair Trade Commission said Wednesday that its panel to study a possible revision to the Antimonopoly Law will hold its first meeting Feb. 15.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Auto unions begin spring wage talks

Labor organizations representing employees of major automakers on Wednesday presented their annual list of wage and benefits demands to management as another difficult year looms for Japan's blue-collar workers.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

LDP's Takeshita, Kamei accepted bribes: witness

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweights Shizuka Kamei and the late Noboru Takeshita received bribes in return for approving public works projects, a witness testified in former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao's bribery trial.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

LDP's Takeshita, Kamei accepted bribes: witness

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweights Shizuka Kamei and the late Noboru Takeshita received bribes in return for approving public works projects, a witness testified in former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao's bribery trial.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Poor crop casts shadow on Nori Day

Tuesday marked Nori Day in Japan, an annual event when farmers of "nori," or seaweed, stage various activities aimed at expanding its consumption.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 8, 2001

Ichiro deserves a break today

Ichiro Suzuki is a beef tongue enthusiast. He likes it so much that the owner of a Japanese grocery store in Seattle is stocking up on the tasty treat. In fact, Ichiro recently gave the proprietor a list of his favorite Japanese delicacies. Soon the major leaguer will be drinking Pocari Sweat, chewing...
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Poor crop casts shadow on Nori Day

Tuesday marked Nori Day in Japan, an annual event when farmers of "nori," or seaweed, stage various activities aimed at expanding its consumption.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Poll reveals high nurse error rate

Ninety-three percent of nurses working at state-run university hospitals in Japan have made or have nearly made mistakes that could have resulted in medical accidents, according to a survey conducted by a trade union.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

KSD ally held concerts to aid LDP's Murakami

An official at an affiliate of the scandal-tainted mutual aid foundation KSD staged "enka" concerts in 1995 and 1996 on behalf of Masakuni Murakami of the Liberal Democratic Party, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Killer's footprint clue leads to Korea

Tokyo police will dispatch officers working on the December killing of a family of four in Tokyo to South Korea to interview the manufacturer of a pair of athletic shoes they believe were worn by the suspect, police said.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Poll reveals high nurse error rate

Ninety-three percent of nurses working at state-run university hospitals in Japan have made or have nearly made mistakes that could have resulted in medical accidents, according to a survey conducted by a trade union.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

KSD ally held concerts to aid LDP's Murakami

An official at an affiliate of the scandal-tainted mutual aid foundation KSD staged "enka" concerts in 1995 and 1996 on behalf of Masakuni Murakami of the Liberal Democratic Party, sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Sony builds largest color EL panel

Sony Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed the world's largest full-color organic electroluminescence display panel.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Killer's footprint clue leads to Korea

Tokyo police will dispatch officers working on the December killing of a family of four in Tokyo to South Korea to interview the manufacturer of a pair of athletic shoes they believe were worn by the suspect, police said.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Feb 8, 2001

With Cabinet approved, Bush gets down to business

WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush is off to a good and fast start. In his first days as U.S. president, he has begun to soften his relationships with his adversaries, organize his control over the vast bureaucracy of the federal government, initiate innovative programs and promote his promised legislative...
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Sony builds largest color EL panel

Sony Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed the world's largest full-color organic electroluminescence display panel.

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