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BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 6, 2000

Japanese union ready to play hard ball

OSAKA -- The Japanese professional baseball players association adopted a resolution Tuesday to seek a 142-game season next year with interleague play to counter a management plan to introduce a 140-game schedule in 2001.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2000

Government appeals ruling on pollution

The national government on Tuesday appealed a recent court ruling ordering it to reduce emissions of so-called suspended particulate matter (SPM) to within environmentally acceptable limits in areas along National Route 23 in Nagoya.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 6, 2000

Yokohama gets nod

J. League chairman Saburo Kawabuchi met officials of Yokohama FC on Tuesday and agreed to recommend that the club be promoted to the J. League's Second Division next season.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2000

Japan, Myanmar to work on economic aid report

Japan and Myanmar agreed Tuesday to work on creating a report over the coming two years on Japanese support for economic structural reform in Myanmar, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2000

Cabinet takes another battering in polls

The latest official poll taken by Kyodo News shows the approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's outgoing Cabinet falling to 18.8 percent and the disapproval rating reaching 75 percent.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2000

Local political fundraising falls 2.5%

Funds raised by local chapters of major political parties and regional political organizations in all 47 prefectures during 1999 totaled 171.7 billion yen, down 2.5 percent from the previous year, according to Kyodo News calculations based on reports submitted to prefectural election administration committees....
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2000

New administration told to reflect views of ordinary people

Some heads of nonprofit organizations and operators of small businesses demanded Tuesday that the new Cabinet make an effort to reflect the opinions of ordinary citizens.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 6, 2000

Ready for takeoff

The pipes are clogging. There are 377.65 million people online worldwide, and some analysts warn that figure could increase by as much as 25 percent annually for a few years to come. Traffic could reach 10 times the current level in a few short years, and demand for bandwidth might reach as high as 200...
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2000

Bridgestone head denies Firestone may go under

Bridgestone Corp. President Yoichiro Kaizaki on Tuesday dismissed a news report that its U.S. subsidiary, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., may go bankrupt under massive damage claims sought against the U.S. unit over a tire recall scandal.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Dec 6, 2000

Won't you come into my bower?

A string of minor thefts may have gone unnoticed in Mount Malloy.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 6, 2000

Mountain stairways to the sky gods

Time, mankind and Mother Nature have not been kind to the Seven Wonders of the World. Six are gone and most people probably couldn't even name them. According to the Philippines tourist people, however, there is an additional Wonder, and it is in remarkably good shape.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2000

Obstacles in the road to a toxic-free future

The international community comes together in Johannesburg, South Africa this week (Dec. 4-9) under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Program to conclude the draft of an historic treaty to rid the world of its most toxic and harmful chemicals.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 6, 2000

Verdy hires Matsuki

Verdy Kawasaki appointed Yasutaro Matsuki, who guided the team to the J. League championship in 1993-94, as its new manager for next season, the Division One club announced Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 6, 2000

Sick of holding your breath? Suit up for the real diving deal

I could have kicked myself -- and I might have done had I not been wearing flippers.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2000

LDP eyes direct subsidies for farmers

The Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday proposed that the government raise farmers' incomes by channeling agricultural subsidies directly to them instead of by buying produce at government-set prices.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 6, 2000

Expats all losers, choosers or abusers?

Wetting my whistle on a humid afternoon inside a Tokyo establishment for the soberly impaired, I listened to the following affirmation by a foreign longtime friend.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Police raid Osaka assembly over construction bid scam

OSAKA -- Investigators raided the Osaka Prefectural Assembly's secretariat Monday in connection with the arrest of an assembly member on suspicion of leaking bid-related information to a construction company.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Yohei Kono considers trip to Middle East to tighten links with oil-rich nations

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono may visit several Middle East nations, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, in early January if he keeps his Cabinet post after today's planned reshuffle, Foreign Ministry sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Cabinet lineup nearly complete

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday continued filling the slots of a new Cabinet that he plans to form today, deciding to retain the trade and industry minister and to appoint a new farm minister, political sources said.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

GDP disappoints with 0.2% growth

The nation's economy continued its slow pace of growth during the July-September period as gross domestic product expanded a seasonally adjusted 0.2 percent, the Economic Planning Agency said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Cybersquads to combat terrorism

The government plans to establish at government entities within a year expert groups to cooperate with the private sector in gathering information on cyberterrorism in an attempt to prevent computer attacks, government sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2000

Japan biding time over antidumping law

Do barking dogs seldom bite?

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?