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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Blackman suspect remains tight-lipped

Police have yet to make any significant progress in the Lucie Blackman case, despite the arrest last week of a company executive suspected of having had some connection with the missing Briton.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 19, 2000

These World Sports Awards rated 'X'

LONDON -- In Felix Baumgartner's eyes, Mike Tyson probably looks like a wimp, Tiger Woods possesses no useful skills and David Beckham is merely the guy who married a Spice Girl. Baumgartner's world is worth following, if you can stomach it. All the Austrian does for a living is confront death as if...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Upper House chief Saito quits after mediation fails

House of Councilors President Juro Saito resigned Wednesday after he failed to mediate an agreement between the ruling and opposition camps over a plan to revise the way some of the chamber's members are elected.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Oct 19, 2000

Restoring health with flowers

To continue with our rather jolly theme of happiness-inducing strategies, today we take a look at the Bach Flower Remedies.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 19, 2000

Talking head Tanaka wows 'em in Nagano

Yasuo Tanaka, candidate for the governorship of Nagano Prefecture, was supposed to meet voters at 2:30 p.m. at a shopping arcade in downtown Nagano, but it was a long arcade. A campaign worker wearing a bright orange windbreaker was handing out literature in front of Ito Yokado. "I think it's been changed,"...
COMMUNITY
Oct 19, 2000

Glittering prizes on the Ginza

There's a new tenant on Ginza's shopping street, a new jewel.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2000

A prize for all South Koreans

This century's last Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The honor caps a checkered career that includes adduction from Japan by intelligence agents, years of imprisonment under the threat of execution and, most recently, a historic summit meeting in June with North...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Beleaguered Nikkei dives below 15,000

Stock prices took a beating in Tokyo on Wednesday, the day before the government's announcement of an economic stimulus package worth roughly 11 trillion yen, with the benchmark Nikkei average plunging more than 3 percent to close below 15,000 for the first time in 19 months.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Mori leaves for ASEM summit

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will seek cooperation from Japan's partners at the upcoming Asia-Europe Meeting in Seoul on some of the key issues discussed at July's Group of Eight summit, according to Foreign Ministry officials.
COMMUNITY
Oct 19, 2000

Kyushu reaches out to Asia through education

FUKUOKA -- For years it's been said that Kyushu's economic nerve center, Fukuoka, is one of Japan's most promising areas when it comes to forging new business and cultural links overseas. The city's proximity to the East Asian continent, as well as government and business activity, have all contributed...
EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2000

The case of Bessie's gaur

Cloning is in the news again, as it has been regularly since the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep in Scotland in 1996. The last four years have seen a flurry of Dollies -- more sheep, cattle, pigs and mice -- and numerous bulletins on their progress, which has mostly proved surprisingly normal. In the...
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Japan offers $10 million in food aid to Yugoslavia

Japan will provide about $10 million in emergency food and medical aid to the new Yugoslav government set up by opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica to help ordinary Yugoslav citizens get through the winter, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Dugongs' Okinawa habitat to be surveyed

The Defense Facilities Administration Agency will conduct an aerial survey in Okinawa later this month of the habitat of the dugong, an endangered sea mammal found in waters near the planned construction site of a U.S. Marines heliport, agency officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

HIV victim's mom rocks voters' boat

The outspoken mother of an HIV-infected man who became a symbol of citizens' fight for justice during the 1995-96 tainted blood scandal, is challenging established political parties in the Oct. 22 House of Representatives by-election in Tokyo's western suburbs.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Compromise bid fails to quiet Diet

The ruling and opposition camps remained at odds on Tuesday after both sides effectively rejected mediation efforts by the Upper House president to resolve the drawn-out row over revision of the electoral system.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 18, 2000

Oh-Nagashima showdown highlights Japan Series

The final Japan Series of the 20th century promises to be a trip down memory lane, oozing with nostalgia, as two of baseball's brightest stars square off as managers for the championship of professional baseball.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Government admits Mori met with 'messenger'

The government admitted Tuesday that Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has met a Korean journalist alleged to have delivered a secret letter from Mori to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in August.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Zhu ends trip, heads for South Korea

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji left Kansai International Airport for South Korea on Tuesday, wrapping up his six-day official visit to Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

How dead is dead enough?

The line between life and death has grown increasingly obscure in the United States, the world's most active organ-transplant community, as surgeons grapple with a delicate problem: Organs available for transplant may become less viable if pronouncement of a donor's death is delayed until death is beyond...
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Foot cult member gets suspended term for fraud

A former member of the Honohana Sanpogyo foot-reading cult was sentenced Tuesday to a suspended 18-month prison term for swindling about 4 million yen from two women who consulted the cult about issues related to illness and child-rearing.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Mock 'comfort women' trial to be convened

Citizens' groups from Japan, five Asian countries and Taiwan will hold a mock trial in December in Tokyo of former Japanese soldiers over their treatment of sex slaves during the war.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Fathers of juvenile victims call for tougher laws at Diet

Two fathers whose sons were killed by other juveniles spoke at the Diet as witnesses Tuesday, calling for revisions to the Juvenile Law to deter youths from committing heinous crimes and to better protect the human rights of crime victims.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

EPA head schedules 'town meeting'

Environment Agency head Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday that she will hold a "town meeting" in Kyoto next month to discuss with local residents Japan's role in preventing climate change and the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Rich Japanese still fear yen crash, wealth manager says
The yen slumped more than 2% on Monday alone, nearing ¥150 to the dollar, after the U.S. and China temporarily lowered tariffs, triggering a reversal of bearish dollar bets.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
Irresponsible climbing prompts debate over who should pay for Mount Fuji rescues
Mount Fuji fills the skyline above a bridge connecting stores at a popular outlet shopping center in the city of Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in November 2024.
Akazawa's dilemma: no tariff deal or a half-baked deal
Chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa and his delegation in the Oval Office of the White House in April. Since then, Japan's trade negotiations with the U.S. have produced no tangible results.
For his first feature film, director Ryuya Suzuki created a masterpiece
"Jinsei," which follows its protagonist over a century, probes themes of identity and societal issues with a dark comic touch. The director, however, says he created the story without knowing where it would lead.
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the Japanese flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.
Japanese retailers turn to California rice for cheaper alternative
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass eats California rice at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday along with Mitsuko Tsuchiya, vice president of retailer Aeon.
Harmfully hot days for pregnant women in Japan nearly doubled over past five years
New research by a U.S. climate scientists’ group reveals that extreme heat has increased the risks of preterm births and other pregnancy complications in Japan, nearly doubling the number of days that are harmfully hot for pregnant women over the past five years.
Sumo title contenders already emerging in early stages of Tokyo meet
Onosato (left) battles Abi on Day 3 of the Summer Basho in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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