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CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Nov 7, 2000

A fine fuzzy day out at Rocktober

The inaugural Rocktober festival on Sunday, Oct. 15, at Shiokaze Park in Odaiba, confounded my expectations: I had a great time.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 7, 2000

JCIE publish two books on Asia Pacific Agenda Project

GOVERNANCE IN POST-CRISIS ASIA. Asia Pacific Agenda Project, APAP Singapore Forum, 1998. Japan Center for International Exchange: Tokyo, JCIE Papers, 32, 35 pp. VALUES AND IDENTITY. Asia Pacific Agenda Project, APAP Yokohama Forum, 1998. Japan Center for International Exchange: Tokyo, JCIE Papers, 32,...
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Nov 7, 2000

U.S. vote goes all the way to the wire

I used to say, "The only thing certain in our elections are that they will end on time." Well, the election of 2000 tops them all. Not only is it still "too close to call," this election is unlikely to end on time. Let me explain why. It all centers on Washington state and a new election law it initiates...
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

Ex-Yakult pitcher jumps to his death

Former Yakult Swallows pitcher Hikaru Takano leaped to his death Sunday night from the window of his seventh-floor apartment in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, police said Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 7, 2000

Seagulls clinch top spot in division

Both Kohei Satomi and Nobutaka Horie returned kickoffs for touchdowns as the Recruit Club Seagulls defeated their archrival Kajima Deers in a 35-28 shootout Monday at the Tokyo Dome in X League Central Division action.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2000

China refuses to let history be

The recent visit to Japan by Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has certainly created a favorable impression among the Japanese -- a contrast with Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit two years ago -- but it has had no significant politi cal impact on public opinion in this country.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

1 million yen in bags stolen from display

OSAKA -- Two men broke a storefront window at Osaka's Takashimaya Co. department store outlet and stole six Louis Vuitton handbags worth about 1 million yen in total, local police said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2000

Neighbors, yet strangers

The latest round of normalization talks held in Beijing last week between Japan and North Korea failed to reach any specific agreement. Although no statement was issued, it seems clear that the two sides largely agreed to disagree, at least for the moment. The two nations remained divided over the pivotal...
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Leather artisan Okubo dies one day after state recognition

Fukuko Okubo, Japan's most celebrated leather artisan, died Saturday evening at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 81.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Anti-Russia group slipped by security during Putin's visit

A pickup truck carrying a group of Japanese rightists protesting Russian policies slipped through a police cordon near the Russian Embassy during Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to Tokyo in September, police disclosed Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Mori relieved at hostages' release, hopes for safe return

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Sunday he wishes a safe return to Japan for a group of Japanese tourists freed unharmed Saturday after a nearly nine-hour hijacking ordeal in Greece.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Ninth set of organ transplants begins

Japan's ninth set of organ transplant operations got under way Sunday afternoon on two women, one in her 40s and another in her 50s, from organs donated by a brain-dead woman, the Japan Organ Transplant Network said.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 6, 2000

Sexual wounding, kicking and early death

Sex can sometimes be awkward in humans, and sometimes painful, but rarely do human females have to put up with what females of the bean weevil endure. The male's penis carries a formidable array of sharp spines which lacerate the female reproductive tract during copulation.
COMMENTARY
Nov 6, 2000

Profit, but at whose expense?

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, says consumers who seek maximum gains and companies that seek maximum profits are "rational fools." The Oxford University professor also says behavioral standards of consumers and companies should be based on "commitment and sympathy."...
COMMENTARY
Nov 6, 2000

Japan has no monopoly on obscuring past

The fuss surrounding a recent book by U.S. academic Herbert Bix, "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan," said to detail for the first time the Showa Emperor's allegedly close involvement in Japan's past militarism, seems strange. The critics are making much of Japan's lack of interest in these revelations....
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2000

The ETA wages war against reason

The terror campaign waged by Basque separatists continues. Last week, a car bomb in Madrid killed three people, including a supreme court judge, and wounded 70 others. A few days later, another bomb went off in Barcelona; fortunately, no one was killed when it exploded, although several people were injured....
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 5, 2000

MLB stars win on Vizquel's blast

Omar Vizquel hit a two-run "sayonara" homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday as the visiting major league all-stars held off the Japanese squad 7-5 in Game Two of their eight-game exhibition series.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Japan group held hostage on Greek bus

ATHENS -- A gunman hijacked a bus carrying more than 30 Japanese tourists, after killing his mother-in-law and a friend in southern Greece on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injuries to the bus passengers.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

RTRI makes avalanche alert system

The Railway Technical Research Institute has developed a snow avalanche alarm system that its engineers say could help local authorities and ski-resort operators better cope with the avalanche threat.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Kato goes on the offensive as storm swirls around Mori

Koichi Kato, former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, has stepped up his criticism of the embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, saying that he has "no intention at all" of accepting a possible request from Mori to join his Cabinet.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Matchmaking still common despite its bad image

One in three single men and women in big cities have gone on matchmaking dates despite a general trend among urbanites of regarding arranged marriages as unfashionable, according to a recent survey conducted in Tokyo and Osaka.

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