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BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 28, 2000

Rose sparks BayStars in thrashing of Giants

Bobby Rose jump-started Yokohama with a two-run homer in the first inning and Takanori Suzuki connected for a pair of his own Sunday to power the BayStars 10-1 over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

Managing Japan's monetary policy

The Bank of Japan announced Aug. 11 that it would abandon its "zero-interest rate" policy, by which is meant that the money market interest rate at the shortest end of terms would be virtually zero.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

E-commerce forum set for Sept. 13

A prominent U.S. business school is holding an e-commerce forum Sept. 13 at the Hilton Tokyo Hotel in Shinjuku Ward, inviting four corporate leaders engaged in e-commerce in Japan to discuss how the Internet is transforming global business management.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2000

U.N. central to future peace

Hisashi Owada, former ambassador to the United Nations and now president of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, emphasized in a recent interview with this writer that Japan should play a larger role in the 188-member world body, saying: "Japan should contribute to the resolution of global issues,...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Miyake Island residents flee volcano

A mass exodus of people from Miyake Island continued Sunday amid fears that a major eruption could hit the volcanic island south of Tokyo, and local officials put up concrete shelters for those remaining.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 28, 2000

A revisionist's view of Japanese history

"Kokumin no Rekishi," published last year, has been touted as the first major attempt to rewrite Japanese history. I've acquired and read it because I've been asked to comment on Japanese nationalism next month, in Chicago. The author of the book, Kanji Nishio, has been prominent in the movement known...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 28, 2000

General Motors humming along -- never mind the environment

A vacation is such a wonderful chance to seek out the unusual and inexplicable. This month my family and I are immersed in a foreign culture, intrigued and perplexed by the ways of an alien people. Most confounding, this culture is my own.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2000

Shattering the myth of race

When two rival scientific groups jointly announced in June that they had completed a working draft of the entire sequence of the human genome -- the genetic material found in every cell of every human being -- the achievement was rightly greeted as a milestone of modern medical research.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Fiber-optic cable network planned to connect schools

The Education Ministry plans to build a fiber-optic cable network to link schools in some parts of the country to allow the transfer of audio and visual information between them, ministry officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Railway union to vote on ending JR dispute

The National Railway Workers Union (Kokuro) decided Saturday to vote in September on accepting a proposal by four political parties aimed at resolving the union's long-standing dispute with Japan Railway group firms, Kokuro officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Corpse identified; foul play suspected

OSAKA -- Police on Saturday identified the body of a woman found adrift in May in waters off Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, as that of an Osaka woman who had been missing since early April, police said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

33% support organ donation

Nearly one-third of Japanese want to donate their organs in the event of brain death but only 4 percent constantly carry organ donor cards, the Prime Minister's Office said Saturday, citing a government poll.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Petroleum stockpile set to increase

The government will raise the country's petroleum stockpile to 345.95 million barrels from 314.5 million barrels for the first hike in 14 years, government officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Endoscope users report problems

Nearly 75 percent of users of Toshiba Corp.'s electronic endoscope have experienced problems with the product, according to the results of a survey made available Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Political influence law may widen in scope

A proposed law prohibiting politicians from accepting money or goods in exchange for influencing government officials on behalf of private citizens or businesses will also be applied to Diet members' official secretaries and local assembly members, political sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Women join the ranks of the nation's lost

With 92,000 yen in her pocket, the 52-year-old woman left her native city in northern Kanto for Tokyo on March 15, seeking a new job in the nation's capital after she was fired from a hotel where she had worked for 10 years.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Infants contract bacterial infection at Tokyo hospital

Seven infants being treated at the University of Tokyo Hospital have contracted an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, officials at the facility said Saturday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 27, 2000

Kinjo: Is he the Central League Ichiro?

Yokohama BayStars cleanup hitter Bobby Rose enjoyed a 10-point lead in this year's Central League batting title race on Friday, Aug. 18. He was ahead of the runnerup, Yomiuri Giants slugger Hideki Matsui, .345 to .335. But the next day, Rose found himself in second place, 39 points behind the new leader,...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 27, 2000

BayStars' Rose, Ishii prove too much for Giants to handle

Bobby Rose went 3-for-4 and drove in five runs and Takuro Ishii had a four-hit night with two stolen bases Saturday as the Yokohama BayStars held off a late rally to overpower the Yomiuri Giants 12-9 at Yokohama Stadium. Rose hit an RBI double in a three-run first inning and connected for a two-run homer...
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Foreigners receive haiku awards

A Chinese literary researcher is among the five recipients, all aged 70 or above, of the first international haiku awards, the vice chairman of the award selection committee said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Cancer-causing chemicals found at Yokohama site

YOKOHAMA -- Just above the junction of the Tsurumi and Toriyama rivers lies a fenced-off area that looks like a simple abandoned lot.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Guerrillas blamed for morning attack

Police suspect guerrillas were behind a predawn explosion Saturday that damaged a car belonging to a Transport Ministry official.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 27, 2000

West is best as Pixi shines

RIFU, Miyagi Pref. -- East is East but West was best on Saturday night as the J-West team beat the J-East squad 5-2 in the 2000 J. League Tarami All-Star Soccer match at Miyagi Stadium, one of the venues for the 2002 World Cup.

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