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JAPAN
Aug 10, 2004

Steam leak at Fukui reactor kills four workers

Four workers were killed and seven others were injured Monday when steam leaked from a nuclear reactor in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, in Japan's worst nuclear plant accident, rescue officials said.
EDITORIALS
Aug 10, 2004

The dream of nuclear disarmament

The world sleeps easier since the end of the superpower competition and its accompanying threat of nuclear annihilation, but fears that a rogue state or terrorist group might acquire nuclear weapons have grown. That concern has been magnified by the increasingly visible failings of the global nonproliferation...
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2004

Adopted Thai orphan seeks residency

A 13-year-old Thai orphan living in Japan with her grandmother applied Monday to immigration authorities to change her short-term resident status to a permanent one, submitting a petition signed by 18,400 people.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2004

'Cats' due for a return to Tokyo

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats," which became a sensation across Japan when performed by the Shiki (Four Seasons) Theater Company, will be restaged in Tokyo in November for the first time in eight years and the fourth time in the capital since its first Japanese performance in 1983.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2004

Red Cross failed to recover donated blood after hepatitis case

The Japanese Red Cross Society failed to recover blood donated by 37 people for transfusions even after it learned that a woman who received some of that blood became infected with hepatitis B, Red Cross officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2004

Red Cross failed to recover donated blood after hepatitis case

The Japanese Red Cross Society failed to recover blood donated by 37 people for transfusions even after it learned that a woman who received some of that blood became infected with hepatitis B, Red Cross officials said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 7, 2004

Rationale for denuclearization

Fifty-nine years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is a disturbing sense that the world could be headed for more, not less, nuclear weapons. As the world's first and only atom-bombed nation, Japan is destined to do everything in its power to strive for the nonproliferation and...
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Proposed emissions trading, carbon tax set to be hard sell

The introduction of an emissions trading system and a carbon tax would be effective in reducing Japan's greenhouse gas emissions, an Environment Ministry panel said in an interim report released Friday.
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BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2004

'Mushiking' bug-contest arcade game a hit with kids, parents

Sega Corp.'s "Mushiking" ("The King of Beetles") arcade game is a hit with kids and their parents.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2004

Employee pension scheme suffers its first deficit

The employee pension scheme unexpectedly registered its first-ever deficit in fiscal 2003, which ended last March, forcing the Social Insurance Agency to tap reserves, the agency said Friday.
COMMUNITY
Aug 7, 2004

Hanging out at Jellyfish for the holiday season

It is midmorning on Zushi beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, and all is well with Jellyfish, scented with new-cut wood and offering more than a hint of the elusive.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Proposed emissions trading, carbon tax set to be hard sell

The introduction of an emissions trading system and a carbon tax would be effective in reducing Japan's greenhouse gas emissions, an Environment Ministry panel said in an interim report released Friday.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 7, 2004

Eugenio Toussaint

In its straightforward Japanese transcription, "El Pez Dorado" uses the "kanji" characters for "fish" and "gold." "El Pez Dorado" is the name given to the most recently released CD of Eugenio Toussaint, a musician from Mexico. The CD includes piano pieces that have not been previously recorded, and which...
COMMENTARY
Aug 7, 2004

LNG can lighten California's energy load

WASHINGTON -- California, America's most populous state, risks tumbling into yet another energy crisis. The only answer is increased supplies, which require new investment -- including in facilities for liquefied natural gas (LNG).
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Asahi news reporter axed for breaching promise with secret source

The daily Asahi Shimbun has forced a 46-year-old reporter to leave the company for secretly recording a conversation with a news source and giving a copy of the recording to another source.
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JAPAN
Aug 6, 2004

Japanese bluefish being cut from restaurant menus

More and more restaurants are dropping Japanese "gin mutsu" bluefish from their menus as environmentally certified fishing and seafood products become popular in Japan.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 5, 2004

Ichiro takes AL batting lead

BALTIMORE -- Ichiro Suzuki went 5-for-5 in the first game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday and produced another hit in one at-bat in the second game, boosting his average to an American-League high .355.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2004

LDP aide suspended for taking cash payout

A government-paid secretary to a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker was suspended from work Wednesday after it was learned he received some 3.4 million yen from a Japanese-language school operator convicted of helping Chinese citizens immigrate illegally.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 5, 2004

Naughty Sven prepares to meet his fate

LONDON -- A nun took up residence outside the Football Association's headquarters in Soho as the remains of English football's governing body prepared for Thursday's meeting of the board, which will decide the future of head coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and maybe one or two high-ranking executives.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2004

Denial-of-service cyber attacks jam government Web sites

The computer servers of eight ministries and organizations of the Japanese government, including the Prime Minister's Official Residence and the Defense Agency, were hit by cyber attacks on two occasions between Sunday and Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2004

LDP aide suspended for taking cash payout

A government-paid secretary to a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker was suspended from work Wednesday after it was learned he received some 3.4 million yen from a Japanese-language school operator convicted of helping Chinese citizens immigrate illegally.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2004

To conduct 'proactive diplomacy'

The Foreign Ministry revamped its organization, effective Aug. 1, to conduct "proactive and strategic diplomacy." The makeover is welcome, but redrawing the organization chart is in itself no guarantee of success. What is needed is concerted and determined efforts to produce tangible results. Otherwise,...

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes