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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2002

No talks without pledge on abductees' kids: Abe

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on Sunday urged North Korea to promise that the children of five Japanese abductees can come to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2002

Former Tokushima governor given suspended prison term

The Tokyo District Court sentenced former Tokushima Gov. Toshio Endo to a suspended three-year prison term Friday and fined him 8 million yen for bribery.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2002

Business lobby rejects bank nationalization story

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) on Thursday denied a report in The Times of London that paraphrases the group's chairman as predicting at least one of Japan's top four banks will probably be nationalized next month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2002

Suzuki enters plea of not guilty in court

House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki pleaded not guilty Monday to bribery, perjury and falsifying political funds reports.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2002

Government to appeal Tokyo air-pollution ruling

The national government will appeal a court ruling that it compensate some Tokyo residents living near major roads for health problems from air pollution, Environment Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2002

Afghans at broadcasting conference for first time in decade

More than 400 delegates from broadcasting organizations in 39 countries will attend a three-day meeting starting Wednesday in Tokyo to discuss issues facing the broadcasting industry, including cooperation in the areas of news and technology.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2002

Pyongyang warns it may test missiles if Japan talks fail

BEIJING -- Pyongyang may lift its moratorium on missile tests if normalization talks with Japan drag on without any progress, the North Korean Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2002

Japanese science shines again

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for awarding the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry, probably said it best when it described this year's physics laureates as having "used [the] very smallest components of the universe to increase our understanding of the very largest, the...
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2002

DPJ power struggle to continue

A former acting secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan said Sunday he will call for replacing party head Yukio Hatoyama in January if the re-elected leader fails to live up to expectations.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 30, 2002

Great Tokyo Air Raid was a war crime

On Dec. 7, 1964, the Japanese government conferred the First Order of Merit with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun upon Gen. Curtis LeMay -- yes, the same general who, less than 20 years earlier, had incinerated "well over half a million Japanese civilians, perhaps nearly a million."
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 29, 2002

30 years of China relations aired out

Thirty years ago, the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka normalized relations with the People's Republic of China. Historically, the relationship between Japan and China has often been compared to that between Rome and Greece, since much of Japan's culture (writing system, Buddhism, handicrafts, etc.)...
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2002

Abductees' kin, supporters call for results

The families of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea and Diet members working to help them reaffirmed Thursday their demand that the government take a firm stance on the issue.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2002

It's not the economy, stupid!

Gerhard Schroeder will remain the German Chancellor after Germany's recent elections, but his majority in Parliament has become extremely narrow. His Social Democrats (SPD) got 38.5 percent of the vote, and so did the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of his rival, Edmund Stoiber. The main reason Schroeder...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2002

Fact-finding mission to track abductees in North Korea

The government will send a fact-finding mission to North Korea for four days beginning Saturday to gather information on Japanese nationals abducted to the Stalinist state.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Sep 26, 2002

Iraq dominates Washington's agenda

WASHINGTON -- The Oct. 4 target date for the adjournment of Congress is fast approaching. The top priority for President George W. Bush is to convince Congress to give him some form of support for his crusade against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 26, 2002

Ozone hole? Soon it could be . . . 'what hole?'

Despite the international set-to over Iraq and caustic reviews for the recent U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, there is still some good news on cooperation and the environment.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

Uniqlo working to build major presence in China

Fast Retailing Co., which produces the Uniqlo brand of casual clothing, is pushing to create a dominant presence in the Chinese casual clothing market, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

Scholar from Japan held in China prison

The prisoner smiled at his 13-year-old son through a window in the hot meeting room of the No. 3 prison in Urumqi, the provincial capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, one day in August.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2002

Abductees' families kept in dark

North Korea gave Japan the dates eight of its abducted nationals died, but the Foreign Ministry withheld the information from the next of kin until it was reported in a newspaper, government officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2002

BOJ eyes unprecedented purchase of stocks from ailing banks

In a surprise break with market principles, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday that it is considering purchasing stocks held by the nation's most troubled banks, effectively bolstering their financial standing and stock prices at its own expense.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2002

Koreans in Japan react to revelations, fret over compensation

Korean residents in Japan have expressed dismay at the fate of some of the Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea and at the obscuring of the issue of compensation from Japan for its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2002

BOJ starts high-pressure policy meeting

The Bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting Tuesday amid growing calls by the government and the ruling coalition that it further ease credit to overcome deflation.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2002

Kim expresses desire for formal Japan ties

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed Saturday his willingness to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan, saying, "A new page in history" must be opened in bilateral ties.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2002

Unauthorized bolts used to fix Fukushima nuclear reactor

A panel set up by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to investigate the company's coverup of nuclear reactor faults has discovered that unauthorized bolts were used to repair a reactor at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 plant, company sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2002

Coalition proposes new stimulus plan

The ruling coalition parties proposed Monday a set of economic stimulus measures that includes the government purchase of exchange-traded funds, a type of investment trust that invests in shares, and the reinforcement of the government's bad-loan buyback function.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2002

State to draw up new economic plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced plans Friday to come up with a fresh economic package aimed at preventing a further decline in Japanese stock prices, following their fall to a 19-year low.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Toyota considers making tiny trucks for U.S. market as demand booms
Toyota executives say the automaker is listening to U.S. dealer requests for a truck smaller than the brand’s best-selling Tacoma midsize and Tundra full-size pickups.
Japan taxi driver suspected of raping 50 women, reports say
Police have arrested a former taxi driver on suspicion of drugging and raping a female passenger, with media reports saying there could be dozens more victims.
Japan considers toughening rules on driver's license conversions
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Itsunori Onodera (fourth from left) visits a driver's license center in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday to see how foreign driver's licenses are converted into Japanese ones.
Trump’s wake-up call for India’s foreign policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13. Trump’s coercive use of trade threats against India during the Pakistan military crisis has undermined trust in the U.S.-India partnership and exposed Washington as an unreliable security ally.
Six short films that capture our world in mere minutes
“Marion” provides a glimpse into the lives of bull dodgers, who perform a nonlethal version of bullfighting.
As Taiwan looks to boost ‘unofficial ties,’ Paraguay’s leader offers facilitator role
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena speaks during an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on Thursday.
GCAP next-gen fighter joint venture likely to be running by this summer
A concept model of the Global Combat Air Program's fighter jet is displayed during the DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.
NTT develops world's first 'flying lightning rod' using drones
NTT's drone — aimed at triggering, then redirecting lightning — is described as a "flying lightning rod."
Ishiba doubles down on weapons cooperation, says no country can go it alone
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba walks past members of the Philippine Coast Guard at the coast guard's headquarters in Manila on April 30.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
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