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JAPAN
Jan 24, 2001

Osaka announces details of bid to host '08 Olympics

OSAKA -- The city of Osaka made public on Tuesday its formal plans to host the 2008 Olympic Games, one week after presenting them to International Olympic Committee officials in Switzerland as stipulated by committee rules. Osaka's Olympic plans call for the majority of the 28 events to take place at...
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 24, 2001

'Super League' talks

Japanese, South Korean and Chinese soccer officials are set to meet next month to discuss the possibility of a "Super League" involving club sides from the three countries, sports sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2001

Osaka homeless find they must help selves

OSAKA -- Visit Yoshisune Nagamine at his office beside Osaka Castle and you're in for a surprise.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2001

Kids must learn English at earlier age, panel says

Japan should continue to actively discuss the introduction of English language education at the elementary school level, including putting English on the mandatory curriculum, a private advisory panel to the education, culture, sports, science and technology minister said in its final report submitted...
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2001

Keio chief to head education panel

Keio University President Yasuhiko Torii is likely to chair the Central Council for Education, an advisory body to the education minister, sources close to the minister said after panel members were named Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2001

Step aside, America's Cup, for a little solo catamaran

Researchers have developed a solo catamaran day-sailer with hydrofoils that they claim is faster than America's Cup yachts.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2001

KSD-tainted Koyama cozy with firms

Takao Koyama, the arrested House of Councilors member mired in the KSD bribery scandal, posed questions in parliamentary panels designed to increase state aid to scaffolding firms that later set up an association chaired by an official from a KSD-linked organization, sources familiar with the case said...
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 17, 2001

German soccer team may visit Japan

The Japan Football Association is looking to line up a first-ever international fixture against three-time world champion Germany in November, sports sources said Monday.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 17, 2001

Botswana's delta a force of nature

The Okavango delta (or "the Delta" as it's known by those in the know) is not a swamp, at least not in the conventionally unpleasant sense of the word.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2001

Astronauts tour to report on mission

The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery said Monday that aspects of everyday life will become increasingly important as astronauts' missions get longer.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 13, 2001

Preseason games

The Urawa Reds will host American Major League Soccer team the L.A. Galaxy in a preseason exhibition match on Feb. 25 (kickoff 1 p.m.) at Urawa's Komaba Stadium, the J. League club announced Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2001

Adults, kids split on merits of baseball

Shunzo Nagashima recalls his wonder at seeing the New York Yankees in newsreels at a Tokyo cinema soon after World War II.
EDITORIALS
Jan 10, 2001

Behind the quest for more babies

The continuing precipitous decline in Japan's birthrate -- in 1999 it was at the all-time low of 1.34 births per woman during her lifetime -- has long troubled planners in both the government and the private sector. Now Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has put himself at the center of the issue by calling...
MORE SPORTS
Jan 9, 2001

Kunimi captures high school crown

Japan under-19 international Yoshito Okubo scored twice Monday as Kunimi of Nagasaki Prefecture beat Shiga's Kusatsu Higashi 3-0 in the final to win its fourth national high school soccer championship.
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2001

One person killed family, police say

Police investigating the brutal murder of Mikio Miyazawa, his wife and two children in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, now believe that one person was responsible for the killings, based on blood samples taken from the site of the crime.
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2001

New government opens doors

The new-look streamlined government opened its doors for the first time on Saturday, shorn of almost half the powerful central government entities that built post-war corporate Japan.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 4, 2001

MVP Nakamura to trade in Rice Bowl for rice bowl

His job has been running the football. But from now on, Tamon Nakamura will concentrate on running a restaurant for his family.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Pioneering diesel engine developed by Fuji Heavy

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., maker of Subaru cars, has developed what it claims is the world's first horizontally opposed diesel engine and eventually plans to install it in a model to be launched in Europe, a Fuji senior managing director said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2000

Tieup agrees to focus on broadband Webcasting

Sony Corp., Tokyu Corp., Kansai Electric Power Co. and Itochu Corp. said Tuesday they have agreed to begin content-distribution services on a commercial basis via broadband Webcasting.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2000

Vice ministers named for merging ministries

The Cabinet on Tuesday named the career bureaucrats who will take up posts as vice ministers at the Cabinet Office and the seven ministries to be created under sweeping reforms that will take effect Jan. 6, when the current 23 government entities will be reduced to 13.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 24, 2000

Roll up your sleeve when Lance comes calling

Hospitals come and go -- especially on our island. You can always tell when the hospital comes because it's a large mobile contraption that rolls off the ferry. When it's time to go, it rolls back onto the ferry and you can wave goodbye to the hospital as it goes back out to sea. It's basically a big...
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2000

DPJ to seek 30% cut in public works spending

Executives of the Democratic Party of Japan adopted a pledge Thursday to seek a 30 percent cut in public works expenditures over five years in the runup to next summer's House of Councilors election.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 21, 2000

Wife prevented Kawasaki from having a new life with Red Sox

It has been said that to be great in life you have to be very selfish. I have always believed this to be true no matter what the field -- sports, politics, art or anything else.

Longform

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