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JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Court recognizes 1932 massacre, rejects redress

The Tokyo District Court turned down a lawsuit Friday filed by three survivors of a 1932 massacre by Imperial Japanese Army troops in Liaoning Province, China.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 29, 2002

Cheering on Special Olympics, seeking volunteers

It is confusing to discover that Kayako Hosokawa has three offices in a building in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki. Two are neighbors -- "so convenient," she observes, nipping to and fro. The other is on the fifth floor, below. It is even more confusing to learn she has a fourth office, in Kumamoto, close to the...
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Cup cohosts' ties thaw, at least on individual level

OSAKA — When the excitement over the World Cup finals subsides, many may wonder whether cohosting the event actually helped improve relations between Japan and South Korea.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Fixer sentenced to seven years for fraud

Real estate developer Heo Young Joong, a known fixer with ties to politicians and the underworld, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for bilking a Tokyo-based petroleum goods seller out of about 18 billion yen in 1996.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Two doctors held over malpractice in heart surgery

Two doctors at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital were arrested Friday for alleged negligence and destruction of evidence in connection with a March 2001 heart operation that resulted in the death of a 12-year-old girl.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Sunken mystery ship's arms up the ante

The powerful weapons found aboard the mystery ship that sank in the East China Sea in December after a shootout with the Japan Coast Guard suggest that the authorities charged with policing and defending the nation's waters face a new challenge.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2002

Growing minority blurs borders of Chinatowns

In 1919, 15-year-old Zeng Yaoquan from Guang Dong Province, southern China, arrived at Yokohama port to work as a servant at a trading house that imported rice and other crops from China, run by one of his relatives.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2002

Nippon Housing Loan to pay for cooked books

OSAKA -- Auditors and executives of the now-defunct "jusen" mortgage lender Nippon Housing Loan Co. have agreed to pay former shareholders 20 million yen for falsifying debt figures, sources close to the case said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Dissenters' privacy violated by nuclear agency

An affiliate of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency provided local governments in 15 prefectures hosting nuclear plants with lists of individuals who refused to accept government benefits linked to the plants, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Letter to Togo will again seek testimony

The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will again try to get former diplomat Kazuhiko Togo to give testimony in connection with a scandal involving a government-funded committee on Russia, panel members said Thursday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 28, 2002

Sas sneaks onto Golden Ball list

YOKOHAMA -- Turkey forward Hasan Sas was a surprise nominee on the 10-man list for the honor as the top player in this World Cup, sponsor adidas announced Thursday in Yokohama.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Takuma admits child slayings in court

OSAKA — Mamoru Takuma told the Osaka District Court on Thursday that he stabbed eight children to death at an elementary school last June.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 28, 2002

Nikkei may test 13,000 by 2003

Uncertainties about the prospects of a U.S. economic recovery are putting major stock markets worldwide in a slump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

Shareholders flock to over 2,000 annual meetings

Around 2,020 firms held shareholders' meetings nationwide Thursday, with scandal-ridden companies claiming most of the limelight.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2002

Teetering on the edge of real democracy

ANKARA -- "The main obstacle to democracy is not Islam, but Kemalism," says Atilla Yayla, the unassuming head of Turkey's Association for Liberal Thinking. Turkey is a critically important country, but also an amazingly complicated and frustrating one. And while it has done better than most other Muslim...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2002

Labour spinning backward

LONDON -- When its press becomes the story, a country is in a strange shape.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE EXTRA
Jun 27, 2002

Observations from the other side

It's almost over now, and I have to admit it's been a lot less painful than anticipated.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

FTC to take up ANA-Air Do link

Fair Trade Commission Secretary General Akio Yamada said Wednesday the FTC will look into the anticompetitive implications of a proposed tieup between All Nippon Airways and the failed Hokkaido International Airlines, better known as Air Do.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Group wants '60s poisoning recognized as dioxin pollution

An environmental group will open a center Saturday that will provide support for victims of a widespread poisoning episode in 1968 involving contaminated rice-bran oil and will seek to have the incident categorized as one of dioxin pollution, a group official said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2002

The shrinking U.S. dollar

The U.S. dollar continues to slide on international currency markets. Actually, slide is too polite a word: "Nosedive" seems like a more apt description of the greenback's behavior in recent weeks. Some economists now worry that a "hard landing" -- a crash in the dollar's value -- is the chief threat...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Economic gloom just adds to illegal workers' plight

Practically every working condition endured by 36-year-old Sajidur Rahman during his 4 1/2-year stint at a Yokohama factory is illegal under the Labor Standards Law.

Longform

"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan