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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

First meeting of Asian city leaders outlines 15 projects to boost region

Leaders of major Asian cities issued a declaration Thursday, outlining 15 joint projects that include the development of the region's air industry, online education and environmentally friendly vehicles.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2001

Fujitsu, IBM negotiating tieups

Compiled from wire reports Fujitsu Ltd. and IBM Corp. are negotiating a tieup involving the joint development and use of software and technical cooperation for computer servers, Fujitsu said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

Sakaguchi plays down new variant CJD scare

Health minister Chikara Sakaguchi on Thursday downplayed concerns over media reports that a teenage girl in a Tokyo hospital has new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal brain-wasting illness linked to mad cow disease.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

U.S. needs to engage China in wake of terror attacks, security expert says

The United States should try to improve relations with China under the new security environment following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and that will require "careful and realistic diplomatic management on many fronts," an American expert on East Asia told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

Economies face up to world after Sept. 11

The events of Sept. 11 in New York and Washington were a watershed that has forced the world's traditional economic powerhouses to come to grips with a new danger that affects every aspect of political, economic and social life, according to participants in the Brookings Institution-Keizai Koho Center...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

Meat industry hopeful over government pledge

Restaurants, distributors and food companies dealing with beef are hoping the government's safety declaration Thursday will help revive consumer demand for red meat. The government declared domestic beef to be free of mad cow disease in a bid to allay public fears following the discovery of the first...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 19, 2001

2002 -- a big year for Busan

BUSAN, South Korea -- Jun Nayong and her friend Cho Sook Eun look at each other knowing they have a common answer to my question but are almost embarrassed to say it. Almost.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2001

Typhoon Haiyan heads for Izu isles

Typhoon Haiyan was on course to drench the Izu islands Thursday as it traveled east-northeast south of Hachijo Island, roughly 300 km south of Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2001

Ministry moves ahead with extra budget

The Finance Ministry will push ahead with its plan to earmark 2.7 trillion yen for a supplementary budget for fiscal 2001, despite the ruling coalition's rejection of the plan, Vice Finance Minister Toshiro Muto said Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Oct 19, 2001

Migratory locust

LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Oct 19, 2001

Home from home in surprising ways

When Christine Permatsari arrived in Okinawa this August, she found it to be not much different from home.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2001

Hands-free messages set for debut

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and Honda Motor Co. have developed a new communication system for vehicles that lets drivers exchange e-mail and make telephone calls without using their hands.
JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK
Oct 18, 2001

Japan moves to compete on greener side of the street

Gone are the days when Japanese businesses felt a healthy environment was a concept that could only be achieved at the expense of economic growth.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Oct 18, 2001

World currency market groping for path

The world currency market is struggling to find its way amid uncertainty about what will ensue after the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2001

Toshiba, Matsushita plan two joint ventures

Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced Wednesday they will set up two joint ventures in April, each dealing with a different type of electronic display.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2001

Bankruptcy rush simmering: Teikoku Databank expert

Katsuyuki Kumagai has witnessed an abundance of corporate bankruptcies during his 17-year tenure at a credit research firm.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2001

FTC probes four medical goods firms

The Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday began investigating four medical equipment companies suspected of forming a price-fixing cartel for bone-fracture materials and other medical supplies, according to sources.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2001

Ex-Afghan ambassador fears statelessness

Former Afghan Ambassador to Japan Hassani Mohammad Asif says his greatest worry as U.S.-led forces pound his native land is that he and his family will be left stateless.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 18, 2001

Tomb raiders for racial equality

Today, Oct. 18, is the feast day of Luke the Evangelist: physician, saint, author of the book of Acts and companion of Paul. It is thanks to Luke, the most literary of the four gospel writers, that we learn about the human aspects of Christ's life -- such as the enduring Nativity scene.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2001

Government plans to buy up beef distribution stockpiles

The government plans to buy some 13,000 tons of distributors' beef stocks on a temporary basis in line with a rigorous inspection due to begin today on all cows to be processed for human consumption.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 18, 2001

Rare hybrids on evolution's way to where?

Humans like rules as a way of ordering the world into familiar and comfortable patterns. For naturalists, one of the basic rules is the concept of biological species, which forms the basis of modern biodiversity and conservation studies.
SOCCER / THE BALD TRUTH
Oct 18, 2001

No-fry zones a must during World Cup

It used to be good being Swiss, apparently. Now the country that gave us the cuckoo clock and Toblerone finds itself without an airline and, worse still, without World Cup soccer on the telly next year.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2001

U.S. to ride second IT wave of recovery

Despite the global economic woes fueled by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the U.S. economy will probably come out of its slump as early as the second quarter of next year, according to a senior Wall Street watcher who was recently in Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2001

Typhoon Haiyan lashes Okinawa

Typhoon Haiyan, packing winds of up to 108 kph, turned Okinawa and the Amami Islands into a storm zone Wednesday morning, the Meteorological Agency said.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2001

O, brothers how art thou?

Joel and Ethan Coen
CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2001

When it comes to comedy, it's sync or swim

Waterboys Rating: * * * * Director: Shinobu Yaguchi Running time: 91 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing

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