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BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

State's debt-collection agencies to confer

The head of Resolution and Collection Corp. voiced willingness Friday to boost ties with the planned state-backed industrial revival body that will be tasked with buying bank loans extended to troubled firms in an effort to help rehabilitate the companies in question.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 27, 2002

Seibu plans to keep its own Matsui

General manager Kenji Ono said Monday the Seibu Lions do not intend to exercise the posting system and put up Kazuo Matsui for auction for a chance to play in the major leagues next season.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2002

Sony to shut down audio operations at Indonesian unit

Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will stop manufacturing audio equipment at its Indonesian subsidiary by next March in line with efforts to restructure its plant operations in Southeast Asia.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 24, 2002

Giants not fussing over Nakamura

Yomiuri Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe said Friday he has cooled on a bid for Norihiro Nakamura, raising the possibility the free agent slugger will join rival Central League team Hanshin Tigers.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2002

North Korea able to produce nukes by 2004, says U.S.

The U.S. government believes North Korea will be capable of producing a nuclear bomb using enriched uranium as early as in 2004, Japanese and U.S. sources have told Kyodo News.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2002

Racecourse chief held over bribe

Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested the former head of the Kyoto Racecourse, operated by the Japan Racing Association, on suspicion of accepting 1.6 million yen in bribes from the former president of a company that makes promotional cards.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2002

Ruling bloc nixes Diet testimony by former North Korean agent

A proposed Diet appearance by a former North Korean agent was effectively canceled Tuesday after ruling coalition parties said they oppose inviting him to the legislature.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 20, 2002

Giants land Petagine

The Yomiuri Giants have landed Venezuelan slugger Roberto Petagine with a two-year deal carrying an annual salary of $6 million, officials of the Central League club said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2002

Government overspent in resort development

The government grossly overestimated demand and unnecessarily invested large sums in designated resort areas in 41 prefectures based on a law to promote and develop resort-related industries, according to a draft report by a study group of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Nicos failed to sever 'sokaiya' ties

Nippon Shinpan Co., mired in allegations that its executives paid off a racketeer to expedite proceedings at the firm's general shareholders' meetings, had failed to sever ties with a number of racketeers in the late 1980s, a former company executive said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Government mulls abductee assistance measures

The government began consulting Monday with Liberal Democratic Party members on how Japan can take in and support the five known surviving Japanese abducted by North Korea and their immediate families still in the North, government officials said.
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
Nov 15, 2002

U.S. settles with Ehime Maru victims

The U.S. Navy reached a settlement Thursday in Tokyo over a deadly collision last year off Hawaii involving one of its submarines and a Japanese high school fisheries training ship.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2002

BOJ credit-easing measures likely: experts

Nearly 90 percent of economists expect the Bank of Japan to further ease its grip on credit within six months, according to a Kyodo News survey released Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2002

Government contemplates support for spouses of ethnic North Koreans

The government may consider offering livelihood support to Japanese who went to Pyongyang as spouses of North Koreans decades ago and who have since returned to Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2002

Boatmen boast of Biwa's bounty

OMIHACHIMAN, Shiga Pref. -- Among the many tours available for enjoying the beauty of Lake Biwa is a ride aboard a small wooden boat rowed by a skilled sculler who also serves as a guide.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 10, 2002

Antlers narrow gap on Jubilo

Japan striker Atsushi Yanagisawa scored a first-half goal to send the Kashima Antlers on their way to a 2-0 win at Gamba Osaka in the J. League first division on Saturday.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past