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BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2001

Yasuda cracks the whip on merger procedure

Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. and two other nonlife insurers will try to hasten work on their coming merger, the insurer's president said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2001

Most local governments unable to dispose of MBM

Most local governments are ill-equipped to immediately dispose of meat-and-bone meal, which is suspected of spreading mad cow disease, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2001

Swallows finish regular season with win

Alex Ramirez hammered a couple of homers, his 28th and 29th of the season, to highlight Yakult's 18-hit batting fiesta as the Swallows ended their regular season with a 10-8 win over the Hiroshima Carp at Jingu Stadium on Friday night.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2001

Japan Series tickets sell quick

OSAKA -- If you were hoping to get your hands on tickets for the Japan Series, you might be out of luck -- even if you are pals with the manager.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2001

Steps drawn up to fight nuclear, chemical threat

Government ministries and agencies have drawn up antiterrorism measures to deal with attacks involving nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, government officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2001

Nuclear firms not fearful of terrorism

Japan's electric power companies are continuing to allow the public to visit their nuclear facilities despite security concerns in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks on the United States, company officials said Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 13, 2001

Jubilo's Nanami sidelined

Japan and Jubilo Iwata midfielder Hiroshi Nanami has had surgery on his injured knee and will be sidelined for about three months, officials of the J. League first division side said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2001

Asahi's first-half profit plan turns into 60 billion yen net loss

Asahi Bank said Thursday it will post a group net loss of 60 billion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, after shouldering heavy losses from soured loans and stock market plunges.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2001

Koizumi calls for DPJ support

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called on the opposition camp Thursday to back a government-proposed bill that would allow SDF personnel to play a noncombat role in the U.S.-led military drama now playing out in Afghanistan.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2001

Former Lion Del Toro killed in crash

Mexican pitcher Miguel Del Toro, who appeared in 14 games with the Seibu Lions this season, was killed in a car accident last Saturday in Mexico, the Pacific League club announced Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2001

Diet approval condition for SDF dispatch mulled

Senior ruling coalition officials agreed Sunday to consider revising a bill on the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to support expected U.S.-led antiterrorism operations to accommodate an opposition demand that the Diet approve any dispatch, coalition sources said.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2001

Student confirmed dead in terror attacks

Toshiya Kuge, a 20-year-old Waseda University student, has become the second Japanese to be officially confirmed dead in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2001

Ozawa warns against unprincipled SDF action

Opposition Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa reiterated his opposition Sunday to a bill aimed at allowing the Self-Defense Forces to extend logistic assistance to an expected U.S.-led military operation against terrorists.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 7, 2001

Swallows finally clinch CL pennant

The Yakult Swallows ended a four-game winless streak Saturday to finally clinch their sixth Central League pennant and first in four years with a 6-4 extra-innings victory over the Yokohama BayStars.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 7, 2001

A lonely struggle for recognition

LEGACIES OF THE COMFORT WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II, edited by Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B.C. Oh. M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 2001, 230 pp., $55 (cloth) More than 50 years after the end of World War II, the question of whether or not the Japanese government bears responsibility for forcing tens of thousands...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2001

Japan announces $120 million in aid for Afghanistan refugees

Responding to calls by the United Nations for financial assistance to the people of Afghanistan, Japan announced Thursday that it is ready to provide up to $120 million to the U.N. in preparation for the "worst-case scenario in the coming six months."
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2001

Global university strives to become Oita's melting pot

BEPPU, Oita Pref. -- Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, aiming to become a pioneer in the internationalization of higher education, accepted new students of diverse nationalities in a ceremony earlier this week.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 5, 2001

Tigers keep Swallows tied up

Hanshin closer Toshihide Narimoto struck out Noriyuki Shiroishi with two out and one on in the bottom of the 12th inning and Thursday's game against the Tigers and the Yakult Swallows ended a 4-4 tie at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2001

Toyota, Honda were top sellers in first half of fiscal '01

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. were the clear leaders in terms of best-selling vehicles in the Japanese market in the first half of fiscal 2001, an industry association said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

NPA says assault team braced for terrorism

The National Police Agency is prepared to mobilize its special counterterrorism unit in the event that U.S. facilities and other designated locations in Japan come under threat of terrorist attack, NPA officials said Wednesday. Should concrete information about a potential attack become known, the Special...
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

66% of Japanese support U.S. military retaliation

Sixty-six percent of people surveyed in a recent opinion poll support U.S. military retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

More 10,000 yen counterfeits found

Two counterfeit 10,000 yen bills were found Tuesday night inside a ticket machine at a railway station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, officials of East Japan Railway Co. said Wednesday. Also on Tuesday, 16 counterfeit 10,000 yen bills were discovered in ticket machines at three Seibu Railway Co....

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami