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CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Nov 24, 2000

From the underground up

Ryoji, the charismatic frontman and mastermind behind skacore group Potshot, has the impossibly skinny, graceful physique of a true rock star. Think Mick Jagger in 1969 or Kurt Cobain 20 years later: the ugly duckling reborn through the grace of a power chord.
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2000

Mr. Kato throws down the gauntlet

Infighting in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is intensifying. Former Secretary General Koichi Kato is demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, citing his low approval ratings. Tension is also building outside the LDP now that major opposition parties are set to present a no-confidence...
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 17, 2000

Division One promotion on hold

OMIYA -- The battle for promotion to Division One of the J. League was extended to Sunday, the final day of Division Two action, after both second-place Urawa Reds and third-place Oita Trinita won their games Thursday night.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2000

Kato eyes power via the party

Koichi Kato, who has stirred up a power struggle within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said he will do "everything possible" short of quitting the party to bring about the downfall of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2000

Shots fired during bank robbery

A man armed with a handgun on Tuesday attacked two employees of a "shinkin" bank branch office in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, and made off with $10,000 (1,076,800 yen) in cash, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2000

Banker held for taking millions from accounts

A former employee of Higashi-Nippon Bank, a medium-size regional bank based in Tokyo, was arrested Monday for allegedly withdrawing money from customers' savings accounts without their consent, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2000

Wanted Japanese leftists met Shigenobu in recent years

Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu, who was arrested in Osaka Prefecture on Wednesday, since 1998 had met in China and Russia with fellow fugitive members of the leftist guerrilla group in apparent efforts to revive the group, public security sources said.
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Nov 14, 2000

The last of the best from Cuba

Even after 10 years, I still find it difficult to predict what actually turns Japanese world-music fans on.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2000

Kato stands by call for Mori to step down

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party was plunged into further turmoil Saturday, only one day after party heavyweight Koichi Kato intensified the pressure on embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori by saying he has no plans to defend Mori in the event of a no-confidence motion.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2000

Rokkasho to be site of MOX plant

Nine major power utilities and Japan Atomic Power Co. have selected the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture as the site of a planned factory to manufacture mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel (MOX).
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2000

Kono, Downer agree on policy

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN -- Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and his Australian counterpart, Alexander Downer, agreed Saturday to continue working to bring North Korea into the international fold, a Japanese official said.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2000

Districts waive care premiums for the elderly

At least 86 municipalities in Japan are either reducing or waiving premiums for nursing care insurance from low-income residents aged 65 or older, according to a new survey conducted by Kyodo News.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 11, 2000

Japan invited to play in World Cup

Japanese baseball officials said Friday they have received an offer from major league officials to play in the inaugural baseball World Cup tournament.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2000

Suspect in Briton's disappearance not cooperating

A Tokyo investigator in the high-profile case of missing Briton Lucie Blackman has dismissed criticism that police have detained the wrong man in trying to discover her whereabouts.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2000

Residency given despite false 'war orphan' claim

Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka granted a special residency permit Tuesday to a 39-year-old Chinese man and his family who arrived in Japan in 1994 and passed themselves off as the blood relatives of a Japanese "war orphan."
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2000

Archaeological hoaxes spur history text rethink

Six publishers of high school history textbooks are considering revising entries in their books about Japan's earliest stoneware, following Sunday's disclosure that a leading archaeologist had fabricated his discoveries of such artifacts.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 5, 2000

MLB stars win on Vizquel's blast

Omar Vizquel hit a two-run "sayonara" homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday as the visiting major league all-stars held off the Japanese squad 7-5 in Game Two of their eight-game exhibition series.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Panel seeks new legislation on diesel exhaust emissions

An Environment Agency advisory panel wants the government to revise legislation controlling nitrogen oxide emissions to include diesel exhaust particulate matter, according to a copy of a report obtained by Kyodo News on Saturday.

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