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JAPAN
Oct 26, 2000

Mori fights criticism during Diet debate

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was forced to fight back Wednesday as opposition leaders urged him to resign during a terse Diet debate that centered on the latest in a growing string of gaffes.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2000

$1 million in electoral aid ready for Kosovo

Japan decided Tuesday to provide over $1 million in emergency aid to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to help it carry out free and fair elections in Kosovo this weekend, the Foreign Ministry said.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2000

Waseda still looking for answers

Officials at Waseda University's Political Science and Economics Department said Tuesday that 189 completed answer sheets for a semester examination are missing.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2000

Tokyo lauds Albright trip to Pyongyang

Japan hopes that U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's visit to North Korea that began Monday will have a good effect on Tokyo's talks on normalizing ties with Pyongyang, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2000

New version given of Mori's secret proposal

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa on Monday contradicted Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori by saying the prime minister did not make a secret proposal to Pyongyang to resolve alleged abductions of Japanese.
COMMENTARY
Oct 23, 2000

LDP is up to its old tricks

The current 150th Diet session is in unprecedented chaos over an electoral reform bill to revise the Upper House voting system. The bill would change the roster system for candidates nominated in the proportional-representation segment of the Upper House polls. Currently, parties predetermine the ranks...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2000

European, Asian leaders end summit with vow of solidarity

SEOUL -- European and Asian leaders wrapped up a summit here Saturday with a pledge to launch a new round of world trade talks as soon as possible and a promise to work together more closely on political issues and fighting crime.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2000

Opposition ends boycott to pursue scandals in Diet

Opposition lawmakers returned to Diet deliberations Friday, ending a nearly three-week boycott after the House of Councilors passed a controversial bill to revise the electoral system the previous day.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2000

Japan still No. 1 ODA donor

Japan's official development assistance of $15.32 billion in 1999 made it the world's top donor to developing countries for the ninth consecutive year, according to an annual report on ODA endorsed Friday by Cabinet.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 2000

Keep the victims in mind

Criminal activity in Japan is at a postwar peak -- the police reported 2.9 million violations of the Penal Code in 1999, 7.9 percent more than in the previous year. In the same period, the arrest rate fell to a postwar low. The Justice Ministry has just confirmed this bleak picture in a white paper submitted...
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2000

11 trillion yen plan gets official nod

The government adopted a comprehensive stimulus package Thursday worth nearly 11 trillion yen in its latest bid to place the long-stagnant economy on a full-fledged recovery track.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Nakagawa refuses to resign

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Wednesday he will not resign over an allegedly false statement made to the Diet about his reported dubious links with a rightist figure.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Japan offers $10 million in food aid to Yugoslavia

Japan will provide about $10 million in emergency food and medical aid to the new Yugoslav government set up by opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica to help ordinary Yugoslav citizens get through the winter, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2000

Tanaka to investigate bid for Nagano Games

Gov.-elect Yasuo Tanaka NAGANO (Kyodo) Nagano Gov.-elect Yasuo Tanaka said Monday he will question officials responsible for destroying account books for this city's successful bid to host the 1998 Winter Olympics.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2000

Zhu tones down stance on wartime atonement

Visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji said Monday that Japan needs to admit its wartime aggression and be careful not to repeat the same mistake.
EDITORIALS
Oct 14, 2000

Tread carefully with Pyongyang

The United States and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations. Technically, they are still at war. That has not stopped them from negotiating important issues, but the lack of an official relationship has complicated already difficult talks. Now, however, the two countries are moving toward reconciliation....
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2000

Step up efforts to combat economic crime: ministry

The Justice Ministry urged the government Friday to step up efforts to combat economic crimes, pointing to numerous "uncertain elements" in the unpredictable and still-fragile economic recovery that may make such crimes easier to perpetrate.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2000

Mori, Zhu vow to build a better future

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji agreed Friday to build a new relationship in the coming century through enhanced economic cooperation and by steadily resolving bilateral disputes, such as Chinese marine research activities within Japan's economic waters.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2000

Commercial Code to undergo sweeping decontrols

The government on Thursday unveiled a package of structural reforms, including frontloading some proposed revisions to the Commercial Code.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2000

Study to follow study before Okinawa's dugongs protected

The results of an ongoing study of the dugong, a sea mammal threatened by the planned military-civilian airport in Okinawa, will determine the steps to be studied for its protection, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2000

1970 hijacking still up in air

A recent joint statement issued by the United States and North Korea on international terrorism may not help resolve the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner by Japanese Red Army members, who remain in North Korea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 9, 2000

A chicken in every pot, TVs in every home

WASHINGTON -- With a tough election looming in the United States, congressional Republicans have opened the Treasury to every interest group with a letterhead. Budget analysts Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski figure this Congress may end up as the biggest social spender since the 1970s.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2000

Can Arafat turn Mideast violence to good?

BEIRUT -- With a few exceptions, the Israelis contend that the bloody tumult in Israel and the occupied territory has been instigated and stage-managed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as a means of strengthening his hand in the faltering peace process.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2000

KSD probed in breach of clients' trust

Tokyo public prosecutors launched an investigation Friday into an alleged breach-of-trust case involving the head of a Tokyo-based mutual aid organization for small enterprises.
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2000

Stymied by electoral reform

Confusion reigns in the current extraordinary Diet session, with the opposition forces boycotting debate to protest the ruling bloc's forcible move to revise the Upper House election system.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2000

Food aid to North Korea gains approval

A key Liberal Democratic Party panel approved a plan Wednesday to send 500,000 tons of rice as food aid to North Korea, effectively paving the way for an aid program the government hopes will add impetus to normalization talks.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Nakasone named diplomacy adviser

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday appointed former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as his special adviser on diplomatic affairs, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Firms continue to be optimistic: 'tankan'

The outlook of the nation's corporations -- particularly large manufacturers -- continued to improve over the past three months, according to the latest quarterly "tankan" business sentiment survey, released Tuesday by the Bank of Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Talks on management of Nago base to begin

The central government and local governments in Okinawa Prefecture agreed Tuesday to commence talks on managing the U.S. military facility expected to take over the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan city.

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