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JAPAN
Sep 25, 2003

Government hit with black-lung suit

Sixty-five former construction workers filed a 1.37 billion yen lawsuit Wednesday against the government and general contractors for lung disease they claim they developed while digging tunnels for public works projects.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2003

Weather still blamed for poor sales

Sales at supermarkets and department stores continued to fall in August on a year-on-year basis, primarily due to the unusually cool summer, according to industry data released Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2003

Bridgestone cuts earnings outlook after fire

Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Corp. released a revised earnings outlook Wednesday that includes the impact of a fire at its Tochigi factory earlier this month, lowering net and pretax profit forecasts for the year ending Dec. 31.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2003

Suginami drafts surveillance rules

Tokyo's Suginami Ward, which plans to establish an ordinance regulating the operation of surveillance cameras in public spaces, has decided to compel operators to report to the ward office before cameras are installed, it was learned Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 25, 2003

Tosa may miss Tokyo Marathon

World silver medalist Reiko Tosa twisted her left ankle and may be unable to take part in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon this fall, marathon sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2003

Abe declares LDP will seek majority in next House of Representatives poll

The Liberal Democratic Party's goal for the next House of Representatives election is to secure a single-party majority, LDP Secretary General Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 25, 2003

Worth fighting for

Most "greatest hits" games are too familiar. They were great when they came out last Christmas and everybody bought them, but now they're simply old.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 25, 2003

Peeved monkeys reject unequal pay on the job

Philosophers as diverse as Plato, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill tried hard to argue that there is a rational basis for fair and just behavior. However, the best philosophy in the world is only worth so much when there is the chance to make bucket-loads of cash.
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2003

A bitter anniversary in Chile

Thirty years ago, Chile's elected government was overthrown by a military coup. While most of the world remembers Sept. 11 as the day that marked the beginning of the war on terror, Chileans commemorate the end of a presidency and the cleaving of their country into two, as yet irreconcilable, halves....
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Child abuse cases hit record 23,738

A record 23,738 cases of child abuse were reported to child welfare centers nationwide in fiscal 2002, topping the previous year's record by 464, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Koizumi will push for extension of antiterror law

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will resolve in an upcoming policy speech in the Diet to extend by two years a law permitting Japan to cooperate in the U.S.-led fight against terrorism, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Pump firm slapped on wrist for concealing 290 million yen

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has judged that plant engineering firm Ebara Corp. concealed 290 million yen in income over a two-year period ending in March 2002, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Peacenik taps art world to parody war

Tetsuya Ozaki is trying to wage peace in a unique theater of war -- the theater of the absurd.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Kawaguchi heads to U.N. meeting

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi left for New York on Tuesday to attend an annual United Nations gathering.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 24, 2003

Kawaguchi eyes bigger SDF role

The government should pursue a more flexible interpretation of the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 and allow the Self-Defense Forces to make a greater contribution to global peacekeeping efforts, according to Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi.
SUMO
Sep 24, 2003

Musashimaru says he will take part

The head of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council on Monday expressed his hope that injury-prone yokozuna Musashimaru would make a "brilliant" return to the ring in the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament to be held in November.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Agriculture bodies spill beans on food output

A growing number of agricultural organizations are revealing the processes behind growing farm produce, much to the delight of health-conscious consumers and to the chagrin of some growers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 24, 2003

Sounds Numero Ono

You could call Seigen Ono a connoisseur of sound. He chooses only the finest sonic ingredients and knows exactly how to obtain them. As an avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist, he might not be a household name, but check out the credits on some of the best records of the last two decades and there's...
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Dry eye affects most who gaze at monitors

As many as three out of four people sitting in front of computers or similar video screens for long periods of time could be suffering from so-called dry eye, a syndrome that can impair vision in severe cases, a recent study showed.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 24, 2003

Grampus Eight tops J. League

Brazilian Ueslei struck twice as a 10-man Nagoya Grampus Eight breezed to a 3-1 victory over Cerezo Osaka Tuesday to leap to the top of the J. League standings.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight