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JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Farm ministry to focus on food safety, consumer protection

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry unveiled a new government food safety policy Friday that will mark a shift toward a more consumer-oriented approach.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Farm ministry to focus on food safety, consumer protection

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry unveiled a new government food safety policy Friday that will mark a shift toward a more consumer-oriented approach.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

10 to be honored as living treasures

Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro and nine others were selected Friday by a cultural panel to be named living national treasures, according to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Female drivers debut on Tokaido bullet trains

Four women debuted Friday as bullet train drivers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, the first for the high-speed route linking Tokyo and Osaka, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Farm ministry to focus on food safety, consumer protection

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry unveiled a new government food safety policy Friday that will mark a shift toward a more consumer-oriented approach.
EDITORIALS
Jun 21, 2003

Tehran under assault

Iran is under mounting pressure from within and without. Just as the international community is becoming increasingly concerned about Tehran's nuclear program, the regime faces increasing domestic unrest. Conspiracy-minded individuals see the two as linked, the product of U.S. efforts to undermine another...
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Japan plots talks on export controls to counter WMD

Japan plans to host high-level dialogue on export controls in the Asia-Pacific region in October in a bid to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, trade chief Takeo Hiranuma said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Tsukiji fish mart relocation rubs many wrong way

The relocation of the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market, better known as the Tsukiji fish market, is causing concern among restaurants and other retailers operating there because they must cover their own moving costs.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Court orders Senegal to pay up

The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered the government of Senegal to pay some 11.73 million yen to a firm that manufactured T-shirts and other items to support the African nation's team in the World Cup soccer finals last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2003

A breakthrough for Thaksin

BANGKOK -- Nearly 2 1/2 years after his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party's unprecedented electoral victory, recent weeks have seen Thailand's Premier Thaksin Shinawatra score an unmistakable psychological breakthrough. The change has nothing to do with Thaksin's own psychology; his supreme self-confidence seems...
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2003

Nissho Iwai union accepts bonus ban

Nissho Iwai Corp.'s union has accepted the company's proposal to pay no bonuses to nonmanagement staff this summer, union members said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Japan plots talks on export controls to counter WMD

Japan plans to host high-level dialogue on export controls in the Asia-Pacific region in October in a bid to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, trade chief Takeo Hiranuma said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Court orders Senegal to pay up

The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered the government of Senegal to pay some 11.73 million yen to a firm that manufactured T-shirts and other items to support the African nation's team in the World Cup soccer finals last year.
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2003

NEC to spin off laser operations

NEC Corp. said Friday it will spin off the group's laser-processing operations into a new company that the electronics firm and two other concerns will establish in December.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

East Timor peacekeeping extended

Japan said Friday it will extend the participation of its troops in the U.N. peacekeeping operation in East Timor for one year until Aug. 20, 2004, government officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

Court orders Senegal to pay up

The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered the government of Senegal to pay some 11.73 million yen to a firm that manufactured T-shirts and other items to support the African nation's team in the World Cup soccer finals last year.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

U.S. has warned Japan over Pyongyang warhead threat

The United States has recently warned Japan that North Korea may possess several nuclear warheads that can be loaded onto ballistic missiles, government sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2003

East Timor peacekeeping extended

Japan said Friday it will extend the participation of its troops in the U.N. peacekeeping operation in East Timor for one year until Aug. 20, 2004, government officials said.

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