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COMMENTARY
Apr 21, 2003

Why war in Korea is less probable now

LOS ANGELES -- Many fretful observers, on both sides of the Pacific, are convinced that U.S. military action against North Korea is inevitable. But this gloomy doomsday scenario, it seems to me, becomes increasingly improbable as time goes on.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 21, 2003

Wainaina triumphs in Nagano

Sydney Olympic silver medalist Eric Wainaina of Kenya outpaced South Africa's Josiah Thugwane of South Africa on Sunday to win the Nagano Olympic memorial marathon.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Apr 21, 2003

Evasive accounting will darken already cloudy economic outlook

Now that the war in Iraq has completed a crucial phase, a major source of uncertainty for the world economy appears to have been eliminated. However, the global economic outlook still remains cloudy, as illustrated by the fall in share prices that occurred when Baghdad fell into the hands of the U.S.-led...
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 21, 2003

Yomiuri extinguishes Dragons' fire

Koji Uehara (1-1) walked none and went the distance for his first win in four starts this season, fanning seven along the way in the Yomiuri Giants' 7-2 triumph over the Chunichi Dragons at Nagoya Dome. The opening-day pitcher held cleanup hitter Alex Ochoa hitless in four at-bats.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2003

Abductees' kin leave for Geneva meet

The families of abducted Japanese nationals said to have died in North Korea left Japan on Sunday to attend a meeting of a group established by the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
COMMENTARY
Apr 21, 2003

Peacemaker for Sri Lanka

Japan plans to play a leading role in rebuilding strife-torn Sri Lanka. Peace talks are under way to end more than 20 years of ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese (Buddhist) majority and the Tamil (Hindu) minority. An international conference on Sri Lankan reconstruction and development is scheduled...
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2003

Setagaya OKs transsexual's election bid

A transsexual living socially as a female became on Sunday the first person in Japan to register as an election candidate under a gender different from that listed on their official family registry.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2003

EU troubles will also expand

LONDON -- The symbolism could hardly have been better. Against a background of the columns of ancient Athens, the birthplace of democracy, 25 government leaders signed documents that will bring into the European Union countries that spent much of their postwar existence under communist dictatorship....
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2003

Ishihara bemoans state's blindness to 'terrorist' acts

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara criticized the central government on Sunday for not calling a series of North Korean actions "terrorism."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2003

Can markets defeat global uncertainty?

With the Saddam Hussein regime effectively ousted, the world is a lot less jittery than when the U.S.-led war in Iraq began, but that doesn't mean clear skies for the global economy, according to Edwin A. Finn Jr., editor and president of Barron's magazine.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 20, 2003

Football Association hypocritical and arrogant over racism issue

LONDON -- "We are very disappointed that UEFA have felt it necessary to bring the charges against us." -- Paul Barber, director of marketing and communications, the Football Association.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2003

Japan may aid Pyongyang before normalizing ties

Japan is considering providing economic and food assistance to North Korea even before normalizing bilateral relations, in the event the reclusive country agrees to abandon its suspected nuclear development program, according to government sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2003

68 evacuees from Miyake Island return for four-day visit

Sixty-eight former residents of Miyake Island returned Saturday morning for a four-day visit, their first overnight stay since the entire population of about 3,800 people was evacuated when the island's volcano rumbled into life in September 2000.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2003

Wildfire burns in western Tokyo

A wildfire burned from Friday night into Saturday morning near the Wada pass in Hachioji in western Tokyo. The blaze destroyed 34,300 sq. meters of shrubs and grassland, police and firefighters said.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2003

Travel, cars, ads top jobs wish list

Many of the careers most widely coveted by Japanese university students are related to the tourism industry, automakers and ad agencies, a recent survey suggests.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2003

Fragmented 'lovefest' sees standards soar

Japan, the world's most fashion-hungry nation, still goes loopy for European superbrands -- but Tokyo-based creators are bravely fighting back, trying to claim a slice of the fame, glamour and glory through their own homegrown labels.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Apr 20, 2003

Changing narratives of Korean history

COLONIAL MODERNITY IN KOREA, edited by Gi Wook Shin and Michael Robinson. Harvard University Press, 2000, 466 pp., $49.50 (cloth) Until very recently most English-language general histories of Korea treated Japanese colonial rule or "Japanese occupation" as a rupture or distortion of the "natural development"...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Apr 20, 2003

Seeking tranquillity in Tohoku

Nobody goes to Tohoku. The region used to be known as Michinoku, meaning, quite literally, "the end of the road." Even today, its six prefectures -- Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi and Fukushima -- are among the least developed for tourism in Japan. However, if you venture north, you'll find that...
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Apr 20, 2003

Nice work so far but can U.S. pay up?

WASHINGTON -- By now there is very little doubt that the armed forces of the United States are quite phenomenal. The display of technology, tactics, teamwork, discipline and control in the four-week campaign that has taken control of Iraq has been quite a show, a demonstration of military power that...
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2003

Government to fight war-displaced

The government said Friday it will fight a compensation lawsuit filed by more than 600 war-displaced Japanese left behind in China and urged a court to reject the plaintiffs' claims.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2003

Mixing models to match clothes

Ten days to go before the catwalk show and designer Sugimoto Chiyuki faces a critical decision. Who will show off the clothes he has spent the last six months creating for these Tokyo Collections?
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 20, 2003

Nippon Ham scores 'sayonara' comeback win over Lions

Tsutomu Ishimoto singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning as Nippon Ham edged the Seibu Lions with a 6-5 "sayonara" comeback win at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2003

Simple complexity for the men

One of the newest kids on the block in the highly competitive world of Japanese fashion is a menswear brand called Maji Maji, designed by Rynshu Hashimoto.

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