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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 12, 2002

Japan rugby team needs tougher competition

Japan's rugby players go into Sunday's game with South Korea at Tondaemun Stadium in Seoul knowing that a win will ensure qualification for the 2003 Rugby World Cup finals.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2002

Kawaguchi defends Shenyang punishments

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on Thursday countered claims by lawmakers that punishments over the handling of an asylum seeking incident in May at a Japanese consulate in China were lenient.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2002

Straw to visit, meet with Kawaguchi

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will make a three-day visit to Japan next week for talks with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on regional and global topics of common concern, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 12, 2002

Carp owner dies

The owner of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp professional baseball team Kohei Matsuda died of stomach cancer at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on Wednesday. He was 80.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2002

Taxpayers may cover BOJ loans to Yamaichi: Shiokawa

Taxpayers may have to cough up for the Bank of Japan's irrecoverable collateral-free loans to defunct Yamaichi Securities Co., Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa hinted Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2002

Skymark to launch new Seoul service

Skymark Airlines Co. said Thursday it will conduct a charter flight to Seoul from Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 23, marking the launch of the airline's first overseas service.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2002

Government sees 'incipient recovery'

The government on Thursday upgraded its economic assessment on the back of brisk exports and improved production but warned that downside risks to the economy are increasing.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2002

Fuel tank worry spurs MMC recall

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Thursday it is recalling 674 cars produced between Nov. 12, 2001, and this May 24 due to fears over defective fuel tanks.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2002

Tax official caught evading taxes

A former head of the Sapporo Regional Taxation Bureau was sentenced Thursday to 14 months in prison for evading some 250 million yen in income tax.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jul 12, 2002

Cultivating tradition

Seventeen boys and girls from Furusawa Elementary School are up to their shins in mud. June is the traditional rice-planting month in the Isumi area of Chiba Prefecture and for the past three years, the local fifth-graders have tried their hands at planting rice the old-fashioned way.
EDITORIALS
Jul 11, 2002

Africa asks, what's in a name?

After nearly four decades, the Organization of African Unity is no more. The OAU, founded in 1963, was dissolved this week. It was reborn as the African Union with the same membership and the same ambitions. Fortunately, there is one big difference between the new organization and the old one: The AU...
COMMENTARY
Jul 11, 2002

China holds Taiwan independence card

HONG KONG -- Beijing's unremitting struggle to keep Taiwan from straying onto the independence path continues unabated, with Lions Club International, or LCI, providing the latest battleground.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2002

Bad loans, job woes cloud China's 'rosy' future

Hardly a week goes by these days without Japanese companies advancing into China to tap its low labor costs or to gain a foothold in the huge market.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2002

Hijack fugitives want to return

Red Army Faction fugitives who hijacked a Japan Airlines jetliner to Pyongyang in 1970 released a statement Wednesday calling on Tokyo to set up talks for their possible return to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CLOSE NEIGHBORS
Jul 11, 2002

Japan's carmakers tooling up for China

BEIJING -- Zhao Xue Bo, an international relations researcher at Beijing Broadcasting Institute, a national university, has been saving money for some time to buy a new car.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 11, 2002

Yakult's Hodges shows he's worthy of all-star status

YOKOHAMA -- Kevin Hodges gave an early All-Star performance Tuesday night as the Yakult Swallows beat the Yokohama BayStars 6-1 at Yokohama Stadium.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2002

Teen dies as Typhoon Chataan nears

Typhoon Chataan claimed its first victim in Japan as it threatened to strike the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture by early Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2002

NTT to launch Web chat service

NTT Communications Corp. said Wednesday it will start a new Web chat service in which animated characters augment written messages.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2002

Honda to export cars from China

The president of Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday his company will set up a joint manufacturing plant in the Chinese coastal city of Guangzhou to produce and export small cars to the rest of Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 11, 2002

Owners OK Fighters' move to Sapporo

The Nippon Ham Fighters' move from Tokyo to the Hokkaido capital of Sapporo was finalized Tuesday when Japanese baseball owners unanimously gave the green light to the Pacific League club's plan.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2002

Bureaucrats should have free hand on memos: panel

Foreign Ministry bureaucrats' memos on their contacts with lawmakers do not have to be cross-checked by the legislators for fact confirmation, an advisory panel on reforming the ministry agreed Wednesday.

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