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JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK

Jan 4, 2001

Information disclosure could give power to citizens if they get involved

Satoru Ienishi felt overwhelming anger as he watched a newscast at his Tokyo office on June 13, 1998.

JAPAN

Dec 31, 2000

Cities set to merge divided over new leader

It looked like a match made in heaven when, on Aug. 10, the two beaming mayors of Hoya and Tanashi shook hands on a deal to merge the two western Tokyo cities.

JAPAN

Dec 18, 2000

Societal barriers facing disabled may prove the most formidable

As deputy chief of the Japanese delegation at the Sydney Paralympic Games this summer, Tsunenobu Wakana was impressed with the handicapped-friendly facilities and transportation system.

JAPAN

Nov 23, 2000

Young people called on to help end exploitation of children

The active participation of young people is key to the successful global effort to fight sexual exploitation of children, according to an adviser to an international conference on the issue scheduled next year in Yokohama.

JAPAN

Nov 19, 2000

Students put at risk due to PCB-laden lights

Despite years of warnings and growing criticism, potentially hazardous fluorescent lighting units in the classroom are likely to hang above students' heads for a while to come.

JAPAN

Nov 7, 2000

American fears for ecology on his island

To Japanese elsewhere, Jack Moyer may be a "gaijin," but to the people of Miyake Island, he is fellow islander Jack-san.

JAPAN

Nov 5, 2000

Officials grapple with illegally moored boats

While illegal parking on city streets has been a cause of headaches for urban authorities for years, officials now also face a similar challenge on the waterfront as illegally moored pleasure boats take up precious water space.

JAPAN

Nov 4, 2000

Miyake pets live out evacuation in shelters

Humans are not the only ones being forced to live in an unfamiliar environment away from their homes on Miyake Island due to the continuing volcanic activity.

JAPAN

Nov 3, 2000

Web site gets volcano evacuees online and in touch

Hiroyuki Noda never imagined that he would become a messenger for fellow Miyake Island residents when he bought a personal computer six years ago to keep books for his inn and diving shop.

JAPAN / LIFE OFF MIYAKE

Nov 2, 2000

Assemblyman places fellow exiles first

The future of Miyake Island may be as hazy as the smoke billowing from its volcano, but for Kazuyoshi Yamada, it comes before his own losses.

JAPAN / LIFE OFF MIYAKE

Nov 1, 2000

Evacuation hard on children living apart from their parents

It was the parents who could not stand it anymore. Akira Mitani and his wife, Eriko, told their 8-year-old son, Shohei, last month that he could start living with them again at any time.

JAPAN / LIFE OFF MIYAKE

Oct 31, 2000

Evacuees long for home, gird for worst

Namiko Morishita did not expect it to last this long. She and her family fled their home on Miyake Island in late August as volcanic activity on Mount Oyama intensified.

JAPAN

Oct 11, 2000

Tokyo officials, residents face off at waste site

A 6-year-old dispute over a planned waste-disposal site in the town of Hinode, western Tokyo, came to a head Tuesday when metropolitan government officials attempted to seize the 461-sq.-meter plot owned by citizens opposed to the project.

JAPAN

Oct 8, 2000

Sugamo: not your hipster's Harajuku

If Harajuku is the mecca for the hip young, Sugamo is where it's at for the elderly.

JAPAN

Oct 8, 2000

Tokyo poised to lift ban on exterior train ads

How can Tokyo buses and streetcars make more money without attracting more passengers? One answer: advertising.

JAPAN

Oct 6, 2000

University organization aims to build regional ties

An organization of universities in Asia and the Pacific is promoting "life-long friendships" among young scholars to contribute to peace and prosperity in the region, one of the group's top administrators said.

JAPAN

Oct 4, 2000

Alpinist, Everest garbage man has bone to pick with polluters

The problem of garbage disposal -- a nagging issue common to major cities around the globe -- has grown so large that even the world's most lofty place is not immune to litter anymore, mountaineer Ken Noguchi laments.

JAPAN

Oct 3, 2000

Museum buffs image of newspapers

YOKOHAMA -- A museum visit is not likely to raise the pulse rates of children these days, and a museum dedicated to newspapers seems certain to draw only yawns.

JAPAN

Sep 24, 2000

Dead pets returning to haunt the neighbors

ICHIHARA, Chiba Pref. -- It was the start of a real-life horror story for the people of Ichihara's Otsubo district when a smokestack suddenly appeared in a neighbor's yard in August last year.

JAPAN

Sep 10, 2000

Unemployment adds to Miyake Island evacuees' woes

With an end to the volcanic activity on Mount Oyama nowhere in sight, evacuees from Miyake Island are facing an uphill battle in trying to secure sources of income upon settling into temporary housing in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'

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