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JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Nissan Motor to recall 128 cars

Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday it will recall its Tino hybrid car with continuously variable transmission to fix a defective transmission system.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Tax money to prop up ailing public firms

The government will consider spending taxpayers' money on public works projects undertaken by financially weak public corporations in line with the reform of its fiscal investment and loan program, government officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Diet enacts revisions to Juvenile Law

The Diet on Tuesday enacted revisions to the 1949 Juvenile Law, paving the way for the state to drastically toughen its rehabilitation-oriented juvenile policy by lowering the minimum age at which children can be held criminally liable for their deeds.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Farm co-op fined for hiding income

The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zenno) hid about 1.4 billion yen in taxable income over three years through March 1999, industry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

LDP pressures banks to keep cross-held shares

In what some analysts see as a transparent effort to prop up embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, Financial Reconstruction Minister Hideyuki Aizawa and LDP policy chief Shizuka Kamei agreed Tuesday that banks should be urged to stop unloading their cross-held shares.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 29, 2000

Exploring deepest, darkest New Jersey

New York is New York, and Manhattan is, 24 hours a day, full throttle, unquestionably, Manhattan. What we wanted after two weeks of both was a place that was neither.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 29, 2000

The coolest dudes of the Kalahari

Where the Auob River drains out of Namibia and runs in to South Africa, the land is dry, desertlike, the soil sandy and red. This is the Kalahari, or more precisely, the Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park, a finger of land between Namibia and Botswana, linked across the border with a park on the Botswanan...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 29, 2000

Caring more and judging less: fighting AIDS with compassion

"What you need is a hooker!"
MORE SPORTS
Nov 29, 2000

Hitachi to disband volleyball team

Major electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. will disband its once-mighty women's volleyball club next March, at the end of the upcoming season, as part of its restructuring drive, company officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2000

Report calls for rights to be strengthened

The Justice Ministry's advisory council on human rights mapped out an interim report Tuesday calling for beefed up relief measures against rights infringements and urging the creation of an independent organ to help victims.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2000

U.S. blocks the road to a greener planet

LONDON -- The Canadians and the Australians were just as bad, really, and the Saudi Arabians were outrageous: They want the world to compensate them for every barrel of oil they don't sell if it cuts back on burning fossil fuels to slow global warming. But the Americans were the real reason that the...
LIFE / Travel
Nov 29, 2000

Pilgrimage to Chiba's stone daibutsu

KYONAN, Chiba Pref. -- Finding the perfect, companionable Buddha can become an obsession. Foreigners living in Asia are often struck by this calm, enlightened face; its features contrast sharply with the figures of Western religious art and their often contrived depictions of the ecstasy of Christian...
EDITORIALS
Nov 28, 2000

Quit coddling NTT

The Telecommunications Council, an advisory panel to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, has produced a preliminary report calling for stepped-up competition within the NTT group. The report, however, falls far short of expectations. The overall impression is that the panel is keen to minimize...
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 28, 2000

Yokohama puts Rose on reserve list for possible new deal

The Yokohama BayStars put Bobby Rose on their reserve list Monday with an eye on signing a new deal with the infielder, who has drawn interest from some clubs despite his intention to retire from baseball.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Right On recalls fake-brand clothes

Right On Co. said Monday that some imported brand-name clothes sold at its outlets were allegedly fakes and that it has decided to recall them until Dec. 25.
SUMO
Nov 28, 2000

Wakanohana set to leave JSA

Former yokozuna Wakanohana is set to leave the Japan Sumo Association, sumo sources said Sunday, but the reasons behind his decision were not immediately known.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

State plans two big homeless shelters

The Health and Welfare Ministry plans to set up next year two centers to accommodate around 1,000 homeless people each, according to ministry sources.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Officer admits giving secrets to Russian spy

An ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force officer pleaded guilty Monday to passing two confidential documents to a Russian military attache in June and apologized for endangering the people of Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Corrected train fares amount to confusion

Enough is hopefully enough and railway operators now hope to end the fare confusion once and for all.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 28, 2000

Boca skips practice on eve of Toyota Cup

Boca Juniors failed to turn up for their scheduled Toyota Cup practice at Tokyo's National Stadium on Monday night. No explanation was given, although several players from both Boca and Real Madrid have reportedly been harassed by Argentine supporters while in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Councilors OK Juvenile Law change

The House of Councilors on Monday approved a Juvenile Law revision bill to lower the minimum age at which suspects can be held criminally responsible for their actions from 16 to 14, after adding an opposition-proposed provision to the bill.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Yahoo Japan raided over child porn

Police on Monday raided the Tokyo office of Yahoo Japan Corp., Japan's top Internet search site, in connection with an investigation into alleged sales of obscene videos featuring minors on the company's auction site.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Lending link seen in Osaka killing spree

OSAKA -- A former gangster found dead last week just as Osaka police began investigating his suspected involvement in a series of shootings may have had money issues with one of the victims, investigation sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Ministry to back fluorination of water supply

In a major policy change, the Health and Welfare Ministry plans to support water fluorination to help prevent tooth decay nationwide, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Mori to commend Paralympian

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori plans to present a commendation to swimmer Mayumi Narita, who won six gold medals at the Sydney Paralympic Games, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

State adopts national info-tech strategy

The government adopted a national strategy Monday to turn Japan into the world's most advanced country in the area of information technology within the next five years.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2000

Railways brace for onslaught of holiday-season drunks

For most people, the end of the year is a time for making merry. For the nation's railroad employees, who have to deal with those merrymakers, it is a nightmare.

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Capsule hotels were created as a way to deal with the amount of overwork employees tend to do in Japan. Can't commute home? Then spend the night in an tiny, affordable sleeping space.
Japan wakes up to the market for a proper sleep