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JAPAN
Sep 10, 2000

Diplomat in spy scandal leaves Japan

A Russian military attache at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo left Japan on Saturday after a senior officer of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force was arrested early Friday for allegedly passing defense secrets to him.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 10, 2000

Long trip from Kiev to Tokyo justified by 'Pathetique' results

Kiev National Opera and Ballet Theater Orchestra July 25, Vladimir Kozhukhar conducting in Takemitsu Memorial Hall -- Ballad (Pormbescu), Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 99 (Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 1906-75), featuring Atsuko Tenma; Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathetique"...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2000

Corruption continues to plague Cambodia

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia has become more stable since the 1998 election, a major victory for a country that has suffered so much turmoil in the past three decades. The infighting between the two parties of the coalition government has receded, and it is safer to travel around the country as the number...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2000

Shibuya residents furious with graffiti seen as art

Some call it the latest art trend, but others lambaste it as an ugly symbol of present-day Japanese society.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

MMC's Kawasoe to resign

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. officially announced Friday that senior vice president Takashi Sonobe will take over the presidency from Katsuhiko Kawasoe, who will resign over a coverup scandal now plaguing the company.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

MSDF officer arrested, admits spying for Russia

The Metropolitan Police Department and Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested Lt. Cmdr. Shigehiro Hagisaki, a researcher at the Defense Agency's National Institute for Defense Studies, on suspicion of violating the Self-Defense Forces Law, which prohibits SDF members from divulging classified security...
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Japan's hopes of holding new round of trade talks this year begin to fade

Although top leaders from the Group of Eight fired themselves up in late July to get a new round of global trade liberalization negotiations started by yearend, their agreement appears likely to fizzle out.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Yamamoto resigns from Diet

Disgraced lawmaker Joji Yamamoto, under arrest on suspicion of using public money to help finance his political activities, submitted a letter of resignation Friday through a lawyer to House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2000

FRC approves banks' plan to set up Mizuho Holdings

The Financial Reconstruction Commission approved a plan Thursday by Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan to set up a holding company as well as a plan by a Sakura Bank-led consortium to form an Internet bank.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 8, 2000

Buffs' Nakamura knocks out three

Pacific League home run leader Norihiro Nakamura, headed to the Sydney Olympics later this month, belted three homers in three straight at-bats to power the Kintetsu Buffaloes to a sixth straight win, 10-6 over the Orix BlueWave on Thursday in Kobe.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2000

DaimlerChrysler seeks bigger MMC stake

DaimlerChrysler AG is likely to increase its proposed stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to between 36 percent and 38 percent from the originally planned 34 percent, sources close to negotiations between the German-U.S. auto giant and the scandal-hit Japanese automaker said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Detention OK'd for Yamamoto

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday approved a prosecutors' request to detain House of Representatives member Joji Yamamoto and his secretary for 10 days until Sept. 15.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2000

China blocks disarmament

NEW DELHI — U.S. President Bill Clinton's weekend announcement to delay a decision on deployment of the U.S. national missile defense system will do little to end the gridlock at the United Nations' main disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The CD has been without work for four...
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2000

MMC, DaimlerChrysler meet over COO position

Top managers from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG today will discuss an alternative MMC proposal for a DaimlerChrysler executive to be its chief operating officer, MMC officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

DPJ to demand Yamamoto's resignation

The Democratic Party of Japan said Tuesday it will demand that arrested lawmaker Joji Yamamoto resign from the House of Representatives, party officials said.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Sep 6, 2000

America enters the election homestretch

At long last, it is time for the U.S. presidential campaign of 2000 to begin. The Labor Day weekend (Sept. 2-4) marked the unofficial end of summer, the start of school and the traditional kickoff of the political campaigns.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2000

Foot cultist admits fraud during first trial hearing

A former member of the Honohana Sanpogyo foot-reading cult on Friday admitted during the first session of her trial that she conspired with cult leader Hogen Fukunaga, 55, to defraud two women of nearly 4 million yen.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2000

Yamamoto grilled over misuse of secretary's funds

Prosecutors on Friday questioned DPJ lawmaker Joji Yamamoto on suspicion of illegally using 20 million yen of his secretary's salary for personal use, investigative sources said.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2000

Tokyo disaster drill features SDF in big way

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's annual major disaster-relief drill Sunday will feature the participation of Self-Defense Forces troops on an unprecedented scale -- 7,100 service members, 1,090 vehicles, 80 aircraft and five ships -- at 10 venues throughout the capital.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2000

Evacuees put on happy face

The children carried clean clothes, some snacks, textbooks and video games -- all hastily packed under the shadow of an 8,000-meter pillar of smoke rising above Mount Oyama on Miyake Island.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2000

Mission to retrieve weapons in China

Japan will send a mission to China in mid-September to excavate and retrieve chemical weapons the Imperial Japanese Army abandoned during the war, according to the government's Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2000

Lake reclamation scheme canceled

MATSUE, Shimane Pref. -- Following the ruling coalition's termination of a 37-year-old controversial project to reclaim part of Lake Nakaumi and create 1,470 hectares of farmland, local municipalities are scrambling for new central government spending to make up for the aborted project.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2000

Tsutaya eyes ads on cellphone Web sites

A graphic small enough to be hidden under your thumb is expected to bring in millions of yen in revenues for Japan's biggest rental video chain, Tsutaya.

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