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BASEBALL / MLB
May 24, 2004

Matsui's HR lifts Mets over Rockies

NEW YORK -- Kazuo Matsui hit a leadoff homer in the first inning to jump-start his team's offense as the New York Mets went on to beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Saturday.
SUMO
May 24, 2004

Asashoryu nails Emperor's Cup

Grand champion Asashoryu overpowered Hokutoriki in a playoff Sunday to win his second bout of the day and capture his third straight Emperor's Cup on the final day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
May 24, 2004

Making the shift from 'defensive' to 'offensive' restructuring

Most of the major Japanese corporations have released their earnings results for the latest business year ended in March. Many of them reported brisk earnings, including Toyota Motor Corp., whose net profit topped 1 trillion yen for the first time. According to the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey and...
JAPAN
May 24, 2004

Jenkins wanted a guarantee from U.S.

Charles Robert Jenkins, the alleged U.S. Army deserter and husband of a repatriated abductee, told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi he wants a clear guarantee from the United States that he won't be court-martialed if he comes to Japan, government sources said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 24, 2004

Political leaders weigh in on value of Koizumi's visit to North Korea

Political leaders continued debating Sunday the outcome of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, with an opposition leader denouncing it as a "big failure."
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JAPAN
May 24, 2004

Hasuikes bring their children home

Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, two of the five abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, arrived back in their hometown in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday along with their son and daughter with whom they were reunited the night before for the first time in 19 months.
COMMENTARY / World
May 24, 2004

On the move after decades of pacifism

A quiet pride is evinced in the dispatch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces troops for peacekeeping in Iraq even though the polls say a bare majority opposes the deployment. Says a business executive: "That's their profession; that's what they've been trained for."
COMMENTARY / World
May 24, 2004

People of Myanmar need Asia's support to hasten their passage to democracy

BANGKOK -- It was ridiculous to hear Myanmar's prime minister, Gen. Khin Nyunt, call on the literati to collaborate with the government in building a military-dominated nation.
COMMENTARY
May 24, 2004

Blowing smoke on tobacco

The government has begun belated efforts to restrict smoking in Japan, which has long been a smokers' haven. In May 2003, the government enacted the Health Promotion Law to reduce exposure to passive smoking. In March it signed the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control --...
EDITORIALS
May 23, 2004

Flight of memory

Almost 60 years after the end of the Pacific War, a very unusual meeting took place in San Diego last Tuesday, when veteran American and Japanese fighter pilots gathered for a special ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway, soon to become a floating museum. It was an occasion designed for giving...
SUMO
May 23, 2004

Hokutoriki closes in on title

Hokutoriki took a giant step closer to claiming his first Emperor's Cup on Saturday with a one-sided victory over Takekaze at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan Arena.
COMMUNITY
May 23, 2004

Show reflects growing 'green' economy

The words "Japanese technology" usually conjure up images of everything from cars and cameras to stereos and mobile phones.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 23, 2004

Jury not in yet on who came out ahead at summit

PYONGYANG -- Although Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi returned to Japan on Saturday with the offspring of four repatriated Japanese abductees, many may be wondering whether he gained enough for what he offered.
Japan Times
Features
May 23, 2004

Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette

Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of the list.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 23, 2004

Buffs' Iwakuma improves to 9-0

Hisashi Iwakuma picked up his ninth straight win Saturday as the Kintetsu Buffaloes downed the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 5-1.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
May 23, 2004

Should be handled with extreme caution

Violence is in, pop-pickers. You've seen those pictures of those troops whooping it up in Iraqi jails. Violence is clearly fun. It's cool. It basically rocks! Just ask Bush and Rumsfeld. They kicked the whole thing off.
JAPAN
May 23, 2004

Kanebo to seek 100 billion yen in aid

Struggling Kanebo Ltd. has decided to seek financial aid totaling more than 100 billion yen from financial institutions and other parties to help finance its restructuring, according to sources.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 23, 2004

2 Lone Swordsmen: "From the Double Gone Chapel"

Since 1996, Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood, under the guise of the Two Lone Swordsmen, have been busy pushing dance music's emotional range into areas it doesn't usually go. Their dark and twisted instrumental electro touches on feelings of despair, frustration and submerged violence.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 23, 2004

Challenger

When Al Burian and Dave Laney disbanded Milemarker several years ago, they left a curious legacy. With a lineup that went from three to five and back again whenever the wind changed, the band became notorious for never doing the same thing twice. Though fundamentally a hardcore punk band, Milemarker...
Japan Times
Features
May 23, 2004

Power and the People

North Korea is not the only country casting a long nuclear shadow over Japan and America. The citizens of both nations are right now under threat from precarious atomic programs -- ones which are being forced on them by their own governments.

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