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JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Harassment of Korean residents may come up in Koizumi-Kim talks

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi might express concern over the harassment of Korean residents in Japan that followed North Korea's admission in 2002 that it had abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Editor of paper in Paraguay to be LDP candidate

The election panel of the Liberal Democratic Party decided Thursday to field the publisher of a Japanese-language newspaper in Paraguay as a candidate for the July Upper House election, party lawmakers said.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

State in June to unload Japan Tobacco shares

The Finance Ministry said Thursday it will sell 289,334 shares in the government's holdings of Japan Tobacco Inc. in early June.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Sashimi kept oldest man going till 109

Japan's oldest man, 109-year-old Kameni Nakamura, died early Thursday of natural causes in his hometown in Okinawa, officials said.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Youth guidance body to monitor online dating services

The National Association of Juvenile Guidance Counselors said Thursday it will monitor the contents of online dating services in order to prevent minors from falling victim to crime, particularly juvenile prostitution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Toyota freshens image, goes after younger drivers

With video games, baby strollers and manicure kits to welcome visitors, dealers at a Toyota showroom in suburban Tokyo are working to convince buyers that today's models have nothing to do with their parents' boring old cars.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 21, 2004

Millwall hopes to leave dark history behind in F.A. Cup final

LONDON -- At the end of a season dominated by Arsenal's unbeaten Premiership success an even less likely achievement of 2003-2004 has been overshadowed and overlooked by the all-conquering Immortals of Highbury.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

MMC considers moving head office

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will reveal a major bailout program Friday that might include the relocation of its head office.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Fresh coverup scandal rocks Mitsubishi Fuso

Mitsubishi Fuso Bus & Truck Corp. became embroiled in another defect-coverup scandal Thursday.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Security-related bills clear Lower House

A package of seven security-related bills to augment the war-contingency legislation enacted last year cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday and is expected to be endorsed next month.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Al-Qaeda operative used car-dealer cover to launder cash

A senior al-Qaeda operative who hid out in the city of Niigata for more than a year may have been laundering money while in Japan, police sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Morinaga Milk reaps benefit of cost cuts and steady sales

Morinaga Milk Industry Co. said Thursday that its group net profit for fiscal 2003 rose 34.1 percent from the previous year to 6.46 billion yen.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Namco sees profit surge 83.3%

Namco Ltd., a maker of video game software and hardware, said Thursday that its group net profit jumped 83.3 percent to 7.55 billion yen in fiscal 2003.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Isuzu Motors back in black on record profit

Isuzu Motors Ltd. said Thursday its group net balance swung into the black in fiscal 2003 on brisk sales of trucks in domestic and Asian markets.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Revolving door fatality dooms bonus

Sanwa Shutter Corp. said Thursday it will not pay bonuses to any of its 10 board members for fiscal 2003 due to a fatal accident involving one of the firm's revolving doors at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Editor of paper in Paraguay to be LDP candidate

The election panel of the Liberal Democratic Party decided Thursday to field the publisher of a Japanese-language newspaper in Paraguay as a candidate for the July Upper House election, party lawmakers said.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Court sides with Mitsubishi execs over shareholder lawsuit

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday rejected a damages suit filed by three Mitsubishi Corp. shareholders against the trading company's executives over massive damages and settlement payouts made in the United States in connection with illegal price-fixing of graphite electrodes.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Law planned to protect privacy of genetic data

The ministries that oversee health, industry and technology might establish a law to protect personal information related to human genetic data used in medical research.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Sashimi kept oldest man going till 109

Japan's oldest man, 109-year-old Kameni Nakamura, died early Thursday of natural causes in his hometown in Okinawa, officials said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 21, 2004

Osaka's west side story

In the cult-film classic "Death Ride to Osaka," there is a scene in which tough Tokyo yakuza drag a Western hostess kicking and screaming out the door. The hostess has just been banished from the bright lights of Tokyo's Ginza to the foul backwater of Osaka.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2004

Ultraeasy monetary policy goes unchanged

The Bank of Japan Policy Board left its ultraeasy monetary policy unchanged Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 21, 2004

Gandhi a double winner

NEW DELHI -- The upset election result in India has come with an unparalleled spectacle of the winning alliance leader deciding, on second thoughts, to be the kingmaker rather than the king.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Dental group bribery probe widens

Tokyo prosecutors have questioned two senior health ministry officials in connection with a bribery probe involving the Japan Dental Association, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Harassment of Korean residents may come up in Koizumi-Kim talks

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi might express concern over the harassment of Korean residents in Japan that followed North Korea's admission in 2002 that it had abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, government sources said Thursday.

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