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BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2003

Business daily eyes rehabilitation

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a troubled business daily, said Tuesday it has agreed in principle to rehabilitate itself with financial assistance from Japanese investment fund MKS Partners Ltd.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2003

Prima Meat case handed to prosecutors

Police on Tuesday handed prosecutors their case against Prima Meat Packers Ltd. and three of its executives, who allegedly misrepresented a product's ingredients in violation of food safety laws.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2003

Industrial output fell in August

Industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent in August, marking a first monthly drop in two months, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2003

Tokaido bullet trains to stop at Shinagawa

Tokaido Shinkansen Line trains will make stops at JR Shinagawa Station beginning Wednesday, raising the hopes of Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) that it will have an edge over airlines in securing travelers between Tokyo and Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2003

450 sue over 'power-saving' scam

About 450 small-business operators across Japan filed a raft of lawsuits Tuesday against the failed Tokyo-based retailer Idic Co. and eight consumer credit companies, claiming they were cheated into buying an expensive electricity-saving device that made no dent in their power bills.
EDITORIALS
Sep 30, 2003

Japan's streets grow meaner

Japanese criminal organizations are increasingly penetrating a variety of economic fields and strengthening their links with foreign organized-crime groups, posing a threat to the nation's public order. The National Police Agency's 2003 white paper highlights "The Fight Against Organized Crime," focusing...
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

New Cabinet avoids tough issues on first outing

Making its debut Monday at a Diet debate, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's new Cabinet faced tough questions on postal privatization and Japan's future role in rebuilding Iraq.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 30, 2003

Ortiz muscles BlueWave past Marines

Jose Ortiz belted his 32nd and 33rd homers and Yoshitomo Tani had three RBIs to lift the Orix BlueWave over the Chiba Lotte Marines on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Sep 30, 2003

Drugmakers use jargon to market Chinese herbal remedies

Like the Japanese language, herbal medicines originating in China have been adapted into something peculiarly Japanese.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Childhood experiences key to protecting nature

Childhood experiences of nature hold the key to raising the public's environmental awareness, according to a top official at a public institution for environmental education in Germany.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Typhoon blasts isles south of Tokyo

Typhoon Koppu was moving north-northeastward off the coast of Honshu on Monday evening, gathering strength and generating strong winds on islands south of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Japanese firm issues denial over Chinese hotel orgy

A Japanese construction firm on Monday denied involvement in "systematic prostitute-buying" during an orgy that allegedly took place earlier this month at a luxury Chinese hotel where the company's employees stayed during a company trip.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Court upholds death sentence for Ikebukuro attack

The Tokyo High Court on Monday upheld a 27-year-old man's lower court-imposed death sentence for a random stabbing spree in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district that left two people dead and six wounded.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2003

DBJ to give ailing airlines more cash

In light of revenue losses triggered by the SARS outbreak, the state-run Development Bank of Japan has loaned 70 billion yen to Japan Airlines System Corp. and is planning to lend about 15 billion yen to All Nippon Airways Co., government officials said Monday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / A GAIJIN'S TALE
Sep 30, 2003

The classroom couple

My wife is Japanese, but I met her in San Francisco, where she had lived for 12 years. She had not naturalized, but did have a green card. Her high school friend came into town with her Dutch husband. They met in London.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 30, 2003

Nagashima names 22-man squad

National team manager Shigeo Nagashima on Monday announced his full squad, comprised of nine pitchers and 13 position players, for next month's Olympic Asian qualifying baseball tournament to be held at Sapporo Dome.
COMMENTARY
Sep 30, 2003

Cooperative Ukraine left out in the cold

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration continues to press for assistance from other nations in Iraq, but without notable success. Both Germany and Russia now indicate a willingness to help, but not with troops. Said Russian President Vladimir Putin in advance of his summit with his American counterpart...
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2003

Toyota launches minivan in bid for new customers

Toyota Motor Corp., hoping to carve a bigger share out of the expanding minivan market, on Monday released the new Sienta minivan in Japan.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2003

METI to punish exec players

The vice minister of economy, trade and industry said Monday that METI will punish two officials who allegedly obtained unlisted shares from a Hong Kong firm and earned dividends on them.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Isahaya Bay project blamed for poor fish catch

Nearly 90 percent of fishermen who mainly make their living off the Ariake Sea think the Isahaya Bay land reclamation project is the cause of their poor catch, according to a survey by a fishermen's association.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Koizumi pledges $1 billion in aid for Africa at donor conference

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi pledged $1 billion in new aid for education and health care in Africa at the opening Monday of a major donor conference for the continent.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Court finds Japan responsible for abandoned arms

In an unprecedented ruling, the Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered the state to pay a total of 190 million yen to 13 Chinese who lost relatives or suffered health problems due to weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

New rules target metropolis' diesel exhaust

Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures will debut regulations Wednesday to curb emissions from diesel-powered trucks and buses to clear up the region's air pollution problem -- the nation's worst.

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