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JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Kawaguchi launches ODA reform panel

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on Thursday launched a new standing panel of outside experts tasked with mapping out country-by-country strategies for official development assistance as part of the government's reform of ODA.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Dissenters' privacy violated by nuclear agency

An affiliate of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency provided local governments in 15 prefectures hosting nuclear plants with lists of individuals who refused to accept government benefits linked to the plants, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Letter to Togo will again seek testimony

The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will again try to get former diplomat Kazuhiko Togo to give testimony in connection with a scandal involving a government-funded committee on Russia, panel members said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 28, 2002

Cromer packs a punch as Ham grills Seibu

Nippon Ham may be struggling in the bottom half of the Pacific League standings, but they showed the pace-setting Seibu Lions on Thursday they still had some fight left.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

FSA punishes Barclays Capital

The Financial Services Agency took administrative action Thursday against the Tokyo branch of Barclays Capital Japan Ltd. over failure to follow proper procedures in conducting securities and nonsecurities transactions.
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2002

Peace without Mr. Arafat

U.S. President George W. Bush has finally laid out his vision of Middle East peace, and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat does not seem to have a place in it. That is one of the few details in Mr. Bush's speech, which is long on "vision" and short on specifics. The call for a new Palestinian leadership...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

Mazda chief sees bright future

The next two years at Mazda Motor Corp. will be a period of "product-led growth," new company President and CEO Lewis Booth said Thursday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 28, 2002

Sas sneaks onto Golden Ball list

YOKOHAMA -- Turkey forward Hasan Sas was a surprise nominee on the 10-man list for the honor as the top player in this World Cup, sponsor adidas announced Thursday in Yokohama.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Producer accused of tax evasion

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has filed a criminal complaint of tax evasion against a well-known television producer and his brother, suspecting them of concealing some 350 million yen in income, sources familiar with the case said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Airlines ordered to bolster cockpits

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry instructed Japanese airlines Thursday to reinforce the doors to their cockpits by next April to prevent hijackings, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

LDP postal reform panel criticizes deregulation bills

A Liberal Democratic Party panel on postal reforms has drafted a six-point report criticizing four postal service deregulation bills currently being debated in the Diet, a senior LDP lawmaker said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

Toyota develops proactive safety system

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it has developed a vehicle system that gives motorists advance warnings of unavoidable collisions and takes pre-emptive action to minimize impact and injuries.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Takuma admits child slayings in court

OSAKA — Mamoru Takuma told the Osaka District Court on Thursday that he stabbed eight children to death at an elementary school last June.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

New pollution-reduction plan set up

Senior ministry officials involved with antipollution policy agreed on a new pollutant reduction plan Thursday for Japan's three most contaminated bodies of water, the Environment Ministry said.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 28, 2002

Nikkei may test 13,000 by 2003

Uncertainties about the prospects of a U.S. economic recovery are putting major stock markets worldwide in a slump.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

Japan-Myanmar panel set to hold final meeting

Amid a rapid easing of political tension in Myanmar, a key joint economic panel of Japanese and Myanmar government officials and private-sector experts will hold what is supposed to be its last meeting next month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2002

Shareholders flock to over 2,000 annual meetings

Around 2,020 firms held shareholders' meetings nationwide Thursday, with scandal-ridden companies claiming most of the limelight.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2002

Teetering on the edge of real democracy

ANKARA -- "The main obstacle to democracy is not Islam, but Kemalism," says Atilla Yayla, the unassuming head of Turkey's Association for Liberal Thinking. Turkey is a critically important country, but also an amazingly complicated and frustrating one. And while it has done better than most other Muslim...
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Former vice farm minister reportedly took 2 million yen from Yamarin

Yamarin, the Hokkaido timber firm at the center of a bribery probe, in 1998 paid Toshikatsu Matsuoka, a former parliamentary vice farm minister, 2 million yen the same day it allegedly paid a 5 million yen bribe to Muneo Suzuki, a former lawmaker now under arrest on bribery charges, sources said.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Typhoon to force railway closures as it nears Kanto on Friday
A satellite image from Wednesday afternoon shows Tropical Storm Ampil south of Japan
‘Very strong’ Typhoon Ampil set to approach eastern Japan on Friday
A satellite image shows Typhoon Ampil south of Japan on Thursday afternoon.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Global mindset crucial for reform of Japan's health care, minister says
In the past 11 months, health minister Keizo Takemi has been charting his own path, seeking to make Japan's health care policies more global and digitalized.

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