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BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Dec 11, 2001

Nikkei set to test 11,500

Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange have begun rebounding since the key Nikkei average confirmed its second bottom at 10,030 on Nov. 12 following its fall to 9,504 on Sept. 17.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Cable & Wireless eyes PSINet unit

Cable & Wireless PLC of Britain announced Monday it has agreed to acquire the Japanese subsidiary of PSINet Inc. of the United States for 7.2 million British pounds to expand Net-related business here.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 11, 2001

Ichiro returns to Japan

American League MVP Ichiro Suzuki returned to Japan for the first time in 11 months on Sunday after ending his stellar rookie season with the Seattle Mariners.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 11, 2001

Poor from war, rich in culture

The serpentine road to Luang Prabang winds around mountains that rise above green valleys and rocky gorges, alongside ramshackle villages with no electricity and past fields of corn and rice. If you're not much of a daredevil, then don't get a window seat, because the bus has to navigate hairpin turns,...
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Credit cards used less in October

Commercial transactions made with credit cards dipped 1.1 percent in October from a year earlier, marking the first contraction since the government started compiling statistics in October 1993, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

UFJ to sell United California to BNP Paribas

UFJ Holdings Inc., the nation's fourth-largest banking group, said Monday that it will sell all outstanding shares in United California Bank, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, to French financial group BNP Paribas for 300 billion yen.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 11, 2001

Admire Don tops Futurity Stakes

FUNABASHI, Chiba Pref. -- Race favorite Admire Don, with Shinji Fujita up, stepped into the limelight for next year's classics as he bested the 16 colts of the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes on Sunday at Nakayama Racecourse.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Obituaries: Chieko Hara / Edoya Nekohachi III

Chieko Hara, a pioneer Japanese pianist who performed throughout Europe, died of old age at a suburban Tokyo hospital Sunday, her family said Monday. She was 86.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2001

Machinery orders drop 10.1%

Core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 10.1 percent in October from the month before to a 14-year low of 790.6 billion yen, with orders from manufacturers tumbling to a record-low 281 billion yen, the Cabinet Office said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2001

Mongolia monument honors prisoners

A monument honoring Japanese who died while in Soviet captivity after World War II has been erected in Mongolia, according to officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2001

Mental health challenges remain unmet

NEW YORK -- One aspect not frequently considered of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center tragedy, the anthrax scare, and thousands of people fleeing in terror from Afghanistan is that these events may create or exacerbate mental health problems. Unless they are properly treated, many among those involved...
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 9, 2001

Tigers want Hoshino to replace Nomura

OSAKA -- The Hanshin Tigers have tipped Senichi Hoshino, who stepped down as Chunichi Dragons manager in October, to fill the void left by Thursday's resignation of Katsuya Nomura after his wife was arrested on suspicion of tax evasion.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Oysters blamed for west Japan dysentery cases

The number of people being treated for dysentery -- apparently after eating oysters -- has soared to 72 in 21 prefectures, mainly in western Japan, health authorities said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2001

Jichiro execs 'knew of tax evasion'

Former executives of the scandal-hit Jichiro labor union were aware it was allegedly evading tax by not declaring commission income from insurance companies in the 1990s, labor and investigative sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Bush praises Japan for war on terrorism

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush praised Japan's cooperation in the campaign against terrorism Friday, the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Princesses leave hospital for palace

The Crown Princess and her 7-day-old daughter, Princess Aiko, were discharged from the hospital Saturday and returned to the Crown Prince's Palace in central Tokyo, cheered along their route by some 3,500 well-wishers.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2001

Jerusalem attacks benefit extremists on both sides

LONDON -- Hamas has had a very good weekend. The suicide bomb attacks that killed at least 25 people in Jerusalem and Haifa last Saturday and Sunday have driven any last remaining thoughts of a compromise peace settlement with the Palestinians out of the minds of most Israelis. Since the Islamic extremists...
EDITORIALS
Dec 9, 2001

Segue to a silly new world

Just about a year ago, you might recall, inhabitants of the rarefied realm known as the high-tech cutting edge were all agog over a secret new invention nicknamed "Ginger," or sometimes just "IT." The brainchild of U.S. gizmo wizard Mr. Dean Kamen, the device was described by those who got a sneak peek...
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 9, 2001

And they call it puppy love

H igh on the cuteness scale this week is TBS's "Dobutsu Kiso Tengai (Unbelievable Animals)" (tonight, 8 p.m.), a variety-cum-quiz show that covers animals both wild and domesticated.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 9, 2001

Young adventurers laid to rest far away

Four graves in a Victorian cemetery near London mark the final resting place of some of the earliest travelers from Japan to the West. Though they traveled separately, years apart, they shared the same aspirations and were fated to meet similarly sad ends. The four gravestones were joined by a monument...
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2001

Kazakstan envoy hands over details of postwar detainees

Kazakstan Ambassador to Japan Tleukhan Kabdrakhmanov submitted to Japan on Friday a list of the names of 2,585 Japanese people who were detained in Kazakstan after World War II, health ministry officials said.

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