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JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Questionable beef may be destroyed

The farm ministry is rethinking its plan to freeze and later resell all beef not certified safe in testing for mad cow disease that began Oct. 18. To allay consumer fears, the ministry said Friday the beef may now be destroyed.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Effect of mad cow scare shows in latest consumer price index

The key gauge of Tokyo consumer prices shed 0.1 percent in October from the month before, including a drop in beef prices stemming from the nation's first case of mad cow disease, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

DaimlerChrysler to take advantage of present Asian alliances

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BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Stock price falls, bad-loan disposal hit regional bank earnings

Stock price falls and the disposal of bad loans are forcing many regional banks to cut earnings projections for the fiscal first half.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Girl unlikely to have nvCJD: panel

A panel of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said it is unlikely that a teenage girl in a Tokyo area hospital has contracted new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), a fatal brain-wasting illness linked to mad cow disease.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

JETRO pulls out of Iraq trade fair

The Japan External Trade Organization has canceled plans to participate in an international trade fair to start in Baghdad on Thursday, as a result of last month's terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Imperial family holds rite for safe birth by princess

The Imperial family held the traditional "obi wearing" ceremony on Friday at Togu Palace in Tokyo to pray for the safe delivery of the baby the Crown Princess is expecting in late November or early December.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Abe of HIV fiasco loses libel case against daily

Takeshi Abe, the former vice president of Teikyo University, lost a 40 million yen damages suit against the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Friday over articles in which he was accused of improper conduct in connection with the HIV scandal.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Toshiba, NEC report losses for first half of business year

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. on Friday reported consolidated net losses for the first half of fiscal 2001, hit by the global slump in information technology and the worldwide economic slowdown.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Market slump damages Daiwa's interim earnings

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. said Friday its group pretax profit for the first half of fiscal 2001 plunged 98.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.18 billion yen.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Beef eateries feel mad cow cold shoulder

Amid mounting public fears over mad cow disease, otherwise popular "yakiniku" barbecued-beef restaurants are being dealt a serious blow.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

SDF bills clear Upper House committee

A House of Councilors panel passed a bill Friday that will enable the Self-Defense Forces to lend noncombat support to the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign, moving the legislation another step closer to realization.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Move to change electoral system decried

A move by the ruling bloc to partially change the House of Representatives electoral system has been widely criticized as a political compromise by the Liberal Democratic Party to please coalition partner New Komeito.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 27, 2001

Cars that levitate and suitcase houses

When you come to Japan, one thing you notice is shapes. Shapes are different here.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2001

Panel to mull sale of highway body

The transport minister set up a private advisory panel Friday to study expressway construction plans, asking it to hammer out an interim report on the privatization of Japan Highway Public Corp. by the end of November.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 27, 2001

Introducing 'nihonga' to the British art scene

I meet Sarah Waite in June, just days before she returns to the U.K. after five years in Japan. We talk about the exhibition she will have in London in October as part of the Japan Festival 2001, agreeing to run the interview then. So now, here we are in autumn, and the time is ripe.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Japan may let import curbs expire

Japan may allow its emergency curbs on agricultural imports to expire Nov. 8 so as to allow for flexibility in negotiations with China, the minister of economy, trade and industry said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 27, 2001

Maria Teresa de Avila

The wife of the ambassador of Ecuador to Japan is Mexican by birth. She has the aura of vivacity, color and spontaneity often associated with her compatriots. Maria Teresa de Avila was born in Monterrey, Mexico's important northern city that is modern and energetic.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2001

Toyota eyes parts plant in Mexico

Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to build a plant in Mexico to produce cargo platforms for small trucks, company sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2001

Senior vice minister may join Mori

Seiken Sugiura, senior vice foreign minister, may accompany former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on his trip to India later this week, the ministry announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2001

Courts may get say on mentally ill

A Liberal Democratic Party panel has compiled a draft for new legislation to allow district courts to play a key role in deciding on the hospitalization of people acquitted of crimes due to mental illness, party sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Oct 26, 2001

Uncertainty clouds future

The world financial community is looking for clues as to what will ensue from the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2001

National health insurance to cover anthrax medicine

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday it will extend its medical insurance to cover antibiotics used to treat anthrax patients, anticipating the possibility of domestic biological attacks.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2001

Japan must leave backward ways behind

Japan must drastically revise its attitudes toward women and foreigners to stake a place in the global information technology revolution and survive and prosper as a nation in general, according to experts at a Tokyo conference last week.

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