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BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2001

JETRO launches new Web site

The Japan External Trade Organization will launch a Web site today offering trade and investment information on 61 economies, officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

Koizumi, Bush to meet before APEC

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is scheduled to hold talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in Shanghai later this month, ahead of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the top government spokesman said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

More 10,000 yen counterfeits found

Two counterfeit 10,000 yen bills were found Tuesday night inside a ticket machine at a railway station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, officials of East Japan Railway Co. said Wednesday. Also on Tuesday, 16 counterfeit 10,000 yen bills were discovered in ticket machines at three Seibu Railway Co....
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
Oct 4, 2001

A look at terror

www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive05 As modern journalism sinks ever deeper into its spoon-feed-me mentality, William T. Vollman, a novelist and magazine reporter, actually does the hard research. Before embarking on an assignment to Afghanistan to find out what the Taliban...
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

Long, costly effort to enrich uranium with laser tech will now be scrapped

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will shelve its research on and development of laser uranium-enrichment technology used to produce fuel for nuclear power, a project that was launched in the 1980s and has cost billions of yen.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 4, 2001

Japanese players continue to impress

Third-seeded Japanese ace Ai Sugiyama battered Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia into submission Wednesday to advance to the third round of the AIG Japan Open tennis championships at Tokyo's Ariake Tennis Forest Park.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

Age limit for blood donors may drop

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is reviewing the minimum age for blood donors to make it possible for 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to donate 400 ml -- the same amount as donors above 18.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2001

Survey on nursing-fee reductions planned

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will survey municipalities that are reducing or waiving premiums for nursing-care insurance for low-income senior citizens, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Oct 4, 2001

Currency markets test Tokyo's resolve

The Bank of Japan's interventions in the currency market have produced the desired effect on the dollar-yen rate.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 4, 2001

Putting fear and hope on the genome map

Future historians might well classify this week as typical of the early 21st century, in that there is a flurry of reports linking specific genes to human diseases, and at the same time there is a voice warning against seeing genetics as a "magic bullet," the solution to all our problems.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 4, 2001

Marveling at mammalian masters of flight

I have dreamed of flying since childhood, and perhaps that is why I am obsessed with flying creatures. As ground-hugging humans, we readily identify with our fellow terrestrial mammals, assuming, easily enough, that being earthbound is a natural state for life on earth. But, think again. Even among the...
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Oct 4, 2001

Hototogisu (hairy toad lily)

BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2001

NSK slashes forecasted earnings

Bearings maker NSK Ltd. said Wednesday it now expects to report only a quarter of its earlier projected consolidated net profit for the 2001 business year due mainly to declining demand from information technology firms.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2001

We shall, we shall rock thou

A Knight's Tale Rating: * * * Director: Brian Helgeland Running time: 132 minutes Language: English Now showing
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2001

Epiphany in a puddle

Mamiko Kawamoto and I interviewed Katsuyoshi Kumakiri and his two stars, Susuma Terajima and Yuriko Kikuchi, at the press suite of the Focus on Asia -- Fukuoka Film Festival, where "Sora no Ana" was screened to a full-house crowd. Kumakiri was agreeably sincere and Kikuchi becomingly modest, while Terajima...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 3, 2001

Seagulls send Skylarks backward

Nachi Abe caught a 25-yard pass for the winning touchdown with 10 seconds remaining in the third quarter as the Recruit Club Seagulls (2-0) defeated the Onward Skylarks (1-1) 34-17 Monday at the Tokyo Dome in the X League's Central Division.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2001

Donations to U.S. top $31 million

At least $31.79 million has so far been donated by 140 Japanese firms to various relief fund groups to aid survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the Keizai Koho Center, the public relations arm of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations...
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Komatsu to trim 10% of workforce

Komatsu Ltd. said Tuesday it will cut 2,200 jobs, or about 10 percent of its group domestic workforce, by March 2004.
SOCCER / World cup
Oct 3, 2001

VIP packs to be sold

VIP ticket deals for next year's World Cup finals will go on sale next Tuesday, the Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC) said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Nifty to compensate for service disruption

Nifty Corp., a leading Internet service provider owned by Fujitsu Ltd., plans to compensate more than 10,000 subscribers for system problems that occurred over the summer with its asymmetrical digital subscriber line service, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Two gas makers form joint venture

Nippon Sanso Corp. and Taiyo Toyo Sanso Co. said Tuesday they will launch a 50-50 venture to produce specialty gases and semiconductor-related equipment in April.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2001

NPA girding for World Cup traffic

The National Police Agency has established a special traffic task force to deal with transportation problems that could arise during the 2002 World Cup finals to be cohosted by Japan and South Korea, NPA officials said.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

METI to open talks on liberalizing electricity market

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will discuss further liberalization of the electricity retail market, the minister said Tuesday.

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