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JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

North Korea may face grilling

Japan may bring up additional cases of possible abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea if it finds sufficient evidence to back its claims, Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

Supreme Court upholds ban on book

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision to halt the publication of a novella, marking the first time in postwar Japan that the top court has endorsed such an action in a libel suit.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

War orphans plan to sue government by December

A group of Japanese left behind as children in China during the war plans to sue the government for damages by mid-December.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

Ex-gangster gets five months for bribing official

OSAKA -- A former gangster was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for bribing a senior official of the Osaka High Public Prosecutor's Office.
SOCCER / World cup
Sep 25, 2002

FIFA to pay up for ticket troubles

The Japanese World Cup Organizing Committee will receive a compensation fee for the damages that the local organizer suffered with the World Cup ticketing process, JAWOC general secretary Yasuhiko Endo said on Tuesday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

RCC should buy loans above market value: banker

The head of the Japanese Bankers Association indicated Tuesday that Resolution and Collection Corp., the government's debt collector, should purchase bank loans at above-market prices.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

Abduction ordered via radio

One night in June 1980, Radio Pyongyang broadcast an apparently random five-digit number -- 29627.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 25, 2002

From the mailbox: What's wrong with Ichiro?

Wayne: Have there been any negative or questioning press comments about Ichiro's (Suzuki) recent slump in batting here in Seattle? From my perspective it almost looks like he might be hiding a health problem; he seems to have no fire in the belly and is almost running on empty, so to speak. Also, do...
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

'Yakiniku' stages recovery in wake of BSE outbreak

Sales at "yakiniku" barbecued beef restaurants have recovered significantly after plunging in the wake of last fall's outbreak of mad cow disease, a restaurant industry body said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2002

Scholar from Japan held in China prison

The prisoner smiled at his 13-year-old son through a window in the hot meeting room of the No. 3 prison in Urumqi, the provincial capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, one day in August.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

Nissan Diesel reveals restructuring program

Nissan Diesel Motor Co. announced a new three-year restructuring program Tuesday that will help it reduce its interest-bearing debt to 250 billion yen by the end of March 2006 from about 420 billion yen at the end of last March.
COMMENTARY
Sep 25, 2002

Strengthen Sino-Japanese ties

Japan and China will soon observe the 30th anniversary of their normalization of relations, which took place Sept. 29, 1972. The bilateral relationship was placed on a solid foundation with the conclusion of a treaty of peace and friendship in 1978. Economic relations have since dramatically expanded....
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2002

Mr. Hatoyama's next challenge

Mr Yukio Hatoyama, re-elected Monday to his third term as head of the Democratic Party of Japan, faces a daunting challenge: leading the country's largest opposition party to victory in the next legislative election for the influential Lower House. Mr. Hatoyama retained the post in a close runoff with...
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

BOJ Policy Board feared impact of stock fall

Several members of the Bank of Japan Policy Board were concerned over the negative effects that Japan's stock market decline is having on the financial environment during meetings Aug. 8 and 9, according to minutes released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

S&P upgrades Isetan, Mitsukoshi

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Tuesday it has raised its corporate credit ratings for major department store operators Isetan Co. and Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2002

Printers who made an impression

LONDON -- In 1945, as the Japanese contemplated defeat, devastation and occupation by a foreign power for the first time, the future must have seemed bleak and uncertain. But along with the terrible toll on life and property, the war years damaged Japanese society in ways that were harder to see.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2002

Regular gasoline prices remain flat

Retail prices of regular gasoline averaged 99 yen per liter in September, unchanged from August in line with flat wholesale prices, the Oil Information Center reported Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Sep 25, 2002

Tumultuous art made in tumultuous times

It is always a pleasure to spotlight an exhibition that seems to have slipped in under the art radar, as is the case with the group show "Quobo -- Art in Berlin 1989-1999" now at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002

Henri Salvador

This year's Festival Halou, Tokyo's annual offering of French pops, features Henri Salvador, who, at 85, certainly has some stories to tell. Born in French Guiana in 1917, Salvador moved to Paris as a young man, where he played guitar with Django Reinhardt and developed his own vocal style. In the '50s,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002

Howie B.

DJs tend to fall into two irreconcilable categories: those who garner glowing accolades from faux intellectuals who don't dance -- and those who pack dance floors with throbbing, heated bodies.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 25, 2002

Bizzare ending to fantastic year for Giants

The Yomiuri Giants clinched their first Central League pennant in two seasons and their 39th overall, but it tasted rather bitter than sweet because they suffered a "sayonara loss" to the Hanshin Tigers 3-2 after 12 innings Tuesday at Koshien Stadium.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2002

Riches of the sea

Few Japanese ceramic artists have stamped their visions into clay as eloquently as Yoshiro Kimura.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002

Laurel Aitken

In 1962, Jamaica achieved independence from Great Britain and the cocky, joyous feel of ska soon sprang up to embody the exuberance of the tiny island. Sadly, Jamaica's early expectations for independence were soon soured by poverty, violence and corruption. Reflecting the mood of the island, ska, too,...

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