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JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Indictments filed against MMC, execs

Public prosecutors on Wednesday filed summary indictments against Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and its four top executives over the systematic coverup in 1999 of customer complaints about defective vehicles.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Glass shard sparks flu drink recall

Tsumura & Co., the nation's largest producer of Chinese herbal medicines, announced Wednesday a voluntary recall of 17,000 boxes of its cold-fighting Kakkonto herbal drink following the discovery of a glass shard in one container last week.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Hijackers' daughters to get visas

The Foreign Ministry will issue visas to three women who have been living under political asylum in North Korea due to their parents' activities in the former Red Army Faction, their support group said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Low-priced shares in vogue

Last week saw the balance of long margin positions rise in volume for the seventh consecutive week, reflecting a shift away from pricey stocks and into low- and medium-priced shares.
EDITORIALS
Apr 26, 2001

A bold new start for the LDP

Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, who has long been regarded as an eccentric but reform-minded politician, has been elected president of the governing Liberal Democratic Party. When the four-way race started, former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was the front-runner and odds-on favorite. Yet Mr. Koizumi caught...
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

FTC urges care in import curb use

A senior official of the Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday called for prudence in adopting emergency import curbs.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 26, 2001

Giants use longball to topple Tigers

Hideki Matsui drilled a three-run home run and Yoshinobu Takahashi hit a two-run job in a five-run sixth inning as the Yomiuri Giants edged the Hanshin Tigers 6-5 Wednesday at Koshien Stadium. Yusaku Iriki (2-0) yielded five hits and struck out five over seven strong innings for the victory and Hideki...
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

China postpones legislative chief's visit to Japan

China on Wednesday said it will postpone a planned visit to Japan by legislative chief Li Peng in apparent retaliation against Japan's granting a visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Policy pact with coalition partners seals Koizumi's prime minister job

Junichiro Koizumi, new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, inked a policy deal with his coalition partners on Wednesday, securing his ticket to become Japan's new prime minister.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Pork ban eased for three EU nations

Japan on Wednesday lifted an import suspension on pork and pork products from Denmark, Finland and Sweden because there is little possibility the products are affected by foot-and-mouth disease, the Agriculture Ministry said.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Toyota's stake in Hino to be raised to 50.1%

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will raise its stake in truck manufacturer Hino Motors Ltd. to 50.1 percent from the current 36.6 percent in late August with the purchase of new Hino shares.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

FSA issues bank licenses to IY, Sony units

The Financial Services Agency on Wednesday formally issued banking licenses to IY Bank, a subsidiary of Ito-Yokado Co., and to Sony Bank, a subsidiary of Sony Corp.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

G7 finance meeting to test caliber of Koizumi's reforms

New Liberal Democratic Party President Junichiro Koizumi, set to become prime minister today, will see his resolve toward fiscal and economic structural reforms tested this weekend in Washington by the world's major economic powers.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Producer Tetsuya Komuro to marry singer

Tetsuya Komuro, a popular musician and producer of a number of gold disks, will soon marry a vocalist in his group "Kiss Destination," sources close to the musician said Wednesday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Apr 26, 2001

Japan looking for a little respect at hockey World Championships

Call them cannon-fodder if you like, but Japan's national ice hockey team doesn't plan on just rolling over at the IIHF World Championships.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Tentative trading set to dominate markets

Nervous trading appears likely to continue on the currency market, keeping the dollar-yen rate moving between 120 yen and 125 yen.
COMMENTARY
Apr 26, 2001

Antiglobalism guarantees poverty for all

WASHINGTON -- Despite the worst efforts of violent protesters in Quebec, Canada, leaders of countries throughout the Western hemisphere concluded their Summit of the Americas by proposing a broad free-trade agreement. Bringing more of the world's poor into the global economy is the best hope for raising...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 26, 2001

New land law still ignores public voice

Owning property in Japan is a constitutional right, but it has its limits. The government can take private property for uses that advance the public welfare.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Auto output tops 10 million

Auto production in Japan topped 10 million vehicles in fiscal 2000 for the first time in three years, helped by favorable sales at home and overseas, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Koizumi's choices break from norm

Junichiro Koizumi, newly elected president of the dominant LDP, broke with tradition Wednesday and awarded the top three party spots to lawmakers outside of the largest faction.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Snow Brand raided in negligence probe

OSAKA -- Osaka prosecutors searched the Sapporo head office of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on Wednesday in their probe of suspected professional negligence that resulted in one consumer dying and some 140 others falling sick from last summer's food-poisoning outbreak.
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Apr 26, 2001

Monument to 800 years of daimyo power

Sengan'en, a garden and former residence of the Shimazu lords of Kagoshima, is located on the shores of Kinko Bay, the innermost part of Kagoshima Bay. Officially called Sengan'en, it is also known as Iso Gardens. It was designated a national scenic landmark in 1958.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Fresh fraud charges leveled against logistics chief Matsuo

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday indicted Katsutoshi Matsuo, a former Foreign Ministry logistics chief, on fresh charges of swindling the government out of 119 million yen.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Three nonlife insurers to merge in fiscal '02

Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. and two other nonlife insurers due to merge April 1, 2002, inked a deal Wednesday to merge into a single entity on April 1, 2002.
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Apr 26, 2001

Tsutsuji (azalea)

Presently two nuns clad in dark robes were seen making their way slowly and painfully down through the rough rocks of the mountainside. The Priestly Sovereign asked who they were, and the nun replied, "The one carrying a basket of mountain azaleas on her arm is the former Empress and the other,...
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2001

Pasteless toothbrush shocks teeth clean

A toothbrush innovation may make messy toothpaste obsolete within a couple of years, according to the firm that developed the new tool.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 26, 2001

Vaccine theory of HIV debunked

A tempest that has been raging in the outwardly dignified world of academia is set to die down with the publication today of three papers in Nature and one in Science. The story -- about the origin of AIDS -- is one of intrigue, mystery and death. Mostly, however, it is about death.
Japan needs foreign workers, but it might not want them to stay long
Ngun Nei Par, the general manager at Ginshotei Awashima in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, graduated from a university in Myanmar with a degree in geography.
Top envoys to Japan set to skip Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony after Israel not invited
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (left) attends a U.S.-Japan ministerial meeting on extended deterrence in Tokyo on July 28.
Heartbreak for Japan's volleyball team after narrow loss to Italy
Japan's Yuki Ishikawa cheers during the match on Monday.
Hiroshima marks 79 years since atomic bombing as nuclear war fears rise
Hiroshima citizens place flowers at the Cenotaph, commemorating those lost in the atomic bombing of the city, on Tuesday, the 79th anniversary of the attack.
Australia's Trew, 14, wins skateboard park gold ahead of Japan's Hiraki
Women's park skateboarding gold medalist Arisa Trew of Australia celebrates with silver winner Kokona Hiraki of Japan and bronze medalist Sky Brown of Britain on the podium in Paris on Tuesday.
Up rates before it’s 'too late,’ one BOJ policy board member said in June
The Bank of Japan released minutes from its June policy board meeting Monday.
Gymnastics and skateboarding highlight a solid first half of the Paris Olympics for Japan
From left: Gymnastics men's team gold medalists Takaaki Sugino, Kazuma Kaya, Wataru Tanigawa, Shinnosuke Oka (who also won gold in men's all-around) and Daiki Hashimoto at Champions Park in Paris on Thursday. The gymnastics team was one of the highlights of a successful first half of the 2024 Games for Team Japan.
In sleepy Chichibu, Japan's whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.
The wider international and domestic implications of the SDF scandals
Defense Minister Minoru Kihara speaks on July 30 during a parliamentary inquiry into a series of scandals involving the ministry and the Self-Defense Forces.
How a grassroots push helped Japan's fencers become world-beaters
Japan's Koki Kano (right) battles Yannick Borel of France in the gold-medal bout of the men's individual epee at the Paris Olympics on July 28.

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