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BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Banks' loan balance in 37-month fall

The balance of outstanding bank loans dropped 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier, marking a 37th successive month of decline, according to a Bank of Japan preliminary report released Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2001

Hope fades for reconciliation in Kosovo

The West's intervention in Kosovo was a reaction to the Serbs' final solution to the problems of the recalcitrant province. The Serbs attempted to drive out the Albanian majority using soldiers and civilians for mayhem and murder. It was not an arbitrary, irrational act, merely a final inhuman escalation...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 9, 2001

Richard Thompson defies death and lives to tell

By his own estimate, Richard Thompson played about 100 concerts last year, "which means you're on the road for about 150 days."
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

Mori pledges to resolve territory row

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has pledged to resolve the territorial dispute involving a group of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

European beef imports face effective deep freeze

Japan will revise a food law to make it compulsory that all imported beef is certified as being free of mad cow disease, officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

European beef imports face effective deep freeze

Japan will revise a food law to make it compulsory that all imported beef is certified as being free of mad cow disease, officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2001

Fear is the winner in Israel

Israelis have elected a new prime minister. Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon has trounced Prime Minister Ehud Barak in a historic vote. The results cap a stunning comeback for Mr. Sharon, who was written out of Israeli politics after the 1982 invasion of Lebanon which he masterminded. The results also...
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Nikkeiren chief irked by Diet debate

To help the nation's economy recover quickly, the government should stop wasting time debating issues like the KSD money-for-favors scandal, the chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Disapproval rating for Mori's Cabinet remains above 70%

Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori remains low at 23 percent while the disapproval rate remains above 70 percent despite a slight improvement in both figures from the previous survey, the latest Kyodo News poll showed Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Swiss forum seeks Japanese delegates

During the era of student protests in the late 1960s, five students at a Swiss business college launched a symposium to encourage dialogue between disaffected generations by inviting corporate leaders and other establishment figures to their campus.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Opposition boycotts budget session

All four opposition parties boycotted the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Wednesday after the ruling coalition refused to meet its demand that LDP members linked to the recent money-for-favors scandal testify in the committee.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Scientists make gene breakthrough

The work of a Japanese-led international scientific consortium on the development of a method for identifying genes hidden in large genome sequences is described in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature, which is released today.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Towel firms seek curb on cheap imports

Domestic towel-makers will ask the government in the near future to impose an emergency curb on towel imports from China, officials of the Japan Towel Industrial Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Balance of shares purchased on credit up for second week

In a rare development in recent months, the balance of shares bought on credit rose last week for the second consecutive week.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Shinwa Bank chief given four-year term for illicit loans

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former president of Shinwa Bank in Nagasaki Prefecture to four years in prison Wednesday for misusing 6.5 billion yen in bank funds.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Government to rely on bonds for 41% of all revenue by 2004

Rising social security costs will force the government to issue bonds worth 41.1 percent of its total revenue in fiscal 2004, up from 38.5 percent in fiscal 2000, the Finance Ministry says in a simulation report released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Suspected embezzler being audited

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau on Wednesday began investigating the records of a sacked Foreign Ministry official suspected of embezzling state funds to determine whether he avoided paying taxes, sources familiar with the case said.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Auto unions begin spring wage talks

Labor organizations representing employees of major automakers on Wednesday presented their annual list of wage and benefits demands to management as another difficult year looms for Japan's blue-collar workers.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

FTC to discuss holding companies

The Fair Trade Commission said Wednesday that its panel to study a possible revision to the Antimonopoly Law will hold its first meeting Feb. 15.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Auto unions begin spring wage talks

Labor organizations representing employees of major automakers on Wednesday presented their annual list of wage and benefits demands to management as another difficult year looms for Japan's blue-collar workers.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

LDP's Takeshita, Kamei accepted bribes: witness

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweights Shizuka Kamei and the late Noboru Takeshita received bribes in return for approving public works projects, a witness testified in former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao's bribery trial.

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The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports