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JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

Tokyo refuses to disclose Fujimori's location

The Japanese government knows the whereabouts of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori but has no plans to disclose it, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

Monju to restart: energy panel

The government's commission on atomic energy on Friday officially adopted its plan to resume operations at Monju, Japan's prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor that was shut following a major coolant leak in 1995.
EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2000

Battle fatigue in the Middle East?

It is difficult to see any end to the cycle of violence that has convulsed the Middle East. A series of bomb attacks by terrorists and targeted strikes by the Israeli military are the most recent escalations in a conflict that began nearly two months ago. Yet, there are indications that both sides are...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

Juvenile reform bill clears key committee

The Committee on Judicial Affairs of the House of Councilors approved a bill on Friday to revise the Juvenile Law, lowering the minimum age at which suspects can be held criminally responsible for their actions from 16 to 14.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 25, 2000

J.League Emperor's Cup set to kick off

The Emperor's Cup will get under way Saturday across the nation with a total of 80 teams, including all J. League clubs and qualifiers from each prefecture, battling for the honor of being the nation's No. 1 soccer team.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

Islanders to get funds for volcano damage

Up to 1 million yen in financial support will be provided to each Miyake Island household to help them cope with the serious damage from volcanic eruptions, Construction Minister Chikage Ogi said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2000

In Peru, the strong man takes his leave

LONDON -- Alejandro Toledo, the man who would have won the Peruvian election last spring if President Alberto Fujimori had not cheated at every stage of the process, got it exactly right: "Alberto Fujimori's government will be illegitimate, a source of permanent instability, and I don't think it can...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

China museum to remember Unit 731's wartime atrocities

China is building a museum on the site where the Imperial Japanese Army conducted live biological warfare experiments on prisoners during the war and plans to open part of the facility to the public next June, according to a Japanese activist involved in the project.
COMMENTARY
Nov 25, 2000

Can the system be salvaged?

LONDON -- Reading the accounts in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Financial Times of the shenanigans inside and outside the Japanese House of Representatives over the no-confidence motion against the Mori government, I could not help laughing, but I also felt despair about the future of parliamentary...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2000

Body eyed to curb rights abuses by media

The deputy managing editor of the daily Mainichi Shimbun was shocked when he found out that a Justice Ministry panel had been holding discussions on the premise that the media is an enemy of human rights.
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 25, 2000

Metropolitan Opera set to tour Japan

The Metropolitan Opera will come to Japan in May for the first time in four years, bringing to Japanese audiences a spectacular selection of three operas: "Samson et Dalila," "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Rigoletto."
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Nov 25, 2000

Jury is back on Mashiko exhibition

Mashiko is a name that many of you are familiar with, I'm sure. It is the name of a town in Tochigi Prefecture, as well as an internationally recognized pottery style made famous by the late Shoji Hamada. Today hundreds of potters reside there, and many come from around the world to study or pay their...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2000

Western peacekeepers' flight from Africa

The prospect of disasters in Africa concentrates the world's mind wonderfully on the problems and failures of international peacekeeping. We should focus also on the parallel danger of creeping apartheid. Sensitivity to body bags has made Western powers increasingly averse to the perils of peacekeeping....
CULTURE / Art
Nov 25, 2000

Farewell to art world's jewel

Some five weeks from today, a few artists and friends will gather in the Sagacho Exhibit Space.
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2000

The EU gets an army, sort of

There have always been two benchmarks of genuine "European" identity: a single currency that would make the claim to economic union a reality, and a military force that could backstop the group's foreign-policy pretensions. The currency debuted on Jan. 1, 1999, and has had a difficult time ever since....
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Board says 100 Osaka teachers are incompetent

OSAKA -- The Osaka Municipal Board of Education has compiled a report on some 100 city elementary and junior high school teachers it says are providing inadequate educations to their students because they are incompetent, officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Public facilities to be free of PCB-filled lights by 2001

The government will remove fluorescent lights and mercury lamps containing polychlorinated biphenyls from all public facilities in fiscal 2001, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Stalking victims now legally recognized

A long-awaited law to combat stalking, which for the first time recognizes it as a crime and punishes offenders, takes effect today.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Gangster sought in shooting incidents found hanged at home

OSAKA -- A 57-year-old man believed to have been involved in three shooting incidents in Osaka Prefecture on Wednesday evening was found hanged at his home in Sakai on Thursday, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Tougher Juvenile Law best remedy?

Despite the swirling pros and cons, legislation to revise the Juvenile Law for the first time in more than 50 years is expected to be enacted next week.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Tokyo politician arrested in loan-brokering scam

Public prosecutors have arrested Tai Yamazaki, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, on suspicion of conspiring with a broker who has overcharged for mediating low-interest loans for small businesses, prosecutors said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Agency to review quake evaluations

The Meteorological Agency plans to review the way it estimates the intensity and magnitude of earthquakes following criticism that its evaluations do not correspond to the actual damage caused, according to an agency official.

Longform

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