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EDITORIALS
Oct 19, 2000

Back to step one in the Middle East

After two days of intense negotiations, Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed this week to a ceasefire that would end the bloodiest unrest the region has experienced in decades. Neither Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak nor Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat has evinced much enthusiasm for...
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 19, 2000

Ichiro outshines Oh, Nagashima

Orix BlueWave outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, apparently on his way to the major leagues next season, was the fans' favorite selection for the All-Century Team in Japanese baseball, as poll organizers announced their final results Wednesday.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 19, 2000

Kawasaki Frontale advances to Nabisco Cup final

By Kumi Kinohara Staff Writer
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Nakagawa refuses to resign

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Wednesday he will not resign over an allegedly false statement made to the Diet about his reported dubious links with a rightist figure.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Aid donors eye $5 billion for Indonesia

Indonesia's major donors on Wednesday pledged to provide $4.8 billion in new aid -- $1.585 billion of which will come from Japan -- to help finance the country's expected 2001 budget deficit.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Blackman suspect remains tight-lipped

Police have yet to make any significant progress in the Lucie Blackman case, despite the arrest last week of a company executive suspected of having had some connection with the missing Briton.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 19, 2000

These World Sports Awards rated 'X'

LONDON -- In Felix Baumgartner's eyes, Mike Tyson probably looks like a wimp, Tiger Woods possesses no useful skills and David Beckham is merely the guy who married a Spice Girl. Baumgartner's world is worth following, if you can stomach it. All the Austrian does for a living is confront death as if...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Upper House chief Saito quits after mediation fails

House of Councilors President Juro Saito resigned Wednesday after he failed to mediate an agreement between the ruling and opposition camps over a plan to revise the way some of the chamber's members are elected.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Oct 19, 2000

Restoring health with flowers

To continue with our rather jolly theme of happiness-inducing strategies, today we take a look at the Bach Flower Remedies.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 19, 2000

Talking head Tanaka wows 'em in Nagano

Yasuo Tanaka, candidate for the governorship of Nagano Prefecture, was supposed to meet voters at 2:30 p.m. at a shopping arcade in downtown Nagano, but it was a long arcade. A campaign worker wearing a bright orange windbreaker was handing out literature in front of Ito Yokado. "I think it's been changed,"...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 19, 2000

Glittering prizes on the Ginza

There's a new tenant on Ginza's shopping street, a new jewel.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2000

A prize for all South Koreans

This century's last Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The honor caps a checkered career that includes adduction from Japan by intelligence agents, years of imprisonment under the threat of execution and, most recently, a historic summit meeting in June with North...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Beleaguered Nikkei dives below 15,000

Stock prices took a beating in Tokyo on Wednesday, the day before the government's announcement of an economic stimulus package worth roughly 11 trillion yen, with the benchmark Nikkei average plunging more than 3 percent to close below 15,000 for the first time in 19 months.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2000

Mori leaves for ASEM summit

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will seek cooperation from Japan's partners at the upcoming Asia-Europe Meeting in Seoul on some of the key issues discussed at July's Group of Eight summit, according to Foreign Ministry officials.
COMMUNITY
Oct 19, 2000

Kyushu reaches out to Asia through education

FUKUOKA -- For years it's been said that Kyushu's economic nerve center, Fukuoka, is one of Japan's most promising areas when it comes to forging new business and cultural links overseas. The city's proximity to the East Asian continent, as well as government and business activity, have all contributed...
EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2000

The case of Bessie's gaur

Cloning is in the news again, as it has been regularly since the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep in Scotland in 1996. The last four years have seen a flurry of Dollies -- more sheep, cattle, pigs and mice -- and numerous bulletins on their progress, which has mostly proved surprisingly normal. In the...
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Japan offers $10 million in food aid to Yugoslavia

Japan will provide about $10 million in emergency food and medical aid to the new Yugoslav government set up by opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica to help ordinary Yugoslav citizens get through the winter, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Dugongs' Okinawa habitat to be surveyed

The Defense Facilities Administration Agency will conduct an aerial survey in Okinawa later this month of the habitat of the dugong, an endangered sea mammal found in waters near the planned construction site of a U.S. Marines heliport, agency officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

HIV victim's mom rocks voters' boat

The outspoken mother of an HIV-infected man who became a symbol of citizens' fight for justice during the 1995-96 tainted blood scandal, is challenging established political parties in the Oct. 22 House of Representatives by-election in Tokyo's western suburbs.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

Compromise bid fails to quiet Diet

The ruling and opposition camps remained at odds on Tuesday after both sides effectively rejected mediation efforts by the Upper House president to resolve the drawn-out row over revision of the electoral system.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 18, 2000

Oh-Nagashima showdown highlights Japan Series

The final Japan Series of the 20th century promises to be a trip down memory lane, oozing with nostalgia, as two of baseball's brightest stars square off as managers for the championship of professional baseball.

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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