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LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 4, 2000

Who's your buddy?

Last week, AOL and DoCoMo announced a major strategic alliance, but few techno-journos were blindsided by the news. Rumors had been floating since early summer, and the potential benefits were fairly easy to digest. Savvy scribes had probably already put together rough drafts. It was just a matter of...
COMMENTARY
Oct 4, 2000

Putin's key mission to India

NEW DELHI -- On the heels of a marked pro-U.S. shift in its foreign policy, India is now welcoming the president of its old friend, Russia. The focus of President Vladimir Putin's four-day visit is on reviving Russia's sagging ties with India.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Medical carbon found to absorb E. coli bacteria

OSAKA -- Refined activated charcoal has been found to be able to absorb the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria and its toxin that causes food-poisoning, according to a joint research team from the University of Osaka Prefecture and Okayama University.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Talks on management of Nago base to begin

The central government and local governments in Okinawa Prefecture agreed Tuesday to commence talks on managing the U.S. military facility expected to take over the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan city.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 4, 2000

Many life cycles under the moon

A fluttering of powdery wings, silent in the night, and the moon moth came, drawn to the proverbial candle flame. Its guidance system, fine-tuned over millions of years of evolution to a satellite system predating our GPS systems by billions of years, was overwhelmed and confused by a modern source of...
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 4, 2000

Lions top Hawks in PL showdown

Daisuke Matsuzaka shook off some first-inning jitters and a quick one-run deficit Tuesday to hold the Daiei Hawks scoreless over the next nine frames and give the Seibu Lions a 2-1 victory in 10 innings at the Fukuoka Dome.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2000

Why the Arabs are rallying to Baghdad

DUBAI -- International civilian flights into Baghdad are turning into a stampede as one Arab country after another announces, or carries out, its intention of joining France and Russia in breaking the 10-year aerial blockade. This may not breach the essence of U.N. sanctions -- the restrictions on trade...
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Foreign Ministry opens NGO center

The Foreign Ministry launches a new "NGO Center" today that is designed to improve communication and cooperation with nongovernmental organizations.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2000

Just a pot of gold on the moon? Or stolen billions?

In January 1971, a locksmith called Rogelio Roxas from Baguio City, 200 km north of Manila, met a half-Japanese-half-Filipino "mestizo" whose father had been a translator for Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita during the war. When the man was 15 years old, his father had taken him into the jungles near to the hospital...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 4, 2000

The parochial charm of Carmel

Rough Guide guidebooks are some of the best on the store shelf: thorough, entertaining and with excellent briefings on things historical, political and environmental. By and large we, and the Rough Guides, think alike.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Tokyo hotel reheats G8 menu

The Okinawa Prefectural Government and a top Tokyo hotel launched a festival of culinary delights Tuesday featuring the same menu served during the Okinawa summit of the Group of Eight nations in July.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2000

Don't shortchange young readers

Despite all the talk about the need for educational reforms, little serious attention is being paid to a fundamental way in which Japan's schoolchildren are being shortchanged. Except among the educators directly involved, few have expressed concern over the Education Ministry's announcement that libraries...
OLYMPICS
Oct 3, 2000

Time for Japan to look forward

SYDNEY -- Nippon, Nippon, Nippon! Banzai!
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Crime victims to gain access to records

The government said Monday it will legally guarantee the rights of people victimized by crimes to view court records and voice their feelings during hearings starting on Nov. 1, officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Museum buffs image of newspapers

YOKOHAMA -- A museum visit is not likely to raise the pulse rates of children these days, and a museum dedicated to newspapers seems certain to draw only yawns.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Tickets for carry-over jackpot lotto on sale

People dreaming of making a fortune buy "Loto 6" tickets in Tokyo's Ginza district Monday. Tickets for a lottery with Japan's first jackpot that can accumulate with successive draws went on sale Monday, allowing for a possible grand prize of up to 400 million yen.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Tokyo hails visit of Pyongyang envoy

Japan welcomes North Korea's plan to dispatch a senior official to the United States next month, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Son, 23, used golf club to kill dad

OSAKA -- A 23-year-old man was arrested early Monday for fatally striking his father on the head with a golf club at their apartment in Higashi-Yodogawa Ward here, police said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Opposition boycotts election reform panel

An Upper House special electoral reform committee got off to a rough start Monday as opposition lawmakers boycotted the first meeting to protest the ruling bloc's forcible move to revise the chamber's election roster system.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

MMC slapped on wrist for concealing auto defects

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. was ordered Monday by the Tokyo District Court to pay a fine of 4 million yen (about $37,400) for violating the Road Vehicles Law by covering up auto defects.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Mori plans more letters pitching UNSC seat bid

In yet another effort to promote Japan's quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will write most of the U.N. member nations as early as next week to reiterate calls for UNSC reforms, government sources said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Jail sought for alleged blackmailer

OSAKA -- Public prosecutors on Monday demanded that the Osaka District Court sentence a 56-year-old unemployed man to five years in prison for allegedly attempting to blackmail Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Japan's leading eyedrops maker, by threatening to put alien substances in its products.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 3, 2000

Troussier sees progress in Olympic performance

SHIZUOKA -- "I don't think it was a defeat," Japan manager Philippe Troussier said Monday of Japan's performance in the Sydney Olympics, a day after the Summer Games ended.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Japan, U.S. forces to hold troop evacuation drill

Japan and the United States will hold their first joint evacuation of U.S. troops escaping from a battlefield in large-scale maneuvers in November, sources at the Self-Defense Forces said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Magnitude-5 quakes hit Kagoshima

Three earthquakes measuring magnitudes between 5.0 and 5.6 hit Akuseki Island and nearby islands in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday afternoon, the Meteorological Agency reported.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

South Korean based in Japan to sing in North

Japan-based South Korean singer Kim Yon Ja plans to hold a concert next April in North Korea, her Tokyo office said.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2000

A real German lesson for the two Koreas

SEOUL -- In one of numerous books dealing with unification matters, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung refers to his meetings with leading German politicians in the early part of the 1990s. According to Kim's account, the German politicians told him, "You are fortunate because you can analyze all the...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 3, 2000

Diners, look before you eat

AT THE JAPANESE TABLE, by Richard Hosking. Images of Asia. Oxford University Press, 2000, 70 pp., 22 color plates, 19 b/w, unpriced. THE ESSENCE OF JAPANESE CUISINE: An Essay on Food and Culture, by Michael Ashkenazi and Jeanne Jacob. Richmond/Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000, 252 pp., 11 b/w photos, 45 British...

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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