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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 24, 2000

Janet Thompson

Janet Thompson says that Tokyo International Players has such a sparkling reputation that people, not only those directly associated with TIP, always love to help. "It's wonderful," she said. "We needed secondhand furniture for 'Lend Me a Tenor,' and the company Kensington in Shirogane willingly supplied...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2000

Debt relief key to poor nations' progress

NEW YORK -- A pledge by wealthy nations, to be announced officially this week in Prague, to provide substantial economic aid to poor nations, is an important step in the right direction. To be truly effective, however, economic aid should be part of a more general aid package -- including cancellation...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Sep 24, 2000

From lady killer to whale protector

So Japanese fishermen are banned from U.S waters. Whales rejoice, environmentalists celebrate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush loses a point, U.S., President Bill Clinton drafts a chapter for his memoir called "After Monica: Whales!", I grieve.
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2000

Mr. Estrada takes the offensive

After nearly six months of fruitless negotiations, Philippine President Joseph Estrada has ordered military action to free kidnap victims and arrest their captors. Mr. Estrada's patience has run out. But if he thinks the army can fix what ails the southern Philippines, he is mistaken. Some of the kidnappers...
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Blackman refuses to give up on daughter

Tim Blackman is frustrated, in turns optimistic and pessimistic, but above all adamant that he will find out what happened to his daughter.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

MITI urges dialogue on oil prices

International Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma on Friday played down the impact of soaring crude oil prices on the economy and stressed the importance of dialogue between oil-consuming and -producing countries.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Korean to be part of college test

The government is to add Korean to the list of foreign languages that applicants can be tested in when taking entrance examinations for state-run universities, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Cases of TB reported in Japan rose 10% to 48,264 in '99

Japan saw a nearly 10 percent rise in the number of new tuberculosis cases in 1999, the third straight year of increase, according to a government survey released Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

NTT East, West mull further workforce cuts

NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp. are contemplating deeper workforce "cuts" because the popularity of mobile phones and a future obligation to reduce the fees it charges other carriers are eating into their profitability, officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Daiwa executives appeal ruling

OSAKA -- Eleven former and current executives of Daiwa Bank on Friday appealed a district court ruling ordering them to pay the bank $775 million -- some 83 billion yen -- in compensation for massive losses stemming from unauthorized securities trading at the bank's New York branch over an 11-year period...
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Greenhouse gas output declines

Emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases dropped 3.5 percent to the carbon equivalent of 1.336 billion tons in fiscal 1998 from the previous year, according to an Environment Agency report released Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Rightists sentenced for attack on editor

Two members of a rightwing group were sentenced to 16 months in prison Friday for assaulting a magazine editor over an article they considered insulting to the Imperial family.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Whales' diets threaten fish stocks, whaler says

The eating habits of whales are changing and are likely to affect the fishery industry, according to the head of Japan's "research whaling" fleet, which returned to port Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2000

Shinohara loses in controversy

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JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Mori, Cohen agree to keep watch on Pyongyang

Japan, the United States and South Korea must still closely watch North Korea despite Pyongyang's recent gestures of detente, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen agreed Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Pupils to be required to volunteer: panel

An education advisory panel to the prime minister on Friday submitted an interim report calling for drastic changes in the current education system that would nurture volunteer spirit among students by requiring them to do community service.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

MMC must consider consumers: panel

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. must look at the quality of their products from the standpoint of consumers in order to improve development and production, the automaker's quality control advisory committee said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

High level of carcinogen found at old Nissan plant

A concentration of trichloroethylene 1,600 times above the national environmental standard has been detected at the site of a former Nissan Motors Co. plant in Tokyo's Suginami Ward, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

NCB to waive 6.1 billion yen in loans to Hazama

Nippon Credit Bank has agreed to waive 6.1 billion yen in loans to debt-ridden Hazama Corp. while maintaining its remaining loans worth 12.8 billion yen to the contractor for the time being, sources close to the deal said Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 23, 2000

Minchey registers 12th victory

Tomoaki Kanemoto hit an RBI single to send in the tying run and Luis Lopez singled to shallow center field to drive in the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh inning, to carry the Hiroshima Carp to a 4-2 victory over the Yakult Swallows at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium on Friday night.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

Toyota ups forecast after sales kick

Toyota Motor Corp. revised its unconsolidated earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2000 upward due to brisk sales of its vehicles in domestic and overseas markets, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

Shares of IBJ, DKB, Fuji delisted before Mizuho debut

Shares of the Industrial Bank of Japan, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank were delisted from the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Mystery benefactor increases Briton's reward to 77 million yen

The mystery businessman who put up a reward for information about missing British hostess Lucie Blackman has upped the ante -- increasing the reward to a cool half a million pounds, more than 77 million yen.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

Yamamoto indicted on fraud charges

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Friday indicted a former politician from the Democratic Party of Japan on fraud charges.
OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2000

Nakao claims bronze in 200-meter backstroke

SYDNEY -- Miki Nakao claimed a bronze medal for Japan in the women's 200-meter backstroke final at the Sydney Aquatic Center on Friday night, while the women's 4x100 medley relay team swam their way into contention for a medal in Saturday's final.

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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