Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri articles from April 2001, page 8

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The Practical Linguist / It's time to acknowledge Japanese English.
April 17, 2001... Is Japanese English an inferior version of English? Wait! Before you jump into the "yes" column, consider the possibility that Japanese English is legitimate in its own right. Japanese English is ready to rise from its humble posture of...

Bulletin Board.
April 17, 2001... Leadership Toastmasters Club meeting Leadership Toastmasters Club, a group that practices public speaking in English, will hold a meeting on April 14 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Shogai Gakushu Center at the Tokyo International Forum building...

Lingua Frankly/ ESSs help improve communication skills.
April 17, 2001... Let me touch on the usefulness of activities at English-speaking clubs at Japanese universities, which are generally called English Speaking Societies (ESSs), that help improve English communication skills, while at the same time, introduce...

Home energy management may cut global warming.
April 17, 2001... The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's Agency for Natural Resources and Energy revealed on Wednesday a new energy-saving plan designed to spread the use of home energy management systems (HEMS) that can cut household consumption of...

Political stability should come 1st.
April 17, 2001... Excerpts of address made by Takashi Shiraishi, professor of southeast Asian studies at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Leaders of Southeast Asian nations expect three things from the Bush administration. ...

Strong China an issue all Asia must think about.
April 17, 2001... The Yomiuri International Forum recently held its first session of the year, "The Bush Strategy for East Asia." The forum was held under this year's theme, "The Course of Japan in the 21st Century--The First Decade for its Reemergence." ...

U.S. ties with allies emphasized.
April 17, 2001... Excerpts of address made by Hisahiko Okazaki, former Japanese ambassador to Thailand and coordinator of the symposium. The new U.S. administration can be characterized, briefly, by its principle of putting priority on its ties with U.S....

Univ. president warns of future.
April 17, 2001... "Nowadays in Japan, lifelong stability won't be guaranteed to you, even if you graduate from Todai," said Tsuyoshi Sasaki, president of Tokyo University, in a speech to new students on Thursday morning. In the speech, part of an entrance...

Wind power generation facing crisis.
April 17, 2001... Wind power generation facing crisis Shinji Kayano Deputy Business Editor of The Yomiuri Shimbun Yomiuri The future of wind power generation in Japan may be left twisting in the breeze as the environmentally friendly system of electrical...

MR technology turning heads.
April 17, 2001... MR technology turning heads Saori Kan Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri Mixed reality (MR), a relatively new technology developed partly in Japan that combines computer graphics and real images, is beginning to pop up in fields as...

Dropped by goo, Yahoo links with Google.
April 17, 2001... Dropped by goo, Yahoo links with Google Yomiuri In a realignment of the Japanese Internet search engine business, Yahoo Japan Corp. and goo, a portal managed by NTT-X, have liquidated their alliance and Yahoo Japan, the nation's dominant...

Lowdown on rice-paddy flowers Rice paddies are an essentia.
April 17, 2001... Lowdown on rice-paddy flowers Rice paddies are an essential feature of the Japanese landscape. Although recent archeolog Kevin Short PC3 Rice paddies are an essential feature of the Japanese landscape. Although recent archeological...

Youthful entrepreneurs in Kansai display creative ideas, b.
April 17, 2001... Youthful entrepreneurs in Kansai display creative ideas, big goals Yomiuri OSAKA A growing number of young Kansai entrepreneurs have founded successful venture enterprises based on the zeal and creativity typical of the young generation. The...

Report: 'Big 4' bankers give big thumbs-down to management.
April 17, 2001... Report: 'Big 4' bankers give big thumbs-down to management Ginko Kobayashi Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Managers who are resistant to change, can't break away from old-fashioned management practices and always busy chasing better...

BUSINESS UPDATE.
April 17, 2001... BUSINESS UPDATE Yomiuri Business Update is a weekly omnibus of business information based on news releases from companies in Japan and abroad, domestic and international organizations, diplomatic missions and other entities. AUTOMOBILES...

Exposing the truth about university campuses.
April 17, 2001... Exposing the truth about university campuses Yoko Mizui Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Many people have been disappointed after visiting a sightseeing spot they learned about in a travel brochure. Such brochures tend only to show a...

Nakamura dropped from Spanish armada.
April 17, 2001... Nakamura dropped from Spanish armada Duncan Castles Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Philippe Troussier delivered a mixed message on the recent form of Japan's top players on Monday. On the one hand, he dropped mercurial midfielder Shunsuke...

Say what you mean / Lightning and the lightning bug.
April 17, 2001... Say what you mean / Lightning and the lightning bug Katsuaki Togo Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri What is good English? It is the sort of English that does what the user wants it to. When you talk or write, you have a purpose--you want...

May bats Marines by Hawks.
April 17, 2001... May bats Marines by Hawks Yomiuri The streaking Chiba Lotte Marines rallied for two runs in the eighth inning to stretch their winning streak to four with a 2-1 victory over the defending Pacific League champion Fukuoka Daiei Hawks at Fukuoka...

4 file candidacies in LDP election.
April 17, 2001... Four Liberal Democratic Party leaders filed their candidacies Thursday for the party presidential election, kicking off the race to select a successor to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori as LDP president. Taro Aso, state minister for economic...

Ehime Maru students suffer post-traumatic stress disorder.
April 17, 2001... MATSUYAMA - A majority of the students who survived the sinking of the Ehime Maru fisheries training ship by a U.S. submarine on Feb. 9 were found to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the results of mental health...

Officer slain in Utsunomiya raid.
April 17, 2001... UTSUNOMIYA - Morio Okubo, a 51-year-old detective at the Utsunomiya Chuo Police Station, was shot dead Wednesday when he and four other officers tried to arrest a 52-year-old unemployed man who was holed up in the office of a local taxi...

Jottings.
April 17, 2001... Jottings Yomiuri The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun's April 16 issue. * * * Casting a shadow under the warm spring sunshine shortly after the start of a new school year, an appalling tragedy has...

New system of assessment for yen-loan projects eyed.
April 17, 2001... New system of assessment for yen-loan projects eyed Yomiuri The Japan Bank For International Cooperation (JBIC) will introduce a new system for conducting preassessment for all yen-loan projects in developing countries under the government's...

Court declares Osaka securities firm insolvent.
April 17, 2001... Court declares Osaka securities firm insolvent Yomiuri OSAKA The Kinki Local Finance Bureau, in accordance with the Commercial Code's Article 381, Monday notified the Osaka District Court that Daiwa Toshi Kanzai, an independent mortgage...

Poll: Koizumi top choice by LDP local members.
April 17, 2001... Poll: Koizumi top choice by LDP local members Yomiuri The survey shows Ryutaro Hashimoto, state minister for administrative reform, is behind Koizumi by a small margin. Half of the respondents said they would vote, or had voted, for a...

Green Cross 'compensated 8'.
April 17, 2001... Green Cross 'compensated 8' Yomiuri The defunct Green Cross Corp., which was held criminally liable for selling unheated blood products that caused hepatitis C, effectively paid compensation to eight patients who developed symptoms of the...

Poll: 10% of TB patients failed to complete treatment.
April 17, 2001... Poll: 10% of TB patients failed to complete treatment Yomiuri More than 10 percent of tuberculosis patients aged 15 and above who were infected in 1998 failed to complete their treatments for the disease, according to a survey conducted by...

Human brains from Yayoi period found.
April 17, 2001... Human brains from Yayoi period found Yomiuri TOTTORI Human brains dating from about 1,800-1,900 years ago have been discovered in three skulls, believed to be those of people from the Yayoi period (ca 300 B.C.-ca A.D. 300), at the...

JAL, ANA run safety course for cabin crew.
April 17, 2001... JAL, ANA run safety course for cabin crew Yomiuri In a bid to reduce the number of incidents of human error, which are blamed for causing 70 percent to 80 percent of air accidents, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways at the beginning of the...

Akita defeat shows LDP facing head wind.
April 17, 2001... Akita defeat shows LDP facing head wind Yomiuri The resounding defeat of a candidate backed by the ruling coalition parties in Sunday's Akita gubernatorial election demonstrated that the Liberal Democratic Party faces an uphill struggle in...

Women take 8 of 18 assembly seats in town to achieve recor.
April 17, 2001... Women take 8 of 18 assembly seats in town to achieve record 44% ratio Yomiuri OSAKA Eight women were among those elected on Sunday to the 18-seat municipal assembly in Shimamotocho, Osaka Prefecture. The ratio of women--44.4 percent--is a...

Imperial schedule rearranged.
April 17, 2001... Imperial schedule rearranged Yomiuri The good news that the Imperial family and the public have long been waiting for has finally come. It has been eight years since Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako married, and the crown prince...

Gender issue raised in Imperial ascension.
April 17, 2001... Gender issue raised in Imperial ascension Yomiuri Past media reports on and high public expectations of Crown Princess Masako's pregnancy frequently infringed upon the privacy of the Imperial couple, which placed a heavy psychological burden...

Editorial / Stop lollygagging over Lee's visa.
April 17, 2001... Editorial / Stop lollygagging over Lee's visa Yomiuri If one side consistently gives deceptive responses, refuses to admit facts and stonewalls issues, then--sooner or later--that party will lose the trust of the other party. We are deeply...

Koizumi mulls Minshuto as partner.
April 17, 2001... Koizumi mulls Minshuto as partner Yomiuri Junichiro Koizumi, one of four candidates vying for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership, said Sunday that he would consider a coalition with the largest opposition party Minshuto...

Report: Bus hijacker lionized brutal killers.
April 17, 2001... Report: Bus hijacker lionized brutal killers Yomiuri Psychiatric evaluations of an 18-year-old youth undergoing rehabilitation at a juvenile medical facility in Kyoto for hijacking a bus and killing one of the passengers have revealed that he...

Teen nabbed in love-triangle killing.
April 17, 2001... Teen nabbed in love-triangle killing Yomiuri FUKUOKA A 17-year-old youth was arrested Sunday on suspicion of stabbing a man to death in Omuta in Fukuoka Prefecture. According to police, the teenager killed Takeshi Kawazu, 26, at his home at...

Web site enables govt database access.
April 17, 2001... Web site enables govt database access Yomiuri The Public Management Ministry has announced the establishment of a Web site that allows the public to access the ministry's database of laws and ordinances. Containing more than 6,700...

Hashimoto faction hit by unexpected crisis.
April 17, 2001... Hashimoto faction hit by unexpected crisis Yomiuri The leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Ryutaro Hashimoto, state minister in charge of administrative reform, has been engaged in a desperate attempt since late last...

4 held for baseball-bat attack on man.
April 17, 2001... 4 held for baseball-bat attack on man Yomiuri KOFU Four males, one 15 year old, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of stealing 20,000 yen from a man after beating him with a baseball bat in Yamanashi Prefecture earlier in the day. Arrested...

Voices from Yomiuri Weekly--April 29.
April 17, 2001... Voices from Yomiuri Weekly--April 29 Yomiuri This feature is based on articles from the Voices section of Yomiuri Weekly, a weekly magazine published by The Yomiuri Shimbun. "I would have to apologize, first and foremost, if chosen as a...

Editorial / Suzaku painting fires imaginations.
April 17, 2001... Editorial / Suzaku painting fires imaginations Yomiuri A vivid wall painting depicting the suzaku, an ancient Chinese mythological bird that resembles a phoenix, recently was discovered at the Kitora Ancient Tomb in Asukamura, Nara...

Agnes Tachyon shows super stallion class.
April 17, 2001... Agnes Tachyon shows super stallion class Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Agnes Tachyon shows super stallion class Copyright 2001 The Daily Yomiuri

Film director Teshigahara dies at 74.
April 17, 2001... Film director Teshigahara dies at 74 Yomiuri Film director Hiroshi Teshigahara, also noted as the head of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, died of pneumonia at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, his family said Sunday. He was 74. In 1962, Teshigahara...

[0] Waddle may resign to avoid punishment.
April 17, 2001... Waddle may resign to avoid punishment Yomiuri HONOLULU The former captain of the U.S. submarine that hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship revealed his intention Saturday via his attorney to retire from the U.S. Navy if action is...

[0] Nakamura dropped from Spanish armada.
April 17, 2001... Philippe Troussier delivered a mixed message on the recent form of Japan's top players on Monday. On the one hand, he dropped mercurial midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura from his 22-man squad to face Spain on April 25. On the other, he...

[0] May bats Marines by Hawks.
April 17, 2001... The streaking Chiba Lotte Marines rallied for two runs in the eighth inning to stretch their winning streak to four with a 2-1 victory over the defending Pacific League champion Fukuoka Daiei Hawks at Fukuoka Dome on Monday night. ...

[0] Exposing the truth about university campuses.
April 17, 2001... Many people have been disappointed after visiting a sightseeing spot they learned about in a travel brochure. Such brochures tend only to show a destination's most spectacular scenery or to exaggerate its beauty. Taiji Yamauchi experienced...

[0] Poll: Koizumi top choice by LDP local members.
April 17, 2001... The survey shows Ryutaro Hashimoto, state minister for administrative reform, is behind Koizumi by a small margin. Half of the respondents said they would vote, or had voted, for a candidate who is in favor of expanding fiscal spending to...

[0] Green Cross 'compensated 8'.
April 17, 2001... The defunct Green Cross Corp., which was held criminally liable for selling unheated blood products that caused hepatitis C, effectively paid compensation to eight patients who developed symptoms of the disease after being administered...

[0] Poll: 10% of TB patients failed to complete treatment.
April 17, 2001... More than 10 percent of tuberculosis patients aged 15 and above who were infected in 1998 failed to complete their treatments for the disease, according to a survey conducted by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. According to the...

[0] JAL, ANA run safety course for cabin crew.
April 17, 2001... In a bid to reduce the number of incidents of human error, which are blamed for causing 70 percent to 80 percent of air accidents, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways at the beginning of the month started putting their flight attendants...

[0] Akita defeat shows LDP facing head wind.
April 17, 2001... The resounding defeat of a candidate backed by the ruling coalition parties in Sunday's Akita gubernatorial election demonstrated that the Liberal Democratic Party faces an uphill struggle in clawing back popular support prior to the upcoming...

[0] Imperial schedule rearranged.
April 17, 2001... The good news that the Imperial family and the public have long been waiting for has finally come. It has been eight years since Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako married, and the crown prince promised her that he would "protect you...

[0] Court declares Osaka securities firm insolvent.
April 17, 2001... OSAKA: The Kinki Local Finance Bureau, in accordance with the Commercial Code's Article 381, Monday notified the Osaka District Court that Daiwa Toshi Kanzai, an independent mortgage securities sales firm in Osaka, has fallen into a state of...

[0] Wind power generation facing crisis.
April 17, 2001... The future of wind power generation in Japan may be left twisting in the breeze as the environmentally friendly system of electrical generation faces increasing economic obstacles. Japanese electric-power companies have begun setting...

[0] MR technology turning heads.
April 17, 2001... Mixed reality (MR), a relatively new technology developed partly in Japan that combines computer graphics and real images, is beginning to pop up in fields as disparate as medicine and entertainment. Neurosurgeon Hiroshi Iseki of Tokyo...

[0] Report: 'Big 4' bankers give big thumbs-down to management.
April 17, 2001... Managers who are resistant to change, can't break away from old-fashioned management practices and always busy chasing better positions within the company--does this sound familiar? These are some of the problems identified by current and...

[0] New system of assessment for yen-loan projects eyed.
April 17, 2001... The Japan Bank For International Cooperation (JBIC) will introduce a new system for conducting preassessment for all yen-loan projects in developing countries under the government's official development assistance program, bank sources said...

[0] Voices from Yomiuri Weekly--April 29.
April 17, 2001... This feature is based on articles from the Voices section of Yomiuri Weekly, a weekly magazine published by The Yomiuri Shimbun. "I would have to apologize, first and foremost, if chosen as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party...

[0] Web site enables govt database access.
April 17, 2001... The Public Management Ministry has announced the establishment of a Web site that allows the public to access the ministry's database of laws and ordinances. Containing more than 6,700 regulations, ministry officials said the database...

[0] Hashimoto faction hit by unexpected crisis.
April 17, 2001... The leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Ryutaro Hashimoto, state minister in charge of administrative reform, has been engaged in a desperate attempt since late last week to secure votes of non-Diet party members for...

[0] 4 held for baseball-bat attack on man.
April 17, 2001... KOFU: Four males, one 15 year old, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of stealing 20,000 yen from a man after beating him with a baseball bat in Yamanashi Prefecture earlier in the day. Arrested were Yoshinao Kitta, Hirokazu Yokokawa and...

[0] Teen nabbed in love-triangle killing.
April 17, 2001... FUKUOKA: A 17-year-old youth was arrested Sunday on suspicion of stabbing a man to death in Omuta in Fukuoka Prefecture. According to police, the teenager killed Takeshi Kawazu, 26, at his home at about 10 p.m. on Friday. The youth...

Building a brand name through character goods.
April 17, 2001... Building a brand name through character goods Hiroshi Hirai Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Despite the fact that many companies in Japan have been suffering from the postbubble economic downturn, some companies are maintaining high levels...

[0] Is America falling out of love with stocks?
April 17, 2001... Is America falling out of love with stocks? Catherine Heins Yomiuri Shimbun New York Bureau Yomiuri NEW YORK To give Japan's faltering stock market a boost, economic experts are urging the Japanese to buy stocks instead of stashing their...

[0] Central, Okinawa govts mull note on heliport use.
April 17, 2001... Central, Okinawa govts mull note on heliport use Yomiuri The central government and local authorities in Okinawa Prefecture are considering exchanging a memorandum to confirm that a planned new heliport to replace functions at the U.S....

[0] Film director Teshigahara dies at 74.
April 17, 2001... Film director Hiroshi Teshigahara, also noted as the head of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, died of pneumonia at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, his family said Sunday. He was 74. In 1962, Teshigahara directed his first feature film, "Otoshi...

Koizumi mulls Minshuto as partner.
April 17, 2001... Junichiro Koizumi, one of four candidates vying for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership, said Sunday that he would consider a coalition with the largest opposition party Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) if he is chosen LDP...

[0] Incumbent Terata wins Akita gubernatorial race.
April 17, 2001... Incumbent Terata wins Akita gubernatorial race Yomiuri AKITA Incumbent Akita Gov. Sukeshiro Terata, 60, was reelected for a second term in the Akita gubernatorial election Sunday, defeating two challengers, one of which was backed by the...

Japan should allow Lee's medical visit.
April 14, 2001... Japan should allow Lee's medical visit Alexander K. Young Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri The Japanese government is scrambling to find a response to a visa application by former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui for a medical checkup in...

Editorial / Salvaging the life insurance sector.
April 14, 2001... Editorial / Salvaging the life insurance sector Yomiuri Starting in April, the safety net designed to protect life insurance policyholders in the event of insurer collapses was shrunk. Until the end of March, the full amount of insurance...

Status quo proving hard to overcome.
April 14, 2001... Status quo proving hard to overcome By Mizuhiko Yamaguchi Yomiuri It took a full year for the Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to resign--albeit without an official announcement to the public. He instead chose not to participate in the upcoming...

Sophie debacle reflects need for reform.
April 14, 2001... Sophie debacle reflects need for reform Kiichiro Harano General European Bureau Chief Yomiuri London The British commonly strike outsiders as composed, polite and prudent, and they often seem proud of such attributes themselves. Sometimes,...

Oe's 'Echo' fails to resound.
April 14, 2001... Oe's 'Echo' fails to resound Scott Gordon Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri AN ECHO OF HEAVEN By Kenzaburo Oe Trans. Margaret Mitsutani Kodansha International, 204pp, 1,600 yen Marie tries to understand the mystery and the purpose of her...

English book SALE.
April 14, 2001... English book SALE Yomiuri More than 50,000 English-language books will be offered at 30 to 80 percent off regular retail prices on April 21 and 22 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) at Tokyo Big Site. Titles will cover a wide range of subjects, from literature...

Off the shelf.
April 14, 2001... Off the shelf Dianne Highbridge Special to The Daily Yomirui Yomiuri Many novels now regarded as classics were far from being best-sellers when they were first published. Today, when publishers are more concerned than ever with the bottom...

New paperbacks.
April 14, 2001... New paperbacks Colin Donald Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA By Yukio Mishima Vintage Classics, 6.99 pounds The essence of Mishima in one very artful, very imaginative short novel, published in...

Agnes Tachyon top Satsuki-Sho pick.
April 14, 2001... Agnes Tachyon top Satsuki-Sho pick Yomiuri Bred for greatness, Agnes Tachyon has been made the overwhelming favorite to capture today's Satsuki- Sho. Sired by Sunday Silence out of Agnes Flora, Agnes Tachyon has been tapped the leading...

Marines? assault force keeps Lions reeling.
April 14, 2001... Marines? assault force keeps Lions reeling Yomiuri Chiba Lotte scored four runs in the first two innings, two of them unearned, as the Marines beat the Seibu Lions 5-3 at Chiba Marine Stadium on Saturday afternoon. It was the first-place...

Late Nishida strike hands Verdy victory.
April 14, 2001... Late Nishida strike hands Verdy victory Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Midfielder Yoshihiro Nishida handed Tokyo Verdy 1969 their first 90-minute win of the season with a 79th -minute goal for a surprise 1-0 victory over...

Waddle said unlikely to face court-martial.
April 14, 2001... Waddle said unlikely to face court-martial Kazuo Ishii and Jake Adelstein Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondents Yomiuri HONOLULU The captain of the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine that hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii in...

Nakanishi: 3 criteria for leader of a nation-state.
April 14, 2001... Nakanishi: 3 criteria for leader of a nation-state Yomiuri The following is the second in a series of Yomiuri Shimbun interviews with experts, scholars and business leaders, both Japanese and foreign, on what it takes for a national leader to...