Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri articles from January 2002, page 5

Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri archives from January 2002

[0] New paperbacks.
January 6, 2002... Byline: Clark Blaise Time Lord--Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time Orion, 7.99 pounds. It may not be fair that this story of the man who invented standard time looks like a blatant cash-in on the success of...

Program to help officials determine disaster damage.
January 6, 2002... Program to help officials determine disaster damage Yomiuri KOBE A research institute specializing in disaster prevention of Miki, Hyogo Prefecture, has developed a simulation system to train municipal government inspectors to...

High-tech device seen eliminating food waste.
January 6, 2002... High-tech device seen eliminating food waste Yomiuri KOBE A Kobe company that specializes in environmentally friendly technologies has developed an anaerobic digester that completely decomposes food scraps, leaving no solid...

Clarifications offered on 'Day of Deceit'.
January 6, 2002... Clarifications offered on 'Day of Deceit' Sadao Seno Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri As translation supervisor of Shinjuwan no Shinjutsu (Bungei Shunju Co.), the Japanese version of Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and...

Time for Theroux to exit the jungle.
January 6, 2002... Time for Theroux to exit the jungle Morris Williams Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Fresh-Air Fiend: Travel Writings 1985-2000 By Paul Theroux Penguin Books, 480 pp, 8.99 pounds. Paul Theroux is a crafty...

Tanizaki's color, clarity shine through in 'Gourmet Club'/.
January 6, 2002... Tanizaki's color, clarity shine through in 'Gourmet Club' Brian Heagney Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri The Gourmet Club: A Sextet By Junichiro Tanizaki Kodansha International, 201 pp, 24 dollars. Junichiro...

Explaining the gonzo guru's paranoid ravings.
January 6, 2002... Explaining the gonzo guru's paranoid ravings Kevin Wood Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 By Hunter S. Thompson Simon & Schuster Books,...

Govt reforms limited success.
January 6, 2002... Govt reforms limited success Yomiuri Sunday will mark the first anniversary of drastic organizational changes in government. However, while the organizational reform has expanded the role of the Cabinet, it has had less success in...

Disharmony at Minshuto helm causes concern.
January 6, 2002... Disharmony at Minshuto helm causes concern Yomiuri There has been growing discord between Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) leader Yukio Hatoyama and party Secretary General Naoto Kan, reportedly because of disagreement over basic...

Koizumi vows SDF legislation.
January 5, 2002... Koizumi vows SDF legislation Yomiuri Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday that he intended to establish a legal framework designed to facilitate operations conducted by the Self-Defense Forces and other government bodies to...

Fujimori lands job as Takushoku guest professor.
January 5, 2002... Fujimori lands job as Takushoku guest professor Yomiuri Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who lives in exile in Japan, has been given a position as guest professor at Takushoku University in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, The Yomiuri...

New OS would link PCs, gadgets.
January 5, 2002... New OS would link PCs, gadgets Yomiuri Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE), Toshiba Corp. and IBM Corp. have reached a basic agreement on jointly developing a new operating system (OS) to be released in 2005 for computers capable...

Mom, pop, son arrested over bid-rigging.
January 5, 2002... Mom, pop, son arrested over bid-rigging Yomiuri OSAKA Three executives of a construction company in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, were arrested Friday on suspicion of being involved in bid-rigging related to a public works...

Pasona affiliate finding jobs in China for Japanese.
January 5, 2002... Pasona affiliate finding jobs in China for Japanese Yomiuri Hong Kong-based temporary staff agency PaHuma Asia Group, an affiliate of Japan's largest temporary staff agency Pasona Inc., is succeeding in its business of dispatching...

NASA asks Japan for early completion of space module.
January 5, 2002... NASA asks Japan for early completion of space module Makiko Tatebayashi Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Yomiuri WASHINGTON The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has asked Japan for early completion of a...

To your health / For seasonal comfort take the 7 herbs and.
January 5, 2002... To your health / For seasonal comfort take the 7 herbs and rice Ann Endo Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Toshi, Charlotte's sweetheart, was coming down with a cold. He lay moaning on the sofa complaining of headache,...

WINE / Joys of bubbly.
January 5, 2002... WINE / Joys of bubbly Sandra Shoji special to The Daily Yomiuri PC3 Just saying "champagne" conjures up a kaleidoscope of images. Leisurely Sunday brunches, sipping bubbly while nibbling buttered toast. Afternoon picnics on...

Dining out / Mami (Osaka).
January 5, 2002... Dining out / Mami (Osaka) Aidan O'Connor Special to The Daily Yomiuri PC3 Once tasted, Thai cuisine is rarely forgotten. It is usually a case of smitten at first bite. But where to find authentic Thai food among all the pale...

Dining out / Frames (Tokyo).
January 5, 2002... Dining out / Frames (Tokyo) Alexandra Schmertz Nusbaum special to The Daily Yomiuri PC3 Austin Powers, gogo boots and mini skirts would be right at home at Frames, the new '60s-style cafe in Daikanyama, Shibuya Ward. White vinyl...

[0] Mom, pop, son arrested over bid-rigging.
January 5, 2002... OSAKA -- Three executives of a construction company in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, were arrested Friday on suspicion of being involved in bid-rigging related to a public works project funded by the Kansai branch of the Japan Highway...

WINE: Joys of bubbly.
January 5, 2002... Just saying "champagne" conjures up a kaleidoscope of images. Leisurely Sunday brunches, sipping bubbly while nibbling buttered toast. Afternoon picnics on manicured lawns, while a Hugh Grant type unpacks a basket of smoked salmon and...

Work will keep Koizumi from WEF meeting.
January 4, 2002... Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will not attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2002 in New York, to be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5, due to a conflict in scheduling, Cabinet officials said. According to the officials,...

Easing of yen-won exchange eyed.
January 4, 2002... With the 2002 World Cup soccer finals cohosted by Japan and South Korea set to start in May, the Finance Ministry plans to enter final talks with its South Korean counterpart over conditionally lifting a ban on exchanging won and yen, a...

Koizumi may face crisis in March.
January 4, 2002... Some politicians are predicting that if the economy deteriorates further, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will face a crisis in March. Koizumi, whose Cabinet has maintained high approval ratings since its...

Editorial: Rx for economic doldrums.
January 4, 2002... The world economy is meeting the new year shrouded in the thunderheads built up from the aftereffects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the uncertainties of the future. According to the most recent economic...

Drunken driver kills 1, injures 3, police say.
January 3, 2002... OSAKA--A woman driving under the influence of alcohol ran onto a sidewalk in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, on Tuesday morning, killing a pedestrian and injuring three others who were waiting for the crossing signal to change, police said. ...

Baseball: Tatsunori Hara: A Giant step up: Former Yomiuri star takes over hottest seat in Japan pro baseball.
January 3, 2002... Already into the fifth decade of his life, Tatsunori Hara has at last gone into the "family business." But he never intended to become a baseball manager, much less skipper of Japan's most popular team. This season, Hara will make his...

Man arrested after mistress strangled.
January 3, 2002... Man arrested after mistress strangled Yomiuri A 34-year-old man was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of strangling his 28-year-old mistress in Fuchu, Tokyo. Hiroyuki Koseki, a painter of Inagi, Tokyo, strangled Rika Miyazaki,...

Baseball: Tatsunori Hara / A Giant step up / Former Yomiur.
January 3, 2002... Baseball: Tatsunori Hara / A Giant step up / Former Yomiuri star takes over hottest seat in Japan pro baseball Ken Marantz Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Already into the fifth decade of his life, Tatsunori Hara has at last...

BEYOND BORDERS: Gifted people, entities offer hope in grim times.
January 1, 2002... TAKAMATSU -- The start of the 21st century was marked by a number of shocking events, such as the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States and the subsequent antiterrorism campaign in Afghanistan. On the domestic front, the country...

Mexico OK's Japan oil search.
January 1, 2002... Byline: necessity, Japan purchases almost all of its crude oil from abroad, Japan has acquired exclusive exploration rights in Mexico's coastal Chicontepec oil field, known as one of the world's largest natural oil reserves, government...

Legendary Cruyff lessons cohosts on how to make World Cup fly.
January 1, 2002... A huge bash is what the 1974 World Cup was for the Netherlands, Johan Cruyff said. "In my way of thinking, the whole World Cup that I played in '74 was one big memory," Cruyff told The Daily Yomiuri in December, 27 years after the Dutch...

Pele: 'I trust Brazil'.
January 1, 2002... Believe me, we are good enough, Pele says. The best ever to play in canary yellow feels Brazil, despite a forgettable qualifying performance, is well within striking distance of a record fifth World Cup. "Brazil never have a problem with...

BEYOND BORDERS: Reaping the rewards on international links.
January 1, 2002... GIFU -- Tucked away on the third floor of the Active G building under the railway tracks near JR Gifu Station is the workshop of a visiting Bulgarian fashion designer. Antoaneta Stereva, 30, a graduate of Domus Academy, a design school...

BEYOND BORDERS: Kitakyushu a stellar environmental city.
January 1, 2002... Byline: the end of fiscal 2000, the association had accepted 2,831 trainees KITAKYUSHU -- The steel and chemical industries gave Kitakyushu a well-deserved but dubious reputation as one of the most polluted cities in the country. It...

JAPAN PERSPECTIVE: Koizumi facing battle royal.
January 1, 2002... With the advent of the new year, we are left to contemplate the year gone by, in which a number of menaces lurked behind our workaday lives--as exemplified by the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States and the outbreak of mad cow...

Editorial: Year of trials awaits nation.
January 1, 2002... The world has greeted a new year still smarting from the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Sept. 11 wrought great changes on the world. Will Japan be able to respond to the ongoing changes quickly and...

BEYOND BORDERS: Washi paper-making may boost 'banana republic' economies.
January 1, 2002... NAGOYA -- Bananas completely changed the life of a Nagoya university professor and washi paper specialist. He is now teaching a growing number of Caribbean people how to make paper from otherwise redundant banana trees. The skill, which...

SDF-student workshops prove successful.
January 1, 2002... Just like the unfolding of a crisis and its subsequent resolution, the three-day "simulation" workshop at the Middle Army Headquarters in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, began amid heavy rain, saw clouds on the second day, and turned into clear...

[0] Mexico OK's Japan oil search.
January 1, 2002... Mexico OK's Japan oil search Yomiuri Japan has acquired exclusive exploration rights in Mexico's coastal Chicontepec oil field, known as one of the world's largest natural oil reserves, government sources said Monday. If the...

JAPAN PERSPECTIVE / Koizumi facing battle royal.
January 1, 2002... JAPAN PERSPECTIVE / Koizumi facing battle royal Nobuo Asaumi Yomiuri With the advent of the new year, we are left to contemplate the year gone by, in which a number of menaces lurked behind our workaday lives--as exemplified by...

BEYOND BORDERS / Kitakyushu a stellar environmental city.
January 1, 2002... BEYOND BORDERS / Kitakyushu a stellar environmental city Mikiko Miyakawa Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri KITAKYUSHU The steel and chemical industries gave Kitakyushu a well-deserved but dubious reputation as one of the...

BEYOND BORDERS / Gifted people, entities offer hope in gri.
January 1, 2002... BEYOND BORDERS / Gifted people, entities offer hope in grim times Yosuke Sakurai Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri TAKAMATSU The start of the 21st century was marked by a number of shocking events, such as the Sept. 11...

Ready for action.
January 1, 2002... Ready for action Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Philippe Troussier's earliest World Cup memory is Pele. Troussier, in the summer of 1970, was at his grandfather's house, watching Pele lead the Brazilians at...

2002 expected to be year of political truce.
January 1, 2002... 2002 expected to be year of political truce Yomiuri With no House of Councillors or unified local elections scheduled for this year, 2002 will see no major election battle unless Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolves the House...

Chung dynasty.
January 1, 2002... Chung dynasty Duncan Castles Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri A scion of one of South Korea's greatest business conglomerates, Chung Mong Joon was born into power. In the 50 years since, Chung, one of the heirs to Hyundai's...

Legendary Cruyff lessons cohosts on how to make World Cup.
January 1, 2002... Legendary Cruyff lessons cohosts on how to make World Cup fly Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri A huge bash is what the 1974 World Cup was for the Netherlands, Johan Cruyff said. "In my way of thinking, the...

The man with the golden boot.
January 1, 2002... The man with the golden boot Barry McElwaine Yomiuri Shimbun London Bureau Yomiuri Henrik Larsson shifts a little uncomfortably in his seat and then smiles indulgently at his interrogator. We are speaking of his prodigious...

Pele: 'I trust Brazil'.
January 1, 2002... Pele: 'I trust Brazil' Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Believe me, we are good enough, Pele says. The best ever to play in canary yellow feels Brazil, despite a forgettable qualifying performance, is well within...