Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri articles from October 2001

Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri archives from October 2001

Japan must revise Constitution to live up to its responsib.
October 31, 2001... Japan must revise Constitution to live up to its responsibilities With the passage of the antiterrorism bill into law M By Goro Hashimoto Yomiuri The antiterrorism bill that the Diet passed enables the Self-Defense Forces to...

Jobless rate climbs to record 5.3%.
October 31, 2001... Jobless rate climbs to record 5.3% Yomiuri The nation's unemployment rate surged 0.3 percentage point in SeptemberCopyright 2001 The Daily Yomiuri

Poll: 44% back bigger SDF role in PKOs.
October 31, 2001... Poll: 44% back bigger SDF role in PKOs Yomiuri Forty-four percent of respondents to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun poll support the Self-Defense Forces' engagement in the normal activities of U.N. peacekeeping forces, including monitoring...

Ex-firefighter sentenced to 14 years for arson.
October 31, 2001... Ex-firefighter sentenced to 14 years for arson Yomiuri OSAKA A former firefighter was sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday for carrying out a series of arson attacks in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Judge Yoshihisa Denda...

Guide-interpreters help foreign tourists understand Japan/.
October 31, 2001... Guide-interpreters help foreign tourists understand Japan Yomiuri Guide-interpreters show foreign tourists around sight-seeing spots in Japan, help them with such formalities as checking in and out of hotels, describe scenery seen...

MSDF to play central role.
October 31, 2001... MSDF to play central role Toshio Hieiand Yoshiaki Shimizu Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers Yomiuri Now that the Diet has passed a special law allowing Japan to lend logistic support to the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign, what steps...

Editorial / Effective steps needed to create jobs.
October 31, 2001... Editorial / Effective steps needed to create jobs Yomiuri The nation now faces a critical situation. The jobless rate in September stood at a record 5.3 percent, up 0.3 percentage point in just a month from the previous record of 5.0...

BOJ's gloomy outlook demands additional economic measures/.
October 31, 2001... BOJ's gloomy outlook demands additional economic measures Satoshi Koreeda Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri The sudden reversal by the Bank of Japan to downgrade its economic forecasts from growth to contraction and its...

Troussier: Italy match '2002 opener'.
October 31, 2001... Troussier: Italy match '2002 opener' Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri National coach Philippe Troussier on Tuesday named a virtual full-strength squad, including struggling Parma playmaker Hidetoshi Nakata, for...

Japan must revise Constitution to live up to its responsibilities with the passage of the antiterrorism bill into law.
October 31, 2001... The antiterrorism bill that the Diet passed enables the Self-Defense Forces to participate in logistic support operations overseas for the first time in history. With the passage into law, Japan's national security policy has now entered...

Jobless rate climbs to record 5.3%.
October 31, 2001... The nation's unemployment rate surged 0.3 percentage point in September from the month before to a record 5.3 percent, with 3.57 million people officially out of work, the Public Management Ministry said Tuesday. The number of people out...

[0] Ex-firefighter sentenced to 14 years for arson.
October 31, 2001... OSAKA -- A former firefighter was sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday for carrying out a series of arson attacks in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Judge Yoshihisa Denda told the Osaka District Court that Takashi Tanaka, 54, had...

[0] Suspected ASDF plane flap found on Aichi street.
October 31, 2001... NAGOYA -- A metal object believed to be part of a flap that had fallen from an Air Self-Defense Force transport plane was found on a road near a park in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. There were no...

[0] Yakiniku chain files for bankruptcy over mad cow.
October 31, 2001... OSAKA -- The operator of a chain of seven yakiniku barbecued-meat restaurants in the Kansai region has filed for protection from creditors, becoming the first company nationwide to be taken to the edge of bankruptcy by public fears over mad...

Guide-interpreters help foreign tourists understand Japan.
October 31, 2001... Guide-interpreters show foreign tourists around sight-seeing spots in Japan, help them with such formalities as checking in and out of hotels, describe scenery seen from bus windows and explain the historical and cultural background of...

Editorial: Effective steps needed to create jobs.
October 31, 2001... The nation now faces a critical situation. The jobless rate in September stood at a record 5.3 percent, up 0.3 percentage point in just a month from the previous record of 5.0 percent posted in August. At 3.57 million, the number of jobless...

Troussier: Italy match '2002 opener'.
October 31, 2001... National coach Philippe Troussier on Tuesday named a virtual full-strength squad, including struggling Parma playmaker Hidetoshi Nakata, for Japan's international friendly match against Italy on Nov. 7 at Saitama Stadium, a game he dubbed as...

BOJ's gloomy outlook demands additional economic measures.
October 31, 2001... The sudden reversal by the Bank of Japan to downgrade its economic forecasts from growth to contraction and its forecast for further price falls was a shock. The central bank's "Outlook and Risk Assessment of Prices and the Economy,"...

[0] Tigers reject Kawajiri again.
October 31, 2001... KOBE -- Orestes Kindelan broke a 2-2 tie with a grand slam in the fourth inning Tuesday as baseball powerhouse Cuba rallied from an early deficit to beat Japan 9-3 in the four-nation international tournament in Kobe. Kindelan connected...

LDP relieved by victories in by-elections.
October 30, 2001... LDP relieved by victories in by-elections Yomiuri The Liberal Democratic Party leadership apparently feels reassured by the victories of two LDP candidates in House of Representatives by-elections held in Miyagi and Shiga prefectures...

Ehime loss 'regretted' by Waddle.
October 30, 2001... Ehime loss 'regretted' by Waddle Yomiuri HONOLULU The former commander of the USS Greeneville, the U.S. submarine that accidentally struck and sunk the Ehime Maru fisheries training vessel in February, has told The Yomiuri...

Jail terms of 15, 13 years demanded over murders.
October 30, 2001... Jail terms of 15, 13 years demanded over murders Yomiuri SAITAMA Prosecutors on Monday demanded prison terms of 15 and 13 years respectively for two women of Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, who are charged with committing murders for...

4 mil. yen-5 mil. yen standard eyed for libel suits.
October 30, 2001... 4 mil. yen-5 mil. yen standard eyed for libel suits Yomiuri A voluntary study group made up of judges at the Tokyo District Court's civil lawsuit department recently proposed setting the standard for damages awarded in libel cases...

Peacekeeping law revisions take back seat.
October 30, 2001... Peacekeeping law revisions take back seat Yomiuri The government may not be able to dispatch Self-Defense Forces personnel to take part in possible U.N. peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan as it had previously hoped because talks...

Japan Perspective / Japanese media stuck up the flagpole.
October 30, 2001... Japan Perspective / Japanese media stuck up the flagpole Gaku Shibata Yomiuri WASHINGTON Controversy is continuing in Japan over how to interpret "show the flag," a phrase the U.S. deputy secretary of state reportedly used...

Economic Forum / Crises fail to dent domestic travel marke.
October 30, 2001... Economic Forum / Crises fail to dent domestic travel market Norio Mochizuki Yomiuri Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, there have been large effects on various economic fields, including consumption and...

Looking into world of mirror-images.
October 30, 2001... Looking into world of mirror-images Jun Sugimori and Masaru Kawanishi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers Yomiuri Prof. Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya University, who shared this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two other scientists, has...

Bringing home the crested ibis.
October 30, 2001... Bringing home the crested ibis Kevin Short PC3 Sado Island sits about 40 kilometers off the Sea of Japan coast of central Honshu. The island's backbone consists of two parallel but slightly offset mountain ranges, thrust up out...

Aikido and the art of integrating cities, nature.
October 30, 2001... Aikido and the art of integrating cities, nature Takeshi Kuroiwa / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri A U.S. landscape architect who favors the integration of ecological principles with urban planning has received this year's...

'Flexible schools' to be student-centered.
October 30, 2001... 'Flexible schools' to be student-centered Midori Matsuzawa Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri YOKOHAMA--While third-year middle school students and their parents were attending a recent induction meeting at Gumisawa High School...

OBITUARY: Yu Fujiwara - Artist.
October 30, 2001... Yu Fujiwara, regarded as the nation's leading Bizen-ware potter, died Monday of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. He was 69. Fujiwara, a national living treasure, began studying ceramics at the age of...

4 mil. yen-5 mil. yen standard eyed for libel suits.
October 30, 2001... A voluntary study group made up of judges at the Tokyo District Court's civil lawsuit department recently proposed setting the standard for damages awarded in libel cases brought by prominent people against the mass media at 4 million yen to...

Japan Perspective: Japanese media stuck up the flagpole.
October 30, 2001... WASHINGTON -- Controversy is continuing in Japan over how to interpret "show the flag," a phrase the U.S. deputy secretary of state reportedly used in his talks with the Japanese ambassador to Washington shortly after the Sept. 11 terror...

Editorial: Govt must cover all bases.
October 30, 2001... Fifty days have passed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Although it cannot be denied that Japan has lagged behind other countries, which swiftly mapped out measures to deal with terrorism, the passage of an...

Govt preparing to guard U.S. bases.
October 29, 2001... Govt preparing to guard U.S. bases Yomiuri The government is set to initiate administrative procedures needed for the Self-Defense Forces to protect U.S. military bases in this country beginning in early November, government sources...

More day-care facilities providing infant care.
October 29, 2001... More day-care facilities providing infant care Yomiuri The number of babies under 1 year old attending day-care centers has reached the 40,000 level for the first time, according to a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's survey on...

Man held over abducting of girl, 7, found dead in Isahaya/.
October 29, 2001... Man held over abducting of girl, 7, found dead in Isahaya Yomiuri NAGASAKI A 23-year-old unemployed man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of abducting in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, a 7-year-old girl whose body was later...

Jichiro gave 10 mil. yen to rightist.
October 29, 2001... Jichiro gave 10 mil. yen to rightist Yomiuri The scandal-plagued All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union (Jichiro) gave 10 million yen of 70 million yen from its secret funds to a leader of a rightist group to stop the...

El Salvador's road to peace holds lesson for other nations.
October 29, 2001... El Salvador's road to peace holds lesson for other nations Shigefumi Takasuka Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri El Salvador, which attained peace through dialogue in the 1990s after a decadelong civil war, may be able to share...

Diet debate reveals details of SDF bill.
October 29, 2001... Diet debate reveals details of SDF bill Ayumu Tsuda Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri An antiterrorism bill to allow the Self-Defense Forces to offer logistic support to a U.S. military campaign against terrorism looks...

Opposition criticizes premier's common sense.
October 29, 2001... Opposition criticizes premier's common sense Yomiuri Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who urged the ruling and opposition camps to employ "logic based on common sense" while debating the three government-sponsored antiterrorism...

Japan's 'science diplomacy' lacking.
October 29, 2001... Japan's 'science diplomacy' lacking By Masaharu Asaba Yomiuri Many are of the view that what is lacking in Japanese science is Nobel Prize-winners. However, in its basic plan for promoting science and technology, beginning this...

Editorial / Keep Japan safe from illegals.
October 29, 2001... Editorial / Keep Japan safe from illegals Yomiuri With the advance of internationalization, prospective illegal immigrants are finding it easier to enter this country. Given the annual increase in the number of crimes committed...

Off the shelf.
October 29, 2001... Off the shelf Dianne Highbridge Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Long ago, when I was learning to cook, a friend gave me a copy of an old cookbook for my birthday. It had been well used and he'd had it rebound, but the pages...

A novel of nautical adventure with moments of power, beaut.
October 29, 2001... A novel of nautical adventure with moments of power, beauty Peter O'Connor Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri All Worldly Pursuits By Hillel Wright New Orphic Publishers, 197 pp, 2,000 yen Hillel Wright's "All...

New Paperbacks.
October 29, 2001... New Paperbacks Colin Donald Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Rimbaud By Graham Robb Picador, 8.99 pounds A fizzingly excitable biography of the protopunk French poet who invented a new form of expression in...

Challenging the myth of 'monoethnic' Japan.
October 29, 2001... Challenging the myth of 'monoethnic' Japan Graham Dwyer Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri MULTIETHNIC JAPAN By John Lie Harvard University Press, 248 pp, 36.95 dollars Amid all the academic tomes on Japan lining...

Barker tests boundaries of bizarre.
October 29, 2001... Barker tests boundaries of bizarre Tom Baker Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Coldheart Canyon By Clive Barker Harper Collins, 704 pp, 27.95 dollars Stephen King has often been generous in his praise of other...

HR kings add another jewel to crowns.
October 29, 2001... HR kings add another jewel to crowns Jim Allen Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Tuffy Rhodes, the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes' outfielder who tied Japan's 37-year-old single season home run record, won the Pacific League's Most...

U.S. counting on Aegis ship.
October 29, 2001... WASHINGTON - The United States is sounding out the government about the dispatch of a Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped ship and a reconnaissance aircraft to patrol areas surrounding the U.S. base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego...

Koizumi: Coalition must agree first on electoral reform bill.
October 29, 2001... In an about-face from his previous strategy of wooing the opposition for its support for a bill to revamp the electoral district system, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday that ruling coalition parties must first agree among...

University allegedly faked official documents.
October 29, 2001... KANAZAWA - Kanazawa University falsified public documents submitted to the former Education Ministry in July last year about a male lecturer who was involved in a scandal with a female student in 1997, sources said Friday. The documents...

Govt to lift sanctions on India, Pakistan.
October 29, 2001... The government announced Friday it will lift economic sanctions it had imposed on India and Pakistan to protest nuclear tests in the two countries, a top government official said. According to a statement issued by Chief Cabinet Secretary...

Govt submits bill to Diet to bar, deport 'hooligans'.
October 29, 2001... The government on Friday submitted to the Diet a bill to revise the immigration control law to broaden the conditions under which foreigners may be deported. The bill is an effort to address an anticipated rise in violent crimes by...

NTT suffers huge losses in public-phone revenues.
October 29, 2001... About 70 percent of public phones run by NTT East and West posted operating deficits so large that they could adversely affect the telecommunication firms' entire businesses, a survey conducted by the Board of Audit revealed. The survey...

Bureaucrats return pay in Koso scandal.
October 29, 2001... Public Management Minister Toranosuke Katayama on Friday officially announced a list of punishments for himself and 55 ministry and Postal Services Agency officials over an election scandal involving Kenji Koso, a former Liberal Democratic...

Seized human cell lines auctioned for 160 mil. yen.
October 29, 2001... Human cell lines seized by the Tokyo District Court from the chairman of a human cell research organization were auctioned on Friday for 160 million yen. The successful bidder owns a leisure-related company. He is also a creditor of...

Govt to abolish funds for special post offices.
October 29, 2001... The government announced Friday it would abolish the practice of providing general promotional funds, or watakiri, to about 19,000 government-designated special post offices, beginning in fiscal 2002. The announcement was made by Public...

Kabukicho fire may not be accident.
October 29, 2001... The fire that gutted a Kabukicho building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward killing 44 people last summer was started on a styrene signboard in the third-floor elevator hall and probably was not accidental, Tokyo Fire Department sources said Friday....

Mexico unified with U.S. against terrorism.
October 29, 2001... Mexico will not send combat troops to participate in the war against terrorism but will cooperate with the United States in many different ways, such as in law enforcement and the exchange of information, Mexican Ambassador to Japan Carlos de...

Ceremony for easy birth of Imperial baby held.
October 29, 2001... Princess Masako attended a traditional Imperial Household ceremony Friday morning, during which prayers were offered for the easy delivery of the baby she is expecting in late November or early December. The princess wore a decorated...

Support for Koizumi strong after 6 months.
October 29, 2001... Friday marked the sixth month since the establishment of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration. The prime minister still enjoys an exceptionally high level of public support, despite a lack of concrete progress in delivering on...

Inspiring a new breed of managers.
October 29, 2001... While many salaried workers are facing an uncertain future concerning their jobs, let alone their promotion prospects, the positive, nonconformist attitude and sheer energy of a handful of elite company executives in their 30s may provide...

Giving thought to Mozambique.
October 29, 2001... Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the so-called "war on terrorism" seems to have dominated the attention of the mass media, pushing aside potential coverage of other serious issues. One such candidate for press coverage is the plight...

Editorial: Copycatting and punishment.
October 29, 2001... Now that anthrax attacks have spread their tentacles into three major television networks, the Congress, the State Department and even the White House, anxiety and confusion make up the predominant mood in the United States, which is under...

Getting Away / Manga monsters guard Sakaiminato.
October 29, 2001... About 10 years ago, Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, a city with a population of 38,000, transformed its nostalgic shopping arcade into a street dedicated to Gegege no Kitaro, a famous manga by Shigeru Mizuki, a native of the city. Today, the...

Swallows follow Furuta to Promised Land.
October 29, 2001... When catcher Atsuya Furuta camped under that final pop up and ended the Japan Series with a resounding five-game triumph, it was the ultimate vindication for a team that few had any hopes for in the spring. The Yakult Swallows'...

Italians name strong squad.
October 29, 2001... Juventus striker Alessandro Del Piero and AS Roma playmaker Francesco Totti top Italy's list of 30 players for the Kirin Challenge Cup match against Japan at Saitama Stadium on Nov. 7. The list, released by the Japan Football Association...

Yomiuri Weekly: Nobel Prize-winner's wife sees another side to 'Ogre' husband.
October 29, 2001... Prof. Ryoji Noyori, one of the recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 10th Japanese to win a Nobel Prize, has an unusual nickname--the Ogre. Noyori, 63, a professor at Nagoya University's graduate school, is notorious...

Japan to tap Sakhalin oil Offshore rigs could supply 250,000 barrels per day.
October 29, 2001... The oil and natural-gas development project undertaken by Japanese trading houses off Sakhalin, Russia, has recently proved commercially feasible, making it likely that Japan will import almost all the crude oil to be produced by the offshore...

Man held over abducting of girl, 7, found dead in Isahaya.
October 29, 2001... NAGASAKI - A 23-year-old unemployed man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of abducting in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, a 7-year-old girl whose body was later found in a nearby forest, police said. Tatsuo Yoshioka of Nagasaki, was...

[0] Clinic head allegedly suborned witness in malpractice suit.
October 29, 2001... KOFU - A 38-year-old nurse who testified in favor of a maternity clinic in Kofu in a lawsuit against the clinic two years ago was not actually present when a clinic doctor allegedly failed to properly treat a pregnant woman who subsequently...

Opposition criticizes premier's common sense.
October 29, 2001... Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who urged the ruling and opposition camps to employ "logic based on common sense" while debating the three government-sponsored antiterrorism bills, followed his own advice throughout a House of Councillors...

Japan's 'science diplomacy' lacking.
October 29, 2001... Many are of the view that what is lacking in Japanese science is Nobel Prize-winners. However, in its basic plan for promoting science and technology, beginning this fiscal year, the government went overboard in setting a goal of winning 30...

A novel of nautical adventure with moments of power, beauty.
October 29, 2001... All Worldly Pursuits By Hillel Wright New Orphic Publishers, 197 pp, 2,000 yen Hillel Wright's "All Worldly Pursuits" runs from the late 1960s to the present and is set around Vancouver, off the coast of Hawaii and finally in Kawasaki....

[0] Off the shelf.
October 29, 2001... Long ago, when I was learning to cook, a friend gave me a copy of an old cookbook for my birthday. It had been well used and he'd had it rebound, but the pages were in good condition, except for the odd thumbprint or watermark. On the title...

[0] New Paperbacks.
October 29, 2001... Rimbaud By Graham Robb Picador, 8.99 pounds A fizzingly excitable biography of the protopunk French poet who invented a new form of expression in four revolutionary books, and then stopped writing while still in his early 20s and became a...

Editorial: Keep Japan safe from illegals.
October 29, 2001... With the advance of internationalization, prospective illegal immigrants are finding it easier to enter this country. Given the annual increase in the number of crimes committed in Japan by foreigners, the government cannot be faulted for...

Challenging the myth of 'monoethnic' Japan.
October 29, 2001... MULTIETHNIC JAPAN By John Lie Harvard University Press, 248 pp, 36.95 dollars Amid all the academic tomes on Japan lining the bookshelves, "Multiethnic Japan" will surely raise more than a few eyebrows for its title alone. For as author...

[0] Barker tests boundaries of bizarre.
October 29, 2001... Coldheart Canyon By Clive Barker Harper Collins, 704 pp, 27.95 dollars Stephen King has often been generous in his praise of other writers, but when he called Clive Barker "the future of horror" in the early 1980s he appeared to be...

Taliban holds Japanese man over espionage.
October 29, 2001... Taliban holds Japanese man over espionage Yomiuri ISLAMABAD A Japanese man was detained on Monday by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban in the eastern part of the country near the border with Pakistan, The Taliban Embassy in Pakistan...

Envoy meets former Afghan king.
October 29, 2001... Envoy meets former Afghan king Yomiuri ROME Japanese Ambassador to Italy Akira Hayashi told the deposed king of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, in Rome on Monday that Japan is willing to take an active role in helping...

GSDF officer arrested over woman's murder.
October 29, 2001... GSDF officer arrested over woman's murder Yomiuri SHIZUOKA A Ground Self-Defense Force officer was arrested Monday night on suspicion of murdering a female acquaintance in Minami Izucho, Shizuoka Prefecture, police said. ...

Govt to add 2 drugs to narcotics list.
October 29, 2001... Govt to add 2 drugs to narcotics list Yomiuri The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will designate the depressant GHB and 4-MTA, which causes euphoria and hallucinations, as narcotics in an effort to stem their spread, according to...