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computer companies affiliated with the aum_shinrikyo doomsday sect developed software programs for at least 10 government agencies , including the defense ministry , and more than 80 major japanese companies in recent years , police officials said today after a surprise raid on the group 's sites on tuesday . the disco... | has a location of japan |
lead james ( buster ) douglas of columbus , ohio , will be the next opponent for mike_tyson , the undisputed heavyweight champion , on feb . 12 in toyko . tyson had been scheduled to meet donovan ( razor ) ruddock tonight in edmonton , alberta , but withdrew after he came down with a lung infection . the fight was resc... | has a location of japan |
his introductory e mail message had the humble , respectful tone of a college student listing his credentials for a summer job . ''this year , i hit 50 home_runs with 107 r.b.i. , and my batting_average was . 334 , '' hideki_matsui wrote to each of the 30 major_league clubs in the fall . ''i hope your team will be inte... | has a location of japan |
offered an automatic invitation as the team to play host to the tournament , japan qualified for the first women 's olympic hockey tournament because of geography , not skill . wally kozak , the team 's canadian coach , figures he will need a few trick plays to avoid finishing sixth in a six team field . that 's where ... | has a location of japan |
in the former east_german sports system , athletes were chosen the way some people choose tomatoes . body type meant everything . gunda_niemann was told that her legs were too short for track and field . determined to succeed anyway , she switched to speed_skating at the age of 17 . nine years later , at the 1992 winte... | has a location of japan |
lead shinya watanabe was amused at the unlikely sight of his fellow students panicking over a term paper that was almost due . nearby , students sitting in study carrels with their heads bent over western classics occasionally looked longingly out the window . shinya watanabe was amused at the unlikely sight of his fel... | has a location of japan |
it 's not the thousands of deaths that trouble her most , or the loss of her home , or the paralyzing fear of the ground swaying again . it 's the screams . the veterinarian around the corner was pinned in his house after it collapsed in the earthquake , but he shouted that he was all right . and so shizuko hirajima sh... | has a location of japan |
saburo masaoka speaks with the enthusiasm of a klondike prospector . in rapid fire sentences that roll figures and the fanciful into one , he talks about panning for gold , silver , platinum and palladium . but mr . masaoka is no ordinary 49er . he is a salesman at yokohama metals , a scrap_metal recycler whose mother ... | has a location of japan |
a group of high technology executives urged the wealthiest nations today to take action to erase a growing digital_divide resulting from the economic chasm separating the developed and developing worlds . the perception that the world is increasingly being divided into information_technology haves and have nots is amon... | has a location of japan |
it was cloudy and cool outside the north portico of the white_house this morning as steve doocy , the jovial fox_news_channel weatherman , asked al roker , the ebullient nbc weatherman , just why it was that the president of the united_states had invited them over . ''because we promised to bring krispy kremes ! '' mr ... | has a location of japan |
a report in the technology briefing column of business day on friday about microsoft 's plan to push its new xbox video_game player into the online game business in japan misstated the number of game titles sega would develop for xbox . it is 11 , not 5 . | has a location of japan |
hideki_matsui 's broken left wrist is brangelina level news in japan , the type that prompted a former prime_minister to offer solace and sent a nation of his fans to mourn the end of his streak of consecutive games played . ''fans gasp over the broken bone , '' the mainichi_shimbun 's headline said last week . ''his p... | has a location of japan |
apple made no new hardware announcements at its big macworld computer show in san_francisco last month , but it made up for the lapse in japan yesterday when it unveiled new and upgraded versions of its powermac , powerbook and ibook product lines . seeking to capitalize on the surprising success of the graphite colore... | has a location of japan |
american engineering experts said yesterday that they were surprised by the extent of the collapse of roadways and other structures in the earthquake near kobe , japan . but they said it was too early to tell if some of the damage was related to the fact that the japanese take a slightly different approach to earthquak... | has a location of japan |
by the last night in japan , things were so normal that baseball reverted to the usual fare of bobby_valentine 's managerial etiquette and incipient feuds , to say nothing of benny_agbayani 's announcing loud and clear that he really ought to stick around . the brief experiment in exporting north_american baseball like... | has a location of japan |
when henry wong talked to ambassador walter f . mondale yesterday , his only remaining hope was that a search team of american embassy officials in japan would find the body of his daughter , apparently the only american killed by tuesday 's earthquake . mr . wong said he had told mr . mondale that he wanted the body o... | has a location of japan |
one of the biggest changes in japan 's education system since it was established 120 years ago will take place on saturday . schools will be closed . public elementary , middle and high_schools throughout japan are to close for one saturday a month to give overworked students a break . government officials say the move... | has a location of japan |
just past the tattoo parlors and used cd shops on st . marks place in the east_village of manhattan , erudite gamers scour the racks of a cluttered video_game shop called multimedia 1.0 . rows of vintage atari 2600 cartridges are in one corner . new titles for the playstation_2 are down the way . but the real draw is t... | has a location of japan |
a few weeks ago prime_minister kiichi_miyazawa , who graduated from the university of tokyo in 1941 , turned to his chief aide , koichi_kato , who graduated from the same university in 1964 , and declared that a nagging problem with the japanese government had got out of control too many of the country 's powerful bure... | has a location of japan |
lead a strong earthquake with a preliminary reading of 5.6 on the richter_scale occurred in the pacific_ocean off central japan today , the hong kong observatory reported . the observatory said the quake hit at 12 56 p.m . and its epicenter was about 340 miles south of tokyo in an area where several small islands are l... | has a location of japan |
on the verge of winning a medal in men 's figure_skating , todd_eldredge ticked off the name of other athletes whose redemptive success had come after years of failure . it was a club he hoped to join by saturday night . ''i think it would be a great ending , like john_elway , like dan_jansen , like paul wylie , '' eld... | has a location of japan |
lead the japanese have a word for people like hiromitsu ochiai . the word is ''goketsu . '' it is not a quality japanese parents encourage in their sons . the japanese have a word for people like hiromitsu ochiai . the word is ''goketsu . '' it is not a quality japanese parents encourage in their sons . ''goketsu'' tra... | has a location of japan |
few have risen and fallen as spectacularly as takafumi horie , 34 , the self made internet billionaire now on trial in japan 's courts of justice and public opinion . at age 31 , he became famous overnight for trying to wrest a baseball_team from a_league controlled by some of japan 's most powerful businesspeople , or... | has a location of japan |
for many , his quest had come to say as much about japanese provincialism and insularity as as it did about baseball . but in the end , tuffy rhodes , a veteran american player with the kintetsu_buffaloes , came up short in his bid to set a single season home_run record in japan . in his final game of the season tonigh... | has a location of japan |
chihiro sato hated the morning and evening mass in the catholic_school she attended in first grade and felt ostracized by other students when she switched to a public_school for second grade . she began suffering headaches and nausea when it came time to go to school . ''my father would pull me out of bed and force me ... | has a location of japan |
takeshi komatsu should have been at his office this morning . instead , dressed in his suit and carrying his briefcase , he was standing with about 200 other people in a light rain , staring at a huge television screen mounted on the side of a building . " i 'm going to go right after nomo finishes , " promised komatsu... | has a location of japan |
if ''the closer'' is n't any good , blame the winter_olympics hype . among cbs 's perks for broadcasting the olympics despite lower than expected ratings was its ability to unleash torrents of promotions for its programming , including last night 's premiere of tom selleck 's new situation comedy . having spent about 8... | has a location of japan |
in a resolution that sends everything back to the beginning , outfielder kevin millar was freed from his agreement with the chunichi_dragons last night and returned to the roster of the florida_marlins . the next step , a lawyer close to the situation said , will be for the marlins to sell or trade millar to the boston... | has a location of japan |
the rookie season of the los_angeles_dodgers pitching star hideo_nomo has been selected as the top sports story of the year in japan by both the daily yomiuri newspaper and the kyodo_news service , a japanese news_agency . nomo , 27 , the national_league rookie of the year who is from japan , had a 13 6 record with a 2... | has a location of japan |
japan , indicating that it was ready to go into space alone , today outlined an ambitious space_exploration program , including helping to put a huge telescope on the moon . the 10 year government program includes regular unmanned probes of the moon and the planets and development of new space vehicles . the program co... | has a location of japan |
negotiators from more than 150 countries moved closer today to an agreement requiring reductions in the emission of heat trapping greenhouse_gases by industrial countries , but a firm deal continued to elude them . with a deadline looming later today , the discussions focused on a proposal put forth by raul estrada oyu... | has a location of japan |
the builder of a rocket that had to be destroyed after it careened out of control over the atlantic_ocean focused its investigation today on engine failure . a multimillion_dollar japanese broadcasting satellite was aboard the rocket . the television_network in tokyo that was counting on quick use of the spacecraft sai... | has a location of japan |
the principal 's office in the little country school here has a gleaming new bell and loudspeaker system to broadcast messages and summon the student body from recess . but it would be simpler to yell through the window for daiki saito to come in . daiki , an impetuous 7 year old with a mischievous sparkle in black eye... | has a location of japan |
when the detroit_tigers signed cecil_fielder three years ago for 3 million over two years , many people wondered why the tight fisted tigers would spend so much money on a player returning from japan who had been a part time player before he left . now comes orestes destrade , and the florida_marlins hope he will be ce... | has a location of japan |
government officials and businessmen in japan reacted with indignation and puzzlement today over reports that american baseball officials were opposed to the offer by a japanese company to help buy the seattle_mariners . hiroshi yamauchi , president of the nintendo company , which has teamed up with a group of business... | has a location of japan |
ichiro_ozawa , a highly unusual japanese politician who calls for a virtual revolution in his nation 's politics , economics , society and foreign_policy , was elected leader of japan 's main opposition party today . mr . ozawa , who would almost certainly put relations with the united_states on a new footing , thus mo... | has a location of japan |
in a nation that was widely regarded as well prepared for earthquakes , something clearly went wrong last week in the city of kobe . and now , some people are saying the temblor also exposed what is wrong with the leadership of japan . newspapers editorialists and other critics are complaining strongly about the respon... | has a location of japan |
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