It is with a guilty sigh that Yoshi Izumi admits his firm is doing rather well out of the virus that is terrifying millions of people in Asia and threatening the economies of several nations in the region.
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/ 29 January 2003
The US’s top arms control envoy refused to rule out a military strike on North Korea this week, saying all options remained on the table to secure Pyongyang’s compliance with nuclear nonproliferation accords, raising the stakes in the four-month stand-off.
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/ 25 January 2003
To millions of Japanese sumo fans it was as if a black hole had suddenly opened where the brightest star in the sporting firmament had previously burned. After years of injuries and comebacks Takanohana, one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of sumo, hung up his loincloth.
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/ 23 September 2002
It will rank as a stunning confession to one of the most bizarre crimes ever committed by a state. This week North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il said his country’s special forces abducted at least a dozen Japanese nationals during the 1970s and 1980s in a fit of patriotic overzealousness.
The clean, green reputation of New Zealand — an image worth millions, according to the environment industry — is under threat along with its government in a row over GM crops that is overwhelming this week’s general election. Nearly four million voters go to the polls on Saturday.
His team lost their first game in South Korea, but Bora Milutinovic can still lay a strong claim to being the most popular manager in the history of the World Cup. He is the only coach to have guided four nations to the second round of the tournament.
Japan is suffering from a deflation of political as well as economic values if the current unproductive, ill-natured and destructive parliamentary session is anything to go by