2003.08.17

No Rush to Send SDF to Iraq (Kyodo)   They are going to stall on this as long as they can possibly get away with it. 2003.08.17

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Yakuza Busted in Hawaii (AP via Taipei Times)   These guys have been doing this for about 35 years with little interference from the Japanese cops or the U.S. feds. 2003.08.17

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Go Egami (Reuters via Forbes)   It will take more than one whistleblower to really clean up the filth at Japan's banks, burdened by an unimaginable amount of bad loans, sloth and corruption. 2003.08.17

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Japanese Art Virtually (Art Daily)   Art Daily is not  a web site I usually browse, but this little tidbit looks like a nice way to spend idle moments online. 2003.08.17

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US, Japan, South Korea mull backing NKorean entry into ADB: report. AFP via SpaceWar: Japan, the United States and South Korea are considering backing North Korea's entry into the Manila-based Asian Development Bank if Pyongyang ends its nuclear program, a report said Friday. The three nations aim to help North Korea abandon its nuclear ambitions by showing a readiness to support loans from international financial organisations, the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said. The move is also aimed at incorporating North Korea in the framework of the global economy and putting the reclusive Stalinist nation under international watch, it said, quoting anonymous US and Japanese sources. [The Agonist] 2003.08.17

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Trial By Fire (Pacific Stars & Stripes)   Another Yokota-related story which has gotten minimal, if any mainstream press and, I think, NO coverage in the Japanese media. If it had been the U.S. serviceman who tried to set alight the Japanese woman you can bet this would have been front page news many times. 2003.08.17

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