2003.10.27

NTT DoCoMo-Sony (BBC) NTT and Sony are teaming up to put smartcards in DoCoMo phones.   2003.10.27

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BOJ-Deflation (Mainichi) Bank of Japan forecasts more deflation in 2004.   2003.10.27

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Japan-Markets Nikkei closes Monday session up 118 points. Dollar down a full yen from Friday to 118.60.   2003.10.27

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DPRK-Traffic Death Another "traffic accident" takes its toll in North Korea. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that a wife of Kim Jong Il, currently  involved in a power struggle, was seriously injured in a traffic accident recently as well.     2003.10.27

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Japan-Nuclear (Kyodo) A large-scale radiation leak at a major nuclear reactor in Japan would cost more than four trillion dollars and kill more than 400,000 people over 50 years, according to a study by a Kyoto Sangyo University professor released today.   2003.10.27

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Top North Korean Defector Leaves for U.S. (AP). The highest-ranking defector from North Korea, a man who once mentored leader Kim Jong Il, left for the United States today in a trip that could further strain relations between Washington and the communist state amid tension over its nuclear weapons program.   2003.10.27

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DPJ-Resona (Financial Times) The Democratic Party of Japan threatens to expose the obvious: ailing banking giant Resona was insolvent at the time it got a big government bailout and was effectively nationalized.   2003.10.27

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Japan Series (Mainichi) Police in Osaka prepare for pandemonium late Monday night regardless of the outcome of Game 7 of the Japan Series.   2003.10.27

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LDP-Nakasone (Japan Times) Despite protestations to the contrary last week in a noisy and undignified spat with the current prime minister, the former premier, octogenarian Yasuhiro Nakasone, will indeed retire from politics.   2003.10.27

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Japan-Monday Morning Newspaper Headlines (via Kyodo) Here are the headlines in major newspapers this morning in Japan.   2003.10.27

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Lawmaker: White House Nixed N. Korea Trip [AP World News] A Republican congressman says opposition from the White House has caused him to scrub plans to lead a group of U.S. lawmakers to the site of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.     2003.10.27

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Contact lost with Japanese satellite. [spacetoday.net] Ground controllers have lost contact with a Japanese remote sensing satellite launched last year.   2003.10.27

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N Korea 'responds to US offer'. [BBC News ] Colin Powell confirms Pyongyang has told Washington it will consider a US offer of security pledges to resolve the nuclear crisis.   2003.10.27

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