Japan News for May 29, 2007

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    • The Japanese government will soon appoint Environment Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi as acting agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister to take place of Toshikatsu Matsuoka who committed suicide and died on Monday. [Link]
    • he Japanese Emperor arrived in Britain Sunday for a three-day visit that will see him carry out engagements including dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. [Link]
    • The Yokozuna Deliberation Council, a powerful advisory body to the Japan Sumo Association, unanimously recommended promoting ozeki Hakuho to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna on Monday. [Link]
    • Ozeki Hakuho held a news conference on Monday after winning his second consecutive Emperor’s Cup to stay on track for promotion to sumo’s top rank, saying he hopes to become a yokozuna that everyone would like. [Link]
    • Despite passing a symbolic resolution to overturn a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling last year, it is unlikely that there will be enough support to formally end it when the International Whaling Commission meets in Alaska on Monday. [Link]
    • A widening outbreak of measles among college students mostly in the Tokyo area forced another Japanese university to close one of its campuses on Sunday to control the spread of the virus. [Link]
    • Thin people are at higher risk of suffering from cardiac infarction or strokes when they are saddled with lifestyle-related diseases such as hypertension and high blood sugar, Japanese researchers have found. [Link]
    • Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday it is seeking to secure about 200 billion yen in the state budget over a five-year period starting in the current fiscal year to develop post-gasoline automobiles. [Link]
    • Sanyo Electric Co said Monday it has incurred a group net loss of 45.36 billion yen in fiscal 2006, its third straight year of red ink, due to poor digital camera and cell phone sales. [Link]
    • A total of 133 of the 277 people who died in traffic accidents in Hokkaido last year were riding in vehicles fitted with studless tires at the time of the accident, a police report has shown. [Link]
    • The Tourism Minister of Queensland, Australia has questioned whether the controversial “Where the bloody hell are you?” tourism campaign was working, saying it was “not a goer” in Japan. [Link]
    • Three-quarters of Japanese know of Wikipedia, according to a goo Research survey. [Link]
    • Japan says a planned visit to Tokyo this week by former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui is a tourist trip only and should not impact Japan’s relations with China. [Link]
    • A Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry official has been arrested for drunkenly molesting a woman on a night train. [Link]
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