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...custody today,Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asaharadenied any responsibility in the sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subways. In a statement through lawyer Makoto Endo, the cult leader said "Absolutely no one from Aum spread sarin." Police interrogators report that the guru spoke to them on most subjects, but would complain of a liver ailment whenever asked about theMar. 20 attackand would not answer questions. Including Asahara, 21 sect members are jailed in connection with the attack. Police saythey will charge the sect leader with murder and attempted murder, but no formal charges have been filed. Authorities can hold...
...translate directly into change where the rest of the world is concerned. Rearranging seats in the lower house of the Diet will lead only slowly, if at all, to new directions in the country's economic policies and social priorities. "I will believe in this talk of reform," says Makoto Sakata, a prominent Tokyo business writer, "when parties take up really fundamental issues like karoshi ((death from overwork)) and unpaid overtime...
...take a page of text and render it unerringly into a different language without the aid of a bilingual editor who can fine-tune the output for ambiguities in the ) vocabulary, to say nothing of shades of meaning. "A truly automatic system is a dream at the moment," admits Makoto Ihara, manager of Toshiba's computer product-planning department. Says Kazunori Muraki, a leading researcher at NEC: "Machine translation is only to reduce the work involved in human translation...
Even before the figures came out, a Japanese official warned the U.S. against weakening the dollar as a trade-gap remedy. Makoto Utsumi, a senior executive in the Finance Ministry, declared that a further fall of the dollar against the yen would not close the trade gap because Japanese firms would lay off workers and take other steps to remain competitive. A cheaper dollar, said Utsumi, would simply "make America for sale...
...city of Nagoya dutifully passed up an anticipated $35 million windfall when it called off a grand celebration for its pennant-winning baseball team. Only the nation's flagmakers were cashing in. "I'm not supposed to feel happy, but our sales have zoomed more than tenfold," said Makoto Kobayashi, president of Hinomaruya, a Tokyo flag wholesaler...