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...ARRESTED. HIROTOSHI HONDA, 61, eldest son of late Honda Motor Co. founder Soichiro Honda; for allegedly evading $8.5 million in corporate taxes while head of Formula One engine maker Mugen; in Saitama, Japan...
...style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents and 14 deaths...
...website where the Saitama victims met?Shinju Keijiban (Suicide Pact bulletin board service)?has closed, but many others remain. "The method used by youths to construct human relationships has changed," says Takehiko Kikkawa, a psychiatry professor at Chubu Gakuin University?even in cases where the relationship is necessarily short-lived. Some victims never even meet face to face until the fateful day. Nevertheless, they all share a powerful bond: the fear of dying alone...
...where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with friends in a local bar. "Everybody was doing what they wanted...
...where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with friends in a local bar. "Everybody was doing what they wanted...