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...group working on the missing cases, says it's possible that the number could be much larger - possibly as high as 500. Pyongyang further inflamed the Japanese in 2004 when it returned a jar of ashes that they claimed were the remains of young Yokota. The Japanese government asked Teikyo University to conduct DNA tests to verify that they were Yokota's remains. They were not. (See pictures of Kim Jong...
...full-fledged Cabinet-level ministry, and is aiming to change the country's pacifist constitution, which could open the door for more frequent foreign deployments for the SDF. "For the past 50 years, Japan intentionally ignored the matter of defense," says Toshiyuki Shikata, a defense analyst at Teikyo University. But now, he adds, Japan is waking up to its own military power...
...more frequent deployments of the SDF abroad. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's Feb. 20-22 visit to Tokyo included talks on expanding coordination between American and Japanese forces. "For the past 50 years, Japan intentionally ignored the matter of defense," says Toshiyuki Shikata, a defense analyst at Teikyo University. But now, he adds, Japan is waking up to its own military power...
...have been Yokota's after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert at Pennsylvania-based Mitotyping Technologies. Yoshii...
...bombs intended to explode at various West Coast cities at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with three alleged accomplices, who are currently on trial in Los Angeles. CLEARED. TAKESHI ABE, 84, former head of internal medicine and vice president of Teikyo University Hospital, of professional negligence for allowing a patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge ruled that his actions could not be termed negligent because he may not have known at the time of the danger to the patient, who subsequently...