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Articles in Feb 28, 2000 issue of Japan Policy & Politics

• Japan to continue taking up time limit on airport with U.S
• Japan may still invite China to G-8 summit
• Hatoyama files libel complaint against ex-resort developer
• 2ND LD: Police deny reports of delaying avalanche search
• LEAD: Wahid sick, will rest for few days: spokesman
• FOCUS: Revisionists must face supreme-law principles: Higuchi
• Japanese Red Army member jailed in Lebanon marries local
• Kono proposes joint Japanese-Dutch works on development aid
• Police question senior Ho-no-Hana cult member
• Ex-Kanagawa police officials plead guilty to cover-up
• Diet panel divided over rules for changing Constitution
• Chronology of events related to postwar Constitution
• Cabinet's disapproval rating tops support rating: Yomiuri
• Panel advises clearing uncertainties over new pension scheme
• U.N. disarmament confab to be held in Aug. in Akita
• 2 more Life Space cult members arrested in abandonment case
• Obuchi to appoint adviser on education reform
• Dutch sanctions on Austria to remain until rightists leave
• 3 jailed Japanese Red Army members to convert to Islam
• Okinawa OKs A-bomb exhibition during summit
• LEAD: Niigata police chief approved false report in advance
• AUM secretly revitalizes activities in Russia: paper
• 'Terrorist' may have illegally gained Japan citizenship
• Hiroshima gov. asks Clinton to visit during summit
• 2 served fresh arrest warrants over mummified body
• LDP eyes introduction of new local corporate tax in FY 2001
• FY 2000 budget certain to clear lower house Feb. 29
• Japan, U.S. to hold high-level WTO talks next month
• LEAD: DPJ to demand Ochi resign over remarks on bank audits
• 1 in 20 women victims of life-threatening domestic violence
• Okinawa hotel workers get crash course on serving G-8 leaders
• Kono hints at reducing host-nation support on U.S. forces
• Gov't to propose laws to protect victims of crime
• 2ND LD: 3 former Green Cross heads given jail terms
• 2ND LD: Fischer, Sakakibara formal candidates for IMF head
• NGO returns 30 mil. yen ODA subsidy due to forgery
• Ex-executive says he took 20 mil. yen donation to Hatoyama
• LEAD: Japan, U.S. to continue talks on host-nation support
• A-Bomb survivor to return to live in Japan
• China urges Japan to refuse visa for Dalai Lama
• 3 British ex-POWs file suit in U.S. against Japan Energy
• Man to file counter-complaint against Hatoyama
• Crown prince criticizes media frenzy over wife's pregnancy
• LEAD: Obuchi pledges to consult partners on election timing
• LDP's Kajiyama hospitalized after injury
• 'Schindler' Sugihara's goodwill led others to help Jews
• Japan wants support for Sakakibara as IMF chief
• Kono hints at granting visa to Dalai Lama
• Latest table of party strength in Diet
• No talks planned with U.S. on Futemma issue, says Kono
• Obuchi, Kok look to future to overcome WWII problems
• Emperor attends symposium on fish diversity
• Obuchi to become 14th longest-serving postwar premier Friday
• LEAD: Clinton concerned about China's new threats to Taiwan
• NPA draws up guidelines to fight crime against women, children
• LEAD: U.S. strongly opposes time limit on Marines' airport
• LEAD: Hori fails to persuade Ishihara to rethink tax plan
• 2ND LD: 'Life Space' guru Takahashi, 7 followers arrested
• U.S. urges Japan to maintain spending on host-nation support
• FOCUS: Constitution debate should realign politics: Aichi