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Articles in April 22, 2002 issue of Japan Policy & Politics

• Int'l drug control summit to be held next week in Tokyo
• Gov't to talk with local gov'ts over Isahaya Bay lock gates
• Japan, U.S. to hold working-level security talks Tues
• Tanaka meets LDP ethics panel chief, insists on innocence
• Kawaguchi to name new envoy to Israel, professor to ministry
• Koizumi can dismiss LDP's opposition to postal bills
• Japan to pursue broader economic ties with East Asia: Hiranuma
• Upper house head Inoue to give account of bribe allegation
• MOF's Muto says tax balance may be achieved over years
• Ex-head of failed securities house pleads not guilty to fraud
• U.S. F-16 crashes into Sea of Japan, pilot safe
• Gov't to submit 'emergency' bills to Diet on Wed
• Shiokawa to rebut IMF assessment on Japan economy at G-7
• Emergency bills receive mixed response
• FOCUS: Whistle-blower sues firm for discrimination
• Kumagai to mull DPJ leadership candidates after spring holiday
• Omi to visit U.S. for adviser's meeting on new grad school
• U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk leaves Yokosuka
• Ohashi blames Tsujimoto's resignation on media frenzy
• Koizumi cautious about this year's Yasukuni Shrine visit
• Opponents of emergency bills hold rallies
• Japan, U.S. to agree on continued SDF support
• Ex-Home Affairs Minister Sakano dies of stroke at 84
• Upper house head denies scandal, may be quitting
• Upper house head Inoue quits over money scandal
• Gov't wins local approval to open Isahaya Bay gates
• Kono receives part of son's liver in transplant
• Gov't submits emergency bills to Diet
• Too early to say if Powell's efforts failed: Koizumi
• War-bereaved ass'n urges Koizumi to visit Yasukuni on Aug. 15
• Peru prosecutors indict Fujimori on bribery charges
• Labor minister calls for region-based job measures
• 12 regions picked for technological development initiative
• G-8 environment ministers heed U.S. stance on Kyoto pact
• Shiokawa ready to cut businesses' taxable minimum sales
• Japan backs Powell's efforts in Mideast, Kawaguchi says
• BOJ voted 8-1 to take fresh step to ease at Feb. 28 meeting
• Hague meet urges use of aid for biodiversity preservation
• Tottori by-election set for Oct. 27 to fill upper house seat
• Biodiversity confab to conclude with less ambitious goals
• Diet panel to summon Tsujimoto for testimony next Thurs
• Koizumi heckled, stresses to students importance of listening
• Finance Ministry revises upward economic assessment
• LDP group opposed to proposed tax on new postal service corp
• Fukuda backs Shiokawa's proposal on tax cuts
• Coast guard sets up security HQ for IWC meet
• Doran to head U.S. Pacific Fleet
• Ex-Yokohama Mayor Takahide likely to become JAWOC counsel
• Agency to change legal basis for SDF ship dispatch
• Lower house subcommittee to ask media to tone down coverage
• Health ministry panel proposes nationwide malpractice centers
• FT says Japan's military reforms 'reasonable'
• FOCUS: Koizumi faces tough election in home of money politics
• U.S. asks Japan to dispatch Aegis warship to Indian Ocean
• Ex-Foreign Minister Kono may undergo liver transplant Tues
• Gov't may scrap 30-tril. yen bond cap in FY 2003: Shiokawa
• Japan ministers show mixed reactions to S&P downgrade
• 2-track approach in territorial row may have some merit: Abe
• Hayami urges banks to check firms exempted from special audit
• Foreign Ministry panel urges new kind of ties with NGOs
• Think tank head urges Koizumi to push ahead with deregulation
• U.S. air base in Aomori resumes F-16 training after crash
• Hiranuma to reiterate calls on U.S. to scrap steel tariffs
• Russia warns Japanese, foreigners of skinheads in Sakhalin
• U.S. warns Japan against retaliating for steel tariffs
• Exchange rates not big topic for G-7 meeting, Shiokawa says
• Gov't submits emergency bills to Diet
• Tanaka rebuffs LDP execs' demand for response to allegations
• Chief of Crown Prince's Household to retire
• FOCUS: Shimonoseki excited to host upcoming IWC meeting
• Gov't ordered to pay 66.8 mil. yen in Univ. of Tokyo poisoning
• Japan, S. Korea agree bilateral FTA important for Asia
• METI sets up forum to protect intellectual property rights
• Int'l confab of mint directors opens in Osaka
• Japan's coalition group to visit 4 nations for Mideast peace
• Outlines of emergency bills to be submitted to Diet
• Cabinet OKs emergency bills, to submit to Diet on Wed
• Shizuoka, Shimizu cities to merge next April
• Kawaguchi to launch foreign aid strategic council
• Top MOF official says major banks do not need public money now

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