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(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Feb. 7_(Kyodo) _ ---------- Princess Kiko is pregnant, birth expected in autumn
TOKYO - Princess Kiko, the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son, Prince Akishino, is pregnant, the Imperial Household Agency said Tuesday.
Princess Kiko, 39, is expected to give birth to her third child around autumn, agency sources said.
---------- No promise from N. Korea over 6-way talks: Japan delegate
BEIJING - Japan on Tuesday urged North Korea to return immediately to the six-party negotiations on its nuclear programs, but Pyongyang did not promise to do so, the Japanese ambassador in charge of the North Korean nuclear issue said after bilateral talks in Beijing.
"We strongly urged (North Korea) that it is important to return to the six-party talks in a swift manner," Tadamichi Yamamoto told reporters after a meeting on the matter held in the morning.
---------- Koizumi vows efforts to enact imperial law revision
TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he will make efforts to ensure a bill to allow females and their descendants to succeed to the imperial throne is enacted at the current ordinary Diet session.
"I think it is anything but too early to enact the bill during the current session," Koizumi told a House of Representatives Budget Committee session.
---------- Japan hails U.S. initiative to expand nuclear energy worldwide
TOKYO - Japan on Tuesday hailed a new U.S. initiative to promote nuclear energy worldwide, saying it is aimed both at allowing global development of nuclear power generation and ensuring nuclear nonproliferation.
The government said in a statement that it will consider how it can contribute to the program, called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.
---------- Man dies after being pinned under ticket vending machine in Tokyo
TOKYO - A 70-year-old security guard died Tuesday after being pinned under a ticket vending machine as he and his colleagues were carrying the 400 kilogram machine from a subway station in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Two other men sustained serious injuries in the accident that took place on some exit stairs at Nagatacho subway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, police said.
---------- Man rearrested in Japan's first phishing fraud case
TOKYO - Police have served another warrant on a 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of phishing fraud, in which he allegedly stole and used personal information from users of Yahoo Japan's Internet auction service, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday.
The Tokyo police allege that Sunao Koizumi, using stolen user IDs and passwords, won about 300 bids for a total of about 5.5 million yen worth of book vouchers and travel coupons on Internet auctions and resold the products.
---------- Explorers find 'lost world' of unknown species in New Guinea
WASHINGTON - U.S., Indonesian and Australian explorers have found dozens of new animal species in an isolated jungle in New Guinea, including the first new bird to be found on the island in more than 60 years, a conservationist group said Tuesday.
U.S.-based Conservation International said in a report that the orange-faced honeyeater was discovered during a trip in December last year to the mist-shrouded Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, in Indonesia's easternmost and least-explored province of Papua.
---------- Tokyo metropolitan gov't to impose sanctions against Huser
TOKYO - The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to impose sanctions against property developer Huser Ltd. for allegedly selling condominiums it knew were structurally defective, metropolitan government sources said Tuesday.
The metropolitan government will hear from Huser President Susumu Ojima and Shoichi Inuyama, head of Huser's sales agent firm, Feb. 17 before announcing the measures, the sources said.
---------- Tokyo police admit arresting innocent man, detaining him for 3 days
TOKYO - The Metropolitan Police Department admitted Tuesday they had arrested an innocent man on suspicion of kidnapping a university student and robbing him of money in Tokyo last year.
The police apologized to the man in his 20s from Saitama Prefecture, who was arrested Jan. 25 and sent to prosecutors three days later. Prosecutors released him on the same day they took over the case.
---------- NZ premier chides papers over cartoon but defends press freedom
SYDNEY - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Tuesday that two local newspapers had an "absolute" right to publish cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammad that have sparked massive protests in the Muslim world, but their decision to do so was "ill-judged" and put New Zealanders overseas at risk.
Clark was quoted by the New Zealand Press Association as saying in an interview on TV One, "We always defend the right to publish. That is absolute in a country like ours."
---------- Mayor calls plebiscite on relocation of U.S. aircraft to Iwakuni
YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Iwakuni Mayor Katsusuke Ihara on Tuesday called a plebiscite to ask citizens whether they will accept a plan to relocate U.S. carrier-borne aircraft to a military base in Iwakuni from the Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The plebiscite and vote counting are expected to be held on March 12, officials of the city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, said.
---------- U.S. to deploy early warning X-band radar in Japan this year
WASHINGTON - The United States plans to deploy in Japan within the next six months a mobile X-band radar for an advanced early warning system against ballistic missiles, a senior U.S. Missile Defense Agency official said Monday.
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, is seen as the most likely candidate site to build the ground-based radar chiefly aimed at detecting incoming missiles from North Korea.
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