• Suicide hotline flooded with calls
  (Reuters/Japan Today. July 11)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=42453
  
  
• Mental hospital violence leads to calls for transparency
  (Mainichi. July 14)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830355/mental20hospital-
  0-3.html
  
  
• Dutchman gets suspended term for kidnapping
  (Japan Times. July 14)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010714b8.htm
  
  
• Red Army daughter seeks to set record straight
  (Japan Times. July 14)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20010714a1.htm
  
  
• JR ignores pressure to stick to Japan rice
  (The Japan Times. July 18)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010718a3.htm
  
  
• U.S. rice lunches sell like hotcakes
  (The Japan Times. July 19)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20010719a7.htm
  
  
  

WOMEN

• Fighting Molestation, and a Stigma, in Japan
  (By Howard W. French. The New York Times. July 15)
  
  Bereaved mother calls for sacking of judge
  (Mainichi. July 17)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/bereaved20mother-0-1.html
  
  Women show changing attitudes to marriage
  (Mainichi. July 20)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830356/marriage-0-2.html
  
  
  

SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS

• Japan's sincerity put to test
  (The Japan Times. July 11)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20010711a1.htm
  
  
• Awkward Japan
  (editorial. The Washington Post. July 11)
  
  
• Government text outlines war responsibility
  (The Japan Times. July 11)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010711b1.htm
  
  
• Seoul cuts military ties with Tokyo
  (mainichi. July 12)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830358/textbook-0-3.html
  
  
• Disputed text gets nearer classroom
  (Asahi, July 13)
  www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001071300975.html
  
  
• Errors of omission, not fact, draw most criticism
  (Asahi. July 14.) www.asahi.com/english/international/K2001071001108.html
  
  
• Tochigi citizens group slams history textbook
  (The Japan Times. July 14)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010714a8.htm
  
  
• Seoul shelves cultural, military ties
  (Asahi. July 14.) www.asahi.com/english/international/K2001071300979.html
  
  
• S. Korea eyes suspending student exchanges
  (By Tetsuya Hakoda,. Asahi. July 14) www.asahi.com/english/international/K2001071400452.html
  
  
• Controversial textbooks are big sellers for Fusosha
  (By Janet Ashby. The Japan Times. July 15)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fb20010715a3.htm
  
  
• Protesters cry foul over textbook-selection 'scheme'
  (Mainichi. July 15)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830358/textbook-0-2.html
  
  
• Nationalism in Japan
  (Letter. The New York Times. July 15)
  
  
• North Korea joins protest over textbook
  (Reuters/Japan Today. July 15)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=43904
  
  
• 70% of school boards asked to reject text
  (Kyodo/Japan Today. July 18)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=44566
  
  
  

OKINAWA RAPE CASE

• Okinawa Gov. pushes for review of US forces pact
  (Mainichi. July 11)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830360/rape-0-9.html
  
  
• U.S. rape suspect to seek release
  (The Japan Times. July 18)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010718a7.htm
  
  
• U.S. airman's detention explained
  (The Japan Times. July 19)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010719b5.htm
  
  
• Japan Charges U.S. Serviceman With Rape
  (The New York Times. July 19.)
  
  
• Japan Heeds Rape Cases--if Accused Is American Asia: Allegations against a local man "wouldn't have gotten the time of day," some lawyers say.
  (By Valerie Reitman. Los Angeles Times. July 19)
  www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000058929jul19.story
  
  
  

CRIME: IN GENERAL

• Nurse Mori pleads not guilty to charges
  (asahi. July 12)
  www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001071200941.html
  
  
• Homeless Vietnamese fatally stabs 2 buddies during drunken quarrel
  (Mainichi. July 12)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830361/murder-0-20.html
  
  
• Middle-aged Mom blackmails schoolboy lover
  (mainichi. July 13)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830361/blackmail-0-2.html
  
  
• New scandal for Foreign Ministry
  (Asahi. July 14)
  www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2001071400392.html
  
  
• Notorious nurseries like death camps
  (Mainichi. July 14)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830362/nurseries-0-1.html
  
  
• Prostitution ring luring Brazilians
  (Kyodo/japan Today. July 14)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=43647
  
  
• Thieves net 29 million yen from 3 Osaka supermarkets
  (Mainichi. July 16)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830363/thieves-0-2.html
  
  
• Notorious pedophile escapes charges for 1986 attack
  (Mainichi. July 16)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830363/pedophile-0-1.html
  
  
• Police arrest 4 in ministry swindling scandal
  (Mainichi. July 16)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830363/swindling-0-1.html
  
  
• Boyfriend gets 14 months in slammer for scalding youngsters
  (Mainichi. July 16)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830363/slammer-0-2.html
  
  
• Wicked stepmother' sentenced over boy's death
  (Mainichi. July 17)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/stepmother-0-
  1.html
  
  
• Cold-blooded' killers sentenced in Saitama slaying
  (Mainichi. July 17)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/killing-0-9.html
  
  
• Innocent man finally cleared after 13-year jail term
  (Mainichi. July 17)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/innocent-0-2.html
  
  
• Foreign counterfeit gang nabbed
  (Mainichi. July 18)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/counterfeit-0-1.html
  
  
• Man leaves father's body on ice for 13 years
  (Mainichi. July 18)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/father27s20body-0-1.html
  
  
• Bureaucrat busted for snatching women's undies
  (Mainichi. July 18)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/Bureaucrat20-0-
  2.html
  
  
• Nurse slays close friend after fight over man
  (Mainichi. July 19)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830364/killing-0-7.html
  
  
• Woman busted for fatal hit on hubby
  (Mainichi. July 19)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830361/murder-0-11.html
  
  
• Parent strangler arrested
  (Mainichi. July 20)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830361/murder-0-8.html
  
  
• Knife salesman fatally stabs homeless 'buddy'
  (Mainichi. July 20)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830361/murder-0-10.html
  
  
• Cat killer strikes in Nagano
  (Mainichi. July 20)
  www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/830365/cat20killer-0-2.html