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Tokyo stocks surge, Nikkei up 2.08% to 21-month closing high

TOKYO, Japan - An electric stock price display board at a brokerage in Tokyo's Yurakucho commercial and business district shows Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange soaring 239.74 points to close at 11,770.65 on March 26.

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Tokyo stocks surge to 21-month closing highs

TOKYO, Japan - An electric stock price board at a brokerage in central Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average soaring to close at 11,271.12, the highest level in 21 months, on March 1.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease.

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9th mad cow case confirmed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An expert panel of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare meets at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 4 and confirms that a slaughtered 21-month-old cow in Hiroshima Prefecture had mad cow disease. The case is the ninth of its kind in Japan.

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Nikkei plunges to 21-month closing low

TOKYO, Japan - The Nikkei Stock Average dived to a 21-month closing low Dec. 19 as growing economic uncertainty combined with weakness in U.S. high-tech stocks sparked selling in Tokyo. The signboard in Tokyo's Toranomon shows the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei plummeting some 351 points for the fourth straight day of decline to 14,132.37, its lowest close since March 2, 1999.

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Osaka infant leaves for U.S. to await new heart

NARITA, Japan - Toshiki Hata, a 21-month-old boy from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, leaves Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 13 with his mother Kazuko and father Nobuyuki. Suffering from a serious heart disorder, he is headed for New York's Columbia University in hopes of undergoing a transplant.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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9th mad cow case confirmed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An expert panel of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare meets at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 4 and confirms that a slaughtered 21-month-old cow in Hiroshima Prefecture had mad cow disease. The case is the ninth of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Osaka infant leaves for U.S. to await new heart

NARITA, Japan - Toshiki Hata, a 21-month-old boy from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, leaves Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 13 with his mother Kazuko and father Nobuyuki. Suffering from a serious heart disorder, he is headed for New York's Columbia University in hopes of undergoing a transplant.