http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstCategory/index.php?cmenuid=10 Kyodo News on the Web: Daily international, Japan news, Japan News, national and local news coverage from the newspaper, breaking news updates, technology news, sports, reviews, listings. Kyodo News (C) All Rights Reserved http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstCategory/index.php?cmenuid=10 en http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490036 The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant for a member of antiwhaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on suspicion of trespassing on a vessel of Japan's whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean last month. The New Zealand national has been detained on the Shonan Maru No. 2 and will be arrested after the ship arrives in Tokyo on Friday morning in what the Coast Guard said is its first case involving trespassing on a ship in international waters. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490029 Asia Television, one of two free-to-air TV stations in Hong Kong that has long suffered from low viewership and an ongoing legal feud between its two major shareholders, secured financial support from five mainland enterprises Thursday. In support of ATV owner-to-be Wang Zheng, chairman of mainland developer Rongfeng Holding Group, companies from insurance, banking and construction sectors in China showed up in Beijing to sign a cooperative agreement with the station, local media reported. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490028 Prizewinning Japanese film director Yoji Yamada pledged Thursday to continue to convey a message of hope through his works while encouraging other artists to develop originality and creativity so Japanese creations will be more competitive in the world. ''We have a bleak future...but it is important to wish to want to have hope and if we make films keeping the feeling, we can share that with viewers,'' said Yamada who was given the Berlinale Camera award at the Berlin film festival last month for his latest film ''Otouto'' (About Her Brother). http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490024 At least 33 people died in 17 of Japan's 47 prefectures in 2009 after not visiting doctors because they lacked national health insurance, a private survey showed Thursday. The 33 lost their membership of the national health insurance scheme after failing to pay insurance premiums due to financial difficulties, the Japan Federation of Democratic Medical Institutions said, referring to its survey of member institutions across the country. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490021 The mayor of Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, Hironobu Narisawa, plans to take about a two-week paternity leave in April to encourage other male employees at the ward office to follow suit, officials of the ward office said Thursday. ''I want to enjoy both the joy and pain of childrearing as a father,'' said the 44-year-old mayor, whose wife had their first child, a boy, on Feb. 5, during a press conference. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490016 Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Thursday his government will make a decision on whether to include pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents in Japan in a proposed tuition waiver program after a related bill clears parliament. Hatoyama said that the government will lay out a ministerial ordinance to determine which schools will be eligible for the program after the bill, which is currently in deliberation in an ordinary parliamentary session through June 16, passes the Diet. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490015 Asia Television, one of two free-to-air TV stations in Hong Kong that has long suffered from low viewership and an ongoing legal feud between its two major shareholders, secured financial support from five mainland enterprises Thursday. In support of ATV's owner-to-be Wang Zheng, chairman of mainland developer Rongfeng Holding Group, companies from insurance, banking and construction sectors in mainland China showed up in Beijing to sign a cooperative agreement with the station, local media reported. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=490012 A Japanese high court threw out a lower court ruling and certified Thursday another plaintiff as suffering from an illness caused by the radiation of an atomic bomb in 1945. The Nagoya High Court newly recognized the connection between the cataracts that one of a group of four plaintiffs, Teruko Nakamura, 83, suffers from and the radiation caused by the bombing in Nagasaki, which had earlier been denied by the Nagoya District Court in a January 2007 ruling. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=489996 With a sense of apprehension growing stronger among young Japanese amid the prolonged recession, roughly two in three university students in an Internet survey said they have no hope for Japan's future, U.S. asset management company Fidelity Investments said Thursday. The survey, conducted in January, covered some 2,200 students excluding freshmen. Of them, 65 percent gave the pessimistic response. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=489967 Akira Saeki, known for developing Sharp Corp. into a leading electrical appliance maker under his long-standing presidency, died of chronic kidney failure on Feb. 1, Sharp officials said Thursday. He was 92. Saeki entered Sharp's predecessor Hayakawa Metal Works in 1935 and became senior managing director in 1958, to take over the management leadership from the company's founder Tokuji Hayakawa.