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Show 8A dalurday lECeN DE! < Vevtilivel 44 IS plat sevria Japan's growing divorce rate Redenomination of ruble raises fears: forces change in attitudes er MOSCOW Lev Noasov, a 60-year-old retired journalist, carried a round loaf of bread tucked securely under his arm. a maroon wool scarf wrapped KYO - Th eV are> the around his neck and a lot of worry on his shoulders about newdarlings of the Japanese media. Prime-time the coming make-over of the Russian ruble. “They will do anything they like with prices,” he said as he stepped out of a busy branchoffice of Sberbank, the state savings bank, where most Rus- dramasportray their lives. Morning talk-show hosts ponder their travails. Magazines depict them striding confidently into the future. They're called the “batsu-ichi ~ meaning people with one strike against them, or. in more common parlance. the divorced 7 Year } changeover. It‘ Is clear that the ing its reform-weary population ciated Press sians pay their utility and other to leap over in coming days. On Jan. |. three zeros will be sliced move has touched a nerve. Rus: he / sians may not be paying atten L tion to the latest Kremlin in/ 2¥g@Pro' trigues anymore, but they do? 4p) otf the ruble. The value of about six of the new rubles will equal think about money. The next ? i step in remaking the ruble is at “SP S1, instead ofnearly 6.000 to the dollar today. least as much a leap offaith in “gy the government's reassurances' #2? Russia’s leaders. who announced the redenomination as it is a test of Russia's free- “qgpre last summer, have offered fre- “m1 market system. quent assurances that no one will lose anything. They said it is fT O% > : 0 € Twice in recent vears - both not a devaluation and vowedit will not touch off price increases. They have given everyone a year to change the old before and after the breakup of > the Soviet Union - government ##OF DOX have led to chaos. ilm as jets | attempts to change the money." money into new. In television commercials, trusted Soviet-era ~ And their swelling ranks are breaking down some Japanese cultural taboos that have held bills. “People will be cheated. I don’t believe the authorities, and no one believes them.” His comments reflect the swayfor centuries deep chasm that Russia is ask- Divorces in Japan have more than doubled, fromjust over 95,000 in 1970 to 206.955 in 1996, according to health ministryStatistics. One in three JapaNese marriages now ends in divorce. Yelstin questions Russian market morality;¢ The Associated Press MOSCOW- In an unusually introspective year-end radio address, President Boris Yeltsin Atsuko Okano was in one ot those failed marriages. wondered aloud Friday whether Russians might be leaving something behind in their headlong Three years ago, she found herself alone in her thirties, with children toraise and a futurefull of question marks andsocial stigma. But she also sawan opening dive into the free market: their souls. The president chided Russians — especially “new Russian” business leaders - for shedding the dogma ofcollectivism in favor of a new dogmaof - and became a consultant help- ly women -— have long been stig- matized in Japan, whereself-sacrifice and familystability are cherishedideals. In the past, bored housewives remained bored. Philandering husbandsphilandered with impunity. The security of the family unit took precedence. Now, young Japaneseare increasingly choosing satisfaction in life over the demands oftradition, and more womenarefinancially independent. As a result, Japanese divorce rates are soaring. Experts attribute this to the erosion of a longstanding double standard that granted divorced men respectability, but branded divorced women as damaged goods. materialism. The Associated Press CHANGING VALUES: Japanese pop-superstar Seiko Matsuda appears ata press conferencein January to announce her divorce. She and other young Japanese are forcing Japan to reconsider values that have Over the past decade. growing numbers ofhighly educated and successful professional women have challenged that assumption byturning their backs on unhap- py marriages and braving the tabooofdivorce. The majority of divorce proceedings nowareinitiated by women, andStatistics suggest that Japanese women are becoming More cautious about marriage in general. The average age for marriage in Japan has risen from26.1 in 1970 to 28.7 in 1996. The average age for remarriage among women jumpedfrom33.2 to 37 in the same period. Arranged marriages have become less common as young peo- HONG KONG - Two more cases of so-called “bird flu” were confirmed Friday and Chinese authorities pledged to step up inspections of poultry headed for Hong Kong totryto prevent the illness from spreading. So far, 11 cases of the flu have been confirmed, and three of the victims have died. Doctors suspect the virus sickened nine other people, including a woman who died. In the latest incidents of the A HSN1 virus, which until this year infected only birds, a 3-year-old girl was in satisfactory condition and a !-year-old boy already has recovered, according to a Health Department statement. Doctors don’t know wherethe Virus is coming from or howpeo- ple are catching it. They urge people who handle live birds, in- cluding chickens, to wash their hands, but say it is safe to eat cooked chicken and eggs. Investigators trying to deter- mine howpeople are catching the virus took about 2,000 blood samples from relatives and associates of the first victim, a 3-yearold boy who died in May, and from a control group of people who had no such contact. Results are expected Saturday. China’s State Animal and Plant Quarantine Bureau said fection had been found in chickens headed for Hong Kong. However, China, which is Hong Kong’s main source of chicken, will register all poultry farms that export to Hong Kong and test for Miscounts not available With Grift Certifwate purchase influenza randomlyand at fixed times. Chinaexports 75,000 chickens daily to Hong Kong. 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Although theyare usually about the political issue of the day, he occasionally uses them for patriarchal musings pening in the public conscience, ens Tuesday as a precautionary Friday that no cases of HSN1 in- Since recovering from heart bypass surgeryearlier this year, ry that as the country merges | governments began to set up crisis teams to help families deal with “social distress.” In a column in the South China Morning Post newspaper, prominent lawyer and ex-lawmaker Margaret Ng accused the Hong Kong government ofreacting too slowlyto the health threat to avoid embarrassing China. nomically, it is losing both its moral compass andits uniquels {} Russian soul in the souls and fates of people. We have pounced from one extremity to another,” hesaid. “We have almost stopped ment of Prime Minister Lionel The Associated Press tinker with it. But in the days before the The Associated Press ing career it resurrected her popularity. Two more‘bird flu’ cases confirmed ner’ bonusin France “If they make mistakes, they feel confident they can start again,” said Yoriko Meguro, a professor at Tokyo's prestigious Sophia University. One of the media sensations of 1997 was the divorce of Japanese pop-superstar Seiko Matsuda. Instead of ending her alreadyfad- Professor Megurosaid she believes the newtrend is positive. “This has really helped change the image of divorce in Japan,” Megurosaid. “Society is coming around to the idea that people have good reasons to get divorced.” 7 rency and government plans ta evincing interest in what is hap- $500 year-end ple make their own choices. to be calm. one of the central anxieties in Russia today. Many people wor- Jobless seek persisted for centuries. 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