51.   Financial difficulties drove three Japanese businessmen to commit suicide Thursday in separate rooms of a suburban Tokyo hotel where they checked in together, police said.

52.   Financial troubles also led three Japanese businessmen to hang themselves in a hotel in February.

53.   Harry, a Japanese businessman working in Bangkok, has also got a slight case of Titanic fever.

54.   He assured the Japanese businessmen that Britain could still act as a gateway to the European Union even though it would initially stay outside the unified currency system.

55.   Hostages include two Peruvian Cabinet ministers, police generals and members of the Supreme Court, and dozens of Japanese businessmen.

56.   In a bid to promote foreign investment, the government will increase opportunities for Japanese businessmen to meet with prospective foreign investors.

57.   In an unrelated incident Wednesday, assailants with knives attacked two Japanese businessmen in a taxi, killing one and injuring the other.

58.   In addition to the Japanese ambassador, a number of Japanese businessmen are being held in the residence.

59.   Japan is poised to become the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam, once Hanoi simplifies its approval process and strengthens its laws, Japanese businessmen said Wednesday.

60.   Japanese businessman forms new airline promising lower fares.