RADIO

Stations Raise Static Over Slur: Two black-owned radio stations are boycotting new releases from Sony Corp.’s CBS Records because of a racial slur by a Japanese Cabinet minister. The boycott by WDAS-FM and WDAS-AM in Philadelphia is in retaliation for a comment made recently by Justice Minister Seiroku Kajiyama, who compared prostitutes in Tokyo to black Americans who move into white neighborhoods and force whites out. Kajiyama, who has since apologized for the slur, made the statement after watching a raid on prostitutes in a red-light district in Tokyo. Officials for the stations said older CBS releases will be played.