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Akemi Nakamura
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1999
Singapore Airlines banks on new services, alliance
Staff writer Singapore Airlines hopes to increase its share of the passenger market for travel between Japan and Singapore by upgrading in-flight services and forming an alliance of multiple carriers, says T.K. Tan, general manager of the company's Japan office. "Our strategy is to emphasize our products...
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1999
Taiwanese tourism still paralyzed by earthquake fears
Staff writer TAIPEI -- More than two months after a deadly earthquake struck Taiwan on Sept. 21, a well-paved road running through Taroko Canyon, one of the island's more popular tourist destinations, still drew little vehicle traffic. "This area didn't suffer any damage, but the occupancy rate of our...
JAPAN
Nov 26, 1999
Retailers rev up for holiday shoppers
Staff writers
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999
Efforts afoot to woo foreign tourists
Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 10, 1999
Air travel unruffled by Y2K: IATA chief
Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 1, 1999
Taxi perks aim to win back fares
Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 21, 1999
Tokyo Motor Show: GM to expand Asia-Pacific presence
Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999
ANA pins survival hopes on global alliance
Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999
Major airlines launch fare war on Skymark
Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999
Kawasaki takes on housing discrimination
Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1999
Foreign women who leave husbands have few options
Second of two parts
JAPAN
Jun 3, 1999
Immigrants: Foreign laborers attempt to organize
First of two parts
CULTURE / Art
May 16, 1999
Doors of modest home open to lessons of the past
Slide open the door to a two-story wooden house in Tokyo's Ota Ward and enter into the life of an ordinary family in the mid-Showa Era, when people lived in homes with mostly tatami rooms, wooden furniture, traditional cooking tools and fetched their water from a well.
JAPAN
May 13, 1999
Bill could enlarge temp workforce, magnify woes
Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1999
Professor brings POW drama to stage
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 31, 1999
New equal opportunity law called a start
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999
Groups seek to help victims of violence
Staff writer
JAPAN
Feb 11, 1999
Gaming fans snatch up latest Final Fantasy
Hundreds of electronic game lovers mobbed stores in Tokyo's Akihabara Thursday to snap up the latest version of Final Fantasy, a popular PlayStation computer game that went on sale in the morning.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999
Kobe facility gives quake orphans place to reach out
A black rainbow drawn by a 10-year-old boy who lost his father and sister in the Great Hanshin Earthquake four years ago has become a symbol of the psychological damage suffered by child survivors of the temblor.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 1998
Video 'magazines' to fill foreigners' news needs
Staff writer
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
Yen rally could help end crushing wage decay in Japan
Some economists say a sticky weak yen trend would have a negative impact on Japan's real wage growth.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Terunofuji, as he tends to do, returns to stamp his authority on sumo pretenders
Terunofuji (left) throws down Kirishima on Tuesday to build on his perfect record at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japanese startups advised to internationalize to get some global mojo
Entrepreneurs who participated in the Beyond Japan Zero to X program last year share their experiences in the United States during a meeting in May in Tokyo.

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