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Hisane Masaki
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BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001
WTO to approve Japan's rice tariffs as Uruguay backs down
When Japan introduced a controversial tariff scheme for its rice imports in April 1999, it was like a train departing before all passengers were on board.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2001
Election-wary government may be stalling on farm agenda
Japan appears to be bobbling a baton Canada passed to it after the world's five major economies adjourned a meeting on global agriculture trade in 1999.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2001
Domestic firms balk at Mori's IT initiative requiring investment abroad
Just seven months after Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori announced with much fanfare a $15 billion aid initiative in the area of information technology, concerns are already growing within the government that the plan may eventually fizzle out.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2001
Japan readies fresh ODA for Myanmar
Japan is considering the first large-scale official development assistance in four years for Myanmar to help relieve the impoverished Southeast Asian country's acute power-supply shortages, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2001
Japan readies fresh ODA for Myanmar
Japan is considering the first large-scale official development assistance in four years for Myanmar to help relieve the impoverished Southeast Asian country's acute power-supply shortages, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2001
Tokyo, Pyongyang in secret talks on links
Senior Foreign Ministry officials from Japan and North Korea held secret discussions in Beijing in January on restarting stalled negotiations on normalizing bilateral diplomatic ties, informed sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2001
Daisy-chain ODA project needs better connections
Japan and Brazil have plowed the field but may have forgotten to sow the seed.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2001
Tokyo, New Delhi eager to put synergy back in relations
Last week's massive earthquake in western India has thrown in doubt Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's planned official visit to Japan this month -- the first by a premier of the world's most populous democracy in nearly 13 years.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2001
Crucial oil negotiations drawing near
Japan and Kuwait are expected to open crucial negotiations as early as this spring on extending Arabian Oil Co.'s drilling rights in the Kuwait-controlled portion of the Khafji oil field.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001
Treaty to outlaw child labor to go to Diet to fend off critics
In a move aimed at warding off possible international criticism, especially from human rights groups, the government is considering submitting a key treaty banning the worst forms of child labor to the current ordinary Diet session for ratification, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001
Treaty to outlaw child labor to go to Diet to fend off critics
In a move aimed at warding off possible international criticism, especially from human rights groups, the government is considering submitting a key treaty banning the worst forms of child labor to the current ordinary Diet session for ratification, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2001
Umbrella Group delays strategy session
Secret talks among top environmental negotiators from the so-called Umbrella Group of industrialized countries, originally scheduled for mid-February in New Zealand, have been postponed until some time in the latter half of March, informed sources said Sunday.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2001
Estrada may not get invitation to Japan
The embattled Philippine President Joseph Estrada's abrupt announcement Friday night to resign later this year has forced Tokyo to rewrite its diplomatic calendar.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2001
Brazilian residents' problems addressed
The government appears to be ready to throw everything behind a belated effort to address the increasingly serious problems Japan's approximately 230,000 Brazilian residents face in areas including education, social welfare and working conditions.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2001
Li Peng to visit Japan as early as April
China's No. 2 man Li Peng may visit Japan in the spring as part of bilateral efforts to secure medium- and long-term stability in the often prickly relations between the two nations, informed sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2001
Japan tries to get economic ball rolling without U.S.
Japan is taking its first specific initiative in getting a still embryonic -- but potentially gargantuan -- economic forum of East Asian and Latin American countries grow smoothly.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2001
G8 representatives to meet in Tokyo over cybercrime
Senior government officials and private corporate executives of the Group of Eight major countries will meet in Tokyo in late May to discuss a possible joint strategy toward fighting high-tech crime, especially cybercrime, government sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2001
Japan tries new tack in stalemated WTO round
Japan is taking the initiative in getting the much-vaunted global machine of trade liberalization up and running again after it stalled more than a year ago.
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2000
Fresh from ODA victory over Kamei, Mori turns to IT aid initiative
Fresh from surviving a hard-fought battle against political pressure for Draconian cuts in its foreign-aid budget, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's government is stepping up efforts to implement his $15 billion aid initiative in the area of information technology.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2000
Non-EU nations circle wagons on climate
Top environmental negotiators from Japan, the United States and eight other non-European Union industrialized countries will hold secret talks in New Zealand in the middle of February, informed sources said Thursday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.

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