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JAPAN

Feb 23, 2001

Missing U.S. kids' safety bemoaned

It was a routine visit for Tokyo metropolitan child-care officials when they checked on five American children early this month. Only this time, the Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, apartment where they had been living since November was empty.

JAPAN

Feb 11, 2001

Electric Town has its red lights, too

Shinichi, a 33-year-old photographer, has dated more than 500 women in the past three years.

JAPAN

Feb 11, 2001

Electric Town has its red lights, too

Shinichi, a 33-year-old photographer, has dated more than 500 women in the past three years.

BUSINESS

Feb 10, 2001

Package not a quick fix for share prices

The package of measures to boost Japan's sagging share prices that was unveiled Friday by the ruling coalition may not be a perfect remedy, but it has brought a sense of relief to concerned analysts and market watchers.

JAPAN

Jan 14, 2001

Thai firms must lead reform

KOBE -- The Thai government should encourage Thailand's private sector to forward financial reform rather than create a national corporation to help banks out of the mire of massive bad loans, Thai Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda said Saturday.

JAPAN

Jan 5, 2001

Changing diet brings rising food concerns

The traditional Japanese diet of rice, grilled fish and vegetables has long been heralded as among the healthiest a culture has produced -- just witness Japan's long life spans.

BUSINESS

Jan 1, 2001

Economy expected to limp toward recovery

The consensus among economists at private think tanks is that the economy will continue to grow, albeit slowly, for the remaining three months of fiscal 2000 and through the next fiscal year.

BUSINESS

Dec 28, 2000

Online brokerage sure of success despite late entry

Tokyo-Mitsubishi TD Waterhouse Securities Co. was late to establish its online discount brokerage operations in Japan. When the joint venture between Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and discount brokerage TD Waterhouse Group of the United States began accepting accounts in July, several major players had already...

BUSINESS / CABINET INTERVIEW

Dec 7, 2000

FRC chief firm on payoff plan

Having returned to head the Financial Reconstruction Commission, Hakuo Yanagisawa on Wednesday emphatically ruled out the possibility of an extension to a controversial payoff plan.

JAPAN

Oct 22, 2000

Market stirs echoes of Komagome's past

The name Komagome, which literally means "horse inside," is believed to have derived from the fields and stables where livestock was kept.

BUSINESS

Sep 29, 2000

Mizuho has big goals -- and hurdles

The Mizuho Financial Group, the world's biggest financial empire in terms of assets, takes shape today, integrating Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan under a newly created holding company.

JAPAN

Sep 5, 2000

Miyake schoolchildren get fresh start in western Tokyo

Schoolchildren from Miyake Island began the new school term Monday at Akikawa High School in Akiruno, western Tokyo, where all 356 of the young evacuees are staying in dorms.

JAPAN

Sep 1, 2000

Evacuees put on happy face

The children carried clean clothes, some snacks, textbooks and video games -- all hastily packed under the shadow of an 8,000-meter pillar of smoke rising above Mount Oyama on Miyake Island.

JAPAN

Aug 31, 2000

Pupils evacuated from Miyake settle in at west Tokyo school

Schoolchildren evacuated from Miyake Island arrived Wednesday afternoon at a school in western Tokyo that will be their temporary home shortly after an evacuation order was issued for all parts of the volcanic island.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2000

Amerasian kids get short shrift in divorce capital of Japan

Staff writer GINOWAN, Okinawa Pref. -- After dropping out of junior high school here, Steve Oakley, 16, spent all his time at home because it was the only place he would be understood.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2000

T-shirts keeping traditional Miyako tattoos alive

GINOWAN, Okinawa Pref. -- "She lies with her arms folded, in peace / Where blue are the marks of fidelity"

JAPAN

Jul 18, 2000

Okinawa dialects are taking on new sounds

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. -- For goodbyes, Okinawans no longer say "anayagabu sabira" -- Ryukyuan for "I pray for your happiness." They sing it.

JAPAN

Jul 17, 2000

Animistic rituals run deep in Okinawa

KUDAKA ISLAND, Okinawa Pref. -- When the gods arrived by boat at the Okinawan islands during the fourth and ninth months of the Chinese calendar, they first set foot on the shores of Ishiki Beach, say residents of Kudaka Island.

JAPAN

May 21, 2000

Ishihara calls Jiang a 'Chinese Hitler'

TAIPEI -- In yet another invective directed at China, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Saturday said China's Jiang Zemin would be like Adolf Hitler should he attempt to unify Taiwan and the mainland by military force.

JAPAN

May 21, 2000

Chen seen as good for business, too

TAIPEI -- Tai Ya-Chang has just one word on his name card: "Taiwanese."

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Things may look perfect to the outside world, but today's mom is fine with some imperfection at home.

How 'Reiwa moms' are reshaping motherhood in Japan

By Mai Yoshikawa

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