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JAPAN

Dec 28, 1999

Miyazawa hits state's dependency on debt

The government must begin fiscal reconstruction to tackle the debt-dependent situation once the economy begins to recover, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday. The reforms should include tax overhauls and local government reforms, Miyazawa said in his final news conference for the year. The...

JAPAN

Dec 28, 1999

Oil rights talks stumble again over rail request

Tokyo and Riyadh have failed to narrow their differences in their latest negotiations over the renewal of Arabian Oil Co.'s drilling rights in a major Saudi Arabian oil field, International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya said Tuesday. Fukaya made the remark in reference to a two-day governmental...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Nikko unifies, sweetens starting salaries

Nikko Securities Co. will introduce a new fixed salary system next spring to offer a unified monthly wage of 300,000 yen to all nonmanagement workers, company sources said. At the same time, the brokerage will determine bonuses based strictly on individual workers' performance, the sources said Sunday....

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Man denies intent to murder Gifu sports instructor

NAGOYA -- A man who allegedly murdered and dismembered a 26-year-old female sports instructor from Gifu Prefecture denied any intent to kill the victim at his first court hearing held Monday. Yosuke Yamashita, 22, of Nagoya has been charged with murdering his former girlfriend Chika Fukuda from the...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Ajisaka to make another run for Osaka governor

OSAKA -- Makoto Ajisaka, a 66-year-old professor emeritus at Kansai University, formally announced his candidacy for the Feb. 6 Osaka gubernatorial election on Monday, saying that he wanted to wipe out the shame brought on the prefecture by outgoing Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama, who stepped down due to a sex...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Quality of Japanese testes unchanged, agency finds

There has been no significant decrease in the quality of sperm nor the weight of Japanese men's testes over the last two decades, according to the nation's most comprehensive survey on dioxin levels in humans and wildlife. The survey, conducted by the Environment agency and released Monday, was conducted...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Agency requests Aum be put under its watch

The Public Security Investigation Agency requested Monday that the Public Security Examination Commission consider whether religious cult Aum Shinrikyo can be placed under the agency's surveillance. The request came on the same day that new legislation enabling the agency to regularly supervise or restrict...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Illegal Iranians ask for permission to stay

Five Iranian families who have overstayed their visas visited the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Monday to ask the justice minister for special permission to live in Japan. The 17 people, including seven minors, said they made the request either because they have children...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Nuclear plant jobs lure unwitting day laborers

By Sumiko Oshima

Staff writer The death last week of a JCO Co. employee who on Sept. 30 was working at the scene of Japan's worst nuclear accident, reminded the nation of the health consequences of an atomic accident. According to Yuko Fujita, associate professor of physics at Keio University, accidents like the one...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

Court backs ruling refusing pension for Korean war veteran

The Tokyo High Court on Monday upheld a lower court decision that dismissed a claim from a South Korean man demanding that the government give him a pension because he fought for Japan during the war. Kim Song Su, 75, who lives in Pusan, South Korea, said that although he lost an arm fighting in Burma,...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

'Knock' resignation accepted; retirement pay not

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Assembly on Monday unanimously accepted the resignation of Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama, who was charged last week with molesting a female campaign worker. A gubernatorial by-election will be held Feb. 6. Yokoyama tendered his letter of resignation to the assembly last Tuesday...

JAPAN

Dec 27, 1999

MSA and MSDF form action plan against rogue ships

The nation's two maritime authorities agreed on a joint action plan on Monday to deal with rogue vessels that violate Japanese waters. The joint plan, in the form of a manual, was drawn up as part of a review of a chase in the Sea of Japan in March in which Maritime Safety Agency patrol boats and Maritime...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.

A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan

By Hanako Lowry

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