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COMMENTARY
Apr 23, 2001

Textbook serves Japan poorly

A junior high-school history textbook edited under the direction of a nationalist group, the Japanese Society for Textbook Reform, continues to stir controversy both here and abroad. The textbook recently received the green light from the Education and Science Ministry after the editors accepted all...
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Taiwan's Lee arrives in Japan for checkup

OSAKA -- Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui arrived in Japan on Sunday evening for a five-day stay to have a medical checkup, a visit that China says will be met with a "necessary reaction."
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

E-mail pals nabbed for stealing 500,000 yen in Okinawa

A pair of men who apparently met two weeks ago on the Internet were arrested Sunday for stealing 500,000 yen from a coffee shop in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, after threatening an employee with a knife, police said Sunday.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Emergency agricultural import curbs invoked

Japan will invoke a temporary emergency import curb today on three agricultural products, mainly from China, marking the first time Japan has invoked such measures under the ordinary safeguard mechanism of the World Trade Organization.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Koizumi poised to clinch poll, prime ministership

Former Health and Welfare Minister Junichiro Koizumi was running far ahead of his main competitor, former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, in the LDP presidential primaries Sunday, virtually assuring his victory to replace Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

FTC asked to probe NTT marketing tactics

A Japan-based affiliate of British telecommunications giant Cable & Wireless PLC has asked the Fair Trade Commission to probe sales practices by Japan's dominant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone group over the Myline service for registering preferred carriers.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Virtual-reality therapy launched

The National Cancer Center Hospital is introducing a virtual-reality exposure therapy to ease cancer patients' pain and nausea, according to hospital officials.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Matsubara wins second term in Nagoya mayoral race

NAGOYA -- Nagoya Mayor Takehisa Matsubara defeated two independent candidates in the mayoral race Sunday to win his second term in office.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 23, 2001

Kosaka blasts grand slam for Lotte

Lotte shortstop Makoto Kosaka drilled a grand slam to highlight a five-run sixth inning as Lotte climbed into first place in the Pacific League standings with an 8-1 victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes at Chiba Marine Stadium on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Apr 23, 2001

Moscow exiles a mogul with good taste

The Kremlin wins one: President Vladimir Putin's bitter critic, Media-Most media empire, is dead. Its assets have been transferred to pro-Kremlin stockholders, its journalists have been fired or silenced and its owner, Vladimir Gusinsky, is hiding abroad.
COMMENTARY
Apr 23, 2001

Signs of political upheaval on the horizon

A preliminary election tomorrow for the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party will decide how a total of 141 votes cast by representatives of the party's local blocs will be shared among the four candidates. Final results will be determined by the election in which 246 LDP Diet members will cast...
EDITORIALS
Apr 23, 2001

Minimum restraint in the Middle East

Violence flared again in the Middle East last week, with a tit-for-tat confrontation in Gaza that briefly threatened to escalate into a wider war. Although the incident ended with condemnation of Israel, both at home and abroad, for what was widely viewed as a military and diplomatic fiasco, the lesson...
MORE SPORTS
Apr 23, 2001

Shintani beats Yamashita to win women's national judo title

NAGOYA -- Tsukuba University student Midori Shintani upset Sydney Olympic bronze medalist Mayumi Yamashita in the final Sunday to capture her first title of the women's open national judo championship.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2001

Crested ibis chick valiantly attempts to hatch

NIIGATA -- A rare crested ibis chick struggling to enter the world on Sunday continued its attempts to crack its shell from the inside after poking a small hole in the shell at a preservation center on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2001

Musharraf sets his sights on illegal guns

ISLAMABAD -- Stemming the flow of thousands of illegal weapons throughout Pakistan is not an easy task, but the government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf has promised this month to do just that with its launch of an aggressive cleanup campaign.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2001

Bush may not be wrong to reject Kyoto

U.S. President George W. Bush has announced his opposition to an international global-warming treaty, citing the harm it could do the U.S. economy and the costs it would impose upon its workers. Predictably, this decision not to pursue approval of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change generated a firestorm...
MORE SPORTS
Apr 23, 2001

Japanese runners fail to impress in London marathon

LONDON -- Former national record-holder Takayuki Inubushi settled for seventh in the London marathon Sunday for Japan's best performance on a disappointing day.
EDITORIALS
Apr 22, 2001

Poetry and the people

When the poet Chaucer saw that it was April, one year in the late 1300s, he wrote cheerily about its sweet showers piercing the drought of March to the root. When T.S. Eliot saw that it was April, some five and a half centuries later, he wrote bleakly about it being the cruelest month, "breeding lilacs...
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2001

Koizumi secures early lead in LDP primaries

Reformist Junichiro Koizumi made a clean sweep of all eight primaries reporting results Saturday in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race, dramatically increasing his chances of victory Tuesday over early favorite Ryutaro Hashimoto.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2001

Lee to arrive today for heart checks

Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui was scheduled to arrive in Japan today for a five-day trip to receive medical checkups for a heart condition after Tokyo granted him an entry visa Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2001

Europe seeks a greater role in Korea

SEOUL -- Whatever their personal opinions about U.S. President George W. Bush may be, supporters and foes must agree that his foreign policy has not received good grades in European capitals.
COMMUNITY
Apr 22, 2001

Fashion cuts above and shapes to come

The offerings by over 40 designers at the recent Tokyo collections mapped out the direction for next autumn/winter: bias or asymmetrical cuts, draping and wrapping, patchwork, fringing and quilting, and lots of stripes (both vertical and horizontal).
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2001

Should the U.S. help China to get rich?

How long will the United States continue to believe that it should help China to get rich by keeping American markets open? That's the key question now that the 24 servicemen and -women from the downed U.S. surveillance aircraft have been allowed to return home. Never before has America allowed a potentially...
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2001

Ministry to promote city mergers

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry will draw up measures as early as June to promote mergers among cities, towns and villages, sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2001

Single Tokyoites lash out on entertainment, phones

Young, single Tokyoites spend 40 percent of their living expenses on food, drink and phone bills, according to a recent survey.
COMMENTARY
Apr 22, 2001

LDP must reform for the nation's good

For the past decade, the Japanese political scene has remained extremely unstable. Things have gone from bad to worse since the Liberal Democratic Party formed a coalition government. The root cause of the instability was the LDP's loss of majority status in both Houses of the Diet.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
A viral manga prediction of a July 5 disaster has gripped Japan with anxiety and triggered an economic impact, but experts warn that while such dates are unreliable, the threat of a massive earthquake remains real. 
Residents of Tokara Islands begin evacuation as seismic swarm continues
Details about evacuations from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen written on a whiteboard in the city of Kagoshima on Thursday.
U.S. military apologizes over Okinawa sexual assault case
Col. Neil Owens (right), chief of staff for the 3rd Marine Division, bows in apology at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Thursday.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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