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ENVIRONMENT
Feb 22, 2001

Fukuoka's waterfront looks west again

FUKUOKA -- Fukuoka Harbor's public foreshores grew again last October with the opening of a new designer outlet and shopping mall, Marinoa City Pier Walk, in the city's west.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2001

New ANA chief paving way for next generation

All Nippon Airways Co. said Wednesday that Senior Executive Vice President Yoji Ohashi, 61, will be promoted to president on April 1.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Feb 22, 2001

Heart and soul of sake in the breweries of Nara

Nara Prefecture can easily be considered the historical heartland of sake. Far more than any other prefecture, historically and culturally, Nara is an extremely significant sake-brewing locale.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 22, 2001

Interview with a hooligan

This past Thursday, 10 supporters of English soccer club Liverpool were stabbed while in Italy to watch their club take on AS Roma in a UEFA Cup clash.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Mori scoffs at suggestion that he bet on golf game

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Wednesday shrugged off suggestions that he had wagered on the round of golf he continued after learning of the sinking of the Ehime Maru, which had been struck by a U.S. submarine.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Mori scoffs at suggestion that he bet on golf game

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Wednesday shrugged off suggestions that he had wagered on the round of golf he continued after learning of the sinking of the Ehime Maru, which had been struck by a U.S. submarine.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Feb 22, 2001

Take time to savor the days of wine and oysters

Once again fate finds me back in Japan, wondering what I can enjoy eating here that I can't enjoy back in lovable Leuven, Belgium, where one can have excellent cuisine of all kinds with a glass of well-made wine for a pittance (the norm is the Belgian franc equivalent of under 1,000 yen). It's hard to...
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 22, 2001

Fuji TV inks Troussier

Japan coach Philippe Troussier has signed a contract with Fuji Television for "personal appearances" in 10 programs, which will net the Frenchman an estimated 30 million yen, informed sources revealed Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2001

Microsoft, Oki sign multimedia tieup

Oki Electric Industry Co. and the Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday they have agreed to cooperate in the development of multimedia telecommunication systems that integrate the functions of various information and telecommunication tools.
COMMUNITY
Feb 22, 2001

The gentle hands and kind hearts of Toyko Union

The panda bears are hard at it. Up to their elbows in flour, they vigorously work their wooden rolling pins, then use cookie cutters to stamp out heart shapes from the flattened dough. Soon, a sugary aroma drifts down the halls.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 22, 2001

Sticking to sophisticated yakitori

Yakitori. The term covers a multitude of chicken possibilities, ranging from smoky yatai and stand-up nomiya under the proverbial tracks all the way to plush establishments for Ginza madames where every bird on the menu is reared in free-range bliss, cooked over premium charcoal and washed down with...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Matsushita slashes fiscal 2000 projections, posts quarterly loss

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. officially revised its fiscal 2000 earnings projections Tuesday due to declining prices of personal computers and decreased demand for cellphones, company officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Ministers silent as rumor mill spins over successor to Mori

With Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori facing mounting pressure to step down, speculation swirled Tuesday over who will succeed him.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Deaf, blind academic to take post at Todai

Satoshi Fukushima, 38, will become the first blind and deaf person to teach at the University of Tokyo when he takes up his new post as an expert on welfare and barrier-free access for people with disabilities, university officials said.
COMMENTARY
Feb 21, 2001

Japan-U.S. ties: lost at sea?

LOS ANGELES -- The Japanese people are angry about a lot of things these days, not just their soggy economy. They are angry about the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fisheries ship off Hawaii. They are angry about their prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, who incredibly continued with a golf...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Miyazawa says 10% sales tax inevitable

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday that raising Japan's consumption tax rate to around 10 percent, the same level as in European nations, from the current 5 percent is inevitable in order to realize fiscal reconstruction.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2001

India's barbaric idea of school discipline

Corporal punishment has no place in a civilized society. Yet a recent High Court judgment in the southern Indian state of Kerala recently upheld the legitimacy of this method of punishing a child.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

AIG to buy operating rights of Chiyoda Mutual Life

The receiver of the failed Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co. is expected to pick American International Group Inc. to buy its operating rights.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2001

Unequal treatment in the Middle East

Beirut -- The Israelis have just elected a prime minister who, brought before the bar of international justice, would surely be judged a war criminal in the class of, say, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who is as firmly associated with the Srebrenica massacre as Gen. Ariel Sharon was with that...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Trade chief hints at curbing China towel imports

Takeo Hiranuma, chief of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, hinted Tuesday that the government would support the imposition of an emergency curb on towel imports from China to help domestic towel makers.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Cuba's foreign minister to visit in March; aid may be further away

After decades of estrangement, Japan and Cuba in recent years have warmed to each other through visits by high-level political figures. But it likely will take much longer for the sunny disposition to shine on the economic landscape.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

FSA urges banks to dispose of bad loans

The Financial Services Agency hopes to come up with a plan by the end of the fiscal year that will contain incentives to encourage banks to speedily complete disposing of nonperforming loans, Financial Affairs Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Cosmo Credit exec gets prison over dodgy loans

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday gave a four-year prison term to the former head of the failed credit union Cosmo Credit Corp. for extending illegal loans between 1992 and 1993.

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