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JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Japanese bankers jump ship for foreign investment firms

Last year, a steady stream of executives, traders and analysts poured out of Japan's banking system to join foreign investment banks.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Mori-Putin summit expectations low

After failing to meet the end-of-2000 target for resolving a territorial dispute and signing a peace treaty, Japan and Russia will hold their first summit this year in Russia's Irkutsk on Sunday, during which Japan hopes to set a future direction for resolving the decades-old row.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Japanese shortwave services fading out in cyberspace age

For Michiteru Takagi, 76, Sunday will signal the end of a daily ritual he has practiced for 42 years.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2001

Sharp adopts Java for PDA series

Sharp Corp. said Friday it has adopted the Java programming language for its personal digital assistants, mobile phones and other electronics gadgets with telecommunications functions.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 24, 2001

Ukiyo-e reflects turn of century mood changes across Japan

The Meiji Era is considered to mark one of the low points of ukiyo-e, Japan's distinctive art of woodblock prints. This, however, is not apparent from the current exhibition at the Ota Memorial Museum.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Owing 980 billion yen, Tokyo Mutual fails

In the insurance industry's fifth failure in fiscal 2000, midtier insurer Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. filed for court protection from its creditors Friday after it was denied capital assistance from its main bank, Daiwa Bank.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Mar 24, 2001

Jagged little pots dictating form

Asia week had New York City awash with auctions, gallery openings and lectures. Two major auction houses had Japanese art on the block, and five Kyoto potters were exhibiting at the Barry Friedman Gallery in an exhibition organized by Joan Mirviss.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Minority suffrage bill gets a nudge

Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, secretary general of New Komeito and a strong advocate of a controversial bill to grant suffrage to ethnic minorities, on Friday urged Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to start deliberations on the bill after the fiscal 2001 budget clears the Diet.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Koga urges limits on LDP election

Makoto Koga, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, indicated Friday that the party presidential election to choose a successor to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori widely expected next month, should only involve Diet members and representatives of the party's local chapters.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 24, 2001

Tokuyama to defend belt in Seoul

OSAKA -- Champion Masamori Tokuyama will fight Cho In Joo of South Korea in Seoul for the World Boxing Council super-flyweight title, Hideo Kanazawa, head of the gym where the champion trains, said Friday. Kanazawa named the South Korean capital the venue for the May 20 fight a day after revealing that...
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 24, 2001

Honor through death for the 47

"Chushingura (The 47 Loyal Retainers)," the most famous kabuki play on thetheme of revenge, is being staged at Tokyo's Shinbashi Enbujo Theater this month.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2001

Daiwa 8 billion yen short as Tokyo Mutual fails

OSAKA -- Daiwa Bank said Friday that it expects to post unconsolidated net losses of 8 billion yen for fiscal 2000, which ends March 31, due to unrecoverable funds extended to the failed Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Book, CD prices to stay fixed

The Fair Trade Commission concluded Friday that the current fixed-price system for copyrighted items such as books, newspapers and CDs should continue.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 24, 2001

Art without frontiers that speaks to the soul

It is so easy to fail in abstract art, and so difficult to succeed in calligraphy.Yet Toko Shinoda has the rare ability to fuse both forms of expression, in paintings that strike to the heart. Her work may be severe, intense and personal, but it is not inscrutable. Rather, it is poetic, and speaks of...
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2001

Chip makers to make 20% cut in capital outlays

Five major Japanese semiconductor makers are expected to reduce their combined capital investment by around 20 percent in fiscal 2001 due to uncertainty over demand for information technology products, industry sources said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2001

Indian politicians bought for a few good lakhs

NEW DELHI -- Time was when India's politicians never tired of bragging about their country's Internet revolution. But what happened the other week must have stopped them in their tracks and got them wondering whether such development was good for their political games and intrigues.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

DoCoMo to let other ISPs into i-mode

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to let i-mode customers dial up Internet service providers other than NTT by spring 2003, company sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Land prices seal decade of decline by falling 4.9%

Land prices in Japan declined by an average of 4.9 percent in the year to Jan. 1, falling for the 10th consecutive year amid the nation's prolonged economic slump, the Land Ministry said in a report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Imports to be curbed via quarantine crackdown

In an effort to curtail surging vegetable imports to Japan, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry will effectively introduce curbs on the volume of products that are permitted to clear quarantine, ministry sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Profit-taking puts Nikkei in nosedive back under 13,000

A wave of profit-taking sent Tokyo share prices reeling Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 23, 2001

The Ichiro effect: What will star's departure mean for Japan baseball?

Much has been made over the past few months of former Orix BlueWave superstar Ichiro Suzuki leaving Japan and going to play for the Seattle Mariners. However, one aspect of Ichiro's big move has drawn little attention -- how will it affect Japanese baseball?
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

2001 budget set to clear Diet Monday

The ruling and opposition parties agreed Thursday to vote Monday on the fiscal 2001 budget both at the House of Councilors Budget Committee and during the chamber's plenary session, making it certain the budget will pass the Diet before the April 1 start of the new fiscal year.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

C&W considers buying local Internet provider

British telecommunications firm Cable & Wireless PLC is considering acquiring Internet Initiative Japan Inc., sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Hong Kong beckons Japan firms

Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa on Thursday urged more Japanese companies to use the city as a business base in China, with greater opportunity expected after China enters the World Trade Organization.
CULTURE / Film
Mar 23, 2001

Ins and outs of postfeminist theory

Annabel Chong may not be a household name, but her claim to fame is quick and to the point: This porno actress grabbed a world record in 1995 by shagging 251 men in just under 10 hours.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2001

Conference members seeking strong economic leadership

Although Japan knows it should carry out structural reforms and stimulate domestic demand to get out of its protracted economic slump, it is still waiting for someone to take the initiative and actually do something.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Hayami lauds BOJ's strategy

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami said Thursday that the central bank's policy of fighting deflation by implementing credit-easing measures when necessary has been effective thus far.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 23, 2001

How diplomats express Japan

An Australian diplomat found modern Japanese weddings exciting and representing of the adaptability of the nation's culture, while a British participant described how much he loves "onsen" hot springs. And both did so in smooth Japanese.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
At LDP’s post-election meeting, calls intensify for Ishiba’s resignation
Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba, flanked by LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama (left) and LDP Vice President Yoshihide Suga, speaks at a meeting of party lawmakers and executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Why Ishiba refuses to quit even amid intense pressure for him to go
Supporters of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a rally across the street from the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Vietnamese technical intern arrested over Saga murder
Saga Prefectural Police officials speak during a news conference held in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture, early Monday following the arrest of a Vietnamese man a day earlier on suspicion of murder.
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
Japan and NATO to launch defense-industrial talks, top envoy says
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte looks at military equipment on the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami stealth frigate during a visit to the MSDF's naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April.
‘Killer satellites’ beware: Japan unveils first space defense guidelines
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks to reporters during a visit to the Air Self-Defense Force's Space Situation Awareness radar in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Monday.
Three decades and a pile of notebooks: The beat writer who chronicled Ichiro’s career
Reporters and photographers, including long-time baseball beat writer Keizo Konishi, swarm around Ichiro Suzuki during the World Baseball Classic in San Diego in 2009.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.

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