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JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Tokyo, Riyadh to sign deal on seat for Saudi Arabia at WTO

Staff writer Japan and Saudi Arabia are very likely to conclude a deal by next month on the oil-rich country's admission to the World Trade Organization, government sources said Tuesday. The agreement would be the first of its kind between Saudi Arabia and a major industrialized nation, the sources...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

0.7% service sector fall

Activity in the nation's service sector slipped 0.7 percent in October from the previous month, due to a temporary slump in mobile telecommunications as well as sluggishness in the transportation and power industries caused by a drop in industrial production, according to a preliminary report issued...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Citizens tout proof U.S. base in mid-Tokyo is trespassing

Citizens demanding the return of a U.S. base in central Tokyo cited a written agreement Monday that they claim proves the heliport section of the compound is trespassing on Japanese soil. The Executive Committee for the Removal of the Azabu Heliport released a statement on an accord regarding the 4,300-sq.-meter...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Jury system for criminal trials urged

Second of three partsStaff writer Lawyers and other experts are calling for introduction of a jury system for criminal trials, arguing that it would change not only the makeup of the bench, which is exclusively run by legal professionals, but also the Japanese mind-set. "If the system is successfully...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

High court nixes redress suit

Korean conscripts' demand for compensation denied b The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit by 189 Koreans demanding that the government officially apologize and pay each of them between 30 million yen and 50 million yen in damages for their suffering after...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

JCO worker Ouchi dies of heart failure

One of the three workers exposed to high doses of radiation in late September in Japan's worst nuclear accident died at 11.21 p.m. Tuesday night, 83 days after the accident. Hisashi Ouchi, 35, had been in a critical condition since Monday and eventually died of heart failure. Ouchi's doctors at the...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Honda and GM reach engine cooperation deal

Honda Motor Co. has agreed with U.S. General Motors Corp. to form a cooperative partnership which includes the mutual supply of engines, Honda President Hiroyuki Yoshino announced Tuesday. At the same time, Yoshino stressed that the agreement framework does not include capital partnership with GM and...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

FRC backs plan to end protection for depositors

The Financial Reconstruction Commission agreed Tuesday that it is better to go ahead with a plan to end government protection for all bank deposits on March 31, 2001, rather than postponing it. FRC Chairman Michio Ochi, who is also a state minister, detailed his position as the ruling coalition struggles...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Sanwa Bank to enter consumer loan turf

Sanwa Bank will enter the consumer loan business by setting up a joint venture with two consumer finance firms, Promise Co. and Aplus Co., according to the bank. The joint venture, capitalized at 10 billion yen, will be set up April 1 and will start operations later in the year, Sanwa officials said...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Obuchi to hear Pacific island voices before G8

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi announced Tuesday that Japan will hold a meeting of leaders of Pacific island nations April 22 in Miyazaki as part of efforts to reflect viewpoints in the region on the upcoming Group of Eight summit in Okinawa this July.
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Aum gives trustee funds for redress

Aum Shinrikyo has used some of the money it earned from the sale of a number of premises in the town of Kiso-Fukushima, Nagano Prefecture, to compensate victims of crimes the cult has been accused of, the cult's bankruptcy administrator said Tuesday. Administrator Saburo Abe told a news conference Tuesday...
JAPAN
Dec 21, 1999

Gov. Yokoyama resigns before indictment

OSAKA -- Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama was indicted Tuesday on charges of molesting a female campaign aide. The indictment followed a letter of resignation that he had submitted from his hospital bed to the prefectural assembly earlier in the day. The Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office indicted...
EDITORIALS
Dec 20, 1999

Less-than-inspiring politics

The extraordinary Diet session that ended Thursday brought to the fore the simmering discord within the tripartite ruling coalition. The Liberal Party threatened to quit the coalition because a bill to slim down the Lower House, which was one of the conditions for the party's joining the coalition, was...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 1999

A diplomatic 'paper tiger'?

In recent years, we have seen active debate on Japan's sanctions-based diplomacy. Discussions focused on the justifications for and effects of sanctions, as well as changes in the balance of power resulting from the lifting of such measures. The lifting of sanctions against North Korea Dec. 14 renewed...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 1999

No shortage of challenges for Musharraf

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's new military regime led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf is eager to demonstrate that its decision to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on trial on charges of attempted murder and kidnapping is not necessarily driven by malicious intent. If convicted, Sharif could be sentenced to...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Nonutilities get guidelines for power retail

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Fair Trade Commission released joint guidelines Monday to regulate nonutility firms as they enter the nation's electric power retail market. The move is in line with the revised Electricity Enterprise Act, which will take effect on March 21. Under...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

LDP mulls redress for Korean vets

The Liberal Democratic Party was to begin drawing up a plan Monday to compensate permanent South Korean residents of Japan who worked under the Imperial Japanese forces but are ineligible for pensions because they are no longer Japanese citizens. LDP sources said Sunday that the party was leaning toward...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Tiger trade crackdown set for OK

The Cabinet is poised to approve today a revision of the Law for the Conservation of Endangered Species to ban trade in tiger parts. Under pressure from domestic and international nongovernmental organizations over the large amount of tiger- derived products in Japan, the government inked a revision...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Man admits killing pilot in skyjacking

Yuji Nishizawa, 29, admitted Monday before the Tokyo District Court that he hijacked an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet and stabbed its captain to death in July. In his opening statements, Nishizawa's lawyer argued that Nishizawa could not be held accountable for the charges, claiming he was insane at...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Sanwa to enter the consumer loan arena

Sanwa Bank announced Monday it will enter the consumer loan business by setting up a joint venture with two consumer finance firms, Promise Co. and Aplus Co. The joint venture, capitalized at 10 billion yen, will be set up April 1 and will start operations later in the year, Sanwa officials said. Sanwa...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 1999

European rule comes to an end in Asia

CANBERRA -- Macau presents the last outpost of European colonial empire remaining anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region. Apart from Hawaii, now a state of the United States, and leaving aside Australia and New Zealand, no other territory in the Asia-Pacific region will be held or ruled by a European state...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

'Zaito' funds slashed to 42.9 trillion yen

The Cabinet approved a draft Monday for a fiscal investment and loan program for fiscal 2000 worth 42.9 trillion yen, down 18.7 percent from the current year. The decrease in the scale of the so-called zaito program is the biggest ever. The drop is in preparation for the government's plan to overhaul...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

MITI mulls taking steel gripe to WTO

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry may pursue Japan's steel-trade dispute with the United States at the World Trade Organization, a MITI official Monday quoted trade chief Takashi Fukaya as telling the Japanese steel industry. During an hourlong meeting with representatives of the industry,...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

No-redress rulings upheld

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld lower court rulings that dismissed claims made by former Koreans imprisoned for war crimes after World War II and a relative of a Korean member executed after the war. The former members of the Imperial Japanese Army were tried by the Allied powers and classified as...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Citizens tout proof that U.S. base is trespassing

Citizens demanding the return of a U.S. base in central Tokyo cited a written agreement Monday that they claim proves the heliport section of the compound is trespassing on Japanese soil. The Executive Committee for the Removal of the Azabu Heliport released a statement on an agreement regarding the...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Yakult exec in tax dodge hid 140 million yen

The former vice president of lactic drink maker Yakult Honsha Co., arrested on suspicion of tax evasion, had some 140 million yen hidden in a bank account in Singapore as of the end of September, sources revealed. Last spring, Naoki Kumagai, 69, was ordered by tax authorities to pay about 100 million...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

LDP, state seeking 300 more bank inspectors

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party plan to budget for 300 more banking inspectors in fiscal 2000, which begins next April. The expansion is planned in conformity with a shift, scheduled in April, of the inspection and supervision authorities of credit cooperatives from prefectural...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Juvenile offenses fall but serious crimes increase

The number of offenses committed by juveniles between January and November decreased for the first time in four years, but the number of youngsters involved in felonies increased slightly to more than 2,000 from the same period last year, according to a National Police Agency report released Monday. The...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Pachinko manager stabbed in heist

Investigators are looking for two men who allegedly broke into a pachinko parlor office in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Monday morning and stabbed the manager before making off with about 20 million yen in cash, police said. According to police, the pair broke into the office, located in a building near JR...
JAPAN
Dec 20, 1999

Time running out for 'Knock' as opinion turns against him

Staff writer OSAKA -- The game may finally be up for Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama. Monday's search of his offices by the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office in connection with a criminal complaint filed against the governor by a 21-year-old female university student, who accused Yokoyama of groping...
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
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.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
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.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.
A furever friend: Tips for responsible dog ownership in Japan
Dog ownership may seem daunting in Japan, but with the right tools and logistical knowledge, you can ensure a healthy, happy life for your pet.
Ainu land rights in crosshairs as Hokkaido communities debate nuclear waste
A street in Suttsu, Hokkaido, with a sign put up by an anti-nuclear organization. The small community is considering hosting a facility that would hold nuclear waste.
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."

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