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JAPAN
Dec 27, 2000

Tokyo prices fall by record 1%

Consumer prices in Tokyo in 2000 logged the largest decline on record, 1 percent on a preliminary basis, the central government said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 27, 2000

Lions make Matsuzaka 100 million yen man

Seibu Lions right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka became the youngest 100 million yen player in Japanese baseball Tuesday when he signed a new one-year deal with the Pacific League club.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2000

Talks begin on redrawing constituencies

A government panel has begun work toward redrawing the single-seat constituency boundaries in 10 prefectures for House of Representatives elections.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2000

Wholesalers outdo retailers

Combined sales by Japanese retailers and wholesalers rose 0.9 percent in November from a year before to 45.919 trillion yen to mark the second consecutive month of growth, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2000

Japan to spend less on environment

Japan's global commitment to environment protection will drop 0.9 percent from this year in fiscal 2001, which begins April 1, to a combined 639.9 billion yen, the Environment Agency said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2000

Common interest warms KMT-CCP ties

TAIPEI -- The reopening of the so-called three links -- trade, transportation and communication -- between Taiwan and China may still be some way off, but in the meantime it appears Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party (KMT) has sidestepped the ban and forged its own direct link with China.
LIFE / Digital
Dec 27, 2000

PlayStation2 shortage buoys up Sega

Sega started off on the wrong foot when it launched its 128-bit Dreamcast game console in Japan Nov. 27, 1999, and has been unable to regain its balance ever since.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 27, 2000

Hot springs by the Vienna Woods

BADEN, Austria -- More than most European capitals, Vienna, which bears a rich legacy as the one-time heart of the old Austro-Hungarian empire, has enough monuments and museums (not to mention restaurants and coffee houses) to keep you hopping from morning until night.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 27, 2000

In a gray concrete world, a city of beautiful churches

GRODNO, Belarus Most Belarusian cities get a bad press, at least for good looks, in foreign guidebooks. Polatsk is notable for "what was once there," Mogilev is decidedly "uninspiring," Homel's biggest drawing card is a bust of its most famous son, the late Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and...
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Number of temporary workers up 19% in 1999

The number of temporary workers in Japan surged 19.3 percent in fiscal 1999 from a year earlier to 1,067,949, according to the Labor Ministry.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Teen in shop-bombing faces charge of attempted murder

Police on Monday served a fresh arrest warrant on a 17-year-old boy from Tochigi Prefecture arrested earlier this month over an explosion caused by a homemade bomb at a video shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, suspecting him of attempted murder.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2000

Honda to surpass Nissan in domestic sales

Honda Motor Co. is likely to surpass Nissan Motor Co. to become the second largest automaker in terms of domestic sales this year for the first time since its establishment in 1948, according to reports released Monday by the automakers.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Nippon Mitsubishi, Teikoku in gas venture

Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corp. and Teikoku Oil Co. have agreed to form a joint venture to retail natural gas in Japan, the two firms announced Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2000

South Korean co-ops look to July merger

Nineteen credit cooperatives run by ethnic South Koreans in Japan signed a basic agreement on Monday to merge toward the formation of a bank that would begin operating in July.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2000

U.S. policy-shift sparks stock market rally

Favorable U.S. monetary policy news has sparked a massive stock market rally in New York and elsewhere.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Lotte tax evasion, 200 million yen fine

Major Tokyo-based confectionery maker Lotte Co. has been ordered to pay an estimated 200 million yen in penalties and back taxes for bookkeeping errors and failing to properly declare income in the four years to May 1998, industry sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

More redress proposed for crime victims

A National Police Agency panel on Monday recommended a steep rise in payments by the government to people victimized by crime and to the next of kin of those killed.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2000

Debit card venture set for debut

Eleven major firms and banks -- including Sony Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Sakura Bank and Toyota Motor Corp. -- announced Monday that they will set up a joint venture next month to provide a prepaid electronic money service in an effort to realize a cashless society in Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Foot cultists ordered to pay 150 million yen

The Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered top leaders of Honohana Sampogyo to pay 150 million yen in damages to 31 people who accused the cult of conning them into contributing huge sums of money in the name of religious training.
EDITORIALS
Dec 26, 2000

Take it easy, Mr. Clinton

U.S. President Bill Clinton does not seem to know the meaning of the phrase "lame duck." Although his successor will be sworn into office in less than a month, Mr. Clinton is pursuing a flurry of initiatives more worthy of a man taking office, rather than one packing his bags to go. His intentions may...
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2000

Oji group to combine sales of cardboard

Oji Paper Co. said Monday that it will set up a joint firm with three of its group companies to integrate sales of corrugated cardboard components and improve delivery times.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Breeder raided over monkey sales

Officials in Gifu and Kumamoto prefectures suspect that Japanese monkeys are being bred and sold to researchers by firms that lack proper authorization.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 26, 2000

Giants open vault for MVP Matsui

The Yomiuri Giants on Monday signed slugger Hideki Matsui to a new one-year contract that made him only the third 500 million yen player in Japanese baseball history.
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.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Kyoto University researchers find mechanism behind malignant pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in Japan, has the lowest five-year survival rate of any cancer at just 8.5%.
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.
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.
Behind the scenes: Inside Fuji Rock’s strategy for staying on top
In recent years, Fuji Rock has had fewer blockbuster performers and showcased more top-selling Japanese acts and international musicians' first-time performances in Japan.
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.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.

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