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BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2000

Economists question scale of extra budget

The announcement Wednesday of a fiscal 2000 supplementary budget, which is expected to surpass 10 trillion yen in total size and include 4 trillion yen in new government spending, has prompted some economists to wonder why a budget of that scale is needed now.
COMMUNITY
Sep 21, 2000

Hanae Mori's gems shine brightly

Let's begin with the keywords: graceful, feminine, sharp, inspired.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

Whaling issue not black and white

Incensed over Japan's expanded whaling program, Washington has threatened Tokyo with trade sanctions in what the media have largely portrayed as a black and white issue.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

Daiwa execs ordered to repay $775 million

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Wednesday ordered 11 former and current Daiwa Bank executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses it incurred from unauthorized bond deals by a rogue trader at its New York branch over an 11-year period beginning in 1984.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

40% of Japanese indifferent to whaling issue, survey finds

While only one in 10 Japanese say they support whaling against a slightly higher number who oppose it, nearly 40 percent appear uncommitted, according to a survey released by environmentalist groups this week.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2000

Panels approve outline of IT bill

Business leaders and Cabinet members Wednesday approved the framework of a government-proposed bill to set guidelines for Japan's strategy to facilitate social and economic changes in line with an IT revolution.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Sep 21, 2000

The healing power of ginger

This is a good time of year to bring out the ginger. As we move into autumn and the days get shorter and the air cooler, ginger is a great way to replace sunshine and summer heat and warm things up a bit. I've written about ginger before, but like a few other special classics in the botanical medicine...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 21, 2000

Japan insurance market just a phone call away

For the past several years, the insurance industry has been battered on two fronts by bad publicity. On the one hand, the collapse of almost all the major life insurance companies has been blamed on poor investment choices and even poorer management, while on the other, the spate of recent murder-for-insurance...
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

Snow Brand to ax subcontractor

OSAKA -- Snow Brand Milk Products Co. will cancel part of its outsourcing contract with an Osaka-based warehouse company by the end of September in the wake of the recent food-poisoning scandal involving the dairy firm, Snow Brand sources said.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Sep 21, 2000

Cosmetic makers target tots

While wearing your school uniform is considered the ultimate in cool, it's little wonder that the next phase is a young face full of slap. Younger and younger girls in Japan are reaching for the rouge and in response cosmetic companies are deliberately targeting teeny-boppers.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2000

MacArthur's audacious landing at Inchon astounded everyone -- except Mao

HONG KONG -- Sept. 15 was the 50th anniversary of the famous Inchon amphibious landing by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, which so decisively turned the tide of battle in the early stages of the Korean War.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

JAL, ANA, JAS share counters at Haneda, Kansai airports

OSAKA -- Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System opened shared counters Wednesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport and Osaka's Kansai airport for passengers using shuttle flights between Tokyo and Osaka.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

JCP ready to revise its 1958 constitution

Marx, Lenin face ax; SDF to get nod The Japanese Communist Party on Tuesday proposed temporarily recognizing the existence of the Self-Defense Forces and revising the party's constitution to drop a preamble that upholds Marxism-Leninism.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2000

BOJ to maintain easy money policy

The Bank of Japan will continue maintaining an easy monetary policy following the lifting of its "zero-interest-rate" policy last month, BOJ Gov. Masaru Hayami said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

Boat license class offered in English

The Tokyo Sail and Power Squadron is holding a series of classes in English to prepare individuals for registering as well as taking both the written and underway examination for the Class IV boating license.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2000

Credit guarantees to be expanded

The government will expand the maximum amount of credit guarantee to smaller businesses lacking collateral from the current 50 million yen to 80 million yen, International Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma announced Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

Kawada's mother to run for Lower House seat

Human rights activist Etsuko Kawada, the mother of an outspoken HIV-infected man who contracted the virus through tainted blood coagulants, announced Tuesday her decision to run for the House of Representatives seat of Joji Yamamoto in the Oct. 22 by-election in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

Flood of Chinese tourists expected

Tourism promoters backing the first authorized Chinese package tour to Japan say they foresee 1 million people from Beijing, Shanghai and other parts of China visiting each year.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

Cabinet endorses salary cut for government workers

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday endorsed a salary cut for government workers for fiscal 2000 as recommended by the National Personnel Authority, the second such reduction in two years.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2000

10 trillion yen urged for extra budget

Ruling coalition policymakers on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to draw up a supplementary budget totaling more than 10 trillion yen, including some 3.9 trillion yen to be taken from state coffers for direct fiscal spending.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2000

Designers of Games capes under wraps

"It was top secret," one Japanese delegation official said of the colorful capes worn by the country's athletes and officials in the Sydney Olympics' opening ceremony last week.
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback
“As the first party in parliament, we have to fulfill our responsibility with the public so as to prevent politics from stagnating or drifting away,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a news conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback
“As the first party in parliament, we have to fulfill our responsibility with the public so as to prevent politics from stagnating or drifting away,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a news conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.

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