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JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

New school violence trend soars

Random acts of student violence in public schools inflicted on teachers, classmates and school property soared to 29,685 reported incidents in the 1998 school year, representing a 25.7 percent rise from the previous year, according to an Education Ministry summary released Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Northerly system delivers unusual weather

The Pacific high-pressure system that usually covers the Japanese archipelago during the summer season inclined to the north during the first half of August, heating up northern and eastern Japan and unleashing rain on the southern and western regions, according to the Meteorological Agency.
COMMENTARY
Aug 13, 1999

Ozawa's future appears bleak

Japan is engulfed in severe political turmoil as the Diet session closes today. Things have turned out as I have been predicting since last fall regarding the coalition strategies of Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka, the chief strategist in Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's administration.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Ministry vows effort to aid duped emigrants

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on Friday pledged his effort to provide part of the ministry's fiscal 2000 budget for aged Japanese who emigrated to the Dominican Republic four decades ago.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Obuchi announces LDP re-election bid

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Friday declared his bid for re-election as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, while two other contenders -- Koichi Kato and Taku Yamasaki -- also announced their candidacies.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Hinomaru makes 'auspicious' debut in press clubs

A pristine Hinomaru flag adorned a corner of the Foreign Ministry press briefing room Friday, the day a law officially recognizing it as the national flag took effect.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

93% oppose Kobe airport in straw poll

KOBE -- A local citizens' group announced Thursday evening that more than 90 percent of nearly 278,000 people polled in and around Kobe oppose construction of an airport in the city.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Pile of bad, yakuza-tied debts awaits new RCC chief

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 13, 1999

Cabinet OKs antimissile study with U.S.

The Cabinet gave its final endorsement Friday to initiate joint technical research for a U.S-proposed ballistic missile program, Defense Agency chief Hosei Norota said.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Aug 13, 1999

Fuji Rock Underworld more than a Blur

Big bag of cheese 'n' mushroom sandwiches: yummy. Bottle of tequila: check. Crate of Yebisu beer: yup. Jump in the Devilmobile and find the city seems to never end, but after three hours on petrol and beer our ears are popping as we spiral up the backside of a mountain near Naeba in Niigata Prefecture...
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 1999

Symbols to unite that divide

The government has finally put the Hinomaru flag and the "Kimigayo" anthem on the statute book. This has hardly put the matter to rest, however. By rushing the flag-and-anthem bill through the Diet Monday, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose to ignore the feelings of a large segment of the public...
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Lawmaker urges halt in cash flow to North Korea

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Emigrants gypped on 'paradise' sue

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Merger to create Kinki Osaka Bank

OSAKA -- A new bank to be created through a merger between Bank of Kinki and Bank of Osaka, both affiliates of Daiwa Bank, will be headed by Yasuhiro Takatani, currently president of Bank of Kinki, the two announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Japan Return students learn of war and peace

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Liberals offer to extend seat cut debate

The ruling coalition and New Komeito, which intends to join it, continued last-minute negotiations Thursday to resolve their differences over a bill to cut 50 proportional representation seats in the Lower House.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 12, 1999

Virginia's wines gaining praise with a little help from Valhalla

The day after the Fourth of July, I had the pleasure of visiting two outstanding wineries in Virginia: Rockbridge Vineyard, founded in 1992 in Raphine, near Roanoke; and Valhalla Vineyards, started in 1993 on a mountain within the Roanoke city limits, and the city's first winery.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Health ministry sets smoker reduction targets

Both the number of smokers as well as tobacco consumption in Japan should be halved by 2010, a Health and Welfare Ministry advisory panel said in a report released Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Time not on side of sex slave redress

Working against time to help realize the demands of aging former "comfort women," lawyers handling their lawsuits have jointly compiled a set of guidelines by which the government should recognize and compensate for the damages done to them by Japanese soldiers during the war, it was learned Thursday....
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Public protests wiretapping

While opposition party members in the Upper House "ox walked" in an attempt to delay their vote against the passage of a bill to allow wiretapping by authorities Thursday, lawyers and citizens showed their disappointment and protested the ruling coalition and its ally.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Wiretapping, numbering bills clear Diet in all-night session

In a marathon, 28-hour plenary session, the Upper House on Thursday approved two controversial bills -- one to authorize wiretapping in organized crime investigations and another to have each citizen numbered for administrative purposes.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 12, 1999

Making a pilgrimage to an expo

KUMANO, Wakayama Pref. -- Ordinarily, I am not an "expo" kind of person.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Aug 12, 1999

Nihonshu's sweet spectrum

Perhaps the best way to buy sake is to have tasted enough to know exactly what you are looking for, and find that label. Advice and recommendations go a long way too. But we all need to foray into the unknown and try new things at times.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Auto sector shakeup has parts makers playing catchup

Staff writer
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 12, 1999

Morocco: Moroccan fare to make the belly dance

The inquiry, from a regular reader, sounded more plaintive than optimistic. Is there anywhere in town that serves real, authentic Moroccan food?
EDITORIALS
Aug 11, 1999

Predictably capricious

True to form, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has astounded his country and the world. Demonstrating that nothing is more important to the mercurial Russian leader than the fate of his regime and his family -- it is hard to distinguish the two -- Mr. Yeltsin this week dismissed Prime Minister Sergei...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Aug 11, 1999

What's that sound?

Two years ago I wrote about how the Fuji Rock Festival's website saved me a two-hour trip to the festival. Early reports accurately painted a grim picture of chaos created by a freak typhoon, so I decided to stay in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 1999

Heavyweight trio set to slash Net connection fees

Softbank Corp., Tokyo Electric Power Co., and Microsoft Corp. of the United States jointly announced Wednesday in Tokyo that they will set up a joint venture to begin high-speed Internet connection services next summer in the Kanto region, with dramatically low fixed-rates for home users.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 1999

Kicking butt, collecting cards -- it's Magic

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 11, 1999

Indians invited to embassy flag-hoisting

The Indian Embassy in Tokyo says it is inviting all Indians living and traveling in Japan to attend a flag-hoisting function at 8:45 a.m. Sunday at the embassy.
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.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
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.
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.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
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.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
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.

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