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JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Bill compiled to eliminate all PCBs

The Environment Ministry has compiled a draft bill promoting appropriate disposal of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) that will require businesses to remove the compound from instruments that contain it, ministry sources said Saturday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2001

Globalization's saddest victim

LONDON -- I wish to draw to your attention a group of workers who are in a sorry plight. The use of their skills is in decline; where once they commanded our attention, they are now held in low esteem; the buildings in which they once worked are half deserted; their future does not look good. It is,...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Computer beginners more prone to virus attacks

Computer viruses are now reaching plague proportions, particularly among new users who are most vulnerable to a breed of virus that transmits through e-mail.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2001

Quake made worse by greed and ineptness

NEW DELHI -- The earthquake that devastated many parts of India's western state of Gujarat opened a Pandora's Box, out of which tumbled a shocking spectacle of ignorance and mismanagement driven by greed and callousness.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2001

Review of U.S. whaling policy in order

Then U.S. President Bill Clinton's decision rejecting import sanctions against Japan for expanding its whale research programs in the Northwest Pacific was conveyed to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the Senate in a letter dated Dec. 29, 2000. It concerned the September...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

SDF earthquake-relief mission canceled

Japan decided Saturday not to send a Self-Defense Forces medical team to India because authorities there have sufficient facilities to cope with victims from the Jan. 26 earthquake, Defense Agency officials said.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 4, 2001

No big-name foreign players in 2001

I went for a haircut the other day and, as usual, the topic of conversation between the barber and myself was sports. He's a typical Japanese sports fan with a typical Japanese name -- Suzuki -- and we chat about baseball, both the Japanese version and the major leagues.
COMMUNITY
Feb 4, 2001

Heaven to Earth without explanation or apology

Anyone who thinks the art of painting is dead should head for the Towa Building on Tokyo's Meiji-dori and take the lift to Galerie Le Deco on the fifth floor. It is here that German artist David Garde is showing work created since last September: objects, installations and paintings that disturb and...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

CD-ROMs aid the visually impaired

KYOTO -- Yuko Shiomi, a professional narrator with the radio station KBS Kyoto, speaks into a microphone. Her role is that of "Kakuunsai," a fictional character depicting a distinguished calligrapher.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Osaka prepares for visit from IOC

OSAKA -- In a few weeks, International Olympic Committee officials will visit Osaka to assess the city's 2008 Olympic Games bid.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

CD-ROMs aid the visually impaired

KYOTO -- Yuko Shiomi, a professional narrator with the radio station KBS Kyoto, speaks into a microphone. Her role is that of "Kakuunsai," a fictional character depicting a distinguished calligrapher.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Osaka prepares for visit from IOC

OSAKA -- In a few weeks, International Olympic Committee officials will visit Osaka to assess the city's 2008 Olympic Games bid.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 4, 2001

Hingis, Davenport make Toray Pan Pacific final

There's the good Martina Hingis and then there's the bad Martina Hingis. For a while it wasn't clear which one would decide Saturday's semifinal against Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva at the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 4, 2001

Life is too short, even when you have nine!

I used to think I knew how to bury a dead cat. Then I learned the Japanese way.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Unconventional methods help get pregnant assembly member re-elected

IBARAKI, Osaka Pref. -- Mutsuko Katsura, the Ibaraki Municipal Assembly member who ran for re-election while 5 months pregnant, emerged victorious in the Jan. 28 poll.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 4, 2001

Shizuo Mochizuki

Shizuoka, the warm, sunny prefecture known for its peaceful hillsides where tea bushes grow, has always been home to Shizuo Mochizuki. His father kept a shop in Shizuoka where he sold Japanese cakes. Mochizuki says that neither tea bushes nor sweet cakes especially influenced him in choosing to make...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 4, 2001

Cosmic artist leaves a legacy of world harmony

Cosmic artist Sachiko Adachi knew intuitively that her art was powerful, so she went to great lengths to dispel any misunderstanding that she was playing with fire.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Air traffic control to be improved

Air traffic control systems will be upgraded after investigators determined incorrect instructions from controllers caused Wednesday's near collision between two Japan Airlines jetliners, the Transport Ministry announced Saturday.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 4, 2001

Pottery dreams across 10,000 years

In 1877, the Harvard-trained biologist Edward Sylvester Morse, freshly arrived in Japan, took the new train from Tokyo to Yokohama. As he passed through Omori he looked out the window and saw a long, high mound. From having dug into many a similar mound back home in Massachusetts, he knew exactly what...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Air traffic control to be improved

Air traffic control systems will be upgraded after investigators determined incorrect instructions from controllers caused Wednesday's near collision between two Japan Airlines jetliners, the Transport Ministry announced Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Illegal foreign workers should be deported, survey says

Almost half those polled in a recent survey are against having illegal foreign workers in the country and think they should be forcibly deported, the Cabinet Office said Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Illegal foreign workers should be deported, survey says

Almost half those polled in a recent survey are against having illegal foreign workers in the country and think they should be forcibly deported, the Cabinet Office said Saturday.
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.
Junglia, Japan’s newest theme park, opens in northern Okinawa
In Junglia’s Dinosaur Safari attraction during a media preview on Thursday, a casual drive through a habitat for the prehistoric creatures goes haywire when several Tyrannosaurus rexes break out of containment.
Big unanswered questions follow Japan's big, beautiful deal with the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Washington, the day after he agreed to an 11th-hour trade deal with Japan.
Extreme heat grips Japan, even Hokkaido
The city of Obihiro in Hokkaido amid scorching heat on Thursday
Japan ties with South Korea for second most powerful passport
Japanese passport holders have visa-free access to 190 destinations out of 227 globally.
Hall of Fame always held deeper meaning for Ichiro
Ichiro presents then-Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson with the bat he used to break the single-season hits record in 2004.
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.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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