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BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2001

Top broker plans seminars for undergraduates in Hyogo

Nomura Securities Co. will offer securities business seminars at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, starting in April.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2001

Nomura eyes pole position for new pensions

Nomura Securities Co. is preparing for the expected introduction of a new defined-contribution pension program modeled on the U.S. 401(k) plans later this year.
SUMO
Jan 5, 2001

Ailing Akebono to skip New Year tournament

Yokozuna Akebono, winner of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in November, said Thursday he will skip the New Year meet that gets under way at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sunday because of pain in his knees.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

New Year travelers swamp Kansai and Narita airports

Japan's two major international airports -- Narita in Chiba Prefecture and Kansai in Osaka Prefecture -- were strained to capacity Thursday as travelers returned home from New Year's vacations abroad, airport officials said.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

Tap dance zealot leads revival of making 'music' with feet

Tap dance instructor Kaoru Tomita has a simple yet effective approach to teaching the percussive dance in a country where rote learning and imitation are pedagogic mainstays: Do what you want and don't copy anyone.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2001

The high human cost of anticapitalism

There has been a rising swell of voices to denounce the forces of capitalism and globalization. It has gone beyond the normal complaints of professors, journalists and politicians who criticize capitalism and markets and, if not the wealth they create, the way it is distributed. Demonstrations at the...
CULTURE / Books
Jan 5, 2001

Have Japanese novelists lost touch with readers?

The fading interest in reading among younger Japanese first caused alarm several years ago in Japan, but I was recently startled to see a full page devoted to the topic in The New York Times' Book Review section (Dec. 10).
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

Obara served fifth warrant for rape

Accused serial rapist Joji Obara was served a fifth arrest warrant Thursday on suspicion of drugging and raping a woman last January, police sources said.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2001

Mitsui Pharmaceuticals absorbed

OSAKA -- Nihon Schering K.K., a Japanese unit of the major German pharmaceutical group Schering AG, said Thursday that it has absorbed its subsidiary, Mitsui Pharmaceuticals Inc., to improve efficiency.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2001

Insurers launch 'third-sector' sales

Nippon Life Insurance Co. and Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co.'s life insurance unit started selling cancer insurance policies Thursday, the two firms said.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

Police follow shirt trail from weekend murder

A bloodstained sweat shirt that police suspect belonged to the person who killed a family of four on the weekend at a house in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward was one of a few hundred of the same kind sold only in Setagaya and Suginami wards, investigative sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

Magnitude 5.1 quake jolts Niigata

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted the central part of Niigata Prefecture at 1:18 p.m. Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2001

Rice cakes kill six elderly in Tokyo

Six elderly people died after choking on traditional "mochi" rice cakes in Tokyo between Dec. 26 and Jan 3, prompting authorities to issue a warning for older people who eat the sticky New Year's treats.
EDITORIALS
Jan 4, 2001

HAL, are you out there?

2001 is not just another year. For over three decades, those four digits symbolized the future, and triggered hopes, dreams and fears about what lay over the horizon. Brilliant though it was, Sir Arthur C. Clarke's imagination and Stanley Kubrick's rendering of life in the 21st century have also missed...
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

New panel to consider ways to foster child-rearing by women who work

The government is planning to set up a panel to look at ways to support child-rearing by working women in a bid to arrest the declining birthrate, sources said.
JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK
Jan 4, 2001

Information disclosure could give power to citizens if they get involved

Satoru Ienishi felt overwhelming anger as he watched a newscast at his Tokyo office on June 13, 1998.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2001

Redevelopment hits Tokyo's heart

For the moment, it remains an enormous no man's land in the heart of Tokyo, with the only signs of life the numerous cranes, prefab huts and foundations that indicate construction projects are under way.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2001

Railway firms on track to profit from elderly

OSAKA -- Railway companies are introducing nursing care services in an attempt to cash in on Japan's aging population and on the potentially lucrative elderly market.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 4, 2001

2002 cohosts draw 1-1 with world stars

YOKOHAMA -- Soccer players from the South Korean K. League and the Japanese J. League on Wednesday night played alongside each other for the first time ever in an official game when they drew a World XI 1-1 in an exhibition match at International Stadium Yokohama.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 4, 2001

Juntendo claims 10th Hakone ekiden crown

Leadoff runner Shoji Miyai grabbed the early lead Wednesday and anchor Nobuhito Miyazaki turned away a late challenge by Komazawa University to give Juntendo its 10th overall championship in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 4, 2001

MVP Nakamura to trade in Rice Bowl for rice bowl

His job has been running the football. But from now on, Tamon Nakamura will concentrate on running a restaurant for his family.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

Public wants coalition dropped a peg

Forty percent of the Japanese electorate hopes the House of Councilors election scheduled for July will end in a tie between the ruling and opposition parties, and 87 percent would like to directly elect the prime minister, according to a Kyodo News poll released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

House fires in Gunma, Miyagi kill two

Two people were killed in separate fires in Gunma and Miyagi prefectures, one late Tuesday night and the other early Wednesday, police said.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

July election to be verdict on Mori

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori appears to be pinning his survival on a shift from postwar economic materialism to a revival of traditional values, but his true prospects will depend more on his ability to avoid making blunders.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

Shirt may be linked to family's killer

Police have found a bloodstained sweat-shirt in the home of a family of four discovered slain Sunday morning in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, investigation sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

Japan pledges more support for legal reforms overseas

The Justice Ministry plans to increase government support for drawing up new laws in developing countries that have introduced market economies amid the spread of globalization.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

Teacher upbeat on proposals of education reform panel

When Ryoichi Kawakami, a 34-year veteran schoolteacher in Saitama Prefecture, was appointed to the National Commission on Educational Reform in March, he was skeptical about whether his input could help solve the problem of "classroom collapse."
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2001

Majority of business leaders not optimistic on economy

Nearly 70 out of 100 Japanese business leaders forecast slow economic growth for fiscal 2001, which begins April 1, with 31 saying a full recovery will not come until after 2002, according to a Kyodo News poll.
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.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
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.
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.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
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.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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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The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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