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CULTURE / Stage
Nov 25, 2000

Metropolitan Opera set to tour Japan

The Metropolitan Opera will come to Japan in May for the first time in four years, bringing to Japanese audiences a spectacular selection of three operas: "Samson et Dalila," "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Rigoletto."
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Nov 25, 2000

Jury is back on Mashiko exhibition

Mashiko is a name that many of you are familiar with, I'm sure. It is the name of a town in Tochigi Prefecture, as well as an internationally recognized pottery style made famous by the late Shoji Hamada. Today hundreds of potters reside there, and many come from around the world to study or pay their...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2000

Western peacekeepers' flight from Africa

The prospect of disasters in Africa concentrates the world's mind wonderfully on the problems and failures of international peacekeeping. We should focus also on the parallel danger of creeping apartheid. Sensitivity to body bags has made Western powers increasingly averse to the perils of peacekeeping....
CULTURE / Art
Nov 25, 2000

Farewell to art world's jewel

Some five weeks from today, a few artists and friends will gather in the Sagacho Exhibit Space.
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2000

The EU gets an army, sort of

There have always been two benchmarks of genuine "European" identity: a single currency that would make the claim to economic union a reality, and a military force that could backstop the group's foreign-policy pretensions. The currency debuted on Jan. 1, 1999, and has had a difficult time ever since....
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Board says 100 Osaka teachers are incompetent

OSAKA -- The Osaka Municipal Board of Education has compiled a report on some 100 city elementary and junior high school teachers it says are providing inadequate educations to their students because they are incompetent, officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Public facilities to be free of PCB-filled lights by 2001

The government will remove fluorescent lights and mercury lamps containing polychlorinated biphenyls from all public facilities in fiscal 2001, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Stalking victims now legally recognized

A long-awaited law to combat stalking, which for the first time recognizes it as a crime and punishes offenders, takes effect today.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Gangster sought in shooting incidents found hanged at home

OSAKA -- A 57-year-old man believed to have been involved in three shooting incidents in Osaka Prefecture on Wednesday evening was found hanged at his home in Sakai on Thursday, police said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Tougher Juvenile Law best remedy?

Despite the swirling pros and cons, legislation to revise the Juvenile Law for the first time in more than 50 years is expected to be enacted next week.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Tokyo politician arrested in loan-brokering scam

Public prosecutors have arrested Tai Yamazaki, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, on suspicion of conspiring with a broker who has overcharged for mediating low-interest loans for small businesses, prosecutors said.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Agency to review quake evaluations

The Meteorological Agency plans to review the way it estimates the intensity and magnitude of earthquakes following criticism that its evaluations do not correspond to the actual damage caused, according to an agency official.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2000

To flourish, Sonia needs Indira's cunning

NEW DELHI -- Sonia Gandhi once hated politics, certainly the intrigues of Indian affairs.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Japan urges stable transition in Lima

Japan on Thursday hailed the inauguration of new Peruvian President Valentin Paniagua after he was sworn in Wednesday in Lima to replace Alberto Fujimori, whose resignation submitted from Tokyo was rejected and who was dismissed by Congress the previous day.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 24, 2000

J.League second-stage race goes down to the wire

OSAKA -- The J. League second-stage title race has come down to the wire after the Kashima Antlers and Kashiwa Reysol both won Thursday. The stage champion will now be decided Sunday, the final day of the stage, in a showcase between these two teams at Tokyo's National Stadium.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2000

Ethnic Chinese see school plan as ploy to erode their identity

SINGAPORE -- Chinese education authorities in multiracial Malaysia have rejected a government pilot project to merge the country's three different kinds of vernacular schools -- Malay, Chinese and Tamil -- into a single national institution, dubbed "Vision Schools," that would embody Malaysian identity....
CULTURE / Art
Nov 24, 2000

Exhibit showcases U.K. sound design

"Sound Design: U.K. Music and Graphic Design," an event organized by the British Council, will present an overview of music industry design in Britain from the '60s to the present day.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2000

Kato made the wrong choice

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori survived a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet early Tuesday when the governing coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the New Conservative Party voted down the motion in the Lower House. Mori's rivals -- former LDP Secretary General Koichi Kato and...
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Cabinet adrift as Mori goes to Singapore

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori departed for Singapore on Thursday to attend a summit of 13 Asian countries, leaving his administration in a fragile condition.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Falsely accused seek system to make press clean up its act

After his nightmare summer of 1994, when the media branded him the prime suspect in the fatal sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Yoshiyuki Kono embarked on a crusade to end press violations of citizens' rights.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 24, 2000

Japan takes double in Chiba international marathon relay

The Japanese men's and women's teams never relinquished their first-leg leads as they breezed to a double victory Thursday in the Chiba international ekiden road relay.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Nov 24, 2000

From the underground up

Ryoji, the charismatic frontman and mastermind behind skacore group Potshot, has the impossibly skinny, graceful physique of a true rock star. Think Mick Jagger in 1969 or Kurt Cobain 20 years later: the ugly duckling reborn through the grace of a power chord.
EDITORIALS
Nov 23, 2000

A less than gracious farewell

The Fujimori era is over. Peru's embattled president, Mr. Alberto Fujimori, has resigned after 10 tumultuous years in office. Mr. Fujimori leaves a mixed legacy. There were important accomplishments during his decade in power, but the price has been high. His successor inherits a divided country whose...
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2000

Ministry confirms StarLink finding

The Health and Welfare Ministry on Wednesday said tests have confirmed the presence of banned StarLink corn in food products sold at retailers in Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2000

Staff shortage hits local environment plans

While plans to preserve the environment have been penned by all prefectures and designated cities, as well as by more than 200 municipalities, their implementation is being handicapped by a lack of action and manpower, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday.

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