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JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Rainy season arrives late in Okinawa

The rainy season started in Okinawa Prefecture and a neighboring area Friday, eight days later than in an average year and 10 days later than last year, the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory said.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Africa calls on G8 for more help

Participants in a one-day seminar held Friday in Tokyo called for the Group of Eight countries to agree at the upcoming Okinawa summit to cooperate with African efforts to reduce debt, fight infectious diseases and meet the challenges of globalization.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Gas had same effect on civilians, army

Soldiers and civilians suffered similar health problems from working at toxic gas factories of the Imperial Japanese Army during the war and should receive equal government benefits, according to a Health and Welfare Ministry panel.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

FamilyMart opens joint e-commerce firm

Japanese convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. was to set up a joint venture with six other firms Friday to bring e-commerce to convenience stores.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Teachers told to take team approach, act fast to quell 'classroom collapse'

Teachers and other adults must take countermeasures at an early stage and deal with problems as a group to curb "classroom collapse," according to an Education Ministry report.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Satellite TV option possible, but NTV denies tieup rumor

said Friday that it is considering establishing a planning company to enter the digital broadcasting business using an advanced communications satellite. The company, however, denied media reports that the new business will be centered on an alliance with Japan Satellite Broadcasting Inc. (Wowow).
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Nissan falls from 'ni' to 'san'

Nissan Motor Co. fell to third place among Japanese automakers in terms of group sales in fiscal 1999, behind No. 1 Toyota and No. 2 Honda, according to Nissan's earnings report released Friday.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

'Black money' scam hits Japan

Four foreigners have been arrested on suspicion of swindling two people out of about 5.4 million yen through a scheme dubbed "black money," police said Friday.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Varied policy measures considered to cut CO2 emissions costs

By introducing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions in conjunction with other related measures, the economic burden of efforts to curb global warming could be minimized, according to an Environment Agency report released earlier this week.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

End to deflation fears nearing, BOJ chief says

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami said Friday that an end to deflationary fears is nearing -- which may mean an end to the zero-interest rate policy -- amid a brightening picture for the Japanese economy.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Mitsubishi group's net profits drop 78% to 5.57 billion yen

Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday that its group net profits plunged 78 percent to 5.57 billion yen in fiscal 1999, on sales of 13.109 trillion yen, down 4.2 percent.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Fast Internet server delays launch

SpeedNet Inc., which surprised the nation's telecom industry last year by trumpeting a much cheaper and faster wireless Internet service than other companies' offerings, announced Friday that it will postpone the service's launch, originally scheduled for this summer.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
May 20, 2000

New made old, old new at Manabiya

I waited for the performance to begin, sitting amid the audience of 30 people or so, packed into the ground-floor room of a new building in the sprawling, nondescript suburbs of Yokohama.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Japan to recognize Palestinian state

Japan has pledged to immediately recognize a Palestinian state if it achieves independence peacefully during the first-ever ministerial dialogue between Japan and the autonomous Palestinian Authority.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Panels to focus energies on digital divide, hacking

Reducing the digital divide between countries and combating hackers who seek to ravage the Internet were two of the pledges made Friday by two government panels formed to accelerate the spread of information technology.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 20, 2000

Carp swim past Giants in 11th

Eddy Diaz drilled a tie-breaking solo homer off Koichi Misawa in the top of the 11th inning, leading the Hiroshima Carp to a 3-2 victory over the Yomiuri Giants Thursday at the Tokyo Dome.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

FRC approves WL Ross to take over Kofuku Bank

OSAKA -- The Financial Reconstruction Commission has approved the sale of the nationalized Kofuku Bank to U.S.-based WL Ross & Co. LLC, which signed a basic agreement with the government-backed Deposit Insurance Corp.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

EPA revises downward March economic indicators

The Economic Planning Agency said Friday it has revised downward its three diffusion indexes of economic indicators for March from the preliminary figures released earlier this month.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Usu community relocation eyed

The government is considering relocating the entire community of the Lake Toya hot spring resort area, which lies at the foot of the erupting Mount Usu in southwestern Hokkaido, Construction Minister Masaaki Nakayama said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Banks return to winning circle

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Sanwa Bank both returned to profitability in fiscal 1999, due largely to fewer bad-loan writeoffs than in fiscal 1998, according to the two major banks' earnings reports, released Friday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Nonlife insurance firms hit fork in road

Polarization between winners and losers became apparent Friday when the nation's major and second-tier nonlife insurance companies released their earning reports for fiscal 1999.
CULTURE / Art
May 20, 2000

Hanae Mori at Art Tower Mito

Mito City in Ibaraki Prefecture hardly seems the place to stage an international fashion exhibition, but Art Tower Mito (ATM), in celebration of its 10th anniversary, has done just that.
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2000

The limits of peacekeeping

There is a troubling sense of deja vu in the tragedy befalling the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Sierra Leone (it is really peace enforcement, a euphemism for getting sucked into someone else's war). And more than just putting at risk future U.N. operations, recent events pose vexing questions about how...
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

SpeedNet boss to take blame

The board of directors at SpeedNet Inc. was expected to endorse the resignation of President Yutaka Shinto at its extraordinary meeting Friday, company sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2000

Sri Lanka's violence threatens India

For a number of years after it achieved independence, Sri Lanka was viewed as the most promising country in South Asia. It had the highest literacy rate, the highest GNP per capita and was the most favorable destination in the region for tourists and investors alike. That all ended with an upsurge of...
COMMENTARY
May 20, 2000

Bigger isn't always better

The failure of the proposed merger between Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank ought to have signaled the end of the merger mania among the world's major banks and to have cautioned banks and other enterprises that big does not mean best. But the message does not seem to have seeped through to some people...
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
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.
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.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
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.
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.
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.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.
A furever friend: Tips for responsible dog ownership in Japan
Dog ownership may seem daunting in Japan, but with the right tools and logistical knowledge, you can ensure a healthy, happy life for your pet.

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