search

 
Menu
Search
 
August 24, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
337,252 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

NTT restructuring plan meets with union approval

NTT Corp.'s union conditionally approved a radical NTT restructuring plan Thursday to slash personnel costs through wage cuts or transfers to lower-paying subsidiaries.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Vehicle-free streets to be reopened

Three streets in Tokyo that have barred vehicle traffic on holidays will be opened to traffic on such days beginning next month, police said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Action on online broker shows market trend

Tokyo stocks remain trapped in a deepening slump, mirroring negative investor sentiment.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Government to build extra shelters for homeless

To cope with the steadily growing number of homeless people, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will build seven more shelters in fiscal 2002, raising to 12 the number of facilities the government will build in two years.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Nikkei at postbubble low

Tokyo stock prices closed Thursday below the postbubble low registered the previous day, affected by a continued fall on Wall Street and more dismal data on Japan's economy.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Industrial output drops for fifth month in a row

Industrial production slackened further in July with its key index dropping 2.8 percent from June, marking the fifth consecutive month-on-month decline, the trade ministry said in a preliminary report Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Kyocera to shed 20% of workforce amid IT slump

The Kyocera Corp. group will cut about 10,000 jobs from its global workforce of 51,000, possibly within this year, to deal with the worldwide slump in the information technology sector, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Summer slump for retailers, wholesalers

Combined sales by wholesalers and retailers dropped 1.9 percent in July from a year earlier for the sixth consecutive month, the government said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Takuma deemed mentally fit

OSAKA -- Mamoru Takuma, suspected of killing eight children in a June 8 stabbing spree at an Osaka school, will likely be indicted next month now that doctors have concluded he was mentally fit at the time of the attack, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Mycal falls short on debt cuts

OSAKA -- Mycal Corp.'s interest-bearing debts at the end of this month will come to around 1.05 trillion yen on a consolidated basis, the company said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Special Diet session set for Sept. 27

The ruling coalition parties agreed Thursday to convene an extraordinary Diet session, dubbed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as an "unemployment-tackling session," on Sept. 27, senior members of the triumvirate said.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Automobile production for July dropped 1.2%

The nation's automakers produced 883,962 cars, trucks and buses in July, down 1.2 percent from a year earlier, the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2001

Arabian Oil posts net profits of 1.92 billion yen in first half

Arabian Oil Co. said Thursday its group net profits for the business first half through June 30 came to 1.92 billion yen.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Aug 31, 2001

Reeves turtle

* Japanese name:Kusagame * Scientific name: Chinemys reevesii * Description: A freshwater, semi-aquatic turtle with a carapace (shell) 10-30 cm long. Females are bigger than males. This turtle has three keels, or ridges, running along its carapace, which is a yellow-brown to olive color. Some...
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Tanaka to establish expert panel

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Thursday she will set up a panel of foreign policy experts next week to help her draw up policies.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2001

Fish stocks may resolve whaling debate

The International Whaling Commission recently completed its 53rd annual meeting. For the media, highlights included: false accusations of vote buying; the illegal withholding of Iceland's right to vote, decided by a majority when by international law it should not have been a subject for the commission...
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Public works budget favors urban projects

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Wednesday announced a budget request of 7.918 trillion yen for fiscal 2002.
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2001

Let's not forget basic research

In its guidelines for the next fiscal year's budgetary requests, the government has permitted a 5 percent hike in science and technology promotion spending, making an exception in the 10-percent cut in general expenditures and public-works spending. This is a real treat amid the deflationary climate....
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

JT to launch early retirement plan

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Wednesday it will launch an early retirement program on Nov. 19.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Ex-Aum members ordered to pay out over Kariya killing

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered eight former Aum Shinrikyo members to pay 59.37 million yen in damages to the family of Kiyoshi Kariya, a Tokyo notary public clerk who was killed in February 1995.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Eisai unit to shut down Texas plant

Drugmaker Eisai Co. said Wednesday that its U.S. subsidiary, Eisai U.S.A. Inc., will close its vitamin factory in Pasadena, Texas.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

MSDF eyes special anniversary drill

The Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to host the nation's first multinational marine search-and-rescue exercise and an international naval review at Tokyo Bay in October 2002, according to budget request plans unveiled Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Koizumi to set up two expert panels

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he will establish two expert panels to discuss issues relating to the economy and foreign policy.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after
Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER