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EDITORIALS
May 21, 2001

Wagner in Jerusalem

A battle is taking place in Israel that has nothing to do with the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. This one is being waged among Jews themselves. But it is just as bitter as that other fight -- and just as pertinent, in its own way, to the question of Israel's present and future identity....
JAPAN
May 21, 2001

Mob boss held over real estate fraud

Police on Sunday arrested a top leader of Sumiyoshi-kai, one of Japan's largest yakuza groups, for allegedly conspiring to obstruct compulsory seizure of assets by creditors, officials said.
JAPAN
May 21, 2001

Tanaka hit for alleged remarks on Lee's visa

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka came under fire over the weekend from both her ruling Liberal Democratic Party colleagues and opposition leaders over allegations that she told China earlier this month that Japan will not again issue an entry visa to former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.
COMMENTARY / World
May 21, 2001

Settling Asia's sea of disputes

Last month's spy-plane incident between the United States and China inadvertently highlighted South China Sea territorial disputes as a focal point of possible international confrontation. Although the incident is viewed primarily through the lens of U.S.-China relations, it demonstrates the international...
JAPAN
May 21, 2001

Tokyo judge arrested over alleged sex with child

A Tokyo High Court judge has been arrested on suspicion of paying a 14-year-old girl to have sex with him in January, in violation of the law banning child prostitution, police said Sunday.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2001

Japan's leadership needed to preserve free trade

President George W. Bush's remarks on trade to the Council of America's early last week and his request to Congress for Trade Promotion Authority (formerly called "Fast Track") later in the week signal an important new step in expanding the trade relationship between Japan and the United States, and...
JAPAN
May 21, 2001

Survey finds hospice care in short supply

The number of hospice facilities for terminally ill cancer patients in Japan remains far smaller than the demand, covering only 1.8 percent of cancer patients who died in this country in 1999, it was learned Sunday.
COMMENTARY
May 21, 2001

Better a wooden chicken than a tornado

As soon as Diet member Makiko Tanaka was sworn in as foreign minister, a powerful "Tornado Makiko" rampaged throughout the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sending some of the officials way up in the air and forcing others to retreat to hospital. For onlookers, the greater the chaos the more fun it was to...
SOCCER / World cup
May 21, 2001

Morishima back in Japan soccer squad

Cerezo Osaka midfielder Hiroaki Morishima returned to the Japan national setup for the first time since last October's Asian Cup as Japan manager Philippe Troussier announced his 23-member squad Sunday for the upcoming Confederations Cup at the Japan Football Association's headquarters in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2001

A straightforward approach to taking economic action

While one can easily suggest seemingly desirable policy measures that befit ongoing economic conditions, it is far from easy to find a desirable set of economic policy measures and implement them in a timely manner.
COMMENTARY
May 21, 2001

U.S. policy toward Taiwan defies reason

In 1938 Nazi Germany tried to mediate the war between Japan and China. At the time Japanese troops were advancing far into south China, massacring large numbers of Chinese at Nanjing and elsewhere and cruelly seeking to bomb the Nationalist government into submission. If German mediation had succeeded,...
JAPAN
May 21, 2001

Tanaka didn't vow to snub Lee: Abe

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Sunday he did not think that Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka had promised her Chinese counterpart Tang Jiaxuan that Japan will not issue further entry visas to former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2001

Blazing policy paths in Kasumigaseki

It's a little before 9 a.m., and Masahiko Aoki is discussing complex adaptive systems and path dependency. It's an odd conversation even though the topics are familiar ones for Aoki, a professor of economics at Stanford University and an author of several standard texts on the Japanese economy.
COMMENTARY / World
May 21, 2001

Yamasaki's bold proposal

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, calls for a revision to the Constitution in his book "Kempo Kaisei" (Constitutional revision). I read it with great interest because his proposal, coming as it does from the No. 2 man in the ruling party, carries weight and therefore could...
BASEBALL / MLB
May 21, 2001

Hawks gain share of first place

Daiei sluggers Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Hiroki Kokubo had two hits and two RBIs each as the Hawks beat the BlueWave 9-4 at the Fukuoka Dome on Sunday to grab a share of the Pacific League lead with Orix.
MORE SPORTS
May 21, 2001

Desormeaux first foreign rider to win a Japan classic

American Kent Desormeaux, aboard Lady Pastel, made racing history Sunday in the Oaks by becoming the first foreign jockey to win a Japanese classic.
JAPAN
May 20, 2001

Visually challenged violinist's career is an accidental passion

Seeing violinist Narimichi Kawabata in the spotlight at a concert, people often believe him to be one of the lucky few who have made a career out of what they love.
JAPAN
May 20, 2001

NTT West may halve its branch offices

NTT West Corp. is considering integrating and consolidating its 30 branch offices to between 10 and 15 in a bid to streamline operations, cut costs and weather intensifying competition, company sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
May 20, 2001

Tanaka informs China Lee not welcome again

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka told her Chinese counterpart, Tang Jiaxuan, earlier this month that Japan will not issue an entry visa to former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui in the future, even for visits to receive medical treatment, informed sources said Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League
May 20, 2001

Antlers open stadium with win over Kashiwa

BY FRED VARCOE Staff writer KASHIMA, Ibaraki Pref. -- The Kashima Antlers and their fans had to go through a lot of anguish before celebrating the opening of the rebuilt Kashima Stadium with a 99th-minute goal from substitute Yoshiyuki Hasegawa and a 3-2 win over Kashiwa Reysol.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Japanese star convicted of indecent assault in Hong Kong
J-pop idol Kenshin Kamimura leaves the West Kowloon Law Courts on bail in Hong Kong on Wednesday, after he was found guilty of indecent assault of a woman who worked as his interpreter at a restaurant in Mong Kok district in March this year.
Tens of thousands left stranded at Osaka Expo by train service interruption
Visitors rest inside the Osaka Expo venue early Thursday morning
Welcoming foreign residents benefits Japan, three quarters of economists say
The streets of Tokyo's Ginza district in April. The number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record high at 3.76 million as of the end of last year, comprising just over 3% of the population.
Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Will Ishiba's critics be able to garner enough support for a leadership race?
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's political survival likely hinges on whether a leadership race will take place within the Liberal Democratic Party following its decision to have its election committee canvass the opinions of party members and prefectural chapters on the subject.
Hidden rosters and the legacy of Japan’s germ warfare
Katsutoshi Takegami, 77, in his storehouse attic where he discovered his father's Unit 1644 documents
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.

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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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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