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BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2000

IT sectors lead machinery orders to 11th month of increase

Core machinery orders to Japanese manufacturers in October rose a seasonally adjusted 8.3 percent from the previous month to 1.088 trillion yen on the back of brisk demand from information technology-related sectors, the Economic Planning Agency said Friday.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 9, 2000

Bringing Russia and Japan together

Permit me a brief personal anecdote if you will: Some 20 years ago, a cold December night in Toronto found me inspired to chip, using my house keys, a few raisin-sized shards of concrete from the base of that city's newly-constructed CN Tower. Friends I mailed the little gray jewels to would later remark...
CULTURE / Art
Dec 9, 2000

Nishiki-e outshine Chinese prints

"The Birth of Nishiki-e," the current exhibition at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, claims to be an attempt to explore Chinese influence on ukiyo-e, Japanese print art.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Dec 9, 2000

Ogi wants Haneda to go international

Tokyo's Haneda airport should be an international hub and the new megaministry that will control most public works budgets should draw up a grand design for the nation's airport network, said the woman who will head the megaministry.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2000

Hashimoto proposes including chiefs of health, economy in budget body

Ryutaro Hashimoto, the newly appointed minister for administrative reform, on Friday repeated his call for the health and industry ministers to sit on a new budget and economic policy body to be launched next month.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2000

NGOs open sex slave tribunal

Nongovernmental organizations began a five-day people's tribunal Friday in Tokyo to clarify the criminal role of the government and Japanese soldiers in regards to violence against women during the war.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2000

Civil servants' winter bonuses stay on wane for second consecutive year

Government employees received their annual winter bonus allowance Friday but few of them were cheering.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2000

Japan to demand slower rise in mandated imports of rice

Japan decided Friday to demand a slower pace of growth of mandated rice imports in order to protect Japanese rice farmers from cheap imports, government officials said.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Dec 9, 2000

The tiny treasures of Hikaru Shimamura

The great 20th-century Japanese potter Kanjiro Kawai (1890-1966) marveled at items that were small and most people overlooked: a stone, a leaf, a box of matches. He would toss them over and over again in his hands.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2000

Refuges are running out for Pinochet

LONDON -- The freedom to murder your fellow citizens with impunity used to be what made up for the long hours and all the paperwork. Some people simply wouldn't have taken the job of president without it, and Augusto Pinochet was one of them. If somebody had told the former Chilean dictator that he would...
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Auto-parts makers report improved earnings in first half

Japanese auto-parts makers registered improved earnings in the first half of fiscal 2000 as their sales grew both at home and abroad, the Japan Auto-Parts Industries Association said in a report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Yen may no longer be king of the mountain

The yen's days as the world's strongest currency may be drawing to a close.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Mori again outlines his IT dreams

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori once again pledged Thursday to carry out drastic reforms of the nation's economy by supporting the development of information technology.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Japan, China to improve efforts against crime

Japan and China agreed Thursday to cooperate further in combating organized international crimes, such as drug smuggling and the illegal entry of Chinese citizens into Japan, Foreign Ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

No need for BOJ to renew zero-rate policy, Muto says

Vice Finance Minister Toshiro Muto said Thursday that the Bank of Japan does not need to restore a "zero-interest-rate" policy, despite calls by some politicians for a further easing of monetary policy.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Microscopic-object maker developed

NEC Corp., Seiko Instruments Inc. and Himeji Institute of Technology announced Thursday they have developed the technology to build complex microscopic objects using a gallium ion beam that enables, for example, the creation of what they say is the world's smallest wine glass in just 10 minutes.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Finance to cut lending rates to 2%

Ministry will also reduce postal savings deposit rate by a similar amount
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Matsushita to make cellphones in Latin America

OSAKA -- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., the nation's leading maker of mobile phones, is considering building a new plant in Mexico or South America to enhance overseas production, the company's president said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Monju touts safety campaign in restart bid

TSURUGA, Fukui Pref. -- Five years after a sodium leak and fire shut down the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor here, the battle over whether it should be put back into operation still rages.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Let disabled pursue medicine career: panel

An advisory panel to the health and welfare minister began studying ways Thursday to revise laws that bar disabled people from working as medical professionals.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Securing LDP power is greatest task: Koga

The LDP's new secretary general said Thursday his greatest task will be ensuring that the tripartite coalition remains in power by securing a majority in next summer's House of Councilors election.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Inspections planned for newcomers to banking

A government advisory panel on Thursday compiled a set of rules calling for financial regulators to be authorized to inspect major nonfinancial shareholders of banks.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Sakaiya stays on as adviser to Mori

Taichi Sakaiya, who declined to stay on as chief of the Economic Planning Agency during the recent Cabinet reshuffle, was appointed Thursday as a special adviser, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

LDP suggests lowering taxes on restructuring

The Liberal Democratic Party's panel on taxation agreed Thursday to urge the government to reduce registration taxes levied on companies when they spin off divisions to the level paid by merging firms.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2000

Bill to sell off JR railways on its way to the Diet

In a further step toward the full privatization of Japan's railways, the Transport Ministry will submit a bill to privatize East Japan Railway Co., West Japan Railway Co. and Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) during the next ordinary Diet session, which starts next month, ministry officials said Thursday....
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Sasagawa's gaffe the fault of the press, Fukuda claims

The government Thursday moved to contain potential political damage from a remark made by a new Cabinet minister the previous day that could be taken as condoning bullying.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2000

Red Army may launch attack to free Shigenobu: NPA

Members of the radical Japanese Red Army may launch a terrorist attack to liberate arrested leader Fusako Shigenobu, the National Police Agency warned in a report released Thursday.
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.
Voters in Tokyo reflect shifting political views across Japan
Pedestrians walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates in Tokyo on Sunday.
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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