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JAPAN
Aug 19, 2000

Life expectancy fell in 1999

The average life expectancy for Japanese fell slightly in 1999 as an outbreak of influenza in the winter boosted pneumonia-linked deaths, government statistics showed Friday.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Aug 19, 2000

Autumn wind from Tsugaru fans Tokyo's waning summer

The last weeks of summer offer many hogaku concerts, both in Tokyo and around Japan, including two spectacular outdoor events.
COMMENTARY
Aug 19, 2000

Labor challenges for Japan

Since the end of the Cold War -- symbolized by the collapse of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 -- "globalization" has become the world's most controversial subject. But what does "globalization" mean?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2000

Lessons for peace from a double failure

ISLAMABAD -- A recent two-week lull in the fighting in Kashmir has momentarily aroused hope that South Asia's two bitter, nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan, might be facing a window of opportunity in the struggle to overcome 53 years of animosity. For much of the outside world, concerned over...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Pyongyang talks to be in Tokyo, Chiba

Next week's second round of normalization talks between Japan and North Korea on establishing diplomatic ties will be held in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, government sources said.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Fears of deflationary pressure unfounded

The Bank of Japan's decision to abandon its "zero-interest-rate" policy has in effect marked a switch from its decade-old easy money policy.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Tanaka says no to factions, holds on to freedom

One of the questions surrounding a group of Liberal Democratic Party members trying to stand up to the old guard is who the group would support in the next LDP presidential race.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Suicides in Japan hit all-time high in 1999

The number of suicides in 1999 hit a record-high 33,048, up 0.6 percent from the previous high, set the year before, according to a National Police Agency report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

NTT urged to sell DoCoMo stake to promote competition

A trade ministry advisory panel has released a draft report Thursday that calls for terminating Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.'s monopoly on local telephone networks.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

LDP reformists to take issues to voters outside Tokyo, Ishihara says

Since issuing the call for reform of the Liberal Democratic Party more than a month ago, Nobuteru Ishihara has been bombarded with questions from reporters and political observers:
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2000

When technology fails

Two accidents have claimed international attention this summer. A Concorde supersonic airliner crashed after takeoff in Paris last month, killing 114 people. Today, the world is riveted by the unfolding disaster involving the Russian submarine Kursk, trapped on the floor of the Barents Sea with 118 sailors...
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Secondhand comic book firm tapping into American interest in 'manga'

Savoring his success dealing in secondhand comic books and character items in Japan, Masuzo Furukawa, president of Mandarake Inc., is now eyeing an overseas market he believes is thirsting for Japanese "manga" culture.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Panel to mediate in disputes over Net domain names

The Arbitration Center for Industrial Property on Oct. 19 will begin arbitration services to resolve ownership disputes over Internet domain names, association officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

China withdraws Morita's welcome

China has declined to accept a visit by Transport Minister Hajime Morita, in what some see as an indication of its displeasure over his visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, it was learned Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Japan agrees to investigate past misdeeds

Tokyo will accept a request by Pyongyang to set up two working-level panels to discuss Korean cultural assets seized or destroyed by Japan and the granting of permanent residency to North Koreans in Japan, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Illegal use of passports on rise, ministry warns

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday reminded travel agencies and Japanese nationals traveling abroad to be mindful of their passports, citing the growing incidence of lost or stolen passports being used illegally.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Japan aided U.S. in search for Vietnam deserters

The Japanese government helped the United States track down American deserters from the Vietnam War who hid in Japan with the aid of Japanese peace activists, former Japanese intelligence officers admitted for the first time in recent interviews with Kyodo News.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 18, 2000

Japan walks over UAE 3-1

HIROSHIMA -- Another day, another facile victory against another substandard team. Japan cruised to a 3-1 victory over the United Arab Emirates in the Kirin Challenge 2000 at Hiroshima's Big Arch on Wednesday, though quite where the challenge was meant to come from was difficult to see.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Toyota set to introduce low-cost tire technology

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to introduce low-cost, high-quality tires jointly developed with a tire maker for use in some of its cars in 2001, a company official said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Lawmakers try to rid LDP of stodgy ways

A new breed of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker openly says that the party is an anachronism.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Money market call rate at 0.3%, over BOJ target

The key unsecured overnight call rate in the short-term money market stood at 0.3 percent Thursday morning, higher than the Bank of Japan's target of 0.25 percent.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Music industry sets fees for downloaded tunes

Two music industry groups have formally agreed on the fees they will set for copyrights and music delivery over the Internet, the groups said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2000

State-owned enterprises continue to hinder Chinese growth

WASHINGTON -- In January, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Wu Bangguo said that whether or not China gets into the World Trade Organization, China's policy would be "to reform and build a market economy." Now that China is assured of entering the WTO, the hard work of transforming China's socialist market...
COMMENTARY
Aug 18, 2000

World War II lessons go unlearned

On Aug. 15, 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered to the U.S.-led Allied Powers, ending World War II. An estimated 3 million Japanese military personnel and civilians died in the war.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Five found dead at self-styled guru's house

OSAKA -- The badly decomposed bodies of five adult siblings were found by police Wednesday evening in the Sennan, Osaka Prefecture, home of their 66-year-old uncle, a self-styled guru.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Idol-pop project redefines kawaii for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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