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JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

New LDP group slams failure to fight corruption

Members of a new group within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Thursday to decide by mid-July their stance on an opposition-proposed bill to prevent political corruption, a move that is likely to upset senior LDP members.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2000

Dollar-selling pressure looms at end of half

The Bank of Japan's quarterly survey on business sentiment should have given the central bank fresh evidence of an economic recovery and justification for ending its "zero-interest-rate" policy.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2000

A new breed of workers

The traditional images of the Japanese "salaryman" and "office lady" are under threat from an unanticipated source: the young men and women expected to step into those roles. What some see as a crisis in Japan's employment picture others recognize as a potentially lasting social change. The Labor Ministry...
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Cabinet proves widely unpopular

The disapproval rate for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is at 62 percent, a record high for a newly launched Cabinet, with support at 27 percent, a Kyodo News poll showed Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Red Army Faction fugitive details deportation from Lebanon

Masao Adachi, one of four Japanese Red Army Faction fugitives who were deported to Japan from Lebanon and arrested upon their arrival in March, has given Kyodo News a detailed description of how they were handed over.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Snow Brand may close plant; chief to resign over poisoning

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Thursday it will consider closing its Osaka plant following the recent outbreak of food poisoning caused by milk products shipped from the plant.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

1932 essays recall patriotism of nisei

When 31-year-old Californian Joyce Hirohata was having difficulty writing her high school valedictory speech, her father handed her a book published by her grandfather, Paul Tsunegoro Hirohata.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Survey finds 12% of women are shopping addicts

About 12 percent of women in their 20s are shopping addicts and impulse-buy unnecessary things, according to a poll.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2000

Minivehicle sales set record of near 1 million in first half

Minivehicle sales in Japan in the first six months of 2000 rose 3 percent from a year before to 996,096, a record high for any half-year period, an industry body said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2000

Diet to meet on taxpayer Sogo bailout

Diet committees will hold extraordinary sessions July 17-18 to scrutinize the planned public-funded bailout of ailing department store operator Sogo Co., legislators said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Defense chief does about-face on time limit for Marine base

Newly appointed Defense Agency chief Kazuo Torashima has had to retract a remark that it would be difficult to put a 15-year time limit on the use of a new airport for the U.S. Marines to be built in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2000

Shinsei Bank joins bids to buy failed Life

Shinsei Bank, formerly the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, recently offered to buy failed consumer credit company Life Co., even though the bank refused to bail it out, Life sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2000

FRC may detail Sogo bailout

The Financial Reconstruction Commission is to consider whether it can disclose the numerical data that led to the government's decision to forgive loans to troubled department store chain Sogo Co., the newly appointed FRC chairman said.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Japan accepts U.S. demand for 41% NTT fee cut by '02

Kyodo News The government plans to cut interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. by 41.1 percent by the end of 2002, a move Tokyo hopes will resolve a bitter trade row with the United States before this month's Group of Eight summit in Okinawa.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Albright to miss G8 to focus on Mideast summit

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday told Foreign Minister Yohei Kono that she will skip the Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting in Japan to focus on next week's Middle East summit in the United States.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Jul 7, 2000

Save the last dance for Yokota

Susumu Yokota's career has been mercurial enough to warrant the many pseudonyms under which he has released his work. Flitting from house to techno and back again, Yokota has brought his musical curiosity and energy to every genre he's chosen to embrace.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2000

Euphoria fading fast in South Korea

SEOUL -- No wonder economics is known as the dismal science. While everyone else is celebrating the love-in at Pyongyang between the two Kims, economists here in Seoul have been sitting down with their pencils and calculators. They just called in to say that their estimate of the discounted future benefits...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2000

China's unruly, untrustworthy territory

TOM CLIFFORD Staff writer HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong handover three years ago provided some of the most contradictory TV images of our age. An imperial drama, a colony being returned, was played out in the dying days of the 20th century. All that was missing was the setting sun.
COMMENTARY
Jul 7, 2000

Election results are disappointing

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori launched his new Cabinet Tuesday on the strength of an absolute majority won by the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the Conservative Party in the June 25 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Man arrested for allegedly conspiring to sell fake cigarettes

Police have arrested a 66-year-old real estate company employee for allegedly conspiring to sell counterfeit Mild Seven Lights and Seven Stars, both popular cigarette brands sold by Japan Tobacco Inc., police said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 7, 2000

Wild pitch gives Giants win in 11

Ryota Igarashi's wild pitch to Domingo Martinez in the top of the 11th inning allowed Takayuki Shimizu to score from third as the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants edged the Yakult Swallows 2-1 on Thursday night.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2000

Cabinet's focus must be economy, Nikkeiren says

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren), said Wednesday that he hopes Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's new Cabinet will work toward the full recovery of Japan's economy.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2000

IT, finance system reform on Fukuoka G7 agenda

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and his counterparts from the Group of Seven economic powers will meet Saturday in Fukuoka and discuss the policy implications of information technology, international financial system reforms and debt-relief programs for poor countries.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Osaka police crack down on crime ring over underage prostitution
Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.

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