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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2000

Journalistic cleansing at the Boston Globe

The U.S. media has long been known for its left-leaning bias. That bias seems to be coming through at the Boston Globe in its treatment of columnist Jeff Jacoby, who is now serving what looks to be a politically inspired suspension over a column that he wrote commemorating America's Independence Day....
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2000

A step forward in Asian cooperation

SEOUL -- Asia is gradually moving toward a security framework dramatically different from that in Europe, consisting of processes rather than institutions between and among nation-states -- many of which have outstanding political, ideological or territorial conflicts. And in Asia, unlike the case in...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2000

Fuji Rock fest hits its stride

After only four years, it might seem premature to subtitle the Fuji Rock Festival a "summer classic," but the event's institutional status was boosted this year by the fact that it was held at the same location as it was the year before. The Naeba Ski Resort was never the organizers' first choice --...
CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2000

Urawa Art Museum picks art to make book on

Urawa Art Museum, which opened in April as the second public museum in Saitama Prefecture, is currently exhibiting 220 books created by 20th-century Western artists.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 6, 2000

Breaking down the Japanese inferiority myth

Do Japanese people have an inferiority complex? Japanese people often tell me they feel inferior to foreigners. You've probably heard Japanese people say some of following yourself:
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 6, 2000

'Rakugo' artist takes sit-down shtick to Edinburgh festival, with subtitles

OSAKA -- Traditional comic storyteller Koharudanji Katsura will be participating in an international festival in Edinburgh this month, reciting a "rakugo" piece in Japanese.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2000

Beer and loathing in Naeba

First it was the black flying things -- hundreds of them swooping and screeching and diving around the main tower of the hotel.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2000

Untruely, unmadly, shallowly in love

Daisuke Takeya went to New York to study art in 1989 and got thoroughly sick of being told by everybody and anybody that they loved him, in typically free and easy American style. On the other hand, he enjoyed the mispronunciation of his name Daisuke into Daisuki, meaning "I really like you" in Japanese...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2000

Bach Collegium Japan fetes anniversary year with passion

Bach Collegium Japan: July 28, Masaaki Suzuki conducting in Suntory Hall -- "Saint John Passion," BWV 245 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750) featuring Gerd Tyrk, Stephan MacLeod, Chiyuki Urano, Midori Suzuki and Robin Blaze
EDITORIALS
Aug 5, 2000

The Philadelphia story

It is official. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, "W" (that is "Dubya" to Texans), is now the Republican Party candidate for U.S. president. In another perfectly coordinated, masterfully executed convention, the GOP rallied behind Mr. Bush and his running mate, Mr. Dick Cheney, and began the real campaign for...
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

FSA panel resumes study of banking laws

The Financial System Council, an advisory panel to the head of the Financial Services Agency, on Friday resumed work aimed at revising the Banking Law next year to cope with an expected influx of new banks.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

Average Cabinet minister has 258 million yen in assets

The personal and family assets of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and his Cabinet at the time of the Cabinet's formation July 4 averaged 258 million yen, according to government data released on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

A-bomb survivor tells of torments, appeals for peace

A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima this week told of the torments she suffered as a result of the bomb and issued an appeal for peace ahead of the 55th anniversary of the attack Sunday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

Truancy reaches record high

More than 130,000 elementary and junior high school students were truant for 30 or more school days during the 1999-2000 academic year, according to an Education Ministry survey released Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

Diet probes ministry for CJD negligence

The House of Representatives is set to launch an investigation into whether the Health and Welfare Ministry is to blame for people contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after receiving imported dura mater during transplants, Lower House members said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

June index shows expansion for 14th straight month: EPA

The diffusion index of coincident economic indicators, a key measure in assessing the current state of the economy, expanded in June for the 14th consecutive month, the Economic Planning Agency said in a preliminary report released Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

India-Japan ties on Mori's agenda

Japan and India will agree this month to establish two high-powered joint panels -- one of prominent private-sector experts and another of high-level government officials -- to develop and strengthen bilateral relations, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

FRC to look at bank lending reports

The head of the Financial Reconstruction Commission pledged Friday to have major banks probe allegations that some of them padded figures of loans extended to small and midsize firms during fiscal 1999 to deflect public criticism of a credit crunch.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

Construction bonds may be used for other projects: Mori

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori indicated his qualified support Friday for a Liberal Democratic Party plan to allow construction bonds to be issued to fund outlays on projects other than public works.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 5, 2000

Swallows end Giants' winning ways

Roberto Petagine hit a two-run homer and Kenjiro Kawasaki pitched eight strong innings Friday to beat the Yomiuri Giants and Darrell May 3-2, ending the Central League leaders' five-game winning streak.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

U.S. POW, 80, forgives Japan but not his mine slave masters

KYOTO -- Despite the torturous experiences he underwent during his 31/2 years as a U.S. prisoner of war in World War II, Lester Tenney says he does not dislike the Japanese people.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

Nikkeiren moves toward OK for Keidanren tieup

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Pref. -- Business leaders attending a Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) meeting here agreed Friday that the group should pursue a merger with the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren).
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

Imported car sales fell 6.8% in July

Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan fell 6.8 percent in July from a year earlier to 22,050 units, snapping a two-month rising streak, the Japan Automobile Importers Association announced on Friday.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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