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JAPAN
Apr 16, 1997

Upper House eatery holding to pre-hike prices

Upper House members do not like the consumption tax. This may be why the chamber's restaurant has kept prices to what they were at before the levy was hiked to 5 percent on April 1.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 1997

Criminal charges sought against PNC, officials

The Science and Technology Agency has asked police to take criminal action against Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. and some PNC officers over a series of accidents and ensuing coverup attempts at its atomic facilities, agency chief Riichiro Chikaoka said April 16.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Japan to finance Egypt bridge project with 12 billion yen

Japan will provide Egypt with about 12 billion yen in grant-in-aid to help the Middle East nation build a bridge across the Suez Canal as part of its efforts to develop the Sinai Peninsula, government officials said April 15.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Brain death splits Lower House

Although debate at the Lower House Health and Welfare Committee has nearly come to an end, committee legislators are still divided over whether brain death should be legally recognized as death.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Komae mayor also admits taking bribes

Former Mayor Mitsuo Ishii of Komae, Tokyo, who stepped down last June after amassing huge gambling debts, pleaded guilty April 15 to charges of bribe-taking in his first trial hearing before the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Yasato mayor fined for taking bribes, walks

Former Mayor Tateo Sakurai of Yasato, Ibaraki Prefecture, was given a three-year prison term, suspended for five years, and fined 25 million yen for taking bribes from contractors to help them land municipal public works projects.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Mitsuzuka urges pension reform

The public pension system needs to be reformed -- through such steps as cuts in payments to high-income earners -- if it is to withstand the effects of a rapidly aging population, Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said April 15.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Osaka, Northeast England business chambers link

OSAKA -- The Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Britain's North East Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Industry on April 15 signed a joint statement to strengthen cooperation in facilitating trade and investment, as well as to develop links between universities in the regions.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

1997 likely to be critical for banks

The upcoming year will be a critical one for domestic banking as the industry decides on a new grand design for Japanese financial institutions operating in the global markets, the head of the nation's banking community said April 15.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1997

Tokyo halts high-level talks with Iran

Japan will suspend high-level dialogue with Iran "for the time being" but has no immediate plan to recall its ambassador to Tehran, Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda said April 15.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Kochi to drop clause on Japanese-only jobs

KOCHI -- The Kochi Prefectural Government on April 14 said it will extract the nationality clause from its guidelines for the employment of prefectural workers, except for certain positions.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Korean war laborers sue for apology, 60 million yen

NAGASAKI -- Two South Korean women on April 14 filed a lawsuit with the Shizuoka District Court demanding that an official apology and restitution totaling 60 million yen be made by the central government for forcing them to labor at a Shizuoka Prefecture yarn factory during World War II.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Industry agrees on rewritable DVD standards

After negotiations stretching over more than a year, 10 electronics firms from Japan, the U.S. and Europe have finally agreed on standardized DVD formats for rewritable and write-once applications, a consortium of companies said April 14.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Campaign for marine life lost as bay closes

NAGASAKI -- The agriculture ministry began working April 14 to close off the inside of Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture -- a move that will consign death to mudskippers and other marine creatures on the largest dry beach in Japan.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Serial child-killer Miyazaki gets death sentence

Print shop worker Tsutomu Miyazaki, 34, was sentenced to death April 14 for the abduction and murder of four girls in Tokyo and Saitama prefectures in 1988 and 1989 in a serial killing spree that shocked the nation.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Cuban foreign minister to visit Japan

Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina Gonzalez will visit Japan from April 17 to April 19 to meet with his Japanese counterpart, Yukihiko Ikeda, and State Foreign Secretary Masahiko Komura, ministry officials said April 14.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 1997

Crime spree nets laborer 17 years

A 38-year-old construction worker was sentenced April 14 to 17 years in prison at hard labor for committing a number of crimes, including taking a 2-year-old girl hostage and wounding her after a 1995 Tokyo robbery.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Bullying victim, 16, takes own life

NAGANO -- A 16-year-old high school boy from Mochizuki, Nagano Prefecture, was found dead hanging from a tree in a forest near his home and a floppy disk among his possessions suggests the youth took his life because he had been bullied, police said Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

SDP duo break ranks on base bill

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and Katsuhiko Yokomitsu, both Social Democratic Party members in the Lower House, did not oppose a government-proposed bill to empower the government to continue leasing, even forcibly, land for U.S. military facilities in Okinawa Prefecture, despite the party's...
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Osaka opens more jobs to foreigners

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Government has drawn up a report to allow about 70 percent of jobs related to civil engineering, architecture and hygiene engineering in the prefectural government to be opened to long-term non-Japanese residents.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Saito denies buying Diet seat

Real estate company chief Mamoru Saito, who is allegedly involved in the Orange Kyosai Kumiai mutual aid society fraud, repeatedly denied Friday that he distributed money to politicians to buy a Diet position for Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Aoshima qualifies scope of disclosure

Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima unveiled a new set of guidelines Friday to widen information disclosure on wining and dining expenses at meetings, but said he will exclude names of metropolitan assembly members from the disclosure for three months -- in an apparent bid to save them from being affected in the...
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Yeltsin welcomed to 'G-8' summit

Despite earlier reluctance, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is ready to welcome Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Group of Seven summit in Denver, Colo., in June, Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda told a visiting senior Russian official Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

OECD outlines steps for regulatory reform

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has drafted a report recommending eight policy principles for regulatory reform in member countries to help spur their economic growth and promote international trade and investment.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Foreign nonlife insurers want review

Foreign nonlife insurers called Friday for a review of Japan's insurance rating system that would allow insurers to set premium rates through their own efforts. The Foreign Nonlife Insurance Association of Japan voiced concern that debate surrounding reform of the current rating system, which was pledged...
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Polls show Okinawans oppose lease bill

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. -- A majority of Okinawa residents are against a bill aimed at giving the central government the power to continue leasing land for U.S. military bases, even if landowners refuse to renew the contracts, according to opinion polls conducted by two of the prefecture's local newspapers....
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Mitsuzuka says Japan ready to halt yen's plunge

Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka repeated Friday his intent to take timely action against the yen's excessive weakness. The yen's fall against the dollar until Thursday was "apparently excessive," Mitsuzuka told reporters after a regular Cabinet meeting.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Majority approval sends bill on base leases to Upper House

A government-sponsored bill that will enable the state to continue forcibly leasing land for U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture was sent to the Upper House Friday after receiving overwhelming support in the Lower House.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

Man held for blackmailing molestation, stalking victim

OSAKA -- Police on Friday arrested a 33-year-old man from Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, on suspicion he that tried to blackmail a woman into going out with him after repeatedly molesting on crowded trains.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 1997

JR Tokai seeks exchange listings

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) filed a provisional application Friday to list its shares on the Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kyoto stock exchanges, according to JR Tokai officials. JR Tokai, one of seven Japan Railway group companies created when Japanese National Railways was privatized in 1987, plans...
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘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
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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