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JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Crimes help sodium azide get on toxins list

A Health and Welfare Ministry panel has decided to designate sodium azide as a toxic substance under the Poisonous Material Control Law in the wake of its use in a series of crimes, panel members said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Foley voices concern over rice tariff plans

U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley expressed strong concern Monday over Tokyo's plan to impose heavy tariffs on imported rice, saying it could fuel bilateral trade tensions.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Government nationalizes Nippon Credit Bank

The government has effectively placed Nippon Credit Bank under temporary state control, concluding the bad loan-laden institution had a capital deficit of 94.4 billion yen at the end of March.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Environment Agency targets diesel emissions

An advisory council under the Environment Agency proposed Monday a set of stricter emissions guidelines for diesel automobiles that would lower the upper exhaust limits of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter by more than one-fourth by 2004.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

New NTT shares set at 855,000 yen

The government has set the price for the public offering of 1 million shares of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. stock at 855,000 yen per share, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

NCB 'very regrettable,' Finance bureaucrat says

Vice Finance Minister Koji Tanami expressed regret Monday over the nationalization of Nippon Credit Bank but defended his ministry's decision last March to infuse public funds into the bank.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Japan to grant Tanzania 2.3 billion yen

Japan will extend up to 2.3 billion yen in aid grants to help Tanzania reconstruct its economy and improve food production, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi told Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on Monday, according to Foreign Ministry officials.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Latvia seeks cooperative relations with Japan

Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis said on Friday that his country and Japan can expand cooperative relations in various sectors, including economics and technology.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Justice Ministry moves toward Juvenile Law revamp

In a decisive move toward the first revisions to the Juvenile Law in 50 years, a Justice Ministry panel on Friday approved proposals to revamp juvenile hearing procedures.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Auto auctioneer way ahead of information highway

23rd in a series of occasional articles about venture businesses
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Extra Diet session smooth sailing for LDP

Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Tokyo invites Iran President to visit

Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Government presents LTCB restructuring plan

The troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, now under temporary state control, submitted a restructuring plan to the government pledging more job cuts and decreased overseas operations, the president of the LTCB announced Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

KEDO deal may collapse, Komura warns

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura expressed concern Friday that the agreement to provide North Korea with two light-water reactors may collapse unless Pyongyang cooperates to resolve suspicions about its missile and nuclear activities.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

JAL, ANA apply for higher fares

Japan Airlines Co. and All Nippon Airways Co. filed applications Friday with the Transport Ministry to raise first- and business-class fares on their Pacific and European routes.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Conservatives create league to back coalition

Four conservative groups within the Liberal Democratic Party formally launched a new group Friday, demanding a large-scale Cabinet reshuffle and a new party lineup when the LDP forms a coalition with the Liberal Party.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

Hormone disrupter meeting attracts 1,100 participants

Staff writerKYOTO -- In an attempt to exchange the latest research on one of the most critical environmental issues today, more than 1,100 scientists and government officials from eight countries gathered Friday in Kyoto for a three-day symposium on endocrine disrupters.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1998

U.S. lagging on defense deliveries: audit board

The United States failed to deliver 46.1 billion yen worth of defense equipment to Japan as of the end of fiscal 1997, despite Japan's advance payment, a Board of Audit report showed Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Wife gets 15 years in spouse's slaying

A 41-year-old woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for conspiring with her lover to kill her husband for insurance money.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Ex-employee's organ links Hayashi to another death

WAKAYAMA -- A deceased 27-year-old ex-employee of Kenji Hayashi, whose wife, Masumi, was served an arrest warrant Wednesday for allegedly murdering four people and trying to kill 63 others by lacing their curry with arsenic, has pointed a finger from the grave to implicate her in yet another arsenic-related...
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Iwanami films files for protection

Iwanami Productions Inc., a major documentary film producer, on Thursday sought court protection from creditors under the bankruptcy law.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Bird, nature groups push state to protect Fujimae wetland

Representatives of a national bird organization called on the government Thursday to preserve Aichi Prefecture's Fujimae tidal flats, citing predictions that building a landfill on the site would severely damage the nation's most important wetlands.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Tokyo-Pyongyang tensions elicit more Defense disclosure

Five-year-old tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are intensifying, and Japan is growing increasingly nervous about the prospects of another missile launch from its reclusive neighbor.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1998

Juvenile Law changes still under debate

A Justice Ministry panel debating changes to the Juvenile Law failed to reach a conclusion after a 10-hour marathon session Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

Kinki Nippon to sell HQ for retiree pay

Kinki Nippon Tourist Co. will sell its headquarters to Kinki Nippon Railway Co. later this month to raise retirement funds for personnel retiring early under its streamlining efforts, officials announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

Obuchi says bureaucrats should speak for Diet members

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi expressed his intention Wednesday to leave some room for bureaucrats to answer questions during Diet sessions, rather than having only Diet members do the job, as proposed by Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

LDP proposes housing loan tax breaks

The tax panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Wednesday to propose radical tax breaks for housing loans for fiscal 1999, calling the allowance "the largest issue" in the government's efforts to stimulate the moribund economy.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

Vietnam put on aid list for Miyazawa Plan

Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

Masumi Hayashi held in Wakayama curry killings

WAKAYAMA -- Police served Masumi Hayashi with a warrant Wednesday, charging her with murdering four people and attempting to kill 63 others by poisoning a vat of curry served up during Wakayama's Sonobe district summer festival.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 1998

Pyongyang suspected of missile activity, but not launch

Defense Agency chief Hosei Norota admitted to a Diet committee on Wednesday that the agency has obtained information suggesting that North Korea is constructing new missile facilities.
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.
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.
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.
‘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
The self as a muse: Leonard Foujita's world in paintings and photos
One of Leonard Foujita’s biggest muses was himself. He painted self-portraits, often with a cat on his side, looking back at the viewer. He posed for photographers throughout his life, the displayed photos showing he retained his signature bowl cut and round glasses.
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.

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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