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JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Surveillance urged as Aum expands activity

Aum Shinrikyo is becoming increasingly active and establishing new facilities in the Tokyo area with profits from its lucrative computer business, the Public Security Investigation Agency warned Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Ogata calls on Japan to expedite refugee efforts

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, urged Japan on Monday to process refugee applications more swiftly and to make its refugee policies more transparent.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Dollar drops into 131 yen range

The dollar plummeted against the yen Monday amid growing fears that financial crises in Russia and other emerging markets will negatively impact the U.S. economy.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Kurosawa to receive special award

Film director Akira Kurosawa, who died Sunday, will posthumously receive the People's Honor Award in recognition of his lifetime work, the top government spokesman said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

News exhibit to open in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA -- An exhibition on the history of English-language news coverage in Japan will open next Tuesday in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Coffee hit in latest food-tampering case

A 55-year-old man in Ibaraki Prefecture fell ill after drinking coffee in a paper carton purchased at a convenience store Sunday night, one of the latest incidents in a rash of food-tampering cases, police said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Tokyo's elderly to reach 1.74 million

Tokyo's elderly Japanese residents will number 1.74 million as of Sept. 15, accounting for 14.9 percent of the capital's population, Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

NEC starts up communications unit in Singapore

NEC Corp. announced Monday it has set up a subsidiary in Singapore to design and develop hardware and software of base stations for wide-band Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), a next-generation wide-band mobile communication system.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Supreme Court overturns Korean fingerprinting case

The Supreme Court overturned an earlier high court decision Monday, ruling that the 1986 arrest of a Korean resident in Kyoto over his refusal to be fingerprinted was not illegal.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Prefectures asked to gear up for poisonings

Alarmed by a series of copycat poisoning crimes, the Health and Welfare Ministry on Monday requested prefectural governments to take steps to insure swift treatment of any future victims.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Japan, EU set ministerial talks for Oct. 12

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JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Tokyo hosts global gun control talks

The introduction of an identification system to prevent illegal trade in small fire arms was discussed Monday by delegates at an international workshop in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

MITI awaits U.S. steel action

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is closely watching the U.S. steel industry to see whether it will file a suit against Japanese steelmakers for dumping hot rolled steel -- a core commodity, a top ministry official said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

New headrest can reduce whiplash injuries

Nissan Motor Co. has developed a headrest that will reduce whiplash injuries in rear-end collisions by at least 30 percent, the company announced Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

North Korea remains on condemned list

Although it remains unclear what exactly North Korea launched over Japan on Aug. 31, the government's condemnation of Pyongyang's act still stands, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Oimachi shop owner killed in knife attack

A Tokyo store owner near JR Oimachi Station was stabbed to death Monday morning by three men, who appeared to be Asian foreigners, in an apparent burglary, police said.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Opera house set for gala opening

OTSU, Shiga Pref. -- Giving a boost to opera, the only theater in western Japan to offer a special four-tier stage, will celebrate its gala opening today at the southern shore of Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Dollar dips below 133 yen before bouncing back

The dollar hit its lowest level in more than three months Friday in Tokyo amid lingering worries about the global stock market decline.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Fighting may be over, but refugee aid continues

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is operating in an era of "unachievable peace," which followed an "unwinnable war," UNHCR Sadako Ogata said at Tokyo's Japan National Press Club on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Imported auto sales drop 16.9% in 17th down month

The nation's imported vehicle sales dropped 16.9 percent in August to 15,597 units from the same period last year, down for the 17th straight month, the Japan Automobile Importers Association announced Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Governor appoints new U.N. ambassador

The government on Friday appointed Yukio Sato as ambassador to the United Nations, Foreign Ministry officials said. He replaces Hisashi Owada, who has held the post for more than four years.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Supermarket insider suspected in poison oolong case

A case of poisoning that has hit the quiet, rural communities of Nagano Prefecture may have been the act of a person familiar with the operation of the local supermarket where cyanide-laced cans of oolong tea were placed, police officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Opposition vows to fight LTCB bailout

Three major opposition parties told the Diet on Friday they are determined to block any government move to inject public funds into the ailing Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

FSA bank inspector commits suicide

A bank inspector at the Financial Supervisory Agency hanged himself Thursday morning at his home in Tokyo, the FSA said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Photo trade group warned not to share information

The Fair Trade Commission warned the Photo-sensitized Materials Manufacturers Association on Friday against hindering fair competition in the domestic market by exchanging trade information detailing production, shipments and shipping prices of their products among member companies.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Nissan plans transmission firm in 1999

Nissan Motor Co. will establish a new automatic transmission manufacturing company in the summer of 1999, the company said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Osaka drafts 10-year reform plan

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Government on Friday officially proposed a 10-year financial restructuring plan to alleviate financial problems that have worsened since the burst of the bubble economy in the early 1990s.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Miyazawa urges review of bank-screening criteria

Screening criteria to determine whether public funds should be infused into banks should be revised, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa indicated Friday, saying the current standards are difficult to understand.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Lawyers grill ex-cultist

The defense counsel for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara cross-examined a former Aum follower Friday who was allegedly involved in making a spray device used in the June 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Police warn against copycat poisonings

The Metropolitan Police Department requested the nation's retailers and beverage makers on Friday to tighten security in the wake of a recent series of poisoning cases in Wakayama, Niigata and Nagano prefectures.
Explosion at U.S. air base in Okinawa injures four
The Kadena U.S. Air Force Base in Okinawa Prefecture. An emergency call was made at around 11:15 a.m. reporting that a small-scale explosion occurred at a storage depot for unexploded shells.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Hakuho vows to grow sumo globally after exiting domestic sports body
Former yokozuna Hakuho gives a news conference to announce his retirement from the Japan Sumo Association and reveal his future plans in Tokyo on Monday.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
Top banker vows loyalty to DEI at Tokyo Pride Parade as Trump’s pushback rages
Akihiko Ogino, president and CEO of Daiwa Securities Group, says Japan should press ahead with diversity initiatives as he attends the Tokyo Pride parade in the capital's Shibuya area on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.

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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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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