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JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Firearms workshop set for September

A workshop to explore ways of restricting small firearms will be held Sept. 7 to 9 in Tokyo, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Death toll from slides, floods hits 13 as typhonic rains hit

Landslides and flooding triggered by the torrential rains of an approaching typhoon killed 13 people between Thursday and Friday and left four others missing, according to local officials.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

40 trillion yen set aside for small business loans

The government said Friday it will ensure that 40 trillion yen will be available for state financial institutions and credit insurers to help small businesses that are suffering from tight lending by banks.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

State mulls partial release of LTCB inspection data

The government will consider disclosing some financial data of the troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa indicated Friday before a Lower House special committee on financial system stabilization.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Japan, Korea to initiate fisheries talks Monday

Japan and South Korea will hold fisheries talks at the working level in Tokyo beginning Monday in a bid to conclude the negotiations before President Kim Dae Jung's planned trip to Japan in the fall, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Nikkei plunges under 14,000 to hit 12-year low

Fears of a synchronized global stock market rout sent Tokyo share prices into free fall Friday, driving down the Nikkei average to its lowest level in more than 12 years.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Thai minister calls on Japan to open farms market

Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi called on Japan Friday to assist Thailand's growing agricultural sector by opening its farm market to Thai products, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Malaysia proposes skills plan for APEC workforces

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JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

August CPI shows Tokyo prices unchanged

Consumer prices in Tokyo's 23 wards were unchanged in August from a year earlier and the previous month as lower fresh vegetable prices offset higher prices of seafood and medical care, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Government must act faster on economic data: SEC chief

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Foreign teachers push for equitable pensions

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JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Sickly firm's payouts to ex-bureaucrats spark vacations

Nihon Haika Corp. gave four former executives a total of about 42 million yen in retirement pay last summer, despite the company's nonretrievable debt of 2.7 billion yen, it was learned Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Factional politicians 'out of touch' with people, Tanaka says

Politicians must act in response to the public's will, not to power struggles with rival factions, and be held accountable for the outcome of their policies, Lower House lawmaker Makiko Tanaka said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Tokyo reform draft would slash number of departments

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government unveiled a draft Thursday for major administrative reform of its organizations, which, if implemented, would reduce the current 18 departments and bureaus to seven.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Huddle held on teamwork in Diet

The heads of three opposition parties pledged on Thursday to strengthen their cooperation.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Foreign airlines to be charged for flyovers

The Transport Ministry plans to collect 5.4 billion yen a year in fees from foreign airlines flying through Japanese airspace starting in January 2000, according to the ministry's fiscal 1999 budget request released Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Opposition slams handling of LTCB, demands disclosure

Opposition parties on Thursday harshly criticized the government's handling of the troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan during a Lower House committee meeting that resumed after a one-day opposition-camp boycott.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

10 killed by landslides in Fukushima, Tochigi

At least 10 people were killed and four others are missing after torrential rain triggered landslides in Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures early Thursday, officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Tokyo stocks plunge to six-year low

The key 225-issue Nikkei index closed at its lowest level in six years Thursday as investors continued to be spooked by falling share prices worldwide, the Russian ruble crisis, and uncertainty over Japan's weakened banking industry.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Gallows urged for real-estate broker

Prosecutors demanded capital punishment Thursday for a real estate broker on trial for killing an 82-year-old woman and his alleged 38-year-old male accomplice for money in 1989.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Appointees for African, COP4 conferences named

The government appointed Ambassador Kunio Katakura as Japan's representative for the Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development, Foreign Ministry officials announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Nonaka urges execs to return retirement bonuses

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka put indirect pressure Wednesday on former executives of the ailing Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan to return their lump-sum retirement grants.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Liver troubles afflict 24% of population: poll

Roughly one quarter of Japanese who had comprehensive medical checkups last year were found to be suffering from some sort of liver trouble, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Japan Hospital Association.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Return program serves as bridge for youths

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Multilingual disaster aides sought

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hold meetings in September to recruit multilingual volunteers to aid non-Japanese residents in the case of disasters, such as a massive earthquake, government officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Environment agency requests funds to fight dioxin

Reflecting growing public concerns over possible environmental contamination from dioxin -- believed to cause cancer -- the Environment Agency will make fiscal 1999 budget requests worth about eight times initial fiscal 1998 outlays to tackle the problem, agency officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

No state policy set on bank mergers, Miyazawa claims

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa denied Wednesday that the government already has a set policy of supporting future mergers involving major banks.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Japan to keep Iran loans suspended despite historical visit

KharraziLoans to Iran will not be resumed when Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visits Japan in the fall, although Japan will continue to assist Iranian reforms, a top Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

South Korean Foreign Minister Hong to visit

South Korean Foreign Minister Hong Soon Yung will visit Japan on Sept. 3-4 to meet with his counterpart, Masahiko Komura, and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, Foreign Ministry officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Opposition snubs Diet panel, delays financial deliberations

The Lower House's special committee on financial stabilization failed to meet Wednesday due to a boycott by the opposition camp over a procedural disagreement, but both camps agreed they would meet today.
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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