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BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Faster data-reading chip developed

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has developed what it claims to be the fastest noncontact data-reading chip, an achievement that could boost distribution of wireless identification applications.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Patent confab kicks off in Tokyo

A meeting of patent office chiefs from 12 Asian countries started today in Tokyo, the Patent Office said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Koizumi promises qualitative ODA

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday ahead of a weeklong visit to ASEAN countries that he hopes to make the contents of Japan's official development assistance qualitative. The government plans to slash its ODA budget by 10 percent in fiscal 2002.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Core machinery orders down for third month

Core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in July from the previous month to 931.5 billion yen, the third monthly drop in a row, the Cabinet Office said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Mad cow disease suspected to have hit Chiba dairy farm

CHIBA -- A dairy cow in Chiba Prefecture is suspected to have contracted mad cow disease, government officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Minister quells calls to form bad-loan disposal committee

Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa on Monday brushed aside growing calls to form a third-party committee to help banks dispose of bad loans and companies to deal with excessive debt.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Wholesale prices decline for 11th straight month

Domestic wholesale prices dropped 0.9 percent in August from the previous year for the 11th consecutive month of decline, the Bank of Japan said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Arabian Oil reaches basic agreement with Kuwait

Japan's largest oil producer, Arabian Oil Co., has reached a basic agreement with Kuwait on extending its drilling rights in the Khafji oil field, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 11, 2001

Escape urban chaos to old Thailand

NONTHABURI, Thailand -- In the eyes of Sulak Sivaraksa, Thailand's most caustic social critic, Bangkok has become "a third-rate Western city." Monster malls, condos, fast-food franchises, discos and billboards for Western clothes and appliances have gradually eroded the city's Asian look and atmosphere....
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Liquor store owner slain by burglar

OSAKA -- The 71-year-old owner of a liquor store was fatally stabbed during an attempted burglary at his premises in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward early Monday morning, police said.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2001

Typhoon Danas to hit main island of Japan

A powerful typhoon churning south of the Japanese archipelago dumped massive amounts of rain on areas from western Japan to the Tokyo metropolitan region Monday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Old before their time

From the mummies of ancient Egypt to the philosophers' search for the legendary Fountain of Youth to modern-day cryogenics, humankind has always longed for eternal life and everlasting youth. But has our fear of aging gone too far?
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

More students to be offered taste of diplomatic life

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

Needle suspected in cleaner's AIDS death

A waste disposal worker at a hospital may have died of AIDS after contracting HIV by accidentally pricking himself with discarded needles, according to a report submitted to a health ministry panel.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 9, 2001

Hirano to retire after season

Freestyle swimmer Masato Hirano, who holds the men's 1,500-meter national record, will retire after the current swimming season, Japanese swimming officials said Friday. Hirano, 26, has been the top Japanese long-distance swimmer, winning the national 1,500-meter title seven times while finishing sixth...
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Sep 9, 2001

Takarazuka chief pins group's success on Japan's decline

The success of the extravagant, all-woman Takarazuka theatrical troupe over the past decade owes a great deal to Japan's economic decline since the bubble economy of the late 1980s burst, according to Shinji Ueda, president of the Takarazuka Revue Co.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Vanity thy name is also man

If my mates could see me now, they'd just about die laughing.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

Japan ready to lift sanctions on India

Japan is considering lifting economic sanctions on India, imposed in 1998 to protest nuclear tests by New Delhi, before the end of the year in order to get bilateral relations back on a normal footing, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

Koizumi hails U.S. relations on anniversary of treaty

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi commemorated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty on Saturday by emphasizing the continued importance of solid U.S.-Japan relations.
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Sep 9, 2001

Poetry in motion

"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair . . ."
CULTURE / Books
Sep 9, 2001

A long-term relationship that works

PARTNERSHIP: The United States and Japan 1951-2001, edited by Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001, 333 pp., 3,800 yen (cloth). On Sept. 8, 1951, Japan and the United States, along with 47 other governments, signed a peace treaty that officially ended the Pacific...
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Still healthy, after all these years

FUKUOKA -- Passing your twilight years in Japan used to entail long days of contemplation and an austere diet of tofu. Sound dull? The good news is that doctors these days recommend an active social life for a happy, healthy old age. The bad news is, according to medical practitioner Magoe Ando, you'll...
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
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.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
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.
‘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’

Longform

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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