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BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Snow Brand to abolish 1,000 jobs

Due to a sharp decline in sales after a massive outbreak of food-poisoning last summer, Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Friday that it will cut 1,000 jobs by the end of September and close an additional three factories by the end of March.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Trio dies after car plunges into bay

Two women and a man were killed when their car plunged into water from Shibaura Wharf in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Thursday night in what is believed to be a multiple suicide, police said Friday.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Hansen's ruling appeal, deal eyed

The government is considering starting negotiations with former Hansen's disease patients for an out-of-court settlement after filing an appeal against a court ruling last week ordering the state to pay them compensation, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Nonresidents continue their spending spree

Foreign investors were net buyers of Japanese stocks for the eighth straight week last week.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Slovenian envoy calls for investment

The top Slovenian envoy to Japan called Friday for the opening of a Japanese Embassy in the European country to help promote Japanese investment and bilateral exchanges.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

LDP sees nuclear as a core source of power

Nuclear power is regarded virtually as a core energy source in a bill for Japan's basic law on energy being prepared by Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers, according to the full text obtained by Kyodo News.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

16% of workers pirate their software: poll

Sixteen percent of people in Japan have copied computer software illegally while at work, according to a survey by industry groups, including the Association of Copyright for Computer Software.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Urban renewal key to revival: Koizumi

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday urban renewal is key to economic structural reform and reviving Japan.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

MSDF base allegedly in on coverup

Toru Ishikawa, chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, said Friday that everyone at Yokosuka Communication Station, including its commander, was involved in a drugs coverup related to a petty officer third class who was arrested last month.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

BOJ increases its efforts to give money to banks

The Bank of Japan said Friday that it will make two-, four-, five- and six-year government notes subject to its regular market operations staring next month.
EDITORIALS
May 19, 2001

India's opposition turns up the heat

India's prime minister, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, insists that the results of last week's state elections are of no concern to his government. Technically speaking, he is right; the vote was for 823 seats in local legislatures in five states. But while voting for state candidates, Indians sent a message...
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2001

Holes in the plan for NMD

The Bush administration is right: The existing architecture of nuclear-arms control reflects a Cold War-centered world that is gone forever. Much of the negative response to the Bush plan for a missile-defense shield is knee-jerk reaction to the fact that yesterday's strategic certainties are having...
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Mitsubishi Motors posted record loss of 278 billion yen during fiscal 2000

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., hit hard by the repercussions of a recall coverup scandal, suffered consolidated net losses of 278.14 billion yen for fiscal 2000 -- the biggest in the firm's history -- due to smaller sales and extraordinary losses.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Internet securities accounts increase to 1.93 million

The number of securities accounts for Internet trading came to about 1.93 million at the end of March, up 610,000 from half a year earlier, according to the Japan Securities Dealers Association.
COMMENTARY
May 19, 2001

Diplomacy fails to measure up

The administration of President George W. Bush has disclosed major changes in U.S. military and diplomatic strategies. These include the stepped-up deployment of U.S. missile defense systems, the discontinuation of the "two major war" approach and the overhaul of policies toward North Korea.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

Sega to supply games for GameCube

Video game maker Sega Corp. announced Friday it will supply three game titles for GameCube, Nintendo Co.'s next-generation game console, adding that another four games are under development.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 19, 2001

Yakult's Ramirez drives in seven runs

Yakult's Alex Ramirez went 4-for-5 and drove in seven runs in his team's 16-hit batting rampage as the Swallows trounced the Hanshin Tigers 14-3 at Jingu Stadium on Friday night.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

White paper calls for foreign investment

To cope with intensifying competition with China amid a prolonged economic slump at home, Japan should actively woo foreign direct investment and become more efficient, according to the White Paper on International Trade 2001 released Friday.
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Panel chair nixes call for Nakamura to quit over bribery

The House of Councilors Steering Committee on Friday killed an opposition-proposed resolution calling on former Construction Minister Kishiro Nakamura to resign from Parliament over a conviction for bribe-taking, which he has appealed, arguing he is not guilty.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2001

KDDI reports net profits surge of 318% for fiscal 2000

KDDI Corp., the nation's No. 2 telecom operator, announced Friday its earnings results for fiscal 2000, which ended in March.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2001

Koreans' dream of unity is still remote

SEOUL -- In less than a month, Koreans will commemorate the first anniversary of the historic inter-Korean summit. In mid-June last year, the leaders of the divided country met for the first time and vowed to open a new chapter in peninsular relations. Numerous political and academic events will take...
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Tokyo Metro government now testing a 'pollen-icide'

A Tokyo Metropolitan Government-affiliated institution says it may have a solution to the nation's pollen problem.
EDITORIALS
May 19, 2001

Moderation wins in Spain

Spanish voters rejected violence on both ends of the political spectrum last weekend. In parliamentary elections in the Basque region, the moderate Basque Nationalist Party was the big winner. The party, which already heads the regional government, has vowed to fight for independence through legal means....
JAPAN
May 19, 2001

Top officials of coalition mull trips to Beijing, Seoul

The secretaries general of the Liberal Democratic Party and its two coalition partners are considering visiting China and South Korea in the near future, LDP Secretary General Taku Yamasaki said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 19, 2001

Dancing with rubbish leads to dancing with rice

It is easy to pick out dancer Firak di Bello in a crowd. Slight of build and all skin and bone, his shaven head mirrors the sun. Equally distinctive are his eyes (as wary as they are warm and all-seeing), the hawklike nose (which leads the way) and a gait that bobs rather than glides.
Luxury Tokyo penthouse sold for over $65 million in new record
Sales of luxury properties in Tokyo, like Azabudai Hills’ Aman Residences, have pushed up average real estate prices in the capital.
Bags of rice at half price will hit stores by early June, Koizumi says
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a supermarket to check the prices of rice on Friday in Koto.
U.S. Marine arrested for Okinawa hit-and-run that injured four
Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Police and the U.S. military conduct a joint patrol in the city of Okinawa in April. Prefectural police arrested a U.S. Marine for an alleged hit-and-run case on Sunday.
Ukraine's key allies no longer limiting range of weapons, Germany's Merz says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion during the opening of the 'Re:publica 25' digital conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Eagle nest discovery sparks opposition to megasolar project
The white-tailed eagle's wintering grounds include Hokkaido, northern Honshu, the Russian coast, the southern Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.
Fighters already showing last season's playoff run was no fluke
Fighters starter Hiromi Ito pitches against the Hawks in Fukuoka on April 29.
A moving meditation: Finding serenity in tea ceremony across space and time
Drawn to tea ceremony while volunteering at a Japanese garden in Phoenix, Arizona, Michele Laudig (right) came to learn a “common language of movement and ritual” that brought her into new communities in New York City and Tokyo.
Are microplastics hurting our fertility?
A worker sorts plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo in 2019. Japan has been criticized by environmental groups for its strategy on plastics, which is heavily reliant on recycling instead of reduction.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?
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