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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 21, 2001

The other little woman

"Tom-san," she called.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Osaka budgets 3.8 trillion yen for 2001

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Government announced a 3.8 trillion yen budget plan Tuesday for fiscal 2001 that will reduce personnel costs for the third consecutive year.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Osaka budgets 3.8 trillion yen for 2001

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Government announced a 3.8 trillion yen budget plan Tuesday for fiscal 2001 that will reduce personnel costs for the third consecutive year.
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2001

The G7 prescription for Japan

With signs of a slowdown in the U.S. economy casting a shadow over the global economy, the Group of Seven finance ministers and central-bank governors who gathered in Palermo, Italy, last weekend emphasized the need for coordinated action to ensure sustainable growth worldwide. That appeal for cooperation,...
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 21, 2001

Net ticketing could start soon

said Tuesday domestic applications over the Internet for tickets for the event to be cohosted with South Korea could start Thursday. According to JAWOC officials, the Internet service provider of soccer's world governing body FIFA successfully completed checks for more glitches from Monday night through...
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 21, 2001

Tiny birds and dwindling treasure

BANGKOK -- Imagine for a moment that you are an edible-nest swiftlet. You are a dusky bird, tiny enough to fit in the palm of a hand. In southern Thailand, where you live, you soar above the turquoise waters and jungle-clad islands of the Andaman Sea. You build your nests inside island caves hidden by...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 21, 2001

CWAJ lecture series draws a line

"What characterizes Japanese art is its obsession with lines," says Sumie Jones.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 21, 2001

Your Earth needs you! Volunteer now

In honor of the United Nations' decision to declare 2001 "The International Year of Volunteers," our last column devoted itself to an utterly shameless advertisement for the book "Kokusai Volunteer Guide: Inside International Voluntary Work," published by The Japan Times and written by Midori Paxton....
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 21, 2001

Who's napping now?

As any music fan knows, the future of Napster, the biggest free lunch of MP3s on the Net, is still very much in legal limbo. Last week a San Francisco appeals court confirmed a decision made this summer: Napster is knowingly infringing the copyrights of recording artists. The court asked U.S District...
MORE SPORTS
Feb 21, 2001

2000 Olympic marathon champ is set to turn pro

Japan's Sydney Olympic marathon champion Naoko Takahashi is expected to inform the Japan Amateur Athletic Federation of her plans to turn pro by the end of this month, athletics sources said Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 21, 2001

Crow problem or people problem?

I have traveled to many countries on all of the world's continents, and, always wearing my naturalist's cap, I tend to notice the wildlife, especially the birds. Some stick in one's memory, some don't, but the only country I have been where what sticks is the crows is Japan. Why is that?
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Mazda unveils deluxe minivan

Mazda Motor Corp. on Monday launched a deluxe version of its popular MPV minivan.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Nukaga to answer to KSD query on Feb. 26

Former Cabinet Minister Fukushiro Nukaga agreed Monday to give unsworn testimony to a closed-door Diet ethics panel over money he received from the scandal-hit mutual-aid insurance group KSD, Liberal Democratic Party officials said.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Small-cap issues find favor

Small-capitalization stocks, especially those traded on the over-the-counter market, are drawing strong buying interest.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Tokyo ward mulls taxing off-track bets

Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward is considering levying a tax on horse-race ticket sales, following in the steps of Yokohama, which approved a plan for a similar such tax in December, ward officials said.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Mori pressed to seek extension of search for missing Japanese

Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday to urge the United States to commit to continue searching for nine Japanese who went missing Feb. 9 when a U.S. Navy submarine hit and sank a Japanese long-liner near Hawaii.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

New Komeito bigwig predicts Mori resignation

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's resignation now appears inevitable, a senior New Komeito leader indicated Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Kamei says BOJ is to blame for the 'unstable' economy

Shizuka Kamei, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, urged the Bank of Japan to ease monetary policies to put the economy on a self-sustainable recovery path.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2001

Corporate investment is key

Amid widespread economic uncertainty, some economists prefer a more expansionary monetary policy or inflation targeting. At a recent meeting of the government's Economic and Fiscal Advisory Council, many members called on the Bank of Japan to relax credit restraints even further.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2001

He ain't heavy, he's Beat Takeshi. And he likes real handguns.

Turning out to promote "Brother" were director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, stars Omar Epps and Claude Maki, and producers Masayuki Mori (of Office Kitano) and Jeremy Thomas, who has worked in the past with Nagisa Oshima and Bernardo Bertolucci. Filmed on two continents, "Brother" is easily Kitano's most ambitious...
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Kono meets Djibouti minister

Japan and Djibouti agreed Monday to continue their friendly and cooperative relations, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

1,389 kg of drugs seized in 2000

The nation's customs authorities confiscated 1,389 kg of illegal drugs in 516 seizures during 2000, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2001

No game plan for a new politics

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's days are numbered. The latest popularity survey by one vernacular newspaper has found that public trust in his administration has plummeted to 9 percent. Not only the leader of a coalition party but also members of his Liberal Democratic Party are now speaking of the possibility...
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Supreme Court accepts advisory panel on judges

The Supreme Court said Monday it will accept the establishment of a panel that will advise the top court on appointing district and high court judges.
Shinjiro Koizumi takes farm ministry reins after predecessor's rice gaffe
Agriculture minister Taku Eto (left), who resigned on Wednesday, and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.
Tokyo to cover cost of base service fees for water utilities through summer
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking to make the cost of base service fees in water utility bills free during the summer, hoping the financial support will allow residents to turn on their air conditioners and protect themselves against heatstroke.
Trump’s wake-up call for India’s foreign policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13. Trump’s coercive use of trade threats against India during the Pakistan military crisis has undermined trust in the U.S.-India partnership and exposed Washington as an unreliable security ally.
Beware of dubious websites offering cheap rice, consumer watchdog warns
Questionable websites appear to be taking advantage of consumers looking for cheaper rice online amid the high prices of the staple grain in the nation.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa
Teru Hasegawa, Esperanto name Verda Majo, wrote leftist political essays during WWII.
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb
By Alex K.T. Martin

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