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BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Japan called on to help redevelop Panama Canal

Nearly a century after Japanese engineer Akira Aoyama contributed to the construction of the Panama Canal, Panama is now seeking fresh investment and expert advice from Japan to redevelop the world's crucial waterway to serve 21st-century needs.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Life, nonlife insurers tie up

Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. on Monday formally announced a comprehensive tieup that includes joint marketing of each other's products and integration of Dai-ichi's nonlife insurance subsidiary with Yasuda.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 29, 2000

End this dysfunctional relationship

LEAVING JAPAN: Observations on the Dysfunctional U.S.-Japan Relationship. By Mike Millard. M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 2000, 200 pp., $37.95. The $79-billion question is why does the United States continue to tolerate the lopsided economic relationship with Japan that led to a such a massive trade imbalance...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 29, 2000

Beer, blisters and the Tokaido

REDISCOVERING THE OLD TOKAIDO: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige, by Patrick Carey. Folkestone: Global Oriental, 148 pp. and 54 color plates, 16.50 British pounds. Retracing notable footprints is a noble enterprise, and various are the pilgrimages, religious, literary or otherwise. In Japan, retaking known...
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2000

Japan sits out antismoking campaign

While attending the 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health from Aug. 7 in Chicago, I was very impressed by the enthusiasm of participants seeking tighter controls on smoking. The first conference, hosted by the American Cancer Society, was held in New York in 1967. The latest conference was hosted...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Mori to push for expansion of UNSC

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori plans to call for an increase in the number of both permanent and nonpermanent members of the U.N. Security Council in a brief speech he will deliver Sept. 7 at the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York, government sources said Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2000

Wiretap, but carefully

The wiretap law against organized crime that took effect on Aug. 15 could prove a double-edged sword. It allows law-enforcement officials to eavesdrop on phone conversations (including cell-phone conversations), fax messages and e-mail. Unless properly enforced, however, the law could violate basic rights,...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

North Korean spy faces abduction questioning

The National Police Agency and the Metropolitan Police Department sent five officers to South Korea on Sunday to question a North Korean spy suspected of being involved in the disappearance of a man from Miyazaki Prefecture in 1980, NPA and MPD sources said.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

Seoul's Itaewon stages revival

SEOUL -- Seoul's scruffy backwater of Itaewon -- for years known only for its girlie bars, tatty drinking dens, cut-price souvenirs and fake watches -- is undergoing a gradual transformation.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Driver shot after running into cop car

OSAKA -- A 30-year-old man was shot in the stomach by police in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday after attempting to run over four police officers with his car and then ramming their patrol car in an effort to escape from a garage, police said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 28, 2000

Rose sparks BayStars in thrashing of Giants

Bobby Rose jump-started Yokohama with a two-run homer in the first inning and Takanori Suzuki connected for a pair of his own Sunday to power the BayStars 10-1 over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

Managing Japan's monetary policy

The Bank of Japan announced Aug. 11 that it would abandon its "zero-interest rate" policy, by which is meant that the money market interest rate at the shortest end of terms would be virtually zero.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

E-commerce forum set for Sept. 13

A prominent U.S. business school is holding an e-commerce forum Sept. 13 at the Hilton Tokyo Hotel in Shinjuku Ward, inviting four corporate leaders engaged in e-commerce in Japan to discuss how the Internet is transforming global business management.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2000

U.N. central to future peace

Hisashi Owada, former ambassador to the United Nations and now president of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, emphasized in a recent interview with this writer that Japan should play a larger role in the 188-member world body, saying: "Japan should contribute to the resolution of global issues,...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Miyake Island residents flee volcano

A mass exodus of people from Miyake Island continued Sunday amid fears that a major eruption could hit the volcanic island south of Tokyo, and local officials put up concrete shelters for those remaining.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 28, 2000

A revisionist's view of Japanese history

"Kokumin no Rekishi," published last year, has been touted as the first major attempt to rewrite Japanese history. I've acquired and read it because I've been asked to comment on Japanese nationalism next month, in Chicago. The author of the book, Kanji Nishio, has been prominent in the movement known...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 28, 2000

General Motors humming along -- never mind the environment

A vacation is such a wonderful chance to seek out the unusual and inexplicable. This month my family and I are immersed in a foreign culture, intrigued and perplexed by the ways of an alien people. Most confounding, this culture is my own.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2000

Shattering the myth of race

When two rival scientific groups jointly announced in June that they had completed a working draft of the entire sequence of the human genome -- the genetic material found in every cell of every human being -- the achievement was rightly greeted as a milestone of modern medical research.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Fiber-optic cable network planned to connect schools

The Education Ministry plans to build a fiber-optic cable network to link schools in some parts of the country to allow the transfer of audio and visual information between them, ministry officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Railway union to vote on ending JR dispute

The National Railway Workers Union (Kokuro) decided Saturday to vote in September on accepting a proposal by four political parties aimed at resolving the union's long-standing dispute with Japan Railway group firms, Kokuro officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Corpse identified; foul play suspected

OSAKA -- Police on Saturday identified the body of a woman found adrift in May in waters off Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, as that of an Osaka woman who had been missing since early April, police said.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

33% support organ donation

Nearly one-third of Japanese want to donate their organs in the event of brain death but only 4 percent constantly carry organ donor cards, the Prime Minister's Office said Saturday, citing a government poll.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Petroleum stockpile set to increase

The government will raise the country's petroleum stockpile to 345.95 million barrels from 314.5 million barrels for the first hike in 14 years, government officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Endoscope users report problems

Nearly 75 percent of users of Toshiba Corp.'s electronic endoscope have experienced problems with the product, according to the results of a survey made available Saturday.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion
The larger-than-life hairstyles of Japan's Showa Era are unmistakable — and they're making a comeback.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan should produce its own AI defense solutions, Sakana AI CEO says
Sakana AI CEO David Ha speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan gets ‘wake-up call’ with $4.5 billion annual net loss
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa in Tokyo as the company releases its results
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.

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