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BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2000

Toyota to boost output at Derby plant by 30%

Toyota Motor Corp. will spend billions of yen to increase the output of its British factory in Derby by some 30 percent until it is making about 230,000 vehicles a year in 2001, company officials said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2000

Hasten slowly on ties with Pyongyang

Japan is moving to expedite negotiations on a peace treaty with North Korea, but it should be in no hurry at all. Famine-stricken North Korea has often asked foreign countries for food aid, and Japan has obliged by supplying a large amount of rice. There is no way of knowing if the Japanese-supplied...
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2000

Educational reform, not regression

It has long been recognized that Japan's educational system is badly in need of reform. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori repeatedly makes it clear that he agrees. The indications are plentiful: the collapse of classroom discipline in elementary schools; the rising rates of prolonged absenteeism and physical...
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

No request to change NCB deal

Ruling coalition legislators on Monday dropped a plan to ask a Softbank Corp.-led consortium to accept the removal of a bad-loan buyback clause from their sales contract for the nationalized Nippon Credit Bank, coalition officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Farm ministry rejects Albright's call to stop whaling

Japan has no intention of stopping what it calls whaling for research purposes, the Japanese vice farm minister said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Mori apologizes for naming shady Kuze as FRC chief

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday officially apologized for having appointed scandal-tainted Kimitaka Kuze as chief of the Financial Reconstruction Commission, telling the Diet he was not fully aware of Kuze's shady background.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Disneyland offers gays chance to come out in the sun

As is always the case at weekends during summer vacation, Tokyo Disneyland was packed by tens of thousands of visitors Sunday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Legal response to domestic violence "insufficient," panel says

An advisory panel on gender equality submitted a report to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday labeling domestic violence a criminal act and seeking adequate legislation and measures to stop violence in the home.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

Toyota, affiliate to merge logistics, forklift divisions

Toyota Motor Corp. and its affiliate Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. agreed Monday to integrate their logistics and forklift divisions in April 2001, the two firms said.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Japan-led team finds clues to missing antiparticles

OSAKA -- A Japanese-led team of international researchers said Monday it has discovered more evidence suggesting that particles and antiparticles may not be completely symmetrical, which could explain why antiparticles vanished early in the history of the universe.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

Shinsei reports billions spent on consultants

Shinsei Bank, formerly the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, concluded contracts worth about 5.7 billion yen with three consulting firms, two of which are headed by two Shinsei board directors, the bank said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Osaka court rules against women in job-discrimination suit

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Monday rejected a 160 million yen damages suit filed against Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. by two employees who claimed they were discriminated against in terms of salary and advancement because they are women.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Weak are victimized as loan guarantors

Yoshikazu Kudo (not his real name) and his wife have both been deaf from birth. For decades they have lived at ease in an old but neat house built by Kudo's brother in Musashino, Tokyo. But things changed after the husband of Kudo's late sister disappeared, leaving behind over 80 million yen in debts....
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 1, 2000

Part 1: The most hated man in football

So the South Africans want to sue after failing to win the 2006 World Cup. Sue who? Well, they haven't quite figured that one out yet, but they know the World Cup was theirs by right. Right?
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Scandal drops Nikkei to 16-month low

The key 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell to a fresh 16-month closing low Monday despite a partial recovery from its intraday low.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

June housing starts down 1.2% for second consecutive fall

Japan's housing starts in June totaled 113,098 units, down 1.2 percent for the second consecutive year-on-year fall, the Construction Ministry said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2000

Albright urges Mori to discuss missile issue with North Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday urged Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to take up North Korea's missile and nuclear energy programs in Tokyo's dialogue with Pyongyang, a Japanese official said.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

Bridgestone profit bigger than expected

Bridgestone Corp. said Monday its unconsolidated pretax profit rose 0.9 percent in the fiscal first half ended June 30 to 50.20 billion yen.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2000

East Asia feels impact of the Putin effect

HONG KONG — As Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a swath through East Asia recently, visiting China, North Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East in a breathless seven days, he gave plenty of indications of the ways in which Russia is likely to change under his leadership.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 1, 2000

Sowing authentic 'seeds of peace'

HIROSHIMA WITNESS FOR PEACE: Testimony of A-Bomb Survivor Suzuko Numata, by Chikahiro Hiroiwa. Translated by Tadatoshi Saito. Tokyo: Soeisha Books/Sanseido, 1,000 yen. Thirty-six years ago, not two decades after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Kenzaburo Oe was already writing about the imperative...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 1, 2000

First glimpses of the West

THE SATSUMA STUDENTS IN BRITAIN: Japan's Early Search for the "Essence of the West," by Andrew Cobbing. Japan Library: Curzon Press, 2000, 201 pp., with maps and 11 b/w photos, unpriced. On a summer morning in 1865, the steamship Delhi dropped anchor in Southampton. On board were 17 young students...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 1, 2000

Best of Asian music on offer

Asian Music Week 2000 in Yokohama (the 21st Asian Composers League, Conference and Festival) will be held at Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall and elsewhere in Yokohama Aug. 3-9, featuring a variety of music by Asian composers and performers. Programs will include many Japan premieres and world premieres as...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2000

Revise the tax treaty fairly

Thomas Donohue's article "Time to update the U.S.-Japan tax treaty" (The Japan Times, July 19) misleads readers about the issues in the Japan-U.S. tax treaty. The issues are more complex than he indicates.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Aug 1, 2000

Hard training is its own reward as big event looms

Note: By the time you read this you're still probably suffering a hangover with the force of two stars colliding in a distant galaxy (courtesy of Fuji Rock Festival): far out and painful, in other words. Well, this article concerns the Fuji Rock warmup weekend, an annual ritual where Fuji Rockers imbibe...
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 31, 2000

Antlers not so perfect

The Kashima Antlers saw their 100-percent record broken in heartbreaking fashion Saturday as Cerezo Osaka shocked the home side with a 1-0 win on an extra-time own goal. Kashima midfielder Yasuto Honda slid the ball into his own next after connecting with a low cross from Cerezo forward Hiroaki Morishima...
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
A viral manga prediction of a July 5 disaster has gripped Japan with anxiety and triggered an economic impact, but experts warn that while such dates are unreliable, the threat of a massive earthquake remains real. 
Residents of Tokara Islands begin evacuation as seismic swarm continues
Details about evacuations from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen written on a whiteboard in the city of Kagoshima on Thursday.
U.S. military apologizes over Okinawa sexual assault case
Col. Neil Owens (right), chief of staff for the 3rd Marine Division, bows in apology at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Thursday.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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