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JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

LDP's Takeshita, Kamei accepted bribes: witness

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweights Shizuka Kamei and the late Noboru Takeshita received bribes in return for approving public works projects, a witness testified in former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao's bribery trial.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Foreign reserves hit $364.22 billion

Japan's foreign exchange reserves reached a record-high $364.22 billion at the end of January, up $2.58 billion from a month earlier for the fifth month of increase, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Foreign reserves hit $364.22 billion

Japan's foreign exchange reserves reached a record-high $364.22 billion at the end of January, up $2.58 billion from a month earlier for the fifth month of increase, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2001

Help arrives for families with ill children

A facility to provide a place to stay and counseling for families with children who require long-term medical treatment far from home will open Friday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2001

Scientists to monitor Fuji for volcanic activity

A Meteorological Agency panel has decided to closely monitor seismic activity under Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

10% of kids suffer psychological woes

Some 10 percent of children visiting pediatric hospitals as outpatients are suffering psychological problems, mostly girls aged 15 and boys aged 14, according to the results of the first nationwide survey on children's mental health.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 6, 2001

Trauma in a sepia-tinged Kyushu

It's not easy filming the inner lives of human beings. Novelists can go on at length about their protagonist's stream of consciousness (see "Ulysses") while filmmakers cannot show scene after voiced-over scene of that same stream without inducing audience catatonia. See Joseph Strick's misbegotten 1967...
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Mori apologizes again, denies LDP is corrupt

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori offered a fresh apology before the Diet on Monday for recent corruption scandals involving LDP members and a Foreign Ministry official.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Mori apologizes again, denies LDP is corrupt

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori offered a fresh apology before the Diet on Monday for recent corruption scandals involving LDP members and a Foreign Ministry official.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Nikko plans to unload 50% of trust unit

Nikko Securities Co. is contemplating selling a 50 percent equity stake in its wholly owned trust banking subsidiary, Nikko Trust & Banking Corp., to Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp., company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Nikko plans to unload 50% of trust unit

Nikko Securities Co. is contemplating selling a 50 percent equity stake in its wholly owned trust banking subsidiary, Nikko Trust & Banking Corp., to Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp., company officials said Monday.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 6, 2001

Jazz workout bands hope you like jammin'

"Jam bands" seem to have managed the musically impossible: to have become popular with both snooty jazz critics and well-cranked college stu dents. Picking up from where the Grateful Dead and fusion jazz left off in the '90s, jam bands recombine complex, extended improvisations and body-shaking rhythms....
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2001

LDP exec rejects calls for sworn Diet testimony

The acting secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday rejected calls to its members testify under oath about ties to KSD, a scandal-ridden mutual-aid foundation already responsible for the downfall of three LDP legislators.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2001

LDP exec rejects calls for sworn Diet testimony

The acting secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday rejected calls to its members testify under oath about ties to KSD, a scandal-ridden mutual-aid foundation already responsible for the downfall of three LDP legislators.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2001

Quake made worse by greed and ineptness

NEW DELHI -- The earthquake that devastated many parts of India's western state of Gujarat opened a Pandora's Box, out of which tumbled a shocking spectacle of ignorance and mismanagement driven by greed and callousness.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2001

Europe puts out feelers toward N. Korea

A mixture of adventure, altruism and a desire not to be left behind economically is responsible for the European plunge into Korean political affairs that began this year. First Italy and then, in rapid succession, Belgium, Britain and Germany have dispatched missions to Pyongyang. Only France held back,...
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Female entrepreneurs seeking fulfillment

Kyodo News Rie Karasawa is the latest addition to a growing number of Japanese female entrepreneurs moving into a business world long dominated by men.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Draft bill aims to help abuse victims

A supra-partisan group of female House of Councilors members compiled a draft bill Wednesday to tackle domestic violence.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

Phyto Lierac targets Japanese pursuit of beauty

Numerous aesthetic salons, fitness clubs and magazines featuring makeup techniques provide steadfast evidence of how seriously Japanese women, regardless of their age, take the pursuit of physical beauty.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Colleges brace as fewer apply

Tadataka Koide, president of Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, is awaiting this month's entrance exams with anticipation and anxiety.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Commune ordered to return 'brainwashed' woman's cash

The Tokyo District Court ordered an agriculture commune Wednesday to return about 240 million yen to a former follower who claimed she was brainwashed into donating the money.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Commune ordered to return 'brainwashed' woman's cash

The Tokyo District Court ordered an agriculture commune Wednesday to return about 240 million yen to a former follower who claimed she was brainwashed into donating the money.

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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