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CULTURE / Books
Dec 30, 1999

Japanese politics, a model democracy

JAPANESE DEMOCRACY: Power, Coordination and Performance, by Bradley Richardson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 325 pp.. $17. Do the revisionists have any clothes? Bradley Richardson argues that the interpretations of Japan popularized by the revisionist school do not bear scrutiny and that...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Writer, artist unite to portray Okinawa's problems

Staff writer OSAKA -- When artist Seitaro Kuroda was videotaping a series of war stories for children written by prize-winning author Akiyuki Nosaka, he noticed something was missing. The stories, which first appeared in a magazine in 1971, described the hardship brought upon children and animals by...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Rengo Osaka backs bureaucrat for poll

OSAKA -- Rengo Osaka, the local political arm of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), plans to back Fusae Ota, councilor of the minister's secretariat at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in the upcoming gubernatorial election, it was learned Wednesday. The governorship of...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 29, 1999

An open ethOS

The latest tale of cyber-riches involves the Linux crowd. A recent string of IPOs earned shareholders obscene amounts of money. Red Hat, a distributor of the Linux operating system, is worth about $15 billion. VA Linux, a company that sells computers that use Linux, made history: Its shares leaped 700...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Aum trials tail off as Asahara's day nears

While the trial of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara has proceeded at a snail's pace, with prosecutors examining only nine out of the 17 counts that he faces to date, his disciples' trials have entered their final stages before the district court.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Japan to make proposals for WTO transparency

Japan will propose early next month that the World Trade Organization reform its decision-making process to make it more transparent and legitimate to all the 135-member economies, a government official said Tuesday. The mechanism in question is known as "Green Room," a private meeting of about 30 unspecified...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Titanic bell to ring in Nagoya's new year

Staff writer A bell recovered from the RMS Titanic will be rung for the first time in 88 years in a unique event to usher in 2000 in Nagoya. The brass bell was recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic, at a depth of more than 4,000 meters, in 1998. Andrew Quinn, the U.S. consul general to Nagoya, will...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Aum mouthpiece Joyu freed from prison, returns to cult

Aum Shinrikyo's charismatic ex-spokesman, Fumihiro Joyu, 37, was released Wednesday from Hiroshima Prison after finishing a three-year sentence for forgery and perjury. Upon his release, four years and two months after his arrest in October 1995, he announced his intention to rejoin the cult and flew...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Fukaya to join last stage of Saudi oil talks

Trade chief Takashi Fukaya said Wednesday that he will visit Riyadh in mid-January in a bid to resolve the now-stalled negotiations over the renewal of Arabian Oil Co.'s drilling rights in the Khafji oil field in Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry made the decision following...
JAPAN
Dec 29, 1999

Chronology of cultists' legal battles

The following is a 1999 chronology of trial proceedings and other developments involving key Aum Shinrikyo defendants: Feb. 16: The Tokyo District Court sentences Hisako Ishii, 39, a close aide of cult founder Shoko Asahara, to 44 months in prison for abetting the flight of three cult fugitives wanted...
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 1999

Confusion, as usual, in 1999

This has been a year of extremes. It began with the sad spectacle of the U.S. president's sexual escapades and verbal gymnastics exposed to international ridicule, and draws to a close under the shadow of millennial terrorism and computer-induced chaos. There were long-anticipated moments of peace, and...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 1999

Happy in the Gucci nation

What kind of country will Japan be in the 21st century? The millennial forecast is in and it looks like this: Japan's cultural elite is quickly converging around the notion that Japan should be the first boutique state of the 21st century -- distinctive, well designed and expensive.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

50-year-old art exchange emerges from Montana

Staff writer Koichi Ogawa encountered a surprise during a two-month tour across the United States with two other Japanese earlier this year. Ogawa, 61, was visiting a friend in California who told him that an acquaintance from Montana would come down with some artwork. Ogawa was expecting to meet someone...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Ex-Yakult exec indicted second time

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday again indicted former Yakult Honsha Co. Vice President Naoki Kumagai, this time for allegedly violating the Commercial Code through aggravated breach of trust and by putting company assets in danger. The 69-year-old Kumagai has already been indicted...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Taiwan opts for Japan's bullet trains

TAIPEI -- A Japanese consortium has been awarded priority negotiation rights for contracts involving the construction of a high-speed railway between Taipei and Kaohsiung, the Taiwanese builder of the rail system announced Tuesday. The announcement by Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corp. could pave the way...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Tokyo approves heliport relocation; time limit unresolved

The government Tuesday formally gave the green light to a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps heliport now at the Futenma Air Station to the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. Endorsing the project at a Cabinet meeting, the government adopted a basic policy on the relocation, including...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Full-time jobs still on the decline

The nation's unemployment rate improved in November to 4.5 percent from 4.6 percent in October, though the number of people holding full-time jobs fell for the 23rd consecutive month. Data released Tuesday by the Management and Coordination Agency showed the full-time picture is being obscured by the...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Corruption in local government back on the rise

A total of 127 cases of corruption at 111 organizations within local government offices were reported in fiscal 1998, involving 156 civil servants, the Home Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. Compared with fiscal 1997, the latest figures show an increase of 22 cases at 18 organizations, the report says....
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Dec 28, 1999

Flying first class around the globe

Since this is my last column of the year, I'll look back instead of forward.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Joyu might disband Aum in order duck new law: expert

Staff writer After he is freed today from a Hiroshima prison, senior Aum Shinrikyo member Fumihiro Joyu will probably announce the voluntary dissolution of the cult, according to a freelance journalist who has extensively covered the sect. It would be a move to avoid a new law designed to curb the cult's...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Police preparing for release of Aum No. 2 leader Joyu

Hiroshima Prison officials announced Tuesday that a prisoner -- assumed to be Fumihiro Joyu, the second-in-command of Aum Shinrikyo -- was to be released at 6 a.m. this morning. Hiroshima Prefectural Police will deploy about 150 officers in the area around the prison and Hiroshima Airport to prevent...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Bungling bureaucrats just another day at work for Ishihara

Staff writer The harried city official sighs as he looks at a poster designed to promote the Year 2000 countdown celebrations in Tokyo's Odaiba district. "He didn't like it," the Port and Harbor Bureau official says, bewildered. "He said we should think it out more, be more creative." A little while...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Venezuela requests disaster aid

The Venezuelan Embassy in Tokyo is accepting donations to provide relief for survivors of recent floods and landslides caused by two weeks of torrential rain in Venezuela. In the nation's most severe disaster, which cost an estimated 30,000 lives, approximately 150,000 people lost their homes and more...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Miyazawa hits state's dependency on debt

The government must begin fiscal reconstruction to tackle the debt-dependent situation once the economy begins to recover, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday. The reforms should include tax overhauls and local government reforms, Miyazawa said in his final news conference for the year. The...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1999

Oil rights talks stumble again over rail request

Tokyo and Riyadh have failed to narrow their differences in their latest negotiations over the renewal of Arabian Oil Co.'s drilling rights in a major Saudi Arabian oil field, International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya said Tuesday. Fukaya made the remark in reference to a two-day governmental...
JAPAN
Dec 27, 1999

Nikko unifies, sweetens starting salaries

Nikko Securities Co. will introduce a new fixed salary system next spring to offer a unified monthly wage of 300,000 yen to all nonmanagement workers, company sources said. At the same time, the brokerage will determine bonuses based strictly on individual workers' performance, the sources said Sunday....
JAPAN
Dec 27, 1999

Man denies intent to murder Gifu sports instructor

NAGOYA -- A man who allegedly murdered and dismembered a 26-year-old female sports instructor from Gifu Prefecture denied any intent to kill the victim at his first court hearing held Monday. Yosuke Yamashita, 22, of Nagoya has been charged with murdering his former girlfriend Chika Fukuda from the...
JAPAN
Dec 27, 1999

Ajisaka to make another run for Osaka governor

OSAKA -- Makoto Ajisaka, a 66-year-old professor emeritus at Kansai University, formally announced his candidacy for the Feb. 6 Osaka gubernatorial election on Monday, saying that he wanted to wipe out the shame brought on the prefecture by outgoing Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama, who stepped down due to a sex...
JAPAN
Dec 27, 1999

Quality of Japanese testes unchanged, agency finds

There has been no significant decrease in the quality of sperm nor the weight of Japanese men's testes over the last two decades, according to the nation's most comprehensive survey on dioxin levels in humans and wildlife. The survey, conducted by the Environment agency and released Monday, was conducted...
JAPAN
Dec 27, 1999

Agency requests Aum be put under its watch

The Public Security Investigation Agency requested Monday that the Public Security Examination Commission consider whether religious cult Aum Shinrikyo can be placed under the agency's surveillance. The request came on the same day that new legislation enabling the agency to regularly supervise or restrict...
Nissan to solicit early retirements while eyeing plant closures in Japan
Nissan's Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, may be closed as part of the struggling carmaker's streamlining efforts.
Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, in first outside China
The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Police arrest Chinese man in Saitama hit-and-run case
Police questioned a man who turned himself in as he closely resembled the driver recorded on the dashcam of another vehicle that happened to pass by the scene of a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture.
Wholesalers may be behind elevated retail rice prices
Wholesalers added ¥7,593 on average to their selling prices for stockpiled rice, far more than the ¥2,206 to ¥4,689 added for the 2022 rice.
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Agnes b. Japan CEO hopes to evolve the brand with focus on sustainability
Laurent Patouillet, the CEO and president of Agnes b. Japan, says the focus of its business is to remain independent, and evolve and adapt.
In Nintendo’s backyard, foreign indie game devs are thriving
Kyoto's gaming landscape is dominated by Nintendo's headquarters, but a contingent of foreign-born indie developers is also working in the gaming giant's shadow.
Akazawa's dilemma: no tariff deal or a half-baked deal
Chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa and his delegation in the Oval Office of the White House in April. Since then, Japan's trade negotiations with the U.S. have produced no tangible results.
Nissan hoping to electrify home crowd as Formula E returns to Tokyo
Nissan's Oliver Rowland drives during qualifying for Miami E-Prix at Homestead Motor Speedway in Homestead, Florida, on April 12.
For his first feature film, director Ryuya Suzuki created a masterpiece
"Jinsei," which follows its protagonist over a century, probes themes of identity and societal issues with a dark comic touch. The director, however, says he created the story without knowing where it would lead.

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