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JAPAN
Nov 28, 2001

Nonlife insurers feel the pain

Profits at Japan's 11 major nonlife insurance companies plunged sharply in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30, due to falling share prices and large reserves set aside for claims related to the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2001

Nonlife insurers feel the pain

Profits at Japan's 11 major nonlife insurance companies plunged sharply in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30, due to falling share prices and large reserves set aside for claims related to the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.
SUMO
Nov 26, 2001

Musashimaru loses final bout to Kaio

Yokozuna Musashimaru lost to ozeki Kaio in the final bout of the Kyushu Basho, but it made no difference to the outcome of the tournament, as he had already clinched his ninth championship on the 14th by defeating Tochiazuma. Musashimaru looked clumsy and overly laid-back in his final bout.
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2001

Find the mad-cow infection route

The specter of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) continues to haunt the nation despite official assurances of safety. On Wednesday another cow tested positive at a meat inspection center in Hokkaido, even as the source of infection in the first case, confirmed in September in Chiba Prefecture,...
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2001

149 artisans, tech wizards get awards

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced the names of 149 people to be given awards as contemporary artisans and technicians for their excellence in traditional handicrafts and industrial technology.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2001

149 artisans, tech wizards get awards

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced the names of 149 people to be given awards as contemporary artisans and technicians for their excellence in traditional handicrafts and industrial technology.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2001

Plans call for construction of cow crematoriums

The government is drafting plans for the construction of eight state-of-the-art incinerators to burn cow carcasses and parts that may transmit mad cow disease, government sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2001

Over 5,000 suspect cows to be destroyed

The farm ministry said Thursday that all cows nationwide that have been fed meat-and-bone meal and other suspected sources of mad cow disease will be disposed of, after the nation's second case of the brain-wasting illness was confirmed Wednesday in Hokkaido, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2001

New law limits bank holdings

The Diet passed a bill Wednesday aimed at limiting banks' shareholdings and creating a stock-buying body designed to buy some of them.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2001

Families of CJD victims urge government to settle

The families of people who died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contracted from transplants of dura mater, along with three surviving victims, submitted letters Tuesday to two courts urging the national government to settle damages suits quickly.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2001

Ministry to keep ban on untested beef

Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe pledged Tuesday to maintain a ban on the distribution of 13,000 tons of beef from cows butchered before nationwide cattle testing began for mad cow disease on Oct. 18.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2001

Securitize home loans: panel

A framework for the securitization of housing loans should be created before Government Housing Loan Corp. is privatized, the head of an advisory panel to the land minister proposed Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2001

War orphan from China finds Nagano man is her brother

One of 19 war-displaced Japanese from China searching for relatives in Japan was confirmed Tuesday to be the sister of a Nagano Prefecture man after meeting him in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2001

Families of CJD victims urge government to settle

The families of people who died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contracted from transplants of dura mater, along with three surviving victims, submitted letters Tuesday to two courts urging the national government to settle damages suits quickly.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Health goods put Ajinomoto in black

Ajinomoto Co., Japan's major seasoning maker, said Monday its consolidated net balance in the first half of the 2001 business year turned to the black because of strong sales of nutritional foods and medicine.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 18, 2001

Aiming for the heart

ONE FOOT IN LAOS, by Dervla Murphy. Overlook Press, 2001, 284 pp., $27.95 (cloth) Dervla Murphy's journeys as a travel writer, usually in the remoter, poorer parts of the world, are made, appropriately enough, in the old manner -- on foot, by donkey or mule, or on decrepit trucks or buses on their last...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2001

Baby born from HIV-cleared sperm

A woman gave birth in late October to a baby boy conceived via in vitro fertilization that used the sperm of her HIV-positive husband from which the virus had been eradicated, according to a professor at Niigata University Faculty of Medicine who performed the procedure.
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2001

Australia opts for stability

Australian voters opted for stability and continuity last weekend when they gave Prime Minister John Howard a third term in office. Although the margin of victory was greater than expected, Mr. Howard's Liberal-National coalition government only picked up a few seats in Parliament. Moreover, the policies...
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2001

Cabinet Office says economy going down

The government on Wednesday downgraded its diagnosis of the Japanese economy's health for the seventh time this year, as the effects of the September terrorist attacks in the United States began to be felt.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2001

State, drug firms held partially liable for CJD

The Tokyo and Otsu district courts have said that the government and two pharmaceutical companies are partially responsible for the spread of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and have urged that settlements be reached in damages suits, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2001

Cement firms given OK on meat-and-bone meal

Cement manufacturers will be allowed to use meat-and-bone meal in cement starting next week, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2001

Another great leap forward

Fifteen years of hard bargaining paid off last weekend as China joined the World Trade Organization. The tenacity and persistence of Chinese negotiations are proof of the importance China's leaders attach to entry into the WTO. It marks China's re-emergence as a modern nation and will fully integrate...
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2001

China to be named new WTO member

DOHA -- In a move planned for maximum publicity and a respite from divisive negotiations, China was set to be approved as a member of the World Trade Organization on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2001

Asahi Mutual may sell off unit to Tokio

Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. is in final talks with Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. to sell off its sales division to the nonlife insurer's wholly owned subsidiary, Tokio Marine Life Insurance Co., sources close to the talks said Saturday.
SUMO
Nov 11, 2001

Wide-open race expected in Kyushu Basho

Though it is not taking place in a dramatic fashion, sumo is now in a state of transition, a changing of the guard. Unlike most generational shifts in the past, the current transition is far from dramatic, since the old guard rikishi are actually, for the most part, still in their 20s, and many of their...
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2001

Obituary: Sachiko Hidari

Veteran actress Sachiko Hidari died Thursday of cancer at the National Cancer Center in Tokyo, her family said Saturday. She was 71.
COMMUNITY
Nov 11, 2001

The Feldenkrais Method: Not just going through the motions

Does licking an imaginary ice cream appeal to you? With a tongue that reaches your chest? How about pecking like a chicken? Or perhaps you'd enjoy turning your face to the right while looking toward the left?
Japan's jobs-to-applicant ratio falls to 1.22 in June
Japan's seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio dipped to 1.22 in June, down 0.02 point from the previous month, according to the labor ministry.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Japanese students struggle with description-type tests
The average correct answer rate for description-type questions in the Japanese-language section of the fiscal 2025 national achievement test for third-year junior high school students was as low as 25.6%, according to the education ministry.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
From Osaka to the NHL: Jordan Spence hopes to inspire young Japanese hockey players
Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence helps lead the Dreamskate Japan hockey camp in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 5.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.

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