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BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

MMC must consider consumers: panel

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. must look at the quality of their products from the standpoint of consumers in order to improve development and production, the automaker's quality control advisory committee said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2000

NCB president's death was suicide, not heart attack

Nippon Credit Bank President Tadayo Honma committed suicide Wednesday night and did not die from a heart attack, as was originally reported.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2000

Full text of prime minister's speech to the Diet

Following is the full text of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's policy speech given to the 150th Diet session Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2000

Sabah -- unfinished business between Malaysia and the Philippines

SINGAPORE -- The kidnap-for-ransom hostage crisis triggered by the Abu Sayyaf rebels in a remote corner of the South China Sea has attracted worldwide attention. But of even greater significance, it has further strained ties between the Philippines and Malaysia, as each country blames the other for allowing...
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

Mori targets damage control, economic stimulus in session

During the extra Diet session convening today, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori hopes to fix the damage done to his ruling bloc by recent money scandals and boost the fragile economic recovery with a stimulus package worth more than 10 trillion yen, including 4 trillion yen in new spending.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2000

Trade surplus falls 12% but gap with U.S. grows

Japan's merchandise trade surplus declined 11.8 percent in August from a year earlier to 614.8 billion yen for the second straight month of decline, as soaring crude oil prices boosted imports, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2000

40% of Japanese indifferent to whaling issue, survey finds

While only one in 10 Japanese say they support whaling against a slightly higher number who oppose it, nearly 40 percent appear uncommitted, according to a survey released by environmentalist groups this week.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2000

Panels approve outline of IT bill

Business leaders and Cabinet members Wednesday approved the framework of a government-proposed bill to set guidelines for Japan's strategy to facilitate social and economic changes in line with an IT revolution.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2000

FRC welcomes bank's early repayment

The head of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission said Tuesday that the government would allow Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. to repay ahead of schedule the public funds it received to replenish its depleted capital base.
OLYMPICS
Sep 19, 2000

No gold for Mai-chan

SYDNEY -- Mai Nakamura led the field until the last two strokes of the pool but had to settle for silver as she claimed Japan's second medal in swimming at the Sydney Olympics in the women's 100-meter backstroke Monday.
COMMUNITY
Sep 19, 2000

Urban life's high cost in health

The bright lights of the city are drawing a record number of people in search of careers and excitement. But city life comes at a price. Recent studies have found that Japan's city dwellers are jeopardizing their lives and their offspring.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2000

Kato wants LDP to end alliance if it wins a majority

Koichi Kato, former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Monday that the party should not form a coalition with New Komeito if the LDP secures a majority in the House of Representatives in the next general election.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2000

Capital relocation scheme under attack

The Liberal Democratic Party and one of its two allies, the New Conservative Party, plan to start adjusting opinions within the ruling bloc on freezing the government's plan to relocate the functions of the central government outside Tokyo, party sources said.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 17, 2000

2000 Noma Concours for book illustrations

The Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations is accepting works from nationals of UNESCO-member states in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Arab world, Latin America and the Caribbean for the 2000 contest. Organized by the Asia-Pacific Culture Center for UNESCO (ACCU) in Tokyo, the biennial contest...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2000

Declassify CIA files on the 'disappeared'

NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright indicated recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that the United States would release files with information about the Chilean and Argentine military dictatorships as a contribution to the investigations on illegal repression in both countries. Despite...
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2000

Fuji Bank chief to head industry body

The Japanese Bankers Association will appoint Fuji Bank President Yoshiro Yamamoto as its new chairman at a board meeting next week, association officials said.
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000

Japan hoping to kickstart Games with first-day gold

SYDNEY -- The first day of competition may be crucial to Japan's prospects at the Sydney Olympics. Japan has three gold medal prospects competing Saturday: judoka Ryoko Tamura and Tadahiro Nomura, and swimmer Yasuko Tajima.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2000

Group firms up ban on cross-share trades

The Japan Institute of Certified Public Accountants has released guidelines to ban client firms from conducting "cross-share trading," a practice to make their balance sheets look better.
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000

Olympic rings and the color of money

Just about everybody in the world knows it is happening, but exactly what is it?
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2000

Korean residents' groups agree to start mending relations

Two major groups of Korean residents of Japan that were at loggerheads have been showing signs of mending relations since South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visited Pyongyang in June for the first-ever summit between the two Koreas.
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000

Two Koreas make history during opening ceremony

SYDNEY -- While Japan kicked off its Sydney Olympic campaign without many of its star athletes at the opening ceremony, it was the country's Asian neighbors who grabbed the spotlight in the four-hour spectacular on Friday night.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2000

BOJ keeps money rate unchanged

The Bank of Japan decided Thursday to keep its unsecured overnight money rate target unchanged at 0.25 percent.
EDITORIALS
Sep 15, 2000

The Olympic love-hate affair

The quadrennial soap opera that is the Summer Olympics gets under way again today in Sydney, inspiring the usual mixed response of blahs and hurrahs. Nobody disputes that the Summer Games have become the world's biggest recurrent spectacle, costing more than some countries' GDP and cornier than Kansas....
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2000

GM to double stake in Suzuki

Major U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. will double its equity stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. to 20 percent, the two firms announced Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 14, 2000

Marines snap Hawks' nine-game tear

Tomohiro Kuroki tossed six-hit ball for 8 1/3 innings and picked up his eighth win as the Chiba Lotte Marines ended Daiei's nine-game winning streak by beating the Hawks 3-1 at the Fukuoka Dome on Wednesday.
Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, in first outside China
The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
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.
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.
Princess Aiko arrives in Ishikawa to visit quake-hit areas
Princess Aiko is greeted by Ishikawa Gov. Hiroshi Hase (left) at the Kanazawa Station on Sunday.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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