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JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Heart expert favors alternatives to transplants

Staff writerInstead of organ transplants, more thought should be given to alternatives such as use of artificial organs, cardiology expert Hiroshi Yamaguchi says.He opposes making transplants from brain-dead donors standard treatment. "Organ transplants are not something almighty. I think the demerits...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Komura, OECD chief eye investment liberalization pact

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and Donald Johnston, head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, agreed Monday on the importance of concluding an investment liberalization agreement, especially given the current economic turbulence, ministry officials said.OECD member states...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Upper House enacts finance resuscitation laws

The Diet enacted financial reform laws Monday afternoon that mandate creation of a "financial resuscitation committee" to handle failed and failing banks as well as a public institution to buy bad loans from them.The government and Liberal Democratic Party now turn their attention to a bank recapitalization...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Osaka declares 'antisnatching' day

OSAKA -- Osaka Prefectural Police declared Monday an "antisnatching" day in the prefecture and a special campaign was launched to fight crime here."Let's work together to wipe out the bad reputation of being the number one (purse-) snatching prefecture in Japan," said Hirokazu Yamamoto, chief of the...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Japan to review financial accord with U.S.

Japan and the United States will hold working-level meetings Thursday and Friday in Tokyo to check progress on a 1995 bilateral accord on financial services, according to Japanese officials.Officials from the Finance Ministry and the U.S. Treasury Department will discuss a variety of issues concerning...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

ASDF accidents spark one-day halt in training

The Air Self-Defense Force grounded all nonessential aircraft Monday following a recent series of accidents involving its jets, the Defense Agency said.Operation of all aircraft except those on standby for emergency takeoff or obligatory missions was halted for one day to review safety, it said. The...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Cargill plans to takeover Toshoku

The world's largest grain trading house said on Monday that it will help collapsed Japanese food trader Toshoku Ltd. rehabilitate by turning it into a wholly owned subsidiary.Cargill Inc. of the United States, based in Minnesota, hopes to set up its own domestic food distribution system by using Toshoku's...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

President Kim greets fellow Koreans in Kansai

After arriving in Osaka from Tokyo on Friday afternoon, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and his wife, Lee Hee Ho, met Korean residents of the Kansai region at an Osaka hotel.In front of more than 700 participants, Kim thanked Korean residents for the help they offered when the country was hard hit...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Tokyo court dismisses sex slave suit, ignores alleged ordeals

The Tokyo District Court on Friday rejected claims by 46 former "comfort women" from the Philippines who were seeking compensation from the Japanese government for forcing them to provide sex for Japanese soldiers during World War II.Presiding Judge Yoriaki Ichikawa of the Tokyo District Court dismissed...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Financial talks scheduled with U.S.

Japan and the United States will hold working-level meetings Thursday and Friday in Tokyo to check progress on a 1995 bilateral accord on financial services, Japanese officials said Friday.Officials from the Finance Ministry and the U.S. Treasury Department will discuss a variety of issues concerning...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Tokyo offers counseling for foreigners

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hold counseling sessions on everyday life problems this month and next month, with English and Chinese speaking staff for non-Japanese residents, officials said.Counseling for foreigners will cover such problems as status of residence, housing, marriage, education,...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Military port shift OK elates Defense chief

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga on Friday welcomed the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly's decision to support the relocation of the U.S. military port facility in Naha to neighboring Urasoe."I understand that local businesses (in Urasoe) want to gain the port facility. I will keep watching the situation...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Suddenly mighty yen continues thrashing dollar

The dollar gave up further ground against the yen in Tokyo on Friday amid reports that U.S. President Bill Clinton supports a stronger yen.The dollar plunged to 115.70 yen at one point, its lowest level in 14 months in Tokyo, before settling at 117.18-22 yen at 5 p.m., down from 122.35-37 yen late Thursday.The...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Give banks in need of funds breathing space, Nonaka urges

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka voiced concern Friday about imposing excessive restrictions on banks asking for public funds.Sufficient information disclosure and clarification of management responsibility should be preconditions for infusions of public funds, the chief government spokesman told...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Asian energy talks get under way in Okinawa

Staff writerGINOWAN, Okinawa, Pref. -- Ministerial-level officials from 18 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum gathered here Friday for two days of meetings in a joint effort to promote energy efficiency and market competitiveness in the region.The Third APEC Energy Ministers...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Tokyo applying for ISO certificate

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will apply for ISO 14001 authorization, an international standard for environmentally friendly office management, by the end of fiscal 1999, Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima said Friday.A total of 1,174 organizations have obtained the authorization across the country, including...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

LDP may bend on recapitalization plans

The government and the Liberal Democratic Party appeared ready Friday to accept some ideas proposed by the Democratic Party of Japan on a bank recapitalization bill.DPJ Secretary General Tsutomu Hata met with his LDP counterpart Yoshiro Mori and Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka in the afternoon...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Kim prods Japan to lead Asia's recovery

Liberalization of the Japanese market and expansion of domestic demand in Japan are critically important to resuscitate the Asian economy, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung stressed Thursday in Tokyo."Now is the time for Japan to take the initiative to revive the Asian economy," which is in the midst...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

LTCB merger now 'option' for Sumitomo Trust

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Atsushi Takahashi hinted Thursday the bank's planned merger with the troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan was effectively dead, saying the LTCB is now "one of the options" among the bank's alliance strategies.Takahashi, however, said it is too early to make...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Highlights of Kim-Obuchi declaration

The following are highlights of the joint declaration announced Thursday by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung:1) Obuchi and Kim expressed their shared determination to build a new partnership toward the 21st century.2) Obuchi expressed keen remorse and apologized for...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Japan, South Korea ink new tax pact

Japan and South Korea signed a new taxation convention Thursday that will treat South Korea as a developed country by removing preferential measures and effectively increase Japan's tax revenue.The agreement, to be applied from 2000 subject to parliamentary approval, promotes business activity taxation...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Manufacturers in losing battle with lifetime employment

Staff writerFinancial institutions are not the only Japanese companies suffering from the moribund economy.Major electronics firms and automakers, which once basked in the strong growth of the famed Japanese economic miracle, have revised their projected earnings downward for the first half of the current...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Kidnapping in Japan not discussed

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung sidestepped Kim's 1973 Tokyo abduction during their two-hour summit Thursday, but Kim later called for an inquiry into the truth of the case."I have said I would not raise the issue in any form to the governments of both countries,"...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Leaders sign wide-ranging action plan

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung signed during their summit meeting Thursday a 43-point joint action plan aimed at enhancing ties toward the next century.The paper covered a wide range of topics for the two countries to pursue together and covered five major areas...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Gift coupons government's latest demand strategy

Providing consumers with merchandise coupons in an effort to stimulate personal consumption will be studied as a possible measure for the second fiscal 1998 supplementary budget, government officials said Thursday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka confirmed during a morning news conference that...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

The Kim Visit: Leaders look ahead, vow cooperative ties

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and visiting South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put the past behind them Thursday, with Japan apologizing for its past colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and both pledging to establish a new partnership in a variety of fields for the 21st century.Obuchi said at a joint...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Guilty bureaucrat fined, freed over Big Four bribes

A former Finance Ministry official received a two-year suspended sentence and was fined more than 5 million yen by the Tokyo District Court Thursday for accepting bribes from four securities companies.Toshio Miyano, 51, a former senior official at the ministry's Securities Bureau, was found guilty of...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Yen bulks up to 114; Nikkei takes dive

The dollar continued plummeting against the yen Thursday morning in London, briefly dropping to the 114 level for the first time since July 1997 on stop-loss sales by U.S. hedge funds.While the yen's sudden muscle is a mixed blessing for Japan -- it hurts exporters but helps banks struggling to maintain...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

President Kim addresses Diet

Japan and South Korea must establish "future-oriented relations" while working to resolve differences in interpretation over Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung said Thursday in a speech to the Diet."The time has come for the two countries to look...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

September wholesale prices down 2%

Domestic wholesale prices dropped 2 percent in September compared with the same month last year, down for the seventh consecutive month, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.Compared with August's showing, the domestic wholesale price index stayed flat at 97.4 against the 1995 base of 100, the central bank...
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.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
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.
Struggling Nissan considers closing two plants in Kanagawa
Automaker Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama
Closing the gap between what you learn and what you say in Japanese
A few tweaks to the conversations you learn in your Japanese class will help you sound like a native when you step out the door.
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.
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the Japanese flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.

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