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JAPAN
Jul 28, 1998

Four-year sentence sought for key Aum cultist

Prosecutors demanded a four-year prison sentence Tuesday for Hisako Ishii, a core member of Aum Shinrikyo, for allegedly abetting the flight of three cult fugitives, forging accounting documents and conspiring to destroy the body of a cultist.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 1998

Obuchi panel reports globalization hurdles

Japan must revitalize and reinvigorate its economy to remain competitive as the world economy globalizes, according to an advisory panel's report submitted Tuesday to Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, who is expected to be named new prime minister this week.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 1998

Miyazawa likely to take Finance Ministry post

Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is likely to accept a request from Keizo Obuchi, newly elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to run the Finance Ministry, party sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 1998

Business focuses on the crew rather than the leader

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jul 24, 1998

Consensus-builder to lead the nation

Keizo Obuchi, the new Liberal Democratic Party president who is certain to become prime minister next week, is known for a low-key, consensus-oriented political style that has earned him few enemies.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 1998

Kajiyama backers to form new group within LDP

Supporters of former Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama, the runnerup in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race Friday, plan to form a policy study group under his leadership within the LDP.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 1998

Police display wiretapping tools taken from leftists

Tokyo Metropolitan Police showed the public roughly 700 tools and devices Thursday that they believe were used by a leftist extremist to eavesdrop on telephone conversations.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 1998

Kajiyama enters LDP race; election moved to July 24

Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama has decided to run for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency to succeed Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and will announce his candidacy as early as today, LDP members said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Cultist says Aum ruined his thinking

A former Aum Shinrikyo member allegedly involved in making a device used in the deadly June 1994 nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, said the cult's closed society impaired his ability to think about his actions.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 1998

Submarine keeps low, but potent, profile

Staff writerYOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Pref. -- Seen from dockside, the silhouette of the USS Topeka strikes an unusually humble pose.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 1998

Hashimoto's resignation accepted

The Liberal Democratic Party's top decision-making body approved Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's resignation Tuesday and decided it will convene a meeting of all LDP Diet members next Tuesday to choose his successor as party president.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 1998

Of mice, men and mysteries behind gender determination

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jul 9, 1998

Prison urged for Nikko execs

Prosecutors demanded prison terms of up to one year for four former Nikko Securities Co. executives Thursday in connection with illicit payoffs to the late Lower House member Shokei Arai and "sokaiya" corporate extortionist Ryuichi Koike.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 1998

Appliance recycling center blazing trail to safer trash

NAKA, Ibaraki Pref. -- Every year, Japan throws away 650,000 tons of refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines and television sets, making up 1 percent of the nation's annual garbage output.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 1998

Death urged for ex-cultist tied to Sakamoto slayings

Prosecutors demanded the death penalty Monday for a former Aum Shinrikyo member accused of taking part in the 1989 slaying of a Yokohama lawyer and his family.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Cultist denies knowledge of deadly intent

A former Aum Shinrikyo member allegedly involved in making a device used in the June 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, testified Friday he was unaware the cult was going to use the machine to spread the deadly nerve agent.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1998

Erasmus statue comes home after 400 years

A wooden statue of Dutch humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) is back in his native Netherlands for a special exhibition after nearly 400 years in Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1998

'Bridge bank' details taking shape; draft due Thursday

The LDP task force tackling the nation's bad loan problem agreed Monday that planned state-controlled "bridge banks" must be temporary entities.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1998

Inmate's restraints were 'within bounds': Fuchu Prison

The Tokyo District Court on Monday ruled that measures used by Fuchu Prison authorities in Tokyo to restrain a prisoner were within legal bounds, according to the inmate's lawyer.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 1998

Tokio Marine stamped with AAA financial rating

Standard & Poor's, a private credit rating agency, assigned an AAA financial strength rating to Tokio Marine Life Insurance Co. Thursday, giving it the highest rating for a domestic life insurance firm.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 1998

Banned Imperial army veterans head for Canada

An Imperial Japanese Army veteran planning to speak overseas about Japan's wartime atrocities in Asia left for Canada on Thursday, despite a warning he would be denied entry, according to his trip organizer.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 1998

Roaming pet wallaby rounded up

Police retrieved an Australian journalist's pet wallaby early Thursday after it was spotted hopping down a residential street in Tokyo's Toranomon business district.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 1998

Quest for Power: Hashimoto's fate lies in election results

Second in a series
JAPAN
Jun 24, 1998

Bar association backs trial rights for minors

As a counterproposal to calls from judicial authorities to revise the Juvenile Law, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations will propose giving youth crime suspects the right to have prosecutors participate in their family court hearings, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 1998

Election Equation: Leaders scarce amid 'seniority culture'

Seventh in a series
JAPAN
Jun 17, 1998

Election Equation: Energy of disabled can inspire sea change

Third in a series
JAPAN
Jun 16, 1998

Protected panel reaches no conclusion on war-memorial plan

Protected by a dozen security guards and a metal detector, a controversial advisory panel to the Tokyo governor ended its final session Tuesday on a planned memorial hall for victims of U.S. air raids during World War II.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 1998

Partyspeak: Hata asks voters to rout out the LDP

First in a series Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 16, 1998

Bad-loan task force mulls alternative lending laws

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's task force on bad loans held by banks convened its first hearing Tuesday to discuss a new kind of lending that would make corporate fundraising easier.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 1998

Soccer fanatics praise Japan's vibrant cheering section

Staff writer
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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