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BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2002

Little support for full deposit guarantee, survey shows

Respondents to a recent Kyodo News survey voiced mixed views over the government's plan to cap its refund guarantee on all deposits at 10 million yen on April 1.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2002

Government to file charges against Nippon Ham subsidiary

The government will file a criminal complaint against a unit of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. if it finds that the firm abused a beef-buyback program by disguising imported meat as domestic, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2002

Shiokawa pushes tax-cut plan

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Wednesday he wants to introduce tax cuts over three years and offset expected revenue shortfalls with tax hikes over five years.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2002

Suzuki bribe info faxed to property firm

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office mistakenly faxed a witness account about indicted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki's bribery case to a Tokyo real estate firm in June, a top official of the office said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2002

Glitches, protest greet launch of resident registry network

The government on Monday launched a national resident registry network that encodes people's personal information and gives everyone an 11-digit number. But glitches emerged, some municipalities refused to go online and critics cried "Big Brother."
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2002

Koizumi rating up amid dearth of alternatives

The popular approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has inched up to 45.2 percent, according to the results of a Kyodo News opinion poll released Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 4, 2002

Kawaguchi, Amaya to stay on with NFL teams

OSAKA -- Two Japanese football players participating in the American Bowl have taken a big step toward making their dreams come true.
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 2002

Positive moves from Pyongyang

The good news about North Korea is that it is ready to resume diplomatic contacts with Japan and the United States. At the ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei this week, Pyongyang's foreign minister, Mr. Paek Nam Sun, expressed a willingness to mend fences with Tokyo and Washington in talks with Foreign Minister...
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2002

Lack of rival leaves Koizumi boss by default

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's sky-high popularity is a thing of the past. Over the last six months, his public approval ratings have declined sharply, as has his image as a charismatic reformer.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2002

Bank notes to get high-tech makeover

The government will start replacing 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen bills with new notes that include sophisticated features to beat counterfeiters as early as April 2004, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa announced Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2002

Nonperforming loans rose sharply in fiscal 2001

The Financial Services Agency said Friday the value of outstanding nonperforming loans at commercial banks rose sharply to 43.21 trillion yen as of March 31.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2002

Minister boos retroactive pension cuts

Welfare minister Chikara Sakaguchi said Friday he opposes cutting national pension payments equivalent to price falls over the past three years if the government lifts its freeze on linking price fluctuations to pension benefits.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2002

Diet stood in the way of reform

The 192-day regular Diet session that ended on Wednesday will be remembered more for what it did not achieve than for what it did. In brief, it failed in two critical areas: political reform and economic revival. While politics bogged down in a quagmire of corruption, deflation dragged on, with no recovery...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2002

Private-sector leader urged for postal entity

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday that the public corporation that will take over the state-run postal service operations in April should be headed by someone from the private sector.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2002

Suginami will not join registry network: mayor

The mayor of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, announced Thursday his ward will not join a controversial nationwide registry network of citizens.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2002

USJ struggles to save image from 'sophomore jinx'

OSAKA -- The Universal Studios Japan theme park, which drew 11 million people in the first 12 months after it opened in March 2001, is having a bad second year as it struggles to regain public trust following a series of management blunders.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI BEAT
Aug 1, 2002

Time for Japan to face up to AIDS threat

KOBE -- For many Japanese, AIDS has long been regarded as someone else's problem.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2002

Unemployment rate stayed at 5.4% in June

The nation's seasonally adjusted jobless rate stood at 5.4 percent in June, unchanged from the previous month, the Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jul 31, 2002

Man vs. nature: the frontline

Blockbuster solo shows now running at the Bunkamura (Rene Magritte) and the Setagaya Art Museum (Joan Miro) are already ensuring this is one of Tokyo's best summers in years for aficionados of 20th-century art. Now, thanks to a bit of bold curating by Taro Amano, the Yokohama Museum of Art is host to...
EDITORIALS
Jul 30, 2002

Negotiations and desperation

North Korea has expressed regret for last month's naval clash with South Korea that left five sailors dead. While that is the responsible thing to do, questions swirl around Pyongyang's motivation for this surprising development. The most likely explanation is that North Korea's economic situation is...
MORE SPORTS
Jul 30, 2002

Tiger to play in Miyazaki

Tiger Woods will take part in his first stroke-play tournament in Japan in four years when he competes in the Dunlop Phoenix at the Phoenix Country Club, Miyazaki Pref. from Nov. 21-24, organizers announced Monday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Government clamps down on pork imports with tariffs

Japan will raise tariffs on pork for eight months beginning this week in an attempt to slow soaring imports, the government said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

New law may raise prospects for homeless

In the Kamagasaki day-laborer district of Osaka, news about the soon-to-be passed bill to provide aid for the nation's homeless has been greeted with a mixture of hope and indifference.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Subcontractor mystery clouds airport expansion

OSAKA -- The bulk of subcontract work for the second phase expansion of Kansai International Airport has been given to a group believed incapable of handling airport construction, according to documents on subcontracted work and sources familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Toyota raises outlook for global sales by 5%

Toyota Motor Corp. has raised its 2002 global sales projection from 5.3 million units to 5.5 million, up 5 percent from last year, Toyota President Fujio Cho said Monday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 29, 2002

Pursuit of mediocrity in textbook selection

NEW YORK -- Is the presence of 50,000 prostitutes "an important historical fact"? Grace Shore, chairwoman of the Texas State Board of Education, didn't think so, nor did the majority on her 15-member board.
COMMUNITY
Jul 28, 2002

Finding my Berings

Imagine traveling halfway around the world overland, building a ship, then being the first to navigate an unknown sea . . . only to have your sponsors disbelieve you. That was the fate of Cmdr. Vitus Jonassen Bering, the Danish seafarer whose name lives on in those of the Bering Sea, the Bering Straits,...
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.

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