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JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

Fuji TV halts airing of 'Titanic'

Fuji Television Network Inc. has decided to put off indefinitely the airing of the movie "Titanic" out of concern for those distressed by the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese ship after being hit by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii, company sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

Obara pleads not guilty to drugging, rape charges

Joji Obara, a suspect in the death of a British hostess whose dismembered body was discovered earlier this month, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of drugging and raping three Japanese women.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2001

Dia Kensetsu reduces losses by 4.1 billion yen

Dia Kensetsu Co., Japan's second-largest condominium builder, on Tuesday revised its projected group net loss for fiscal 2000 to 500 million yen from 4.6 billion yen, following a debt-waiver deal with a U.S. investment fund.
LIFE / Travel
Feb 28, 2001

A phoenix from the ashes

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- Down by the corniche, a legend of classical antiquity is rising from the ashes as miraculously as a phoenix. This summer, the new $200 million Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a spectacular piece of high-tech architecture billed as the revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria, is due...
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2001

Matsushita joins 2Roam on mobile Web solutions

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has allied with 2Roam Inc., a U.S. wireless software and service provider, to offer a mobile solutions service in Japan.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2001

MHI to send generators to Belgium

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will ship three replacement steam generators to a nuclear plant in Belgium on Wednesday to increase the plant's power generating capacity, the company said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Approval rating for Mori declines to 7%

The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in the latest Kyodo News survey is down to a mere 7 percent, a drop of 12 percentage points from a similar poll in December. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, has leaped to 82 percent from 65 percent.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2001

MHI to send generators to Belgium

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will ship three replacement steam generators to a nuclear plant in Belgium on Wednesday to increase the plant's power generating capacity, the company said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Approval rating for Mori declines to 7%

The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in the latest Kyodo News survey is down to a mere 7 percent, a drop of 12 percentage points from a similar poll in December. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, has leaped to 82 percent from 65 percent.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2001

Freeze on beltway complicates lives of residents

Shozaburo Kon did not expect to face the ordeal he eventually had to endure when he took the plan of his new house to a local office of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government 10 years ago.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2001

PCCW to buy U.S. firm's game arm

Game software developer Pacific Century CyberWorks Japan Co. said Friday it has agreed to buy VR1, the network game software division of U.S. Internet business and entertainment provider Circadence Corp., for about $38 million.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2001

Matsushita and Toshiba plan Singapore venture

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toshiba Corp. said Friday they will set up a joint venture in Singapore next month to manufacture low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal display panels used in video mobile phones and other digital appliances.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 24, 2001

Space . . . the funny frontier

Think of it as a "Seven Samurai" in outer space. OK, well there are only six warriors in "Galaxy Quest" but the comparison kinda works. They are a group of has-been actors whose sole claim to fame is a TV series called "Galaxy Quest" that went off the air 18 years ago. But American human beings weren't...
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2001

Nomura, IBJ to end derivatives tieup

Nomura Securities Co. and the Industrial Bank of Japan, a member of the Mizuho Financial Group, said Thursday that they will dissolve a London-based joint venture specializing in financial derivatives.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2001

Lawson to offer ATM services with Mitsubishi

Lawson Inc. and Mitsubishi Corp., soon to become the convenience store chain's largest shareholder, said Thursday they plan to offer a range of financial services via automatic teller machines to be installed in Lawson's nationwide network.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2001

Lawson to offer ATM services with Mitsubishi

Lawson Inc. and Mitsubishi Corp., soon to become the convenience store chain's largest shareholder, said Thursday they plan to offer a range of financial services via automatic teller machines to be installed in Lawson's nationwide network.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2001

New ANA chief paving way for next generation

All Nippon Airways Co. said Wednesday that Senior Executive Vice President Yoji Ohashi, 61, will be promoted to president on April 1.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2001

New ANA chief paving way for next generation

All Nippon Airways Co. said Wednesday that Senior Executive Vice President Yoji Ohashi, 61, will be promoted to president on April 1.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

More and more patients turn to Net to consult with doctors

Five years ago, Tokyo Dr. Motofumi Takahashi opened a Web site to respond free of charge to inquiries from patients across the nation, but a surge in such online inquiries has forced him to limit his responses.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

G7 meeting ends in snub of BOJ efforts

The Bank of Japan was placed in an awkward position during the latest meeting of Group of Seven finance leaders in Palermo, Sicily.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

G7 meeting ends in snub of BOJ efforts

The Bank of Japan was placed in an awkward position during the latest meeting of Group of Seven finance leaders in Palermo, Sicily.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Energy upstart Ennet outbids Kansai Electric

OSAKA -- A newcomer to the electric power retail market was awarded a one-year contract Monday by the Osaka Prefectural Government, making it the first company to outbid Kansai Electric Power Co. in the Kansai region since deregulation last March.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2001

Unusual body shop fills in the blanks

OSAKA -- After dealing with the usual prewedding chores of choosing venues, flowers, dresses, menus and guests, the young bride-to-be was faced with one final task: find a finger to go with her ring.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2001

FSA to check security of online stock deals

The Financial Services Agency will ensure during inspections of securities firms that they take measures to maintain the security of online stock deals, according to outlines of FSA inspection manuals obtained by Kyodo News on Saturday.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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