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JAPAN
Mar 11, 2001

Empty classrooms renovated for public use

With the birthrate declining, Tokyo municipalities have found that a growing number of school buildings are not being used. More wards are responding by renovating these vacant classrooms for wider use, ranging from offices to child-care centers.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2001

Trackside rites mark '00 subway crash

Memorial services were held Thursday morning near Nakameguro Station on the Hibiya subway line in Tokyo's Meguro Ward to mark the first anniversary of a train derailment and collision that claimed five lives and left 64 passengers injured.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 8, 2001

Pizza, extra artistry, hold the delivery

Sometimes the craving strikes and second-best just won't do.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Mar 3, 2001

New frontiers for hogaku

Music in Japan tends to be highly categorized. Ongaku is the Japanese generic term for music, but most Japanese understand it to refer to Western music (the word yogaku is more specific). Hogaku (Japanese music) indicates both Japanese music in general or, more specifically, the music of the Edo Period....
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

Broadcasting regulations under ministry scrutiny

The Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry is considering how to relax regulations on the management of commercial broadcasters, ministry sources said Friday.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 25, 2001

Love Psychedelico hits the blue notes

It's every struggling musician's dream: One moment you're scrounging around for gigs and a record deal while trying to keep food on the table and pay the rent, and the next moment, you've got a hit record on your hands and suddenly the talk of the town.
COMMENTARY
Feb 19, 2001

Should war criminals worry?

LONDON -- Almost unnoticed by the world's media, a huge step forward in the pattern of global governance is about to be taken.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2001

Alcohol sales on Tokyo train platforms to be banned

East Japan Railway Co. and East Japan Kiosk Co., a subsidiary owned 90 percent by the railway, said Friday they will stop selling alcoholic drinks at kiosks on the platforms of 24 stations in central Tokyo from today.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2001

New alcohol sales law invoked

Police will soon send papers to prosecutors on the owner and an employee of a convenience store in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, for selling alcoholic drinks last week to a minor who died in a scooter accident soon afterward, police sources said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 8, 2001

Yomiuri to host memorial game

A squad of Yomiuri Giants minor leaguers and a team of South Korean professionals will play a memorial game March 11 for the South Korean student killed in a train accident last month trying to save a drunken man who had fallen from a station platform.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2001

Two lauded for saving pregnant woman from train

The Tokyo Fire Department on Sunday presented letters of appreciation from its director general to two men who rescued a 24-year-old pregnant woman Wednesday who had fallen into the path of a train.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2001

Two lauded for saving pregnant woman from train

The Tokyo Fire Department on Sunday presented letters of appreciation from its director general to two men who rescued a 24-year-old pregnant woman Wednesday who had fallen into the path of a train.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Feb 3, 2001

A shakuhachi innovator who continues to inspire

Shakuhachi master Hozan Yamamoto is one of the most respected and innovative shakuhachi masters of modern times. He has pioneered new music for the instrument and extended its repertory, while remaining grounded in traditional music.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2001

Two killed by train in rescue effort

A 26-year-old South Korean student was one of two men killed by a train as they tried to pull a drunken man off the tracks at a station on Tokyo's Yamanote Line on Friday evening, police said Saturday.
COMMUNITY
Jan 21, 2001

Taking cloisonne art to city walls

Twenty years ago, walking through Tokyo, Atsuko Kitamura suddenly became aware of a blank wall rearing up in front of her, high into the sky. "The building was so ugly. This is when I decided cityscapes needed cheering up, beautifying. The problem was, how? My usual medium, paint, wouldn't last long....
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2001

Astronauts tour to report on mission

The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery said Monday that aspects of everyday life will become increasingly important as astronauts' missions get longer.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2001

JR East testing remote IC card commuter passes

East Japan Railway Co. unveiled Friday a new commuter pass with a built-in integrated circuit chip that remotely signals the wicket system to allow a passenger to pass.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2001

11 million yen stolen from post office

OSAKA -- Three thieves robbed a post office in downtown Osaka on Thursday of 11 million yen in cash intended for an automated teller machine, police said.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Jan 11, 2001

Warmth of Tsukushinoko hits close to home

Slipping under the green noren and entering Tsukushinoko is a trip. "How'd they fit this joint in here," you think. Incongruous with its surroundings, Tsukushinoko is a very small sake pub that sits in a large, very new building. But you'd never know it from the inside. Warm and cozy, it feels more akin...
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2001

Hashimoto prospering in new Cabinet

Former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who joined Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's Cabinet in the December reshuffle, is showing great zeal and is even outshining Mori, according to political pundits.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2001

Redevelopment hits Tokyo's heart

For the moment, it remains an enormous no man's land in the heart of Tokyo, with the only signs of life the numerous cranes, prefab huts and foundations that indicate construction projects are under way.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 28, 2000

Looking back at the future

In honor of that particularly Japanese custom of creating instant tradition ("Since 1999"), this last column of the year peers forward by looking back. Here are just three of the many new places we have visited and enjoyed during the past 12 months but never got around to writing up.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2000

Societal barriers facing disabled may prove the most formidable

As deputy chief of the Japanese delegation at the Sydney Paralympic Games this summer, Tsunenobu Wakana was impressed with the handicapped-friendly facilities and transportation system.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 16, 2000

Treasure hunting at antique fairs

If you are interested in antiques but never have a chance to visit shops, don't miss two large-scale fairs slated for the yearend and soon after New Year's. Hundreds of dealers will gather at each event from all around the country to offer art, antiques and curiosities.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2000

Hashimoto meets Foley, raises base time limit issue

New Okinawa Development Agency chief Ryutaro Hashimoto said Monday that he raised Okinawa's demand in a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley that a 15-year limit be imposed on the U.S. military's use of a new airport to be built in the prefecture.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
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.
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.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

Podcast

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

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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