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CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Mar 27, 2001

Tradition and innovation in modern Celtic music

Julie Murphy and Sharon Shannon are two of the most talented, forward-looking and musically challenging women in Celtic music. Both have captured the spirit of the times, setting a benchmark for a new generation of musicians in their respective traditions. They will soon be performing in Japan with fine...
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2001

JAMA still uncertain of GM entry

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said Friday the group has yet to decide on whether to accept the proposal of American automaker General Motors Corp. to become a member.
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2001

Beijing to be urged to cut tuna haul

Japan, the United States and Canada will urge China to follow a recommendation by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna to cut its catch quota of bigeye tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and the number of its long-line tuna boats, the Fisheries Agency said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2001

Japan to push ties with Latin America

East Asia and Latin America should shore up their cooperation and exchanges across the Pacific not only in politics and economics, but also in social areas, according to a report compiled by the Japanese government.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2001

Ex-KSD officials' trial to begin May 1

The trial of Tadao Koseki, the founder and former chief of mutual aid foundation KSD, and two other former KSD officials will begin May 1, the Tokyo District Court said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2001

Obituary: Mimpei Sugiura

Mimpei Sugiura, a scholar on Italian Renaissance literature, died of a stroke Wednesday evening at a hospital in the town of Tahara, Aichi Prefecture. He was 87.
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2001

'Mori-bund' Cabinet survives latest censure motion

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori easily survived an opposition-proposed censure motion Wednesday in the Diet on the strength of the ruling bloc's numbers.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2001

North Korean bomb victims to receive aid from Japanese

Japan will send a group of doctors and government officials to North Korea on Tuesday to check the health of North Korean people exposed to radiation in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, officials have said.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2001

Foreign ministry official's embezzlement suspected since 1993

A Foreign Ministry official dismissed for the suspected embezzlement of secret government funds allegedly padded hotel expenses on his first assignment as head of a division supporting overseas visits by prime ministers and other top officials in 1993, police have said.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Komura joins chorus calling on Mori to quit

Fresh from surviving a no-confidence motion, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday faced renewed calls to resign, this time from Justice Minister Masahiko Komura.
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 3, 2001

Wake us for the next dance

The abundance of new dance and theater available in Tokyo during the months of February and March is a sure indicator of just how profoundly new work in this city depends on grants and other handouts from funding bodies. These budgets, such as they are, must be used by the end of the fiscal year, and...
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Mar 2, 2001

Dub Squad takes a journey into time

Dub is easily identified but difficult to define. Is it a style, a genre, or an approach to sound?
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2001

Murakami balks in Diet testimony

Masakuni Murakami, the former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight at the center of a widening bribery scandal, testified under oath before the Diet on Wednesday but refused to reply to questions that he claimed could incriminate him before his possible indictment by prosecutors.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2001

OSE to become share-issuing firm

OSAKA -- The Osaka Securities Exchange on Tuesday formally decided to convert itself into a share-issuing company from a membership organization on April 1.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2001

OSE to become share-issuing firm

OSAKA -- The Osaka Securities Exchange on Tuesday formally decided to convert itself into a share-issuing company from a membership organization on April 1.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

Prosecutors plan to question Murakami

Prosecutors plan to summon former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Masakuni Murakami for questioning as early as today on suspicion that he received bribes from scandal-tainted industrial mutual-aid organization KSD, investigation sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

Prosecutors plan to question Murakami

Prosecutors plan to summon former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Masakuni Murakami for questioning as early as today on suspicion that he received bribes from scandal-tainted industrial mutual-aid organization KSD, investigation sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Mori faces difficult week as KSD scandal widens

Another critical week for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori began Monday with the Upper House approving the resignation of Masakuni Murakami, one of the embattled prime minister's staunch backers.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 26, 2001

Nice Treaty upholds Britain's interests

BRUSSELS -- A "stronger Britain in a wider Europe" has been the vision of a succession of British governments but increasingly this debate on the future of Britain in Europe is one in which the media is having to place severe constraints. The strong tradition of English exceptionalism and isolationism...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 24, 2001

Asian music celebration

Next time you feel like pulling your hair out over the bureaucratic pitfalls of overseas travel, spare a thought for Richard Pontzious.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2001

Murakami quizzed on KSD bribe allegations

Prosecutors on Friday began questioning Masakuni Murakami, a former senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, about money and favors he allegedly received from KSD, a government-authorized industrial mutual aid organization at the center of a widening bribery scandal, prosecution sources said.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
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.
In Upper House race, younger voters in Tokyo turn to DPP for new direction
The Tokyo district has the highest number of candidates in the 2025 Upper House election with 32 people in the running for seven seats.
Concerns grow in Japan over possible Russian interference in Sunday’s election
A think tank researcher said anti-government propaganda by Russian bot accounts was what has made the small far-right party Sanseito so popular leading up to the Upper House election.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
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.

Podcast

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

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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