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JAPAN
Nov 10, 1999

Air travel unruffled by Y2K: IATA chief

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JAPAN
Nov 10, 1999

Population fall a 'blessing,' U.S. expert argues

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CULTURE / Books
Nov 10, 1999

World of washi

WASHI CRAFTS: Working with Japanese Handmade Paper, by Andrea Heinrichsohn. Tokyo: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd., 1999, 95 pp., 2,400 yen. If you have ever looked longingly at the richly decorated sheets of "washi" in a Japanese paper shop, but left empty-handed for lack of an idea of how to put them to appropriate...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 10, 1999

Homage to an image maker

HAYAO MIYAZAKI: Master of Japanese Animation, by Helen McCarthy. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1999, 240 pp., 8 pages in color and 60 b/w images. $18.95. The biggest domestic movie hit of all in Japan was the 1997 "Princess Mononoke," an animated film created by Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli....
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

In and around Kanto

Dining show to boost refugee cause>Refugees International Japan is staging its 10th annual Art of Dining Exhibition at the Westin Tokyo hotel in Yebisu Garden Place on Monday to raise funds for needy refugees all over the world.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Patients pushed to take control of their own health

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JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Pakistan links CTBT signing to end of sanctions

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JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Minority suffrage bill may split coalition

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JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Toyota's Okuda wins business award

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., has won the 1999 Zaikai Award, or Business World Award, the business magazine company Zaikai announced Monday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 7, 1999

Hail Japan, for you will surely miss it one day

The foreign community in Japan is transient. People come and go. The funny thing is, when they go, they're usually ready. It's something biological: that need to return home.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

EU on the fence on antidumping review

European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy expressed mixed views Friday on calls from Japan and other Asian nations to have the World Trade Organization take up antidumping issues in the upcoming round of trade liberalization negotiations.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Trade Ministry concerned with U.S. antidumping suits

Vice Trade Minister Katsusada Hirose on Thursday repeated concerns that a recent chain of antidumping complaints filed by the U.S. steel industry against steel imports from Japan and other nations may impede development of sound trade practices.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Japan, EU on same page for trade talks

Japan and Europe reaffirmed their cooperation Thursday toward the upcoming trade liberalization talks under the World Trade Organization slated to begin later this month in Seattle. During their meeting here, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy reaffirmed that...
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Museum fetes birth of instant noodles

OSAKA -- Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama and local residents celebrated on Thursday the completion of a museum in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, dedicated to the invention of instant noodles in the city some 40 years ago.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 3, 1999

Kauai -- the director's cut

Remember that incredible rain-forest waterfall in "Jurassic Park?" Don't search for it in the movie's fictional location off Costa Rica. It's on Kauai Island, the self-styled "garden isle," State of Hawaii.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 3, 1999

How to read a bird's lifestyle in its feet

A reflexologist will tell you that feet reveal a great deal about a person's physical state, and that cures can be administered via the feet.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 3, 1999

Autumn leaves and legends of Kyushu's farthest mountains

GOKANOSHO, Kumamoto Pref. -- The tiny community of Gokanosho (made up of five hamlets, hence its name) is virtually in the center of Kyushu. Draw an imaginary semicircle arching inland from the Kumamoto-Hitoyoshi expressway, and Gokanosho will be in the middle.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

Schroeder has faith economy will recover

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday he has become confident of Japan's economic recovery through talks with Japanese government and business leaders during his three-day visit here.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 2, 1999

This poetic chameleon wore khaki

SHREDDING THE TAPESTRY OF MEANING: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katsue (1902-1978), by John Solt. Harvard University Asia Center, 1999, 395 pp., $49.50. On Jan. 4, 1942, less than a month after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor, Katsue Kitazono -- the spelling that John Solt gives the name in "Shredding...
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

HP gears up for aggressive Japan campaign

Consumers and business partners in Japan will become increasingly important in the next century for Hewlett Packard Co. to expand its share in the information technology market, Carly Fiorina, new president and chief executive officer of the firm, told reporters Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 1, 1999

Kid gloves and iron fists

October was a good month for Chinese President Jiang Zemin. First, he presided over the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Chinese People's Republic. Those festivities helped him shore up his claim to stand alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as the third great leader of the country. He was spared...
JAPAN
Nov 1, 1999

Obuchi, Schroeder affirm cooperation for G8

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Gerhard Schroeder, the visiting German Chancellor, reaffirmed Monday that Japan and Germany will cooperate closely in preparations for the Group of Eight summit meeting next year in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 1999

The end of a movie era

In this multimedia age, when new electronic entertainment devices for use in the privacy of one's home -- or anywhere -- proliferate endlessly, it can seem hopelessly old-fashioned to trendsetters to sit in a darkened movie theater watching stars emote in heart-tugging dramas, daredevil adventure stories...
CULTURE / Music
Oct 30, 1999

Pianist not forcing the feeling

When considering the performance of musicians in regard to taste, it is generally agreed that a player should not intrude his individual personality on the music.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1999

Auto insurers to offer premium rebates

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LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 27, 1999

Eyes on the storm

You don't have to be the wonky sort to want to keep tabs on what is going on in Northeast Asia. Yes, diplomacy can be tedious -- although North Korean rhetoric does liven things up a good bit -- but most Japan Times readers live in Japan and that puts them within range of those missiles ostensibly threatening...
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1999

Maki, Peterson win Praemium Imperiale awards

Five artists, including architect Fumihiko Maki, were named Wednesday as recipients of the 11th Praemium Imperiale for outstanding cultural achievements.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1999

Ministry to review U.S. base funding

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JAPAN
Oct 27, 1999

Canadian educators push quality academics at the right price

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COMMUNITY
Oct 27, 1999

A walk through the Kyoto antiques district

KYOTO -- Long a Mecca for fans of Japanese antiques, Kyoto is more enticing than ever these days. Unscathed by the bombs of World War II, old family storehouses continue to yield a small but steady stream of somewhat dusty delights, while a host of new shops plying the antiquity trade promises something...
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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