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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 22, 2001

Sticking to sophisticated yakitori

Yakitori. The term covers a multitude of chicken possibilities, ranging from smoky yatai and stand-up nomiya under the proverbial tracks all the way to plush establishments for Ginza madames where every bird on the menu is reared in free-range bliss, cooked over premium charcoal and washed down with...
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

Ministers silent as rumor mill spins over successor to Mori

With Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori facing mounting pressure to step down, speculation swirled Tuesday over who will succeed him.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Miyazawa says 10% sales tax inevitable

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday that raising Japan's consumption tax rate to around 10 percent, the same level as in European nations, from the current 5 percent is inevitable in order to realize fiscal reconstruction.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2001

Unequal treatment in the Middle East

Beirut -- The Israelis have just elected a prime minister who, brought before the bar of international justice, would surely be judged a war criminal in the class of, say, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who is as firmly associated with the Srebrenica massacre as Gen. Ariel Sharon was with that...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

BOJ to purchase bills

The Bank of Japan said Tuesday that it will purchase 200 billion yen outright in short-term government bills to provide liquidity to the Tokyo money market, effectively doubling the scale of the open-market operation.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

BOJ to purchase bills

The Bank of Japan said Tuesday that it will purchase 200 billion yen outright in short-term government bills to provide liquidity to the Tokyo money market, effectively doubling the scale of the open-market operation.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 21, 2001

The other little woman

"Tom-san," she called.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Mori pressed to seek extension of search for missing Japanese

Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday to urge the United States to commit to continue searching for nine Japanese who went missing Feb. 9 when a U.S. Navy submarine hit and sank a Japanese long-liner near Hawaii.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

New Komeito bigwig predicts Mori resignation

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's resignation now appears inevitable, a senior New Komeito leader indicated Monday.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2001

He ain't heavy, he's Beat Takeshi. And he likes real handguns.

Turning out to promote "Brother" were director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, stars Omar Epps and Claude Maki, and producers Masayuki Mori (of Office Kitano) and Jeremy Thomas, who has worked in the past with Nagisa Oshima and Bernardo Bertolucci. Filmed on two continents, "Brother" is easily Kitano's most ambitious...
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Cabinet set to approve two bills on PCB disposal

The Cabinet is expected to approve two government-drafted bills today that will encourage the processing of polychlorinated biphenyls with an eye to destroying known stockpiles in around a decade.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 20, 2001

More to it than meets the eye: the private world of 'manga'

ADULT MANGA: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, by Sharon Kinsella. Curzon Press, 2000, 228 pp., $19.95 (paper). "Manga" leads a double life in Japan. Its popularity as entertainment for the masses is well-known: Subway riders furtively flip through its pages, young people crowd into...
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Japan-the-liberator remark lands criticism upon Norota

A top official of the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday lashed out at a remark made the previous day by the House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman that Japan purged Asia of colonialism during World War II.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Japan-the-liberator remark lands criticism upon Norota

A top official of the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday lashed out at a remark made the previous day by the House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman that Japan purged Asia of colonialism during World War II.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2001

Murakami may have pushed questioning

Upper House lawmaker Masakuni Murakami, who is suspected of receiving financial benefits from KSD, a scandal-tainted industrial insurer, may have urged fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party to promote a KSD project during sessions of the Diet, according to informed sources.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2001

One kilo of deadly cyanide missing

About 1 kg of potassium cyanide disappeared sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning from the warehouse of a company in Tokyo that deals in deadly substances with industrial uses, police said.
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 / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 19, 2001

Genome decoded: evolution, religion and what it all means

The publication of the human genome sequence has been compared to the detonation of the first atomic bomb and the landing of the first human on the moon.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 18, 2001

Helmut Morsbach

Something Helmut Morsbach has been dreaming of for many years is about to become reality.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2001

Where does Napster go from here?

Napster, the free music-downloading service beloved by millions, was in the news again this week. But there is not much agreement on what the news means.
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 17, 2001

Prosecutor faces charges over info leaked to judge

Criminal complaints have been filed against the former deputy head of the Fukuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office for allegedly leaking information to a Fukuoka High Court judge about a police investigation into his wife, Justice Minister Masahiko Komura said Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2001

Prosecutor faces charges over info leaked to judge

Criminal complaints have been filed against the former deputy head of the Fukuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office for allegedly leaking information to a Fukuoka High Court judge about a police investigation into his wife, Justice Minister Masahiko Komura said Friday.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
Tokyo and Kyoto feature among top ‘noctourism’ destinations
Tokyo ranked second after New York and ahead of Dubai and Singapore in a ranking of the top global cities for nighttime tourism.
Elon Musk says he has created a new U.S. political party
Elon Musk looks on during a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 30.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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