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LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Oct 14, 1999

Yeast developments give rise to wonderful new possibilities

Yeast has been one of those great technical advances in the sake world -- one factor that separates great ginjo of today from the run-of-the-mill sake of yesteryear. Over the last 10 years or so, dozens of new yeast strains have been developed and incorporated into sake brewing.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 1999

Japanese, Korean activists picket Kepco over MOX

OSAKA -- South Korean and Japanese antinuclear activists demonstrated in front of Kansai Electric Power Co. in central Osaka late Wednesday afternoon to protest the company's involvement in shipping mixed plutonium-uranium fuel (MOX).
JAPAN
Aug 12, 1999

Emigrants gypped on 'paradise' sue

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JAPAN
Jun 10, 1999

Sri Lankans find way to share the scholarship

In the small southern Sri Lankan town of Kataragama, high school student Gamini Nawaratne eagerly awaits his monthly mail from Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1999

Upper House begins debate on wiretap bills

The House of Councilors on Wednesday began deliberating controversial bills that would allow law enforcement authorities to wiretap private communications during investigations into organized crime.
JAPAN
May 19, 1999

Rising fears prompt calls to keep Aum in check

The government must respond to growing fears neighbors of Aum Shinrikyo facilities have and make efforts to restrict the cult's activities, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 4, 1999

Dioxin: Proximity to Tokyo dooms Tokorozawa

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LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 13, 1999

We ski, Web ski

I've got a problem, and rather than just let it smolder, I figured the best way to confront it is to go public
JAPAN
Oct 19, 1998

Six DKB execs freed for paying 'sokaiya'

The Tokyo District Court handed down suspended prison sentences Monday to six former Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank executives in connection with the bank's illicit payments to "sokaiya" corporate extortionist Ryuichi Koike.Presiding Judge Kiyoshi Kimura sentenced former DKB Senior Managing Director Kenji Tanaka,...
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1998

Typhoon No. 5 sweeps through Kanto; two die

A large typhoon, the season's fifth, swept through central, eastern and northern Japan on Wednesday, killing two people and flooding more than 3,200 houses.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 1998

Powerful quake rocks Iwate Prefecture

A strong earthquake measuring a lower 6 on the Japanese scale of 7 struck Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, at 4:58 p.m. Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 1998

Preventing Disaster: Flood damage dampens national drills

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country participated in annual disaster drills Tuesday, while many prefectures canceled or scale-downed their exercises in the wake of flood damage triggered by Typhoon No. 4.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Death toll from slides, floods hits 13 as typhonic rains hit

Landslides and flooding triggered by the torrential rains of an approaching typhoon killed 13 people between Thursday and Friday and left four others missing, according to local officials.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 1998

Aomori governor warms to spent atomic fuel plan

Aomori Gov. Morio Kimura expressed a positive stance Friday toward a controversial project to take in spent nuclear fuel at a new recycling facility under construction in Rokkasho Village.
JAPAN
Jul 8, 1998

Supreme Court to hear suspect-lawyer rights case

The Supreme Court has announced it will present to the Grand Bench a controversial case concerning the rights of criminal suspects held in detention to meet with lawyers.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Aum Three Years Later: Cult seen on steady path to rebirth

Second of three parts
JAPAN
Jan 16, 1998

A dozen wives from North Korea ready to visit

The government announced on Friday that 12 Japanese women have been chosen for the second homecoming trip of women who emigrated to North Korea some 40 years ago. Their visit will begin Jan. 27.The women, who live in North Korea with their Korean spouses, will depart Pyongyang and arrive in Tokyo Jan....
JAPAN
Jan 16, 1998

Japan narrows down sites for new capital to three

An advisory panel to the prime minister announced Friday that it has selected three regions on Honshu as prime candidates for Japan's future capital, scheduled to be completed around 2010.The Council for the Relocation of the Diet and Other Organizations said it will start feasibility studies on the...
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1998

Heavy snow brings chaos to Kanto, injures 100

Snow wreaked havoc across the Tokyo area once again Thursday, snarling traffic, slowing trains and causing injuries.About 100 people were rushed to hospitals in Tokyo and surrounding areas after stumbling on snow-covered roads or injuring themselves while moving snow, according to fire department officials.One...
JAPAN
Oct 30, 1997

Names released of wives visiting from North Korea

The government on Thursday released the names of 15 Japanese women living in North Korea who next month will be allowed to visit their homeland for the first time in roughly four decades.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1997

Minamata co-op agrees to open bay

KUMAMOTO -- The Minamata Fishery Cooperative agreed Aug. 18 to remove a net partitioning the once mercury-contaminated Minamata Bay from the outside sea.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 1997

22 die in weekend water accidents

Twenty-two people died over the weekend, 12 others were listed as missing and seven people were injured in 61 swimming accidents at beaches and rivers, the National Police Agency reported.
JAPAN
Jul 8, 1997

Hase murder suspect called 'scapegoat'

Japanese society is trying to make a scapegoat of the 15-year-old suspect held in the killing of Jun Hase, according to panelists taking part in a discussion organized by the Social Democratic Party on July 8 to assess the social impact of the case.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 1997

Powerful typhoon approaches Shikoku

A large and powerful typhoon is expected to start battering Shikoku and the Kii Peninsula with winds of up to 90 kph from late June 19, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 1997

DKB's Fujita likely to face full probe

Prosecutors appeared ready June 13 to launch a full-fledged investigation of Ichiro Fujita, vice president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, over his suspected involvement in the bank's illicit loans to a "sokaiya" corporate extortionist.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 1997

Women take the fight to Girl's Day

About 100 female activists on Mar. 3, Girl's Day, formed a human chain and surrounded the Labor Ministry building in Tokyo to demand equal rights.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 1997

Three airlines OK'd for Korea runs

Japan and South Korea agreed Jan. 30 during their three-day civil aviation talks to add three Japanese airlines to the bilateral aviation market, Transport Ministry officials said.The two governments also agreed to allow airlines of both nations to open new routes between three South Korean cities --...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 1996

Cabinet approves pluthermal policy to shed stocks

The Cabinet formally approved on Feb. 4 a government plan to promote the so-called pluthermal process, which is aimed at reducing Japan's excess stocks of plutonium.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Jun 14, 2023

How the climate crisis is supercharging Japan’s rainy season

When you think of natural disasters do you think of guerrilla rainstorms, landslides and heatwaves? You should, since that’s in the forecast for Japan’s climate-crisis-charged rainy seasons.

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
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