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BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2001

Tax reform bills enacted by Diet

The Diet on Wednesday enacted a set of tax revision bills for fiscal 2001 featuring extended tax breaks for home loans and withholding taxes on capital gains.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2001

Worker's comp urged for train station hero

The parents of a South Korean man killed by a train in Tokyo on Jan. 26 have applied to the government for workers' insurance, the man's former employer said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2001

Both sides of Pacific sidestep weak yen stand

The yen has remained under downward pressure in recent weeks, fueling speculation that it will soon test its 1999 low of 124.75 to the dollar.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Mar 29, 2001

Bodegas Bilbainas -- an estate of grace

I couldn't have asked for a better location to write the last Wine Ways: on a sun-bathed veranda, caressed by a soft spring breeze, overlooking the broad, bustling Ramlas, Barcelona's magnificent promenade.
COMMUNITY
Mar 29, 2001

The bubble rises skyward again, carrying a doughnut

This balloon's gondola is 6 meters in diameter and shaped so passengers can move around freely.
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2001

Mr. Bush's 'new thinking'

The U.S. decision to expel 50 Russians for "activities incompatible with their status as diplomats" -- spying to the layman -- is being roundly decried as a sign of the Cold War mentality that dominates the administration of President George W. Bush. But it is far from it. The suspicions of those days...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2001

Australians try to sort good economic news from bad

SYDNEY -- With the government of Prime Minister John Howard still reeling from a by-election humiliation, along comes a morale booster -- a corporate deal that makes Australia the dominant player in global-resources trade. Comeback Kid Howard has done it again, although his chances of staying prime minister...
COMMENTARY
Mar 28, 2001

Understanding 'leadership' in Japan

An American scholar who recently proposed writing a book about leadership in Japan was told by his colleagues, "A book? You'll be lucky to find enough material to write a chapter, or more likely a newspaper article, on the subject!"
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2001

Cash, traditions standing between elderly and proper care

For 61-year-old Nayako Yamaguchi, taking care of her 66-year-old sister, Etsuko, is a job she does 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2001

Japan wary about pushing U.S. on controversial Byrd law

Japan looks just like a knight throwing down the gauntlet without being fully prepared to actually fight.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2001

Teito workers face charges over fatal subway crash

Five Teito Rapid Transit Authority employees who were in charge of maintenance at the time of a deadly train crash last March were accused of professional negligence on Tuesday as police handed the case over to prosecutors.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2001

100 trillion yen in stimulus yet to bear fruit

In a policy shift, the Bank of Japan has decided to give more weight to commercial banks' reserves in adjusting its monetary policy than to interest rates.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2001

Bill on data protection approved by Cabinet

The Cabinet approved Tuesday a privacy protection bill designed to set a legal framework to regulate the acquisition and dissemination of personal information for commercial use.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2001

Japan Telecom to cut local call rate to 8.5 yen

Japan Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will reduce its daytime local call rate to 8.5 yen per three minutes, making it the lowest local phone charge in Japan, when its nationwide local-call business starts in May.
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Mar 28, 2001

Cherry grove has encyclopedic reach

If asked what the national tree of Japan is, I would answer sakura, the Japanese flowering cherry, which belongs to the very large genus Prunus. There are many places throughout the country where one can view these beautiful trees, but for those wishing to compare many different varieties at one time,...
CULTURE / Film
Mar 27, 2001

When justice looks the other way

Directors, as they age, usually must either move with the times or find themselves waiting by a silent phone. Since the days of D.W. Griffith, Hollywood has been full of once lordly directors who, having fallen out of fashion, are relegated to telling anecdotes about their glory days to deferential young...
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2001

A small step forward in Irkutsk

Both Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the achievements made at their talks Sunday in Irkutsk, Siberia. Assessing the same meeting, however, the two leaders inadvertently acknowledged publicly that they were giving different interpretations of the talks on the...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2001

Norwegian royal couple treated to banquet, tours

Norwegian King Harald V and Queen Sonja attended a dinner party hosted by the Emperor and Empress at the Imperial Palace on Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2001

Wartime redress suit rejected

The Tokyo District Court on Monday dismissed a compensation suit brought against the government by South Korean women who were forced to provide sex for Japanese servicemen and by South Korean men who fought for Japan during the war.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2001

Ticket agencies join the digital age

Kyodo News The Internet set the scene, cellular phones followed, and now convenience stores have jumped on the bandwagon, drastically changing the way people in Japan buy tickets for concerts, plays and sports events.
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...
CULTURE / Books
Mar 27, 2001

Poetry for every mood and season

RYOKAN: Selected Tanka, Haiku, translated by Sanford Goldstein, Shigeo Mizuguchi & Fujisato Kitajima. Kokodo, 2000, pp. 218, 2 ,000 yen. LOVE HAIKU: Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love: Translations by Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita. Brooks Books, 2000, pp. 112, 1,600 yen. UTSUMUKU SEINEN /LOOKING DOWN:...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Mar 26, 2001

Russians living 'la vida loca'

This semester I am teaching a Dostoevsky course. Implausible plots, stumbling dialogues, everybody in love with everybody, romantic triangles overlap like mating frogs, passions mount, money changes hands and is thrown into the fire -- the normal Dostoevsky stuff.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2001

Marines beat Lions again

Derrick May hit a two-run homer and Nate Minchey scattered six hits over seven innings Sunday as the Lotte newcomers led the Marines to a 6-1 win over the Seibu Lions at the Seibu Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 26, 2001

High school baseball tourney kicks off at Koshien

NISHINOMIYA -- Fukui Shogyo rallied for five runs in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Tokyo's Obirin High School 11-9 Sunday and join Tokaidai Daiyon of Hokkaido in the second round of the 73rd Japan high school baseball national invitational tournament.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2001

Group seeks vindication of convicted Nepalese

Demanding justice for a Nepalese man convicted for a 1997 murder they believe he didn't commit, about 100 citizens on Sunday inaugurated a support group to help him win vindication through a Supreme Court ruling.

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