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BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2000

Banks agree to forgive Hazama debt

Hazama Corp. said Wednesday that its four main creditor banks have agreed to forgive a combined 105 billion yen in loans to the debt-saddled construction company.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2000

Foreign residents on slow boat to get vote

The Japanese woman was unhappy.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Sep 28, 2000

Keeping it plain and simple for the serious sake drinker

Some of the best sake can be tasted these days at modern, shiny, artsy-craftsy sake pubs. These present some of the most lively and interesting environments in which to hang out with nihonshu. But sometimes, what we seek in a sake pub is more of an out-of-the-way feeling. Sometimes its anonymity that...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2000

Koreas need peace, not a peace treaty

SEOUL-- This week's defense minister-level meeting on Cheju Island is welcome news as the two Koreas take another historic step forward in their rapidly developing rapprochement. But the road ahead will be long and convoluted. According to one well-placed South Korean official, "we are in the realm of...
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Snow Brand to cut 1,300 jobs, form alliance with Nestle

Snow Brand Milk Products Co., which was embroiled in a massive food-poisoning scandal this summer, unveiled a major restructuring plan Tuesday that includes cutting 1,300 jobs -- 20 percent of its workforce -- within 21/2 years and closing its Osaka plant.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Cuba looks forward to expanding ties with Japan

Cuba hopes for strengthened relations with Japan in a wide range of areas and also wants to normalize ties with the United States, its longtime nemesis, sometime in the future, Vice President Carlos Lage said in a written interview with The Japan Times.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Yokohama mayor denies 'sin tax' plan aimed at politically weak

Yokohama Mayor Hidenobu Takahide has denied claims that the city's controversial "entertainment tax" plan unfairly punishes the politically weak by singling out unpopular businesses.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Daiwa execs' assets safe for time being

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court has temporarily decided not to seize the assets of 11 former and current executives of Daiwa Bank who were ordered last week to pay the bank $775 million in compensation, sources familiar with the case said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Is JCP's softer tone a smoke screen?

The Japanese Communist Party has adopted a proposal to revise its pro-Marxist-Leninist constitution, which is more than four decades old.
OLYMPICS
Sep 27, 2000

U.S. tips Japan for gold

BLACKTOWN, Australia -- Japan's shot at gold in Olympic softball slipped through Shiroi Koseki's fingers Tuesday night, ending the team's impressive winning streak but leaving it covered in silver.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Private-sector workforce has first fall in 50 years

The number of employees working at private companies in Japan decreased last year for the first time in 50 years, the National Tax Administration Agency said in a report released Tuesday on the profile of the nation's salaried workers.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 27, 2000

Japanese scientists question mineral-accretion technique

A Japanese researcher who conducted a project in Okinawa to explore the effectiveness of growing reefs via mineral accretion in 1989, says he remains unsure of the effectiveness of the technique.
OLYMPICS
Sep 27, 2000

Russian duo take synchro title

SYDNEY -- Japanese water-babes Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda swam for the gold in the synchronized swimming duet final Tuesday, but were beaten by a Russian team whose routine drew on Japanese culture for inspiration.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2000

Stock market volatility, selloff worries lifting

With selling pressure easing, the Tokyo stock market could open October on a positive note at the start of the fiscal second half.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 27, 2000

Old memo presages present struggles

Japan wasn't an "unprovoked aggressor" in the 1930s. China and the United States were to a considerable extent responsible for a sequence of events that led to Japan's actions in Manchuria and, to a lesser degree, in China.
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 27, 2000

The jade vine's home away from home

Tsukuba National Botanic Gardens in Ibaraki, part of the Tokyo National Museum, were opened to the public in October 1983. The garden, which covers 14 hectares, was constructed primarily for experimental research and for botanical education. Divided into 14 different plant zones, it contains approximately...
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2000

Mori backs change in voting system

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday threw his support behind a proposal to change the electoral system for proportional representation seats in the House of Councilors before the next election.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Petition against wiretapping law submitted to Diet

A civic group aiming to abolish a new wiretapping law on Monday submitted to the House of Representatives a petition with 19,730 signatures of people opposing the law.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Domestic auto output up for seventh month

Domestic motor vehicle production in August rose 7.1 percent on the year to 695,620 units for the seventh straight month of year-on-year rise, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2000

More facts, less politics, on education

At first glance, the interim report from the National Commission on Educational Reform, an advisory panel of the prime minister, appears cautious about revising the 1947 Fundamental Law on Education. In marked contrast to an earlier subcommittee report that explicitly supported a revision, the panel's...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2000

Hopes to retool energy policy confounded

Kyodo News One year after a disastrous nuclear accident in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan is still trying to formulate a new national energy policy.
COMMENTARY
Sep 26, 2000

Hazards of electoral reform

The tripartite ruling coalition is moving to submit to the Diet a bill for a new Upper House proportional-representation voting system that would allow voters to choose either individual candidates or political parties when casting ballots. The Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the New Conservative...
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2000

The Whitewater washout

The independent counsel investigating U.S. President Bill Clinton in connection with the Whitewater scandal has determined that neither the president nor his wife "knowingly participated in any criminal conduct . . . or knew of such conduct." The investigation, announced Mr. Robert Ray in a summary released...
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2000

Audit of state testing finds 'irrational' flaws

Testing fees for state-recognized qualifications are not declining despite a surplus in funds from exam fees and course tuition, an administrative audit conducted by the Management and Coordination Agency showed Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2000

Kim urges Mori to help feed North Korea

ATAMI, Shizuoka Pref. -- South Korean President Kim Dae Jung on Sunday called on Japan to extend as much food aid to North Korea as it can.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2000

Japan's not ready for permanent UNSC seat

WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, at the United Nations, Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono pressed Japan's case for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat. He argued that Japan's hefty financial contributions to the U.N., its other foreign assistance activities and its strong support for global nonproliferation...
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2000

Emperors' kimono on show at palace

An exhibition of court garments worn by Emperors and Imperial family members in the 18th and 19th centuries opened Saturday at a museum inside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the first time the items have been displayed in Japan.

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