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JAPAN
Feb 25, 1999

Pfizer posts 48% net profit gain

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc. posted 149.3 billion yen in sales for the business year that ended November 30, 1998, up 15 percent from the previous year, Leslie Patterson, president of the firm, announced on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 1999

Haunting the high street

As the Internet insinuates itself deeper into daily life, one key facet of its future role -- electronic commerce -- continues its explosive growth. Estimates of the amount of business conducted in cyberspace vary from $30 billion annually to nearly twice that. But one thing is certain: It is increasing...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 17, 1999

Designing for dollars

Say what you will about Jeff Bezos, president of Amazon.com, but he is a savvy guy. He and his company may not be worth the gazillions of dollars that the market is throwing at them, but he deserves credit for making the market believe in him.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 3, 1999

Easy money?

Have you got Net fever yet? It's hard to resist.
EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 1999

Dangerous posturing in Brazil

Meeting in Hong Kong earlier this week, 17 of the world's central bankers expressed cautious optimism that the Asian economic crisis had bottomed out. Any relief those comments might have inspired was short-lived: Almost immediately after came reports of a political standoff in Brazil. If President Fernando...
JAPAN
Jan 13, 1999

Textbook panel moves for return to basics

Textbooks used in the nation's elementary and junior high schools should be edited down to cover only basic and standard issues, an advisory panel to the education minister decided Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 1998

Japan best brace itself for the euro

JStaff writer
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Fujita restructuring plan, default requests unveiled

Fujita Corp., a general contractor, unveiled a new five-year restructuring plan Monday and requested that six main creditor banks renounce a total of 120 billion yen in loans provided to the firm.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 1998

Japanese hawks get their spy satellites

The government Tuesday officially approved a project to assemble four reconnaissance satellites by fiscal 2002.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 1998

Educators hammer out mandatory reforms

Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1998

Environment Agency targets diesel emissions

An advisory council under the Environment Agency proposed Monday a set of stricter emissions guidelines for diesel automobiles that would lower the upper exhaust limits of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter by more than one-fourth by 2004.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 1998

Japan, China agree on joint info infrastructure study

Japan and China on Wednesday agreed to begin a joint study on developing an information infrastructure in China with Japanese technology, according to officials of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 1998

Trilateral cooperation key to Korea tension: Seoul

Cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States is essential to ease tension on the Korean Peninsula, South Korean Ambassador Kim Suk Kyu said Friday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 1998

Pyongyang launch puts satellite plan in motion

Japan will launch by fiscal 2002 four information-gathering satellites that can also be used for reconnaissance purposes, according to a decision reached at Friday's Cabinet meeting, officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 1998

DDI begins international telecom service

DDI Corp., the country's second-largest telecommunications carrier, will launch an international telephone service today, and its low-rate approach is expected to intensify price competition among carriers.DDI, which offers international service to 235 destinations, sets its international rates for...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Highlights of Kim-Obuchi declaration

The following are highlights of the joint declaration announced Thursday by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung:1) Obuchi and Kim expressed their shared determination to build a new partnership toward the 21st century.2) Obuchi expressed keen remorse and apologized for...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Leaders sign wide-ranging action plan

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung signed during their summit meeting Thursday a 43-point joint action plan aimed at enhancing ties toward the next century.The paper covered a wide range of topics for the two countries to pursue together and covered five major areas...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 1998

Workshop to discuss development of Mekong countries

Staff writerHigh-level officials from nine countries and six international organizations will meet in Tokyo early next month to discuss ways to accelerate the development of the greater Mekong subregion despite the deep Asian economic crisis, Foreign Ministry sources said Monday.The workshop, scheduled...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 1998

Newly merged Namihaya begins banking

OSAKA -- Namihaya Bank, the first merged firm born under the revised Deposit Insurance Law, started operations Thursday after integrating operations of the ailing Fukutoku and Naniwa banks.The two Osaka-based regional banks, saddled with mounting bad loans, were merged under the revised law, which allows...
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1998

Kim wants past cleared for sake of better future

South Korean President Kim Dae Jung hopes to hear Japan's "sincere apology and regret" over its past conduct toward Korean people during his visit to Tokyo next month, the country's ambassador to Japan said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 1998

Osaka draws up 10-year restructuring plan

OSAKA -- To forestall intervention by the central government, the cash-strapped Osaka Prefectural Government announced a 10-year restructuring plan Thursday that includes a reduction in prefectural officials and teachers as well as a suspension of regular annual wage increases for two years.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 1998

Daimler, Nissan team up on new light truck

Nissan Motor Co., Nissan Diesel Motor Co. and Daimler Benz AG announced Monday that they have reached an agreement to jointly develop a light commercial vehicle for the worldwide market.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 1998

Tokyo Bay waterfront resumes development

For the first time in more than seven years, major businesses will conclude long-term land leases to construct new buildings in the controversial Tokyo Bay waterfront development area, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 28, 1998

Teachers urged to heed criticisms of schools

Teachers must sincerely respond to criticism directed at schools, the head of the Japan Teachers' Union (Nikkyoso) said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 26, 1998

Task force targets youths' narcotics use

The government unveiled a five-year plan Tuesday to crack down on drug abuse, targeting mainly minors, including high school students.
JAPAN
May 20, 1998

Nissan to post losses of 14 billion yen

In sharp contrast to its rival automakers, financially troubled Nissan Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it expects to post net losses of 14 billion yen for the 1997 business year.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 1998

LDP to draft package for economy next week

Taku Yamasaki, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Thursday that the LDP will draft additional economic measures next week.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

Jury still out on Nagano Olympics

NAGANO -- The pavilions are closed and the Olympic banners have disappeared. The souvenir shops are half-empty and Zenkoji Temple has regained its calm demeanor. The city's infamous traffic jams are back, and the taxis once again form long lines waiting for customers.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 1997

Favored tariff system for rich nations may end soon

Japan's preferential tariff treatment of imports from relatively rich countries and regions, including South Korea, should be gradually eliminated beginning in fiscal 1998, an advisory panel said in a report released Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 1997

Foul play called over World Cup plans

Staff writer
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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