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JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Dai-ichi Mutual, Yasuda Fire considering tieup

Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. plan to form a comprehensive tieup with a view to integrating their future operations, industrial sources said Saturday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 27, 2000

Yoko Ishii

LONDON -- "I am very proud that I really did find a wonderful job. I can travel the world with my scissors and comb, and wherever I go not only can I find work, but by making people beautiful I can also give them hopes and dreams," said Yoko Ishii.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Youth restoring 'chindon-ya' name

"Chindon-ya," traditional street performers who promote shops, pachinko parlors and other local businesses, were once on the verge of extinction due to a lack of successors.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Kansai business adviser gains fame for book on Hiroshima bombing

OSAKA -- While Yoshikuni Inoue's is a familiar face in Kansai business circles, he is better known for his efforts to boost the region's economy as joint chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in the early 1990s than as a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Coalition scraps 250 public works projects

Senior officials of the ruling coalition agreed Friday to abandon plans for about 250 public works projects nationwide, including a plan to build a dam with flood gates across the Yoshino River, Tokushima Prefecture, coalition sources said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 26, 2000

'Stars deal 'sayonara' loss to Giants

Ryoji Aikawa hit a game-ending "sayonara" single deep to left field with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Yokohama BayStars edged the Yomiuri Giants 3-2 on Friday night at Yokohama Stadium.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Softbank gets approval to take over NCB

The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Friday officially approved the Sept. 1 transfer of the nationalized Nippon Credit Bank to a consortium led by Internet investor Softbank Corp.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Tokyo Internet costs almost double N.Y. charges

The cost of continuously using the Internet in Tokyo for 24 hours is nearly twice as high as that in New York, according to a survey released Friday by the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Capital gains tax system should stay: FRC chief

Hideyuki Aizawa, chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission, said Friday that he will call on the Finance Ministry to maintain the current capital gains tax system in order to prevent the ministry's proposed reforms from negatively affecting the domestic stock market.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2000

The case against Japan's whaling program

While U.S. President Bill Clinton was signing legislation to protect the oceans, Japan expanded its whale hunt in the North Pacific. In defiance of international pleas from Clinton, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders, Japan has gone beyond hunting smaller minke whales to include the...
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2000

LDP sidelines 17.2 billion yen loan to China

The Liberal Democratic Party said Thursday that it will postpone approval of a plan to loan 17.2 billion yen to China to protest recent Chinese naval activity in and around Japanese territorial waters, LDP officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2000

Psychiatrists took brains for research without consent

Two psychiatrists at a national health institution in Chiba Prefecture kept for research purposes the brains of 95 people autopsied at the Medical Examiner's Office in Tokyo without the consent of relatives of the deceased or the proper authorities, it was learned Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2000

Acquitted Nepal man's second trial continues

The second hearing in the prosecution's appeal of a Nepalese man's acquittal of robbery and murder by a district court was held Thursday, after the Tokyo High Court on Wednesday designated two of his five defense lawyers as court-appointed attorneys.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2000

Yen looks poised to restart upward march

The yen has come largely unscathed through a recent spate of unnerving economic and corporate news, including the collapse of Sogo Co.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2000

Wahid battered but still kicking

SINGAPORE -- The threat of impeachment from angry legislators stared Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid grimly in the face on Aug 7., when the 695-member People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) convened in Jakarta to review Indonesia's progress.
EDITORIALS
Aug 24, 2000

The children must be protected

Increasing media coverage of horrendous cases of child abuse, complete with gruesome details of serious injury or death, seems to indicate that the problem is getting out of control in this country. Until not so long ago, an issue that was widely believed to be a private family matter received scant...
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2000

State needs to publicize economic reality

When the Bank of Japan ended its 18-month-old "zero-interest-rate" policy it capped speculation over the controversial shift in monetary policy.
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2000

MITI to abolish subsidy for solar power in homes

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry plans to scrap government subsidies for solar power generation equipment for household use at the end of fiscal 2002 in order to boost competition in the industry, ministry sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2000

Chinese sue over wartime forced labor

Beijing -- Li Yunde (far left) and other Chinese plaintiffs talk to the press at a hotel here Wednesday. LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) A group of nine people filed suit Tuesday against Mitsui and Mitsubishi group companies operating in the United States, demanding compensation on behalf of all Chinese who were...
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2000

Panel urges revisions to law on transplants

A Health and Welfare Ministry panel on organ transplantation has drafted a report proposing that the current law be revised to enable the harvesting of organs from brain-dead patients with the written consent of family members, sources said Wednesday.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 24, 2000

Sampling the best the world of wine writing has to offer

Next to a good wine, I might settle for a good wine book, if only I had time to read them. Having just finished writing a 20,000-word thesis last week on a rather weighty subject, I decided to reward myself with a little wine reading. Fate recently fed my bibliophilia with a few wine books, some of them...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2000

Korea's chaebol are obstacles, not answers

South Korea's industrial conglomerates, the chaebol, were once seen as a driving force behind that country's high rates of economic growth. At the beginning of the 1997 economic crisis, optimists saw them as the engine that would pull South Korea out of its doldrums. Indeed, about 40 chaebol still account...
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

FSA approves cross-sales at life, nonlife insurers

The Financial Services Agency has decided to allow life and nonlife insurance firms to sell each other's products for commission fees, industry sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

BOJ policy options seen in positive light

Although it still remains anybody's guess whether the timing of the latest shift in monetary policy was correct, the effect could be that market participants now see the Bank of Japan's policy options in a more positive light.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2000

Public opinions sought on nuclear policy

The Atomic Energy Commission said Tuesday that it will hold public hearings on Japan's long-term nuclear policy, including the planned use of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, in a bid to finalize the policy by the end of the year.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

Mitsubishi extends recall of faulty cars as scandal widens

Mitsubishi Motor Corp. President Katsuhiko Kawasoe sweats during a Tuesday press conference at the Transport Ministry. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will recall another 88,000 vehicles following a previous recall announcement in July, admitting that the firm had been systematically hiding user...
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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