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JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Pyonyang understood message on ties: envoy

North Korea understands that relations with South Korea will not improve unless Pyongyang strives to strengthen ties with Japan and the United States, an envoy of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung told Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Ex-Prime Minister Takeshita, 76, dies

Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who wielded enormous influence over Japanese politics long after scandal forced him to resign more than a decade ago, died of respiratory failure at 12:53 a.m. Monday at Kitasato Institute Hospital in Tokyo, his aides said. He was 76.
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 20, 2000

JFA to retain Troussier at least through October

The Japan Football Association decided to keep Japan manager Philippe Troussier until the end of October and have the Frenchman guide Japan at the Sydney Olympics in September and the Asian Cup in October, JFA president Shunichiro Okano announced Monday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2000

Cresvale chief denies being part of bond fraud

The former chairman of Cresvale International Ltd.'s Tokyo branch pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he violated the Securities and Exchange Law by selling so-called Princeton bonds to clients while knowing they would be irredeemable.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Forum decries gender inequities in journalism

A director of one of the world's main journalist organizations said Monday the status of female journalists worldwide has improved considerably but the issues of opportunity and gender equality still need to be addressed.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Health ministry to draft plan to help reduce malpractice

The Health and Welfare Ministry plans to draw up rules regarding how medical institutions handle unexpected patient deaths or injuries in an effort to curb increasing incidences of medical malpractice, ministry sources said.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Alliance chiefs take pitch to Osaka streets

OSAKA — For the first time since last Tuesday's official start of campaigning for the June 25 general election, the leaders of the three ruling parties took to the streets together on Monday in Osaka, trying to impress voters with their solidarity.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 20, 2000

U.S. pays the price for its empire

BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, by Chalmers Johnson. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000, 268 pp., $26 (cloth). Is it time for the United States to withdraw from its empire? "America," "withdrawal," "empire": three words, three controversies. Tell me how you define these three...
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Prince to cancel visit to Mongolia

The Imperial Household Agency said Monday that it is planning to cancel an official visit to Mongolia by Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, scheduled from June 28 to July 7, due to the death of the Empress Dowager on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 20, 2000

New rules, old political games

Japanese go to the polls June 25 in the nation's second general election that combines single-seat constituencies and proportional representation.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2000

Expat candidates enter the political fray

As campaigning for Sunday's Lower House election heats up, two candidates are lucky to have a guaranteed point of interest — one comes from Finland, the other from China.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2000

Rules to target malpractice

The Health Ministry plans to draw up three rules for medical institutions to follow in an effort to curb the rising number of medical malpractice cases, ministry sources said Sunday.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 19, 2000

Sure, Japanese rice is expensive -- you're paying for all the chemicals

Don't expect the government to look out for your best interests when it comes to chemicals.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2000

A portal to style and fashion

Tokyo's Harajuku district — encompassing Omotesando Boulevard, modeled on the Champs Elysees, and the countless side streets and alleys that surround it — hosts some of the nation's most fashionable cafes and restaurants.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 18, 2000

Giants and 'Maru-chan' a perfect match

Yomiuri Giants first baseman Domingo Martinez last week celebrated his one-year anniversary with the team, and plucking him out of the Mexican League last June and bringing him back to Japan was one of the best things the Giants have ever done.
COMMUNITY
Jun 18, 2000

Commemoration of a musical pilgrimage

"A Shakuhachi Odyssey -- Enchanted by Timbres of Heaven" is a collection of autobiographical essays, cultural musings, musical stories and more. It beat out over 200 competitors to receive last year's Rennyo Sho, a nonfiction literature prize sponsored by the Honganji Temple Foundation and supported...
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Jun 18, 2000

Cafe's tempting literary brew

Cafe Independent, a "rattle-bag collection of poetry, art, pearls of prose . . . ," is produced by Oliver Kinghorn and Shannon Smith in Kyoto.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Empress Dowager dies at 97; family at her side

The Empress Dowager, the widow of Emperor Showa, died Friday afternoon, two days after she began experiencing breathing difficulties, the Imperial Household Agency said. She was 97.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Milan bombing suspect files libel suit in Japan

A 52-year-old man wanted by Italian authorities for his alleged involvement in the deadly 1969 bombing of a Milan bank filed a defamation suit Friday with the Tokyo District Court against two newspapers and two magazine publishers.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2000

401(k)-type plans to appear online

man. Yamaguchi played a key role last September in the introduction of a new type of pension -- similar to the 401(k) plans used in the United States -- at Pasona Inc., the major temporary-staff agency in Tokyo where he works.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Ogi's New Conservatives aim to lay Japan's 'moral ground'

The recently launched New Conservative Party, the smallest force in the tripartite ruling coalition, hopes to maintain its current strength in the June 25 election in order to lay the "moral ground" for the country in the next century.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Domestic violence law sought

Japan needs to enact a law to recognize domestic violence as a crime and keep abusive husbands away from victimized women, according to the head of HELP Asian Women's Shelter, a private organization that provides emergency refuge for abused women.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Hiding Heo won't lead to prison time

The Tokyo District Court handed a 39-year-old woman a suspended 18-month prison term Friday for harboring bail-jumper Heo Young Joong, a former real estate developer now on trial before the Osaka District Court for financially damaging the defunct trading firm Itoman Corp.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2000

Second-tier banks regained profits in '99

Second-tier regional banks returned to profitability in fiscal 1999 for the first time in four years due largely to a substantial drop in bad-loan writeoffs and profits from share sales, an industry association said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2000

The case for more world trade

The entry of China into the World Trade Organization is of major significance for both the WTO and China.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2000

Students schooled in politics, not apathy

Hiroshi Harada, a 23-year-old associate of the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, better known as Matsushita Seikei Juku, gets up before 6 a.m. every day, does exercises to an NHK radio program and cleans up around the institute's main gate with other associates.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 16, 2000

Yagi, Martinez go double deep

Veteran slugger Hiroshi Yagi and Takashi Yoshida both hit two-run homers off Chunichi lefty Hideo Koike in the second inning Thursday night as the Hanshin Tigers triumphed 12-6 over the Dragons at Koshien Stadium.

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