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BUSINESS
May 29, 2000

Coleman ventures beyond camping to stamp image on new generation

For many outside Japan, the name Coleman is likely to conjure up images of tents and weekend camping trips by a roaring campfire.
JAPAN
May 29, 2000

Japan supported two Chinas for U.N., documents show

Japan was inclined in the 1960s to support China's bid to join the United Nations if Taiwan could retain its membership, despite Japan's formal opposition to China becoming a member, according to Japanese diplomatic files declassified Sunday.
JAPAN
May 28, 2000

Osaka homeless have nowhere else to go, World Cup eviction or no

OSAKA -- In the back streets of Osaka's Nishinari district, thousands of elderly men loiter, stopping only to eat at a 100 yen ramen stand or join in a yakuza-run floating craps game.
JAPAN
May 28, 2000

Japanese to enter epic yacht race

A 41-year-old Japanese yachtsman will compete in an unprecedented international yacht race for the fastest time around the world with no limits on boat or crew sizes, scheduled to begin in Spain on Dec. 31, the last day of the century. Toru Kikuchi will sail in what is probably the world's toughest...
JAPAN
May 28, 2000

Seven nations prepare for Rimpac 2000

About 22,000 military and coast guard personnel from seven countries will take part in Rimpac 2000, a series of military drills in waters off Hawaii that start Tuesday and continue for about a month.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
May 28, 2000

Gaj Singh

JODHPUR, India -- Mehrangarh Fort dominates the skyline of this walled, gated, desert city in Rajasthan, India. Five hundred years ago a hermit chose this imposing site for the fort, which commands the wide stretch of land below. Huge spikes were erected on massive barrier gates to counter the charges...
CULTURE / Music
May 28, 2000

Gergiev faultily great with the Rotterdam Phil

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
EDITORIALS
May 27, 2000

Myanmar's lost decade

Ten years ago today, Myanmar had a brief taste of democracy. It was a heady experience: Prodemocracy activists decisively rejected the military junta that had ruled for 28 years. Stunned, the cabal then rejected that verdict, imprisoned its opponents and shut down the country. And so things stand today....
CULTURE / Art
May 27, 2000

A vision of hope in a life of disaster

Painting the kind of life he would like to live instead of the hard one he actually has, artist Andrew Boerger creates an appealing, serene world on canvas that has art buyers snapping up his work.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2000

NTT group's robust earnings belie deregulation rhetoric

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. on Friday released its first consolidated financial statement since its group reorganization in July, posting pretax profits of 825 billion yen on the group sales of 10.4 trillion yen for fiscal 1999.
JAPAN
May 27, 2000

State universities to be independent

The Education Ministry on Friday announced its final decision to turn Japan's 99 national universities into independent administrative institutions, a move that will streamline the management of colleges and give them greater autonomy in budget and personnel matters.
COMMENTARY / World
May 27, 2000

Politicians don't create jobs, people do

As Japan's leaders do battle against the ravages of deflation and recessionary conditions that grip their economy, unemployment rates are at a postwar high. Government data indicate the unemployment rate set a record high for the second consecutive month in March and now stands at 4.9 percent.
JAPAN
May 26, 2000

'Divine' comment to stand

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Thursday that he will defy calls for him to withdraw a controversial remark that Japan is a divine country centering on the Emperor at a press conference scheduled for this afternoon.
JAPAN
May 26, 2000

Chinese spy ship traverses Tsugaru Strait

A Chinese Navy surveillance ship passed through the Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan this week, according to Japan Coast Guard officials.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
May 26, 2000

Indie supergroup likes it fun, dumb -- and loud

Walk into any "live house" in Tokyo, and unless you are still hitting your college textbooks or just exiting puberty, you are apt to be the oldest person there.
EDITORIALS
May 25, 2000

At long last, silence in Aceh

After nearly a quarter of a century of fighting, the Indonesian government and rebels in the province of Aceh have taken a first, albeit shaky, step toward a peaceful solution to their conflict. Earlier this month, the two sides signed a ceasefire agreement that opens the way for dialogue and negotiations...
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

Bills passed for spinoff firms, upholding of labor accords

The Diet on Wednesday enacted revisions to the Commercial Code aimed at facilitating corporate spinoffs as well as a law to protect workers and detailing the succession of labor contracts at the time of a spinoff.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

April trade surplus climbs 10.3% on year

The nation's trade surplus rose 10.3 percent in April from a year earlier to 1.14 trillion yen as exports outpaced imports, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 25, 2000

Top court asked to rule on Nepalese's plight

Lawyers have lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against a high court judge's decision to detain a Nepalese man who was cleared of murder and robbery charges by a lower court.
JAPAN
May 25, 2000

Children's diet suffers as more eat alone

More than half of Japan's schoolchildren have breakfast alone or without the presence of adults, and only about a third eat supper with their whole family.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

Any recovery of the euro will be limited

There are two main reasons for the current weakness of the euro. One is the interest rate differential between the dollar and the euro, a gap that was temporarily contracting but is now widening again based on the extraordinary strength of the U.S. economy.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

Bank deposit, insurance policy safety nets enacted

The Diet passed a bill Wednesday to create a new mechanism to safeguard deposits in the event of bank failures after the current blanket deposit protection system is lifted in April 2002.
JAPAN
May 25, 2000

Locals face eviction from dump site

A garbage-disposal association filed a request with Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Wednesday calling for the city to order residents of Hinodemachi, western Tokyo, to vacate land allocated to expand a garbage dump.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2000

Caught in a legal nightmare

The belief that the law should be applied fairly to all, regardless of nationality, received a setback last week from Japan's judiciary. That is the reaction of people of good will to the rejection by the Tokyo High Court of the appeal filed over its earlier decision to allow continued police detention...
JAPAN
May 24, 2000

Dead boy's parents' campaign ends in conviction of trucker

A trucker was convicted Tuesday of killing an 8-year-old boy in a 1997 traffic accident and handed a suspended sentence in a case that prosecutors initially dropped for "a lack of witnesses" and later reopened under public pressure.

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