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JAPAN
Jan 26, 2000

Government to set up antihacker task force

The government Wednesday decided to establish a task force of specialists to prevent computer vandalism by hackers and make a manual at an early date. The decision was made at a meeting of section chiefs from all ministries and government agencies in charge of computer-related issues. Earlier in the...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2000

EU ambassador sees ties with Japan growing

Relations between Japan and the 15-member European Union are "moving along positively," with trade ties in particular becoming "very substantial," said EU Ambassador to Japan Ove Juul Joergensen during a visit to The Japan Times on Tuesday. Juul Joergensen, who took up the top post of the EU delegation...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2000

Visit from Zhu sought before G8 summit

Japan has asked China to arrange a visit by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji to Japan before the Group of Eight summit in Okinawa in July, Japanese Ambassador to China Sakutaro Tanino said in a recent interview.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2000

Sakura, Toshiba, Mitsui join Singapore e-commerce venture

Sakura Bank, Toshiba Corp., Mitsui & Co. and a Singapore telecommunications firm announced Tuesday that they will team up to offer e-commerce services to businesses.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2000

Think before giving nonbankers licenses, JBA chief urges

The relationship banks will have with nonfinanciers trying to enter the industry should be clarified before authorities decide to grant them banking licenses, Katsuyuki Sugita, chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2000

Info-tech boom to stay hot

The Tokyo stock market is maintaining its upward trend amid expectations of a global economic recovery led by information technology-related investment and a favor- able supply-and-demand balance of stocks.
COMMENTARY
Jan 24, 2000

Common sense up in flames

Shizuka Kamei, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, recently proposed a raise in the tobacco tax in the fiscal 2000 government budget. The proposal, however, was quickly quashed due to opposition in the LDP and by Japan Tobacco Inc., the nation's only cigarette manufacturer. Smokers and...
ENVIRONMENT
Jan 24, 2000

U.S. Greens Abroad get organized for wiser, more principled politics

Once, green was just a color. Now the word evokes numerous shades of fear, anger and optimism, and pops up in discussions of politics, economics, trade and environment.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2000

Missile defense opens a Pandora's silo

Ever since 1983, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan broached the project, the idea of a missile defense program that would protect the United States from nuclear attack has burned bright in the breasts of many Americans. The image of a nation protected from threat and insulated from nuclear blackmail...
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 23, 2000

Process of progress; idea to performance

There's a new wind blowing through the performing arts this month, with two companies showing the fruits of "works in progress" instead of finished productions, although any difference in quality seems to be marginal.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 22, 2000

Traditional dyers fit to be tied

These days, kasuri, indigo kimono with splashes of sober white patterns, can only be seen in TV samurai dramas, yet until the beginning of the 20th century they were the most popular and common of daily clothing.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 22, 2000

Veteran of Hagi continues rediscovery

Most of the great potters who rediscovered and revived old potting styles in the early to mid years of the 20th century have passed on into the great kiln in the sky. Yet there is one legend who is still potting: Hagi ceramist Kyusetsu Miwa XI.
CULTURE / Music
Jan 21, 2000

How to build a career on no satisfaction

Whining, I was once told a long time ago, will get you nowhere, but in our current "culture of complaint" everybody thinks they have the right to air their grievances. That doesn't mean everybody has to listen to them, but in such an environment some people have elevated whining to an art form.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2000

Obuchi asks envoys to solicit Asian opinions on G8 meetings

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi instructed Japan's ambassadors to 24 Asia-Pacific nations Friday to gather opinions from the leaders of their assigned countries regarding the Group of Eight summit to be hosted by Japan in July, a Foreign Ministry official said.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2000

Boom looming in investment trust funds

An investment trust fund boom appears in the offing.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2000

Agency unveils law to cut waste, push recycling

Draft legislation aimed at reducing waste, encouraging recycling and realizing a more sustainable society was unveiled Friday by the Environment Agency. The draft calls for a comprehensive law that details the responsibilities of government, industry and citizens -- including producers of goods and...
JAPAN / Media
Jan 20, 2000

Of the people, for the people: the mass appeal of konbini

Though Japan is famous for importing technology from the West and then sending it back in cheaper and better form, business practices remain homegrown. The shining exception is convenience stores, an American concept that has been so successful here that one could say it subsidized the rest of the Japanese...
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2000

Britain steps up scrutiny of BNFL-Kepco links

Staff writer OSAKA -- The British Parliament is stepping up calls for an investigation into the relationship between a British utilities company and Kansai Electric Power Co. following the company's admission that it falsified nuclear fuel data for Kepco's nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture. On...
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2000

Politicians brace for battle as Diet opens

The 147th ordinary Diet session was convened Thursday, as the ruling and opposition camps brace to do political battle over a controversial proposal to cut the number of seats in the Lower House and an expansive 84.99 trillion yen budget for the fiscal year. The current Diet session is scheduled to...
LIFE / Travel
Jan 19, 2000

Down the Ayeyarwady River to the sea

The steamer docked at the sun-soaked Yangon pier could have just sailed in on a river of ink straight from Kipling's pen.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2000

Keio pounds rail passes into benches

In an effort to be more environment-friendly, Keio Electric Railway Co. began placing new benches made of recycled railway passes and plastic waste material at its stations Wednesday. It takes about 1,000 of the passes -- cut into particles and mixed with old plastic trays and other materials -- to...
CULTURE / Books
Jan 18, 2000

Southeast Asia: creature of Japan?

THE SPECTRE OF COMPARISONS: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World, by Benedict Anderson. London: Verso, 1999, 374 pp., 13.00 British pounds (paper). The Japanese invented Southeast Asia. This is just one of the pieces of intellectual dynamite that Benedict Anderson tosses into the reader's lap...
CULTURE / Books
Jan 18, 2000

Feminist and dutiful daughter

MIRROR: The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya, by Ann Sherif. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 1999, 224 pp., $42 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). Koda Aya (1904-1990), the youngest daughter of the Meiji novelist Koda Rohan, began her writing career late, after the death of her famous father. Her first works,...
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2000

State plans bill to bolster technological competitiveness

The government will submit to the upcoming Diet session a bill to strengthen competitiveness in industrial technology through measures supporting collaboration among industry, academia and the government, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said Tuesday. "It is imperative for Japan to develop creative technology...
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2000

War dead kin's book pushes peace

A bilingual book published recently by relatives of Japanese who died in the war aims to share their peace quest with others who lost people in conflict.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2000

Volatile Tokyo market reflects U.S. trends

Stock trading in Tokyo is expected to show a strong undertone for the time being, with the key Nikkei stock average testing 20,000.
CULTURE / Books
Jan 18, 2000

Book Bites

Japan 00: An International Comparison. Tokyo, Keizai Koho Center 2000, 120 pp., 900 yen. The cost of living in Japan weighs heavily on everyone, but those of us who have come from other countries feel it more acutely -- we remember apples so cheap you'd think they grew on trees.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2000

Kobe closes last quake shelter

Staff writer KOBE -- Local government officials marked the fifth anniversary of the Kobe earthquake by announcing that the last temporary shelter has been closed and that it was time to move on and take stock of the lessons learned. But while much of Kobe and the surrounding area has recovered, many...
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2000

Book written by war dead bridges gap between families

Staff writer A bilingual book published recently by relatives of Japanese who died in World War II aims to share their peace quest with others who lost people in conflict.Shigenori Nishikawa of the National Liaison Conference of the Association of War Dead for Peace (Heiwa Izoku-kai Zenkoku Renraku-kai)...
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2000

Thousands hold vigil to mark quake's fifth anniversary

KOBE -- Thousands of candles were lighted under predawn skies Monday and the eternal "Light of Hope 1.17" was set aglow to mark the fifth anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. About 1,500 people gathered at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Chuo Ward to offer a minute of silent prayer at 5:46 a.m., the...
A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
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