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JAPAN
Oct 29, 1999

Violence tears Brazilian community

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JAPAN
Oct 29, 1999

Public urged to stockpile food ahead of Y2K

The government recommended Friday that the public stockpile several days' worth of food and water at the year's end as a precaution against the Year 2000 computer problem.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1999

Drafts for Aum control bills unveiled

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday unveiled drafts of two bills designed to tighten control of Aum Shinrikyo and facilitate redress to its victims.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 1999

New policy left driverless

Nine months in the making, revision of a now admittedly flawed policy toward North Korea is an important step in the right direction in dealing with a problem where there is no good option. But there is a troubling gap in logic between former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry's sagacious assessment...
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1999

Former hostages reported in good health

The four mining engineers who returned to Japan on Tuesday night after being held hostage for more than two months by Islamic rebels in Central Asia do not suffer from any serious health problems, doctors said Wednesday after the four underwent medical checkups at Tokyo hospitals.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 1999

Nasdaq is ready to go head-to-head with Mothers

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JAPAN
Oct 25, 1999

Jospin's first visit to Japan slated for December

French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin will make his first official visit to Japan in mid-December for talks with Japanese leaders on international issues and ways to further strengthen bilateral relations, government sources said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 1999

Speaking without thinking

Barely two weeks after he was named parliamentary vice minister for defense, Mr. Shingo Nishimura of the Liberal Party was forced to resign Wednesday over outrageous views made public in a Japanese weekly magazine. In a two-hour interview, Mr. Nishimura suggested that the Diet consider discussing whether...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1999

Suicides left 12,000 orphans in '98, group says

The number of children under 18 orphaned by suicides last year is estimated to have reached about 12,000, a report released by an educational organization revealed Friday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 1999

Voters send LDP a message

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi won re-election in the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election held Sept. 21. Four days later, Yukio Hatoyama was elected chief of the top opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan. On Oct. 5, Obuchi launched his new three-party coalition government after New...
COMMUNITY
Oct 22, 1999

Creator of offbeat manga happy to break the rules

Manga artist Sekaiichi Asakura has three types of fans: Those who enjoy his work purely for the humor; those who read philosophy and world religion into his comic strips; and those who claim that they are as weird as him.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1999

Bilateral talks set for World Cup traffic surge

Transport Minister Toshihiro Nikai will attend a bilateral ministerial conference this weekend with South Korea to discuss cooperation on air traffic and tourism toward the countries' joint hosting of the World Cup in 2002.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1999

Latin America urged to help KEDO process with oil

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JAPAN
Oct 21, 1999

Futenma debate near conclusion

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JAPAN
Oct 21, 1999

Top court rejects Fujinami appeal, ends Recruit saga

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by Liberal Democratic Party legislator Takao Fujinami in the 1980s Recruit bribery scandal, finalizing a high court ruling that gave him a suspended jail term and a fine of 42.7 million yen, it was learned Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 1999

'Nissan is in bad shape'

That blunt comment says it all. At a press conference Monday, Mr. Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's chief operating officer, ticked off the company's failings: mismanagement, inefficient production, lack of vision, unappealing products. Their impact has been plain: Nissan, Japan's second largest carmaker, has lost...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 20, 1999

The comfort of strangers

"Susunu Denpa Shonen," which airs every Sunday night on NTV, has become a bona fide phenomenon partly by tweaking noses and partly by joining hands -- call it cynicism cut with altruism
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 20, 1999

Ghosts and goblins and kids, oh my!

Just after the ghosts and goblins of Halloween disappear, we will enter yet another spooky holiday: Nov. 3 -- Culture Day.
EDITORIALS
Oct 19, 1999

Now it is up to Pyongyang

There were hopes, a few years ago, that North Korea might just quietly implode, as the Soviet Union did, then be absorbed by its neighbor to the south. The hermetic state was on the brink of mass starvation, created by economic mismanagement and compounded by nature's caprice. The government in Pyongyang...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 1999

Pearl Harbor survivors meet their attackers

Two U.S. war veterans who were at Pearl Harbor during Japan's surprise attack in December 1941 were united in Tokyo on Tuesday with Japanese veterans who took part in the mission.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 1999

An unnerving glance into the abyss

DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism, by Robert Jay Lifton. Holt/Metropolitan, 374 pp., $26. A prominent scholar in the psychology of genocide has good and bad news for those who feel paranoid about random, mass killings by fanatics:
JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999

Aoki to make first Okinawa trip

Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki said Monday that he will pay a two-day visit to Okinawa beginning Friday for the first time since he was appointed to his post early this month.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999

ANA pins survival hopes on global alliance

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JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999

Hubs top priority among airline alliances

Battles in the global aviation market no longer pit only airlines against one another. Today's players are multilateral alliances.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1999

State stand on Korean veterans may be unconstitutional: court

OSAKA -- Refusing a state pension to Korean residents of Japan simply because they are not Japanese nationals might run counter to the constitutional principle of equality under the law, the Osaka High Court said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 1999

The shortsighted U.S. Senate

The United States Senate this week voted down the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This is the first time since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 that the Senate has rejected a major international agreement. We can only hope that the results of this shortsighted move will not be as great. Still, the vote...
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 15, 1999

Kim Itoh puts the future on the map

This year's Tokyo International Festival of Performing Arts, ongoing through Oct. 31, is a scaled-down version of previous festivals, with only six official participants and few of international interest. While this shifts the onus to domestic dance companies such as Min Tanaka and Kenshi Nomi, expectations...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1999

'No more friction' with BOJ, Miyazawa says

The apparent friction between the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan over monetary policy has ended following the bank's clear announcement Wednesday on monetary easing, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Friday.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Oct 15, 1999

Tell JB to get a new bag -- this girl's got her own funk

Takako Minekawa is a sound nerd.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 1999

Megawati has lost her way

HONG KONG -- Indonesia faces a more profound immediate national crisis than India or Japan -- but all three face the same basic political problem: They badly need an effective ruling coalition. In New Delhi and Tokyo, a coalition government is in place. In Jakarta, it isn't.

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