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JAPAN
Sep 22, 1998

Global Warming: COP4 a time to iron out details

Last in a series
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998

Education council issues final recommendations on change

Local governments should be given greater freedom to run schools in the 21st century, such as discretion in setting up smaller classes, an advisory panel to the education minister said in its final report Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998

Gist of key school reform proposals

The following are the key proposals outlined by the Central Council for Education:
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998

BOJ to pare salaries 4% in austerity cut

The Bank of Japan will reduce the salaries of all its employees by an average of 4 percent, effective Oct. 31, bank officials announced Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998

Global Warming: Industrialized nations told to look home first

Third in a series
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1998

Defense chief apologizes to Diet over procurement scandal

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga apologized to the Diet Friday over a recent scandal in which the agency is accused of having systematically destroyed public documents to cover up a procurement-related scandal.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1998

North Korea launch was aimed at U.S. negotiators, expert claims

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1998

Unum Japan blazes path to meaningful disability insurance

Employing the disabled is not just charity work anymore.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1998

221 lawyers come to aid of twice-acquitted murder suspect

OSAKA -- A group of 221 lawyers has formed a coalition to support a former nursery school teacher who was twice acquitted of murdering one of her pupils in 1974 but has not been freed from the case because prosecutors again have appealed to a higher court.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1998

Emperor takes trip to the future

The Emperor visited the Time 24 Building on the Tokyo waterfront in Koto Ward on Wednesday to get a firsthand look at future business activities and shopping via computer. The building mainly houses government organizations promoting future high-tech businesses.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 1998

Security concerns force U.S. to bow out of 'mikoshi' event

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Pref. -- For the first time in six years, the U.S. Navy will not host the closing ceremonies of this city's annual "mikoshi" parade Sept. 27 due to increased security measures against terrorist incidents directed against the United States.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1998

Defense chief to visit Okinawa bases

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga told reporters Friday that he will make a one-day visit to Okinawa on Tuesday to assess the current situation involving U.S. military bases there.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1998

GDP shrinks 3.3% for third quarterly decline in row

The economy shrank by an annualized 3.3 percent in the April-June quarter of fiscal 1998 over the previous quarter, falling for the third straight quarter -- its worst showing since World War II, the Economic Planning Agency announced Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1998

British Council expands to Chubu

The British Council, the United Kingdom's official organization for cultural, educational and scientific exchange, opened its new, expanded Nagoya center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1998

Nikkei takes worst fall of '98; dollar plunges

Share prices here plummeted to their largest point drop of the year Friday as domestic wrangling and worries of a global stock market meltdown pushed the Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei average below the 14,000 line.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1998

Mitsubishi heavyweights form financial services alliance

In a strategic move to secure an edge over competitors amid ongoing "Big Bang" financial deregulations, four financial firms in the Mitsubishi group announced Friday they are forming a business alliance that will provide a wide range of new financial services.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 1998

LDP compromise is rejected; financial talks to continue

To win opposition support for Diet passage of government-proposed financial system stabilization bills, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday came up with a set of compromise proposals, including a plan to allow the government to purchase all shares of failed banks and bring them under state...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 1998

Business confidence still down, survey shows

Business confidence during the July-September period remained at or near all-time lows among big, medium-size and small firms, according to a Finance Ministry survey released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 1998

BOJ slashes call rate in monetary rescue action

In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan's Policy Board agreed Wednesday to further ease monetary policy by guiding the weighted average of the overnight call money rate down to around 0.25 percent per year.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 1998

Keidanren chairman pressures DPJ to speed up debate

The chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) urged the head of the Democratic Party of Japan on Tuesday to accelerate Diet debate on necessary bills to resuscitate the nation's financial system, according to Keidanren officials.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 1998

Nuclear activist urges Japan to take lead in disarmament

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Ogata calls on Japan to expedite refugee efforts

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, urged Japan on Monday to process refugee applications more swiftly and to make its refugee policies more transparent.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Tokyo's elderly to reach 1.74 million

Tokyo's elderly Japanese residents will number 1.74 million as of Sept. 15, accounting for 14.9 percent of the capital's population, Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Prefectures asked to gear up for poisonings

Alarmed by a series of copycat poisoning crimes, the Health and Welfare Ministry on Monday requested prefectural governments to take steps to insure swift treatment of any future victims.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

Oimachi shop owner killed in knife attack

A Tokyo store owner near JR Oimachi Station was stabbed to death Monday morning by three men, who appeared to be Asian foreigners, in an apparent burglary, police said.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Opposition vows to fight LTCB bailout

Three major opposition parties told the Diet on Friday they are determined to block any government move to inject public funds into the ailing Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 1998

Time for an accounting of Mother Nature

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 2, 1998

Japan halts cargo flights to Pyongyang

The government has withdrawn authorization for chartered cargo flights between North Korea and Japan to protest the communist nation's missile launch Monday over Japanese sovereign territory, Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 1998

Life flickering amid poor sentiment at small firms

The business environment for small and medium-size companies is way off the recovery path, though slight improvements were seen in August, according to a survey released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 1998

Outraged Japan suspends assistance to North Korea

The government, outraged by North Korea's launch Monday of a ballistic missile over Japanese territory, announced a major policy shift toward Pyongyang on Tuesday, suspending food aid and assistance for light-water nuclear reactor projects as well as its offer to resume normalization talks with North...
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.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
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.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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