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JAPAN
Jun 11, 1998

BOJ official admits taking bribes, denies leaking bank info

A fired senior Bank of Japan official pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting 4.3 million yen in bribes from two banks but denied leaking vital BOJ information in exchange for the lavish favors.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 1998

Audi, Volkswagen to run separate showrooms

Volkswagen Group Japan KK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG in Germany, is hoping separate showrooms for Audi and Volkswagen will increase each brand's identity in Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

Tokyo upset with canceled visit of North Korea wives

Tokyo expressed displeasure Tuesday with Pyongyang's announcement that Japanese women living with their North Korean husbands in the reclusive state "canceled" applications to visit their homeland.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

One-year delay hits Kobe airport project

KOBE -- The opening of the controversial Kobe airport, which had been scheduled to start up in 2004, will be delayed at least one year until autumn 2005, city officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

Ford not raising stake in Mazda yet, Miller says

The president of Mazda Motor Corp. on Tuesday denied media reports that Ford Motor Co. plans to increase its equity stake in the Japanese automaker.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

Hashimoto's administrative reform bill clears Diet

A government-proposed bill that will serve as the framework for Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's plans for a slimmer administration -- one of his six major reform goals -- cleared the Diet late Tuesday afternoon.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

LDP requests extension of Diet session

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato on Tuesday requested Lower House Speaker Soichiro Ito and Upper House President Juro Saito to extend the current Diet session, originally scheduled to end today, by eight days.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Tokyo temple offers Zen with an American touch

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

MITI recommends easing of oil industry rules

The government should scrap measures designed to balance supply and demand of petroleum products in nonemergency situations, the Petroleum Council, an advisory body to the minister for international trade and industry, said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Father of missing Japanese urges tough Lebanese approach

Megumi Yokota's father believes Japan should follow the example of the Lebanese government, which in 1979 repatriated its citizens who had been abducted to North Korea, after tough, behind-the-scenes negotiations with the communist government.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Dollar tops 140 yen in Tokyo trading

For the first time since June 1991, the yen Monday dropped to a seven-year low against the dollar in Tokyo on indications that the strong U.S. economy would continue and the anemic Japanese one would get worse before getting better.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Mechanical failure cited as cause of '95 chopper crash

The fatal June 1995 crash off Sagami Bay of an antimine helicopter belonging to the Maritime Self-Defense Force was caused by a mechanical malfunction in the rotor controls, MSDF officials said Friday in its final report on the case.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

DKB beefs up stake in Kankaku

Kankaku Securities Co. formally announced Friday that it will shore up its capital base with 30 billion yen in aid from Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, making it a de facto subsidiary of the major city bank.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1998

JICA member takes on Ghana ball team

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Defense quizzes cops on gassing

The defense counsel for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara on Thursday cross-examined police officers who were involved in the investigation of the June 1994 sarin attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1998

Top Hong Kong official defends dollar-to-dollar link

Hong Kong remains committed to retaining its link to the U.S. dollar through a currency board and has strong support from mainland China in defending its dollar, its top administrative officer said Thursday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 1998

Japan-U.S. societies say cultural assimilation top priority

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 2, 1998

Mahathir urges more investment, greater currency control

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday urged Japan to continue to play a leading role in Asia through continued investment and stressed that a new international financial system to stabilize currencies is needed.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 1998

Ozawa makes pre-election policy vows for Liberal Party

Severely criticizing Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto for the "total failure" of his economic policies, Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa stressed Tuesday that now is the time for his party to play its role in rebuilding the nation's ailing economy.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 1998

Papers urged to compete with new strategies as Internet expands

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JAPAN
May 28, 1998

Finance official admits taking perks, denies giving favors

A Finance Ministry official accused of receiving bribes from the nation's Big Four brokerages and a major bank admitted Thursday that he had been entertained by them, but denied returning any favors.
JAPAN
May 28, 1998

Electric manufacturers' profits suffer amid economic blues

The nation's major chip and computer manufacturers on Thursday reported declines in pretax and net profits in the business year ended March 31 amid sluggish domestic demand and Asia's financial turmoil.
JAPAN
May 26, 1998

Kato wants Diet to end on schedule

Koichi Kato, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Tuesday there should be no extension to the current Diet session, which is scheduled to end on June 10.
JAPAN
May 26, 1998

Aum doctor gets life sentence for subway sarin attack

Ikuo Hayashi, the former chief doctor for Aum Shinrikyo, was handed a life prison term Tuesday for committing mass murder in the March 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, even though the judge said he "deserves the death penalty due to the gravity of the crime."
JAPAN
May 26, 1998

Famed doctor was blinded by loyalty to Asahara

Staff writer
JAPAN
May 26, 1998

Court rejects suit over foreign fingerprint files

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court rejected a request by 10 permanent foreign residents Tuesday that the fingerprints they provided under the Alien Registration Law no longer be kept on file and that they be paid 100,000 yen in compensation.
JAPAN
May 25, 1998

Pop Star Seiko Matsuda weds daughter's dentist

Pop star Seiko Matsuda, 36, who has gained fame as much for scandal as for her music, announced her marriage to a dentist six years her junior Monday at Tokyo's Takanawa Prince Hotel in Minato Ward.
JAPAN
May 25, 1998

Greenback climbs to 137 yen on comment by Rubin

For the first time since August 1991, the dollar on Monday hit 137 yen in Tokyo after reports spread that U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said he could tolerate a yen as weak as 140 yen or 150 yen to the dollar to prevent the Japanese economy from collapsing.
JAPAN
May 25, 1998

HSBC gearing for expansion into Japan retail operations

Financial conglomerate Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. will seek to expand its Japanese operations into the retail market "in the not-too-distant future," the chairman of HSBC Holdings said Monday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
May 22, 1998

Chinese seek war labor redress of 840 million yen

A 70-year-old Chinese man demanded in court Friday that Japanese corporations and the government admit wrongdoing and pay redress for labor he claims he and 41 others were forced to perform in coal mines and elsewhere in Japan during World War II.
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.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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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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