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JAPAN
Aug 8, 2000

One man's fight to be a midwife

The baby looked pale as it started to emerge from the mother's body, worrying Hisateru Takikawa, who had been attending to the woman for hours since her labor started.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

Diet probes ministry for CJD negligence

The House of Representatives is set to launch an investigation into whether the Health and Welfare Ministry is to blame for people contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after receiving imported dura mater during transplants, Lower House members said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2000

Ministry ignored report on risk of catching CJD

The Health and Welfare Ministry in 1988 ignored a report compiled by a ministry research team warning that transplant patients who received imported dura mater could contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare and fatal disease, an internal ministry investigation revealed Friday.
COMMUNITY
Jul 29, 2000

The miracle of life awaits at the end of a long, hard road

Organ donation is not something most of us have to think much about. But for Fernando, a Peruvian with a life-threatening kidney condition residing in Tokyo, the only option that offers any hope for the future is a kidney transplant.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2000

G8 nations vs. the rest of the planet

On July 17, the United Nations University hosted a symposium on "The Kyushu-Okinawa Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities for the Developing World in the 21st Century." The conference was jointly organized by the Tokyo-based Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, the Toronto-based...
EDITORIALS
Jul 21, 2000

Make the summit a success

The world's attention is focused on Okinawa, as heads of the eight leading industrialized nations kick off their 26th annual summit. Japan, the chair of this year's meeting, has invested heavily in the get-together. The 81 billion yen that the government has spent on the summit indicates the significance...
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2000

Stimulus policy should continue: Imai

While acknowledging that the much-anticipated economic recovery has become more evident, Takashi Imai, chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), is emphasizing that the government should continue its current stimulus-oriented fiscal and monetary policies for the foreseeable...
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2000

Rich elderly urged to foot insurance bill

The Health and Welfare Ministry, in a white paper released Tuesday, called on rich elderly citizens to cover a larger portion of social insurance costs, saying the nation's medical insurance and pension systems can no longer function without contributions from all members of society.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2000

Kirin still selling recalled beverage

Kirin Beverage Corp. is continuing to sell its Kirin Speed sport drink through some 40,000 vending machines nationwide despite a recall of the product announced Saturday, company officials said Monday.
CULTURE / Books
Jul 18, 2000

Personal relationships are everything

STAKEHOLDING: The Japanese Bottom Line, by Robert J. Ballon and Keikichi Honda. Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2000, 240 pp., 38 tables, 6 figures. 3,000 yen (cloth). One year, an acquaintance recalls, her family started getting an unusually large number of "oseibo" (yearend presents) and "ochuugen" (midyear...
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2000

Yamazaki starts recall of moldy curry buns

OSAKA -- Yamazaki Baking Co. has retrieved more than 4,100 curry-flavored buns it recalled after convenience stores in Osaka and Hyogo prefectures reported that some of the products appeared to contain mold, officials of the company's factory in Osaka said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2000

Snow Brand pays the price

All attempts so far by Snow Brand Milk Products Co. have failed to deal satisfactorily with the mass food-poisoning outbreak caused by bacterial contamination at the company's Osaka production facility. In the two weeks since the outbreak was first detected, over 13,000 people in nine prefectures in...
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2000

Snow's tainted-milk fiasco likened to deadly Tokai nuclear negligence

OSAKA -- Local residents here are angry over revelations that Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s bacteria-tainted milk was released due to slipshod quality control procedures, and with their faith in the firm shattered, they are comparing the mass food-poisonings to last year's deadly nuclear accident.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Snow asked authorities not to issue official recall

OSAKA -- Snow Brand Milk Products Co., whose low-fat milk products have caused an outbreak of food poisoning over the past week in western Japan, asked Osaka health officials earlier this week not to issue a recall order and instead allow the company to voluntarily recall products made at an Osaka plant,...
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2000

'Tankan' results dismissed

Many business leaders Tuesday dismissed the seemingly encouraging results of the Bank of Japan's quarterly survey of business confidence as insufficient for ending the central bank's "zero-interest-rate" policy.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Toll from contaminated milk passes 7,000

OSAKA -- Over 7,000 people had been affected by food poisoning as of Monday after drinking low-fat milk marketed by Snow Brand Milk Products Co., while only 15 percent of the milk subject to recall had been retrieved.
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2000

Milk production line found contaminated

OSAKA -- Bacteria has been discovered on the production line of a Snow Brand Milk Products Co. factory here that processed low-fat milk believed to have made nearly 5,000 people ill, the company's president said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2000

Birthrate drops to record low

The birthrate and the number of births in Japan sank to record lows last year, accelerating the widespread graying of the population, according to data released Thursday by the Health and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2000

Good news: a week in the tropics energizes your brain

The brain functions of several middle-aged and elderly people from north and northeastern Japan become more active after they spend a week in Okinawa in the winter, according to a study conducted by a Tohoku University research institute.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Dentsu admits fault in worker suicide

Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. admitted Friday that it was responsible for the 1991 suicide of a 24-year-old employee who had become depressed due to overwork and agreed to pay the family about 168 million yen in compensation to settle the case, a lawyer for the family said.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Domestic violence law sought

Japan needs to enact a law to recognize domestic violence as a crime and keep abusive husbands away from victimized women, according to the head of HELP Asian Women's Shelter, a private organization that provides emergency refuge for abused women.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2000

Plan gives cash to local governments

OSAKA — A mediation plan unveiled Friday aimed at settling a dioxin contamination problem that occurred near an incinerator in Nose, Osaka Prefecture, would have the incinerator's maker and the plant operator pay a total of 750 million yen to local governments.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2000

Sumitomo halts sales of rubber gloves with hormone disrupters

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. said Thursday that it will stop selling vinyl chloride gloves for use in preparing food, in response to a warning Wednesday by the Health and Welfare Ministry that the gloves contain hormone disrupters.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2000

Aborigines raise their cause's profile

SYDNEY -- On its way from Greece to the Sydney Olympics 2000, the Olympic flame this week passed by Uluru, a huge rock rearing up out of the vast emptiness of the "dead heart" of Australia. Watching it were Aborigines, this country's inhabitants for the past 50,000 years, to whom Uluru is sacred.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2000

Woman's organs unsuitable for transplant by the time brain-death declared

After two botched tests, doctors at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, on Wednesday finally declared a patient legally brain dead but were unable to use any of the organs for transplant.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
Woman dies after possible knife attack in Setagaya
Police investigate the scene where a woman was found bleeding on a street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
Suntory CEO Takeshi Niinami resigns over alleged possession of illegal drugs
Takeshi Niinami, then-chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings, in May 2024
Why Stalin didn’t invade Hokkaido still largely unknown, 80 years after WWII
During a survey to collect the remains of victims from the Taito Maru, one of the vessels involved in the Three Ships Incident, a metal helmet was found near the stern of the vessel on Aug. 5, 1984, at Rumoi Port. No human remains were discovered.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
‘Cool’ Patagonia wants to take used items into the mainstream
"It's not just about sales. It's about system change," said Marty Pomphrey, general manager of Patagonia Japan, on Aug. 6.

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