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JAPAN
Dec 17, 1998

Kids with asthma at 50-year high: poll

Record high percentages of children in all grades levels from kindergarten to senior high school have asthma, according to a survey released Thursday by the Education Ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 1998

Sakakibara backs Mahathir on currency controls

Sharing Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's concerns over capitalism, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs supported Malaysia's foreign exchange controls Tuesday.At a Tokyo symposium, Eisuke Sakakibara said global capitalism backed by "market fundamentalism," or the belief...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Heart expert favors alternatives to transplants

Staff writerInstead of organ transplants, more thought should be given to alternatives such as use of artificial organs, cardiology expert Hiroshi Yamaguchi says.He opposes making transplants from brain-dead donors standard treatment. "Organ transplants are not something almighty. I think the demerits...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 1998

Foreign teachers push for equitable pensions

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 26, 1998

Environment agency requests funds to fight dioxin

Reflecting growing public concerns over possible environmental contamination from dioxin -- believed to cause cancer -- the Environment Agency will make fiscal 1999 budget requests worth about eight times initial fiscal 1998 outlays to tackle the problem, agency officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 1998

Breast milk dioxin tops safe level but poses no risk, ministry says

The amount of cancer-causing dioxin contained in breast milk consumed by babies can be as much as seven times higher than the safety standard for adults, according to an interim report on a recent survey by the Health and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 1998

Key Okinawa adviser to relinquish post

Yukio Okamoto, an official adviser to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on Okinawa affairs, will resign from his post on Tuesday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Cultist didn't think Aum would kill family

One-time Aum Shinrikyo lawyer Yoshinobu Aoyama testified Thursday that he never thought the cult was involved in the mysterious disappearance of a Yokohama lawyer and his family when he first heard they were missing in November 1989.A witness for the prosecution, Aoyama took the stand in the trial of...
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1998

SUPER BOWL XXXII: Fourth time's the charm for Elway

Staff writerSAN DIEGO -- The number four turned out to be a lucky charm for John Elway, who guided the Denver Broncos to their first ever Super Bowl victory Sunday.In his fourth appearance in the NFL championship game, the 15-year veteran quarterback out of Stanford finally grabbed the big one. "I can't...
JAPAN
Jan 21, 1998

Level of pollen in Tokyo expected to rise this season

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is predicting this season will be far worse than last year for allergy sufferers in the capital.The amount of cedar pollen in the air, which can cause noses to run and eyes to itch, will be between 0.9 times and 1.3 times greater than usual in Tokyo this year, according...
JAPAN
Dec 19, 1997

Entrepreneur says a business can be ecological, profitable

Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 18, 1997

Seamen left high and dry as tunnel's opening celebrated

KISARAZU, Chiba Pref. -- It was the day to hang up their sea boots after decades on the sea.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 1997

Animators stumped by cartoon's 'special effects'

Animation producers remained stumped Wednesday as to why techniques that have been used "hundreds of times" sent "Pocket Monster" viewers to the hospital Tuesday night.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1997

Japan disappointed with U.S. emissions plan

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto indicated Oct. 23 that the U.S. proposal for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is too lenient.Environment Agency chief Hiroshi Oki, who is scheduled to chair the Kyoto global-warming conference in December, said it would be difficult to build an international consensus...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 1997

Court rules Dentsu liable in '91 employee suicide

The world's largest advertising agency, Dentsu Inc., has been ruled negligent in failing to prevent the suicide in 1991 of an employee who had worked excessive hours, despite seeing signs he needed rest, the Tokyo High Court said Sept. 26 in upholding a lower court ruling.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 1997

APEC expresses optimism on food supply outlook

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has drafted a report painting a cautiously optimistic picture of the region's food situation for the medium- and long-term, despite increasing demand due to rising per capita incomes and population growth.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1997

The Asahara Trial: Scientist recounts sarin deaths

The people who were killed in the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack were poisoned by high-density sarin, a National Police Agency scientist reiterated June 5 in the trial of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara.
JAPAN
May 13, 1997

Private earthquake aid still lacks accounting

KOBE -- Neither the Japan Red Cross nor a local distribution committee has any accounting of what happened to donations sent by individuals and groups of Americans to help survivors of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 1997

JNR debt should be figured into reform, panel chief says

Ways to repay the 28 trillion yen debt the nation incurred in connection with the now-defunct Japanese National Railways should be found to take advantage of the government's fiscal structural reforms, according to a key Liberal Democratic Party member.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 1997

Tax hike may strike consumers unexpectedly March 31

The planned consumption tax increase from 3 percent to 5 percent will be put into effect at different times between midnight March 31 and April 1, and consumers could get a small surprise at the checkout counter.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 1997

Tokyo sees pollen increasing this year

Japanese cedar pollen, which causes hay fever, will increase between 1.3 times and 2 times this spring due to hot weather last July, the Public Health Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government warned Jan. 17.Because temperatures have been relatively high this winter, large volumes of pollen are expected...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 22, 2023

Months after toxic train derailment, East Palestine faces community 'corrosion'

With residents wary of assurances that the air and water are safe, some have already moved away while those who remain are increasingly at odds with one another.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 22, 2023

Dozens die after explosion in a barbecue restaurant in China

Chinese authorities have become increasingly effective at withholding details of accidents until they are in full control of the situation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 22, 2023

Extreme travel rescue operations are expensive, and who pays is unclear

The expense for the search for the missing submersible is likely to be great, and it is unclear whether taxpayers will be required to pay it.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 21, 2023

Kishida comes away from parliamentary session with key goals achieved

Out of 60 bills it submitted, 58 became law, a 96.7% passage rate — a slight drop from the equivalent session last year, where all 61 bills received parliament's approval.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2023

Unlocking climate trillions with a global plan from a sinking island

A summit in Paris this week will bring together the heads of government from more than 100 countries to grapple with financial scarcity as the single-biggest impediment to climate action.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 20, 2023

CEOs should focus on profits, not politics

Target proves yet again that companies are better off avoiding the minefield of social activism.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jun 19, 2023

Emma Raducanu admits to sometimes wishing U.S. Open triumph never happened

Raducanu has failed replicate her U.S. Open performance as injuries and a series of coaching changes have taken their toll over the past two years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2023

Mass immigration experiment gives Canada an edge in global race for labor

A country that has about as many people as the state of California has added more than the population of San Francisco in immigrants over the past year.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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