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JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

U.S. prodigy, 15, says Japan lags in IT

Japan's information technology industry is about five years behind the United States and there is a need to rapidly promote IT education here by training teachers, a 15-year-old American business prodigy says.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Sulfur smell in Tokyo attributed to Miyake

A sulfurous smell reported Monday in western Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture was probably caused by smoke from volcanic activity on Miyake Island, according to Kanagawa prefectural officials.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

20,000 fans rank animated series

Brutus magazine has released an extensive poll of Japan's best 100 animated series, based on the responses of 20,000 enthusiasts.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Joint team probes Snow fiasco

The Osaka Municipal Government on Monday launched a joint study group of experts with the Health and Welfare Ministry that will investigate the causes of Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s mass food-poisoning incident and attempt to recommend countermeasures.
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2000

Pressure India and Pakistan

Like U.S. President Bill Clinton before him, Japanese Prime Minister Mori has just completed a trip to South Asia that has been high on hope and symbolism but disappointingly low on results. Both leaders argued that it was important to engage India and Pakistan in order to revive the global nonproliferation...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 29, 2000

Captivating fragments of Southeast Asia

THE TRUTH ABOUT ANNA . . . and Other Stories, by William Warren. Archipelago Press, Singapore, 2000, 224 pp., unpriced. Most of these essays by William Warren, who has lived in Bangkok for 40 years, concern aspects of life in Thailand, about which the author has written copiously. There are also glimpses...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 29, 2000

End this dysfunctional relationship

LEAVING JAPAN: Observations on the Dysfunctional U.S.-Japan Relationship. By Mike Millard. M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 2000, 200 pp., $37.95. The $79-billion question is why does the United States continue to tolerate the lopsided economic relationship with Japan that led to a such a massive trade imbalance...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 29, 2000

Beer, blisters and the Tokaido

REDISCOVERING THE OLD TOKAIDO: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige, by Patrick Carey. Folkestone: Global Oriental, 148 pp. and 54 color plates, 16.50 British pounds. Retracing notable footprints is a noble enterprise, and various are the pilgrimages, religious, literary or otherwise. In Japan, retaking known...
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2000

Japan sits out antismoking campaign

While attending the 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health from Aug. 7 in Chicago, I was very impressed by the enthusiasm of participants seeking tighter controls on smoking. The first conference, hosted by the American Cancer Society, was held in New York in 1967. The latest conference was hosted...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Mori to push for expansion of UNSC

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori plans to call for an increase in the number of both permanent and nonpermanent members of the U.N. Security Council in a brief speech he will deliver Sept. 7 at the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York, government sources said Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2000

Wiretap, but carefully

The wiretap law against organized crime that took effect on Aug. 15 could prove a double-edged sword. It allows law-enforcement officials to eavesdrop on phone conversations (including cell-phone conversations), fax messages and e-mail. Unless properly enforced, however, the law could violate basic rights,...
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

Seoul's Itaewon stages revival

SEOUL -- Seoul's scruffy backwater of Itaewon -- for years known only for its girlie bars, tatty drinking dens, cut-price souvenirs and fake watches -- is undergoing a gradual transformation.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2000

E-commerce forum set for Sept. 13

A prominent U.S. business school is holding an e-commerce forum Sept. 13 at the Hilton Tokyo Hotel in Shinjuku Ward, inviting four corporate leaders engaged in e-commerce in Japan to discuss how the Internet is transforming global business management.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2000

U.N. central to future peace

Hisashi Owada, former ambassador to the United Nations and now president of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, emphasized in a recent interview with this writer that Japan should play a larger role in the 188-member world body, saying: "Japan should contribute to the resolution of global issues,...
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2000

Miyake Island residents flee volcano

A mass exodus of people from Miyake Island continued Sunday amid fears that a major eruption could hit the volcanic island south of Tokyo, and local officials put up concrete shelters for those remaining.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 28, 2000

A revisionist's view of Japanese history

"Kokumin no Rekishi," published last year, has been touted as the first major attempt to rewrite Japanese history. I've acquired and read it because I've been asked to comment on Japanese nationalism next month, in Chicago. The author of the book, Kanji Nishio, has been prominent in the movement known...
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2000

Shattering the myth of race

When two rival scientific groups jointly announced in June that they had completed a working draft of the entire sequence of the human genome -- the genetic material found in every cell of every human being -- the achievement was rightly greeted as a milestone of modern medical research.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

33% support organ donation

Nearly one-third of Japanese want to donate their organs in the event of brain death but only 4 percent constantly carry organ donor cards, the Prime Minister's Office said Saturday, citing a government poll.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Petroleum stockpile set to increase

The government will raise the country's petroleum stockpile to 345.95 million barrels from 314.5 million barrels for the first hike in 14 years, government officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Women join the ranks of the nation's lost

With 92,000 yen in her pocket, the 52-year-old woman left her native city in northern Kanto for Tokyo on March 15, seeking a new job in the nation's capital after she was fired from a hotel where she had worked for 10 years.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 27, 2000

Kinjo: Is he the Central League Ichiro?

Yokohama BayStars cleanup hitter Bobby Rose enjoyed a 10-point lead in this year's Central League batting title race on Friday, Aug. 18. He was ahead of the runnerup, Yomiuri Giants slugger Hideki Matsui, .345 to .335. But the next day, Rose found himself in second place, 39 points behind the new leader,...
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Cancer-causing chemicals found at Yokohama site

YOKOHAMA -- Just above the junction of the Tsurumi and Toriyama rivers lies a fenced-off area that looks like a simple abandoned lot.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Guerrillas blamed for morning attack

Police suspect guerrillas were behind a predawn explosion Saturday that damaged a car belonging to a Transport Ministry official.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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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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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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