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LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Aug 10, 2000

When you least expect distinction in Shimbashi . . .

It's always refreshing to come across a new sake pub, in particular one that breaks the mold of tradition and convention. It's even more refreshing to come upon one that defies all efforts at categorization, yet still satisfies in every way.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 10, 2000

Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Thomson to part company

J. League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima and manager Eddie Thomson have agreed to part company at the end of this season.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2000

It's summertime, and the news is slim

LONDON -- Those of us whose job is to feed the world a steady diet of "news" (99 percent of which is actually recycled "olds") are always grateful when a loon like Rabbi Ovadia Yosef opens his mouth and lets fly. Especially in August.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2000

High school equivalency test to be offered twice annually

The Education Ministry decided Wednesday to hold the state-run "daiken" qualification examinations for university entrance exams twice a year as of fiscal 2001, ministry officials said.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 10, 2000

Let the sleeping dog lie, but don't miss Slovenia

Before I'd even had a chance to say hello to Kim he was stretched out in the sunlight with indulgent abandon and was either snoring or thinking out loud very audibly. A guest began to chat with Boris Lieber, epicure, buckwheat cooking buff and owner-proprietor of Slovenia's highly regarded Pension Lieber....
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 10, 2000

Spicing up life on the Shonan coast

This is hardly the most obvious name for an Indian restaurant. It started life some four years ago as a friendly little Bengal-accented cafe-restaurant in the back streets on the other side of the station, quickly making a name for itself as a reliable spot for authentic Indian cooking. Then three months...
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Gangsters arrested over shoot-out at rightist group's office

Six gang members were arrested Tuesday for their suspected involvement in a shooting incident Monday at the office of a rightist group, in which two people were killed and five injured, police said.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Nakaumi land-reclamation project likely to be spiked

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has informally decided to terminate a controversial national project to reclaim part of Lake Nakaumi in Shimane Prefecture, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori effectively acknowledged Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Survivors' memories published in English

Michiko Nakano set out with the ambition of publishing a collection of stories of her peers' experiences of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in English, hoping to educate more of the world's people about the historic facts of the attack, which occurred exactly 55 years ago today.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Bank officials tried to put an end to World War II

A Swedish international financial official, who later became the third managing director of the International Monetary Fund, engaged in secret maneuvers to help end World War II from neutral Switzerland at the request of his Japanese colleagues, declassified documents from Princeton University show....
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Insect in tomato juice prompts Kirin to recall cans

Kirin Beverage Corp. said Tuesday it is recalling about 610,000 cans of tomato juice after receiving a complaint that a fly was found in a can of tomato juice sold in Tokyo.
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
Aug 9, 2000

Fried potatoes

world.std.com/~fwhite/spud/ Yes, there is actually a server out there powered by potatoes that really does work. Kind of. This address only takes you to a link to that server, which doesn't accept a whole lot of hits, and to an article explaining why the contraption was built.
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2000

Construction firm Hazama seeks alliances to survive debts

Major construction firm Hazama Corp., in an attempt to convince major creditors to forgive some of its debts of 420 billion yen, is seeking tieups with other contractors, among them Niigata-based Fukuda Corp., industry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Tokyo government to seize land for dump site

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to break a 6-year-old impasse with environmentalists by expropriating two plots of land to expand a municipal landfill in the town of Hinode, western Tokyo, officials announced Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 9, 2000

Kyoto welcomes back the dear departed

Bon, the Buddhist Festival of the Dead, is celebrated throughout Japan, but exact dates vary from region to region. Kyoto traditionally observes Bon Aug. 7-16, and, not surprisingly, given its more than 1,200 years of history and strong Buddhist traditions, the town has some unique ways of paying tribute...
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2000

Japan proposes Australia, New Zealand join bluefin-tuna hunt

Japan will propose to Australia and New Zealand that the three countries jointly fish for southern bluefin tuna for research purposes following an international tribunal's rejection last week of a plea by Canberra and Wellington for Japan to halt experimental fishing, Fisheries Agency officials said...
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2000

Narita security guards accused of beating detained foreigners

Foreigners who are refused entry to Japan at Narita airport have been the subject of violent attacks from security guards with a private company who are forcing them to hand over expenses to cover the cost of guarding them, as well as for their meals and accommodation, until they are deported, a former...
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2000

Deflationary concerns nearly gone, Bank of Japan says

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami crept another inch closer to lifting the central bank's "zero-interest-rate" policy Monday by telling the Diet "an end to deflationary concerns is foreseeable."
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2000

Recognizing Japan's key role in Asia

U.S. policymakers seem to have given up on Japan, laments Michael Green, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The exasperation is premature, Green says, for by most yardsticks, Japan is more important to U.S. interests than is China. This is important as U.S. Republicans choose...
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2000

Rightists kill two gangsters in central Tokyo shooting

Two gangsters were shot and killed and five others were injured, one seriously, during a flareup in a rightist group's office Monday afternoon in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2000

Mori, Kuze still disagree over money given to Daikyo

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori continued to differ Monday with former Financial Reconstruction Commission chief Kimitaka Kuze over the use of 100 million yen provided by condominium developer Daikyo Inc.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Aug 8, 2000

The Bush machine rolls along

WASHINGTON -- There are three defining events for a candidate in the U.S. presidential campaign, events that reveal the candidate in a unique and important way. They are the selection of the vice-presidential candidate, the candidate's appearance at the convention, and the debates.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 8, 2000

White guys to the rescue

OUTPOSTS OF CIVILIZATION: Race, Religion and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations, by Joseph M. Henning. New York and London: New York University Press, 2000, 243 pp., $35 (cloth). U.S. foreign policy has a mission. Many American politicians or diplomats would be proud rather than hesitant...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 8, 2000

Japan's media watchdog is a lap dog

CLOSING THE SHOP: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media, by Laurie Anne Freeman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 256 pp. $39.50 (cloth). This excellent book lays bare the mechanisms of the information cartels in Japan that prop up the state, insulate the elite from sustained critical...
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2000

Keidanren, Nikkeiren verging on merger

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) will soon start drawing up detailed plans to merge the two groups, Keidanren Chairman Takashi Imai said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 7, 2000

Information law loaded with perils

A government panel is now fleshing out a blueprint for basic legislation designed to protect personal information held by public and private organizations -- information that makes it possible to identify the individuals involved, such as depositors lists held by banks. It is, in principle, necessary...
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2000

'New breed' of woman emerges in Japan

Two weeks after Sakae Sasaki decided to open a cake shop in Tokyo's Meguro Ward in 1996, she realized she was pregnant.
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.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
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.
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.
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.
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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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