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CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Jul 7, 2000

Save the last dance for Yokota

Susumu Yokota's career has been mercurial enough to warrant the many pseudonyms under which he has released his work. Flitting from house to techno and back again, Yokota has brought his musical curiosity and energy to every genre he's chosen to embrace.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2000

China's unruly, untrustworthy territory

TOM CLIFFORD Staff writer HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong handover three years ago provided some of the most contradictory TV images of our age. An imperial drama, a colony being returned, was played out in the dying days of the 20th century. All that was missing was the setting sun.
COMMENTARY
Jul 7, 2000

Election results are disappointing

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori launched his new Cabinet Tuesday on the strength of an absolute majority won by the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the Conservative Party in the June 25 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2000

Man arrested for allegedly conspiring to sell fake cigarettes

Police have arrested a 66-year-old real estate company employee for allegedly conspiring to sell counterfeit Mild Seven Lights and Seven Stars, both popular cigarette brands sold by Japan Tobacco Inc., police said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2000

Cabinet's focus must be economy, Nikkeiren says

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren), said Wednesday that he hopes Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's new Cabinet will work toward the full recovery of Japan's economy.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2000

IT, finance system reform on Fukuoka G7 agenda

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and his counterparts from the Group of Seven economic powers will meet Saturday in Fukuoka and discuss the policy implications of information technology, international financial system reforms and debt-relief programs for poor countries.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2000

Typhoon heads for Izu island chain

A fairly strong typhoon is moving in the direction of the quake-prone Izu Islands and may bring torrential rain and cause massive landslides in a few days, the Meteorological Agency warned Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 6, 2000

Outfoxed in Mexico

Mexico begins the 21st century with a bang. Voters last weekend rejected 71 years of one-party rule and elected Mr. Vicente Fox, a political outsider, as their president. The Mexican people have made it clear that they are ready for change. Mr. Fox, a rancher and former businessman, has vowed to do just...
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2000

Disneyland site set to swell into kingdom

Another dream world of Disney is emerging just outside Tokyo, enticing both young and old into what appears to be a medieval European town.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2000

Mori seeks a 'reborn Japan'

A day after the launch of his new Cabinet, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori stressed his determination Wednesday to create a "reborn Japan" by improving the economy and promoting the development of information technology.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2000

More tainted Snow Brand milk located

OSAKA -- Snow Brand Milk Products Co., whose low-fat milk was blamed for widespread food-poisoning in western Japan last week, may have tried to cover up the possible contamination of other products, police sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2000

Four arrested over stabbing of woman

Four people were arrested Wednesday in connection with the killing of a 21-year-old pregnant woman in Tokyo's Ota Ward in February, police said.
LIFE / ALTERNATIVE LUXURIES
Jul 6, 2000

Mixing traditions in a quest for freedom

A frog smokes a cigarette in this detail from "The Waiting" by Taeko Takezawa. "I am a totally different type from the other people you've interviewed," says painter Taeko Takezawa as she lights up a clove cigarette. "I am not living my life with any kind of issue consciousness. I'm just trying...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 6, 2000

Law inhibits election coverage and debate

Prior to the Lower House elections June 25, commentators both here and abroad complained that the parties weren't putting forth concrete proposals, but instead only vague assurances that they would rebuild the economy and return Japan to its former glory as the world's last bastion of civility.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Jul 6, 2000

Bush pulls ahead in presidential polls

Texas Gov. George W. Bush continues to enhance his lead in the polls over Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race. Despite what we believe about the value of polling at this time in the contest, Bush's success on the campaign trail contrasts with Gore's constant difficulties (with staff,...
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Jul 6, 2000

Art and design meet status and money

Ignore the rainy season and dream that you are sweating by the sea rather than on the subway. Hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, magazines . . . You probably already protect your skin with Clarins, shield your eyes with Gucci sunglasses, flaunt your bits in a Ralph Lauren bikini, but would you shell out over...
OLYMPICS
Jul 6, 2000

Sydney to fall short of eliminating drugs from Games

Australia vowed to run drugs off the road to the Olympics when it won the right to host the Games in Sydney this September, but the wheels of sports bureaucracy do not spin fast enough to outpace performance-enhanced athletes.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 6, 2000

Hooligans, pack a pencil and lots of undershirts

"The hooligans are coming, the hooligans are coming!"
COMMUNITY
Jul 6, 2000

Japanese wins hot dog pig-out

NEW YORK -- A trio of gustatory gladiators from Japan out-gobbled all other international competitors at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest here Tuesday, sweeping the top three spots and reclaiming the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2000

Bangkok sticks with its old-style politics

BANGKOK -- If Thai politics has changed since demonstrators ousted a pro-military government in 1992 and set the stage for democratic reforms, you would hardly know it from watching the campaign for this month's Bangkok gubernatorial election.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

G8 leaders likely to skip Security Council reform

In a significant diplomatic setback for Japan, top leaders of the Group of Eight major countries are unlikely to refer to the need for reform of the United Nations Security Council in a joint declaration to be issued at their upcoming summit in Okinawa.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2000

All things pointing to high-priced activity

The Tokyo stock market appears poised to snap out of a three-month correction. Having reached a high of 20,833 on April 12, the 225- issue Nikkei average fell to 16,008 on May 15 and is now hovering around 17,500.
EDITORIALS
Jul 5, 2000

New Cabinet must earn its mandate

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori reorganized his Cabinet on Tuesday. It continues the tripartite ruling alliance of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the Conservative Party, even though each party lost seats in the June 25 Lower House election. This new Cabinet is officially referred to as the...
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Heavy thunderstorms disrupt traffic, transportation services

Downpours lashed many parts of the country Tuesday afternoon, disrupting railway services and road traffic amid temperatures of over 30 degrees during the day.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Mori selects new Cabinet

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori inaugurated his new Cabinet, which maintained the basic structure of his old one, on Tuesday night after being re-elected to the nation's top government post in the Diet earlier in the day.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Snow lied after milk-poisoning case

OSAKA -- Officials of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on Tuesday said that a valve at an Osaka production facility found to be contaminated with a toxin-causing bacteria was used almost every day, and not rarely as it had claimed Saturday.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2000

Hotel bankruptcies hit postbubble high

The number of bankruptcies of inns and hotels rose 8.4 percent in fiscal 1999 from the previous year to 90, the worst figure since the burst of the late 1980s bubble economy, a private credit research institution said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Newly appointed ministers announce policy priorities

The ministers appointed to the second Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori announced their priority tasks in separate press conferences Tuesday evening.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Projectile fired at base found

Police said Tuesday morning they found one of two projectiles fired Monday night at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in what they believe was an attack by radicals opposed to the presence of the U.S. military in Japan.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.

Podcast

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

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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