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BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2000

Economic, corporate earnings support yen

The yen is supported by favorable economic and corporate earnings prospects.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Yaohan chief extracts success from failure

OSAKA -- It is considered difficult and extremely unusual in Japan for those who have failed once in businesses to have a chance to succeed again.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 7, 2000

Dream Team foes face mission impossible

I left Team USA's practice on Tuesday with one lingering thought: poor Angola. At the time, I didn't even know exactly where Angola was (it turns out it's just north of Namibia along the Rio Cunene, if that helps any). But here's what I already knew about the country: It has a basketball team that's...
COMMENTARY
Sep 7, 2000

Gore presidency could be a taxing time

WASHINGTON -- In U.S. Vice President Al Gore's mind, nothing is riskier than letting taxpayers keep more of their money. Which makes his election the riskiest action U.S. voters could take.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Nursing plan created 12,000 jobs: industry group

The government's wage-subsidy program for nursing-care workers, launched in April when the state-run nursing-care insurance system for the elderly began, helped create about 12,000 new jobs through July, an industry group said Wednesday.
LIFE / ALTERNATIVE LUXURIES
Sep 7, 2000

Seeding philosophy in the rice paddies

The zapping racket of cicadas rising and falling, undulating in and out of sync wakes me up soon after sunrise. Although it's not yet 7 a.m., the thick, steamy heat pours in through the open window in waves, and seems fused into one substance with the yazz and clatter of the insects.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Law urged to curb diesel car emissions

Particulate matter emissions from diesel-powered automobiles should be included in a law to control nitrogen oxide air pollution if urban air quality needs to be brought to an acceptable level, according to an Environment Agency advisory committee.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2000

China blocks disarmament

NEW DELHI — U.S. President Bill Clinton's weekend announcement to delay a decision on deployment of the U.S. national missile defense system will do little to end the gridlock at the United Nations' main disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The CD has been without work for four...
LIFE / Travel
Sep 7, 2000

Cambodia feeds a hunger to learn

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- "A young man applied for a scholarship to go and study in Australia," says Helen Cherry, director of the Australian Center for Education, Cambodia. "His English was very good, and I asked him where he had studied. He replied 'By windows.'
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 7, 2000

Educational TV: PTA knows best?

The Data Watching section of the Sept. 7 issue of Dime contains the results of various unrelated surveys regarding the current state of parent-child relationships. In addition to questionnaire answers about corporal punishment and what constitutes bad behavior, there is a list compiled by the Japan PTA...
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Miyake evacuees move into new housing

About 130 evacuees from Miyake Island moved into public housing Wednesday after spending three nights at the Miyake evacuation headquarters in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

Mori, Putin make little progress

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their two-day summit in Tokyo on Tuesday, agreeing to continue peace treaty negotiations toward the yearend deadline but with a territorial dispute stuck at an impasse.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

LDP looks to change the rules ahead of Upper House election

Liberal Democratic Party members of the House of Councilors agreed Tuesday to demand that the proportional representation section of the chamber's electoral system be revised so that voters cast ballots for candidates on party lists rather than for the parties themselves, LDP officials said.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

Top LDP faction set to back Mori: Aoki

Mikio Aoki, a key member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's most powerful faction and the chief Cabinet secretary to two prime ministers, said his faction will support Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori until the Upper House election next summer.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

High school grads being 'forced' to work part time

Sixty-four percent of recent high school graduates who are now in part-time work had hoped to land full-time jobs, according to a recent Education Ministry survey.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

Globalization seen as bane of environment

KITAKYUSHU -- An award-winning environmental activist from India who specializes in agricultural and food issues warned that ongoing globalization could destroy the environment and called on women in particular to counter the trend.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

Evacuees to get new homes

The processing of evacuees from the volcanic island of Miyake is going smoothly and the first of three groups of islanders is scheduled to move into public housing today, officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2000

MMC, DaimlerChrysler meet over COO position

Top managers from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG today will discuss an alternative MMC proposal for a DaimlerChrysler executive to be its chief operating officer, MMC officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2000

Kajima rules out buying into rival

Major construction firm Kajima Corp. said Tuesday it has no plans to take a stake in its debt-ridden rival Kumagai Gumi but held out the possibility of providing management personnel and forming a business alliance.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 6, 2000

Fiery Japan squad gets past Morocco

It may not be as good a sendoff for the Japanese Olympic team as Saturday's 6-0 victory over Kuwait, but Tuesday's 3-1 win over Morocco's Olympic team at Tokyo's National Stadium was just the kind of workout Philippe Troussier's team needed before heading for Sydney.
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2000

Regional banks seek 95 billion yen injection

Chiba Kogyo Bank and Yachiyo Bank on Monday asked the government for a combined 95 billion yen in taxpayers' money to bolster their fragile capital bases.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

Confectioners wage campaign to push merits of chocolate

Japanese are munching their way through more chocolate than ever, but local manufacturers are not satisfied and have launched a string of new products and positive health campaigns to target the country's sweet tooth.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 6, 2000

Love's more than just the money, honey

Back in the halcyon days of my young adulthood, when I used to sigh feverishly into my fiancee's walnut eyes, you can rest assured I spied romance, hope and her contact lenses, but never -- never! -- a pair of yen stickers.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2000

MSDF to join drill to rescue submarine

The Maritime Self-Defense Force will participate for the first time in a multilateral submarine rescue drill in the South China Sea next month, the MSDF said Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Sep 6, 2000

Individual strategies for survival

A pair of limpid brown eyes stares down from behind bare branches. Their owner's thick winter coat, covered with a mantle of snow, hides a female monkey as she huddles to avoid the wind. Snuggling into her body warmth is her youngster.
COMMENTARY
Sep 6, 2000

A haphazard path to recovery

LONDON -- Reports from Tokyo suggest that Japanese government and business leaders have not properly thought through economic policies designed to ensure recovery. Each problem seems to be treated in isolation, and decisions appear to be taken on the basis of what is most likely to satisfy the various...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Sep 6, 2000

The horror, the horror

We're back. Did you miss us? That question isn't the product of an (especially) insecure soul. I mean it.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
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.
Takaichi plans pay cuts for herself and her ministers
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chats with her Cabinet members in parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

Podcast

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

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

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