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JAPAN
Aug 25, 1998

Career seminar to focus on English speakers

Simul International Inc. will sponsor a career seminar Sept. 9 for people who want to use English in their jobs, in cooperation with The Japan Times, Shukan ST and InterFM.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1998

Medical schools to slash enrollment

To avoid an oversupply of doctors and dentists in the country, the Education Ministry is considering cutting the number of student admissions to medical and dental schools at Japanese universities by about 200 over the next few years, beginning next spring, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 1998

Business responds with hope to new lineup

Business leaders on Thursday urged the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to restore international confidence in Japan by swiftly tackling the nation's mounting economic problems.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 1998

End of recruitment pacts sparks skipping to find jobs

Abolition of recruitment agreements between companies and new university graduates has helped ease the hectic job-hunting ritual, but class attendance is dropping as students take the hunt into their own hands, according to a survey released Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 1998

OECD plans visit to review progress on reforms

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JAPAN
Jul 14, 1998

Hashimoto's resignation accepted

The Liberal Democratic Party's top decision-making body approved Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's resignation Tuesday and decided it will convene a meeting of all LDP Diet members next Tuesday to choose his successor as party president.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 1998

Hashimoto announces resignation

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced Monday that he will resign to take responsibility for the massive defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's Upper House election.
JAPAN
Jul 2, 1998

JAL chief aims to run like the Bulls

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JAPAN
Jun 17, 1998

Election Equation: Energy of disabled can inspire sea change

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JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Female, rural grads face disadvantage during job hunt

Female students and students in remote areas are at a disadvantage in the current employment slump because they receive employment information from companies later than others, according to a meeting of school faculties Monday.
JAPAN
May 18, 1998

Tokyoites less traditional on gender roles

The percentage of men and women in Tokyo believing in traditional gender roles has sharply dropped in the past decade, Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials said Monday.
JAPAN
May 12, 1998

Tokyo foreigners' council wrangles over voting, job rights

A foreign residents' advisory council to the Tokyo governor on Tuesday had its most heated debate.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 1998

PBEC chief blames Asia crisis on private sector

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JAPAN
Apr 21, 1998

Matsunaga backs plan for public works

Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga expressed support Tuesday for the large amount allotted to traditional public works spending in the government's upcoming stimulus package, noting that such projects are needed in rural areas.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Police believe bogus bills may be work of foreigners

OSAKA -- Investigators believe an overseas counterfeiting ring is behind the recent discoveries of more than 50 fake 10,000 yen notes in Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo, informed sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Opposition criticizes Hashimoto's shift

Opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's policy reversal on Thursday and are ready to pressure him to step down over his economic policy failures during Diet deliberations.
JAPAN
Apr 6, 1998

More trapped prostitutes seeking help

Police received 32 calls for help from foreign women forced into prostitution in 1997, more than triple the figure for the previous year, the National Police Agency said April 6.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 1998

Displaced brokers embark on uncertain career paths

Early this month, a 55-year-old manager at the failed Yamaichi Securities Co. had a job interview with Merrill Lynch, a major U.S. brokerage that has launched a new campaign to penetrate the Japanese market.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Parents cope with slaying of Japanese-Brazilian son

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JAPAN
Feb 16, 1998

IATA chief urges Asia to support aviation, tourism

Pierre J. Jeanniot, director general of the International Air Transport Association, called on Asian governments Monday to support the aviation and tourism industries, which have been hard hit by the ongoing regional economic crisis.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 1998

Merrill Lynch to set up second brokerage house in Japan

U.S. financial management giant Merrill Lynch & Co. announced Thursday it plans to open a new brokerage house in Japan this summer and will hire about 2,000 former employees of the failed Yamaichi Securities Co. to work in about 30 outlets across the country.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 1998

Election, not economy, seen as catalyst for rate hike talk

Would raising the Bank of Japan's official discount rate really be the right medicine for the ailing economy?
JAPAN
Feb 3, 1998

Illegal aliens who built Nagano Games sites facing sweep

NAGANO -- Just as some venues for the Olympics were taking shape last June, six of Ramilo DeLeon's friends suddenly ended up in police custody after a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 1998

Survey: Tokyo men mixed over roles of married life

About 75 percent of single men who live alone in Tokyo say that, if married, they would prefer their wives work only if it does not hinder raising children or housework, according to a poll released by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 1998

Isuzu forecasts 11% drop in auto sales

Sales at Isuzu Motors Ltd. for 1998 will drop 11 percent to 631,000 units amid the economic slump in the domestic market and Southeast Asia, the company said Tuesday.Isuzu produced 705,029 vehicles last year and plans to produce 623,000 this year, down 12 percent. The economic crisis in Thailand will...
JAPAN
Jan 9, 1998

Blair hails Toyota plan to expand production in U.K.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Hiroshi Okuda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., announced at a press conference Friday that the automaker has decided to expand an engine factory in Great Britain.Toyota will increase the annual manufacturing capacity of 1,000cc to 1,300cc gasoline engines at a...
JAPAN
Dec 31, 1997

Keep reform momentum going, Toyoda urges

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JAPAN
Dec 25, 1997

Minister favors conversion of wards into municipalities

Home Affairs Minister Mitsuhiro Uesugi has expressed support for a plan to convert Tokyo's 23 wards into full-fledged municipal bodies, Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1997

Koreans file lawsuit over wartime back pay

OSAKA -- Two Koreans employed at a Japanese steel factory during World War II filed a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court Wednesday demanding that the national government and Nippon Steel Corp. pay them the arrears of their wages.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 1997

Japan ripe for opening to foreign investment, Foley says

The time is right for Japan to implement policy changes to eliminate barriers to foreign investment and encourage more cross-border mergers and acquisitions, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley said Thursday in Tokyo.

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