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BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

Bill adopted to help older job-seekers

The government adopted a bill Friday to help people 45 and older find jobs under an emergency package of employment measures to cushion joblessness linked to the ongoing economic slump and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's economic reform programs.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2001

U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges reforms push

The U.S. business community is urging Japan to pursue reforms that will help the economy and attract more American investment, the visiting chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 9, 2001

ASEAN dares to dream

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has once again demonstrated its willingness to dream. This year's summit meeting, held this week in Brunei, ended with a call to conclude a free-trade area with China. It is a seductive vision, but it is hard to envision the project's success: ASEAN is already...
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2001

Obituary: Shun Oide

Shun Oide, a former House of Representatives member of the Social Democratic Party and former minister of posts and telecommunications, died Thursday at a Yokohama hospital. He was 79.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2001

Jobless woes to worsen

The U.S. jobless rate climbed 0.5 percentage point from the previous month in October to 5.4 percent amid increasing concerns over fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks and the spreading anthrax scare.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2001

Alternative energy empowering consumers

With increasing demand for cost-efficient and environment-friendly energy, a growing number of hotels, hospitals and major industrial facilities are adopting cogeneration -- a system that makes more efficient use of heat and electricity generated from the same source.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / LEARNING BY HEART
Nov 9, 2001

Music, dance help young minds and bodies grow

For American Amy Nanavati, the mother of 1-year-old Elizabeth, moving to Tokyo from New York earlier this year felt overwhelming. And then she discovered Kindermusik.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2001

S&P gives IYBank strong ratings

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Tuesday it has assigned A long-term and A-1 short-term counterparty credit ratings to IYBank, the banking unit of major retailer Ito-Yokado Co.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Red Army member faces 30-month term

Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-month prison term for Japanese Red Army member Mariko Yamamoto for allegedly obtaining a passport illegally for a fellow member in 1974.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 7, 2001

Chung wants Emperor at World Cup

South Korean World Cup Organizing Committee co-chairman Chung Mong Joon stressed the significance of a visit by Japan's Emperor to South Korea for the opening ceremony of next year's World Cup.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Ogata pushes aid for Afghanistan

Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, called Tuesday for Japan's financial support to help rebuild Afghanistan and stabilize neighboring countries.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2001

Nakatani instructs SDF chiefs to dispatch 700 to East Timor

Gen Nakatani, director general of the Defense Agency, told the heads of Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces on Tuesday to send some 700 service members to East Timor in March to assist with United Nations peacekeeping operations.
BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2001

Cheap fiber row leads to probes abroad

The government plans to conduct on-the-spot investigations of South Korean and Taiwanese companies that are exporting polyester staple fiber to Japan at low prices, government officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2001

Expert on Afghanistan to support U.N. special envoy

Japan and the United Nations are making final arrangements to appoint a Japanese diplomat to support the U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, government sources said Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2001

Preventing financial panic

American consumers have tightened their purse strings since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In capitalist economies, the downtrend in consumption is disturbing for the future of the world economy.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2001

Expert on Afghanistan to support U.N. special envoy

Japan and the United Nations are making final arrangements to appoint a Japanese diplomat to support the U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, government sources said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2001

Author draws strength from illness to warn of market crisis

A life-threatening illness often focuses a person's mind on the meaning of life. For writer Main Kohda, the fear she may have developed cancer changed her life.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 4, 2001

And that's all she wrote, folks

In addition to being the author of the oldest novel in the world, Murasaki Shikibu has the distinction of being the first woman whose image has ever graced Japanese currency. You can be forgiven if you've never noticed her, since she's on the back of the relatively new 2,000 yen note, which seems to...
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Nov 4, 2001

When everyone gets in on the act

The father of a good friend told me a story about coming to Japan for the first time in the mid-'80s to attend a large conference. On their last day in Tokyo, he and several colleagues decided to splurge at a traditional fine-dining restaurant and experience true Japanese fare.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2001

Health ministry to start rubella vaccination drive

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided to take steps to assist people who were not vaccinated against German measles, a dangerous illness for pregnant women, due to an amendment of the Preventive Vaccination Law, ministry sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2001

Trade groups to lobby for new talks

Japanese and European business lobbies will contrive to put a wide range of issues on the agenda at a new round of World Trade Organization talks, officials at the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2001

Delegates shape Kyoto Protocol's future

Conventional wisdom has it that the devil is in the details. It is exactly devilish details that are waiting for climate-change negotiators trying to put the finishing touches on the Kyoto climate accord at negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco that will run until Nov. 9.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2001

Koizumi warms to debt concession plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday reacted positively to Pakistan's request to reschedule its debts to Tokyo, and Finance Ministry officials later indicated that Japan will discuss the matter with other creditors to Pakistan.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2001

Dollar, yen both beset by negative factors

The dollar remains sensitive to ups and downs in New York share prices.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2001

Removing blinkers on trade

LONDON -- The tragic events of Sept. 11 have exacerbated the economic position of every country. New stimulus measures have been instituted in the United States and interest rates have been cut elsewhere. But these are not enough to put growth back on track. An expansion in world trade would bring major...
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2001

Law aims at privatizing JR units

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry announced Thursday it will introduce new legislation to fully privatize East Japan Railway Co., Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) and West Japan Railway Co. on Dec. 1.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2001

Travel down after terror attacks

The number of overseas travelers visiting Japan in September fell around 8.9 percent from a year ago to 346,000, due to the impact of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, a government-affiliated body said Thursday.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped