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JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001

Keio president set to lead new education panel

An advisory panel to Education Minister Nobutaka Machimura selected Keio University President Yasuhiko Torii as its leader Thursday at its first meeting since the central government was realigned in January.
COMMENTARY
Feb 2, 2001

End of the line for Mori?

Late last year Japan and the United States were buffeted by political turbulence. After briefly stirring fears of prolonged trouble, the chaos has died down.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Colleges brace as fewer apply

Tadataka Koide, president of Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, is awaiting this month's entrance exams with anticipation and anxiety.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

New French plant aims to build up Toyota's Europe presence

VALENCIENNES, France -- Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, started manufacturing the Yaris compact model at its first plant in France here on Wednesday, part of the company's efforts to increase its presence in Europe.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

New French plant aims to build up Toyota's Europe presence

VALENCIENNES, France -- Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, started manufacturing the Yaris compact model at its first plant in France here on Wednesday, part of the company's efforts to increase its presence in Europe.
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2001

Moore here to kick start WTO talks

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and Mike Moore, director general of the World Trade Organization, agreed Tuesday to cooperate in launching a new round of trade liberalization talks, a Finance Ministry official said.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2001

Popular Chinese chef suspected of tax evasion

A Yokohama restaurant chain owned by popular Chinese cuisine chef Zhou Fuhui, known in Japan as Tomiteru Shu, allegedly evaded around 50 million yen in taxes in the three years through June 1999.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Differences arise over bank reform

Financial Services Agency Commissioner Shoji Mori on Monday appeared to contradict LDP policymaker Shizuka Kamei, who one day earlier declared that another postponement of the limited deposit protection may become necessary.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Aid to Angola to be medical: Mori

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday promised to offer 500 million yen in grants to Angola to help reduce polio and malaria in the southern African country.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2001

Airlines file requests to make overseas flights from Haneda

Japan's three major airlines and two South Korean airlines, which were given the green light to use Tokyo's Haneda airport for international charter flights from next month, have requested permission to operate a total of 49 flights, government officials said Sunday.
COMMUNITY
Jan 28, 2001

Float, crab, shrimp and base

There was something profoundly shocking about sitting on the sidelines to watch a hefty adult male throw himself between the legs of a teenage girl and then try forcibly to get into her underwear. How could this be right? Self-defense techniques for women are to be applauded, but this was too close to...
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2001

Two killed by train in rescue effort

A 26-year-old South Korean student was one of two men killed by a train as they tried to pull a drunken man off the tracks at a station on Tokyo's Yamanote Line on Friday evening, police said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2001

Snow envelops Tokyo metropolitan area

The Meteorological Agency on Saturday afternoon issued the first heavy snowfall warning for Tokyo in three years as snow continued to fall in the Kanto and southern Tohoku regions, leaving one death, numerous injuries and traffic chaos in its wake.
EDITORIALS
Jan 28, 2001

What makes children strong

There is a saying that competition begets vitality. But to survive this competition, it is essential to have a feeling of self-respect, belief in oneself. Such self-respect gives people, especially children, the power to face challenges without fear of failure. Yet it is often pointed out that neither...
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2001

Wholesaler, retailer sales slip for ninth year in row

Combined sales by Japanese retailers and wholesalers slid 0.7 percent in 2000 from the previous year to 553.17 trillion yen, making it the ninth straight year of decline, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 27, 2001

Remembering Queen Victoria

Britain this week celebrated an anniversary that may have prompted more national self-reflection than either of the two competing millennial observations did.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jan 27, 2001

The art of appreciating ceramics

In pottery, as with life, sometimes the most basic questions are the most important: Why is this so? Or, how did this happen? Or, what does this part mean?
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2001

NKK discussing ties with Thyssen Krupp

NKK Corp., Japan's second-largest steelmaker, said Thursday it is holding talks with a steel unit of major German industrial group Thyssen Krupp AG to strengthen technological cooperation.
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 26, 2001

National soccer team chooses 45 members

Midfielder Koji Kumagai and forward Takayuki Suzuki of the J. League champion Kashima Antlers have been called up for the first time to Japan's national team training camp next month, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2001

Trade surplus drops for a second year

Japan's merchandise trade surplus in 2000 shrank 12.5 percent from the previous year to 10.74 trillion yen, the second consecutive yearly decline, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Finance Ministry.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2001

Snow links up with Nestle on range of dairy products

Nestle Japan Holdings Ltd. and Snow Brand Milk Products Co. announced Wednesday that they have agreed to set up a joint venture on Feb. 1 to promote a range of products.
EDITORIALS
Jan 24, 2001

Putting bureaucrats in the back seat

The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, an advisory panel to the Cabinet Office, is the highlight of the Jan. 6 government reorganization. The high-powered council, which includes private advisers, cuts across ministerial lines. It represents part of a comprehensive attempt to shift the policymaking...
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2001

CJD plaintiffs die before end of suit against state

Two people who sued the government after contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease for failing to inform them of the risks of contracting CJD in operations have died, their relatives said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2001

BOJ eyes increase in liquidity

The Bank of Japan is compiling a list of measures to provide sufficient funds to banks in case of continued market volatility, BOJ Gov. Masaru Hayami said Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Jan 24, 2001

See where the apricot (or is it plum) blossoms

Kairakuen Garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is one of the three most celebrated gardens in Japan, located a very short distance from the city center.
40 years after Plaza Accord, Japan still at mercy of forex swings
The Plaza Hotel in New York, where finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Five countries met and struck the Plaza Accord on Sept. 22, 1985.
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
Abuse of 'zombie cigarettes' among Okinawa youths raises alarm
A street in Naha in August. In entertainment districts in southern Okinawa, a drug known as "laughing gas vape" is being abused at nightclubs and bar. Now, some establishments have put up warning notices.
Boom in business class travel from Japan fuels airlines profits
A business class suite of an Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft operated by Japan Airlines is seen during a media preview at the company's hangar at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January last year.
The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
Behold the glory of Japan’s fruit boxes
Otherwise common sights in Japan's supermarkets, the country's fruit and veggie boxes can hide surprising symbols of local pride.
YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime
The process of making “Baan” was personal and enlightening for Maneetapho, who spent years talking about anime on his YouTube channel and podcast before making the jump to becoming an anime creator himself.
How Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned failures into breakout success at Tokyo worlds
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after finishing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday.
Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work
Tours are being offered in Tokyo using a shoulder-mounted robot equipped with a camera, speaker and microphone. The robot twitches its wing-like arms, which it can fold together as if in prayer when visiting a temple.
World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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