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COMMENTARY
Aug 25, 2000

Turbulent times await Mori

Japan's new political season will open in late September, when an extraordinary Diet session starts after the summer recess. Politics in the upcoming year will be marked by three potential turning points.
COMMUNITY
Aug 24, 2000

A new deal for man's best friend

Theta was a month-and-a-half-old puppy when she first came to live with Fuyumi Morita and her husband in the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, one year after the couple's marriage. Morita remembers Theta's little paws scrabbling at her when she picked her up, Theta's little eyes looking into her...
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

Budget to again top 80 trillion yen in 2001

General-account budget requests from government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2001 are likely to total about 84 trillion yen, exceeding the 80 trillion yen mark for the third year in a row, government sources said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 23, 2000

Quilt Fest Tokyo 2000 -- bee there

Eleven antique quilts with the log-cabin pattern will be specially exhibited during the Quilt Festival Tokyo 2000, Sept. 7-13 on the 7th floor of Shibuya's Tokyu department store (main store in Dogenzaka).
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2000

Hatoyama has no competition in DPJ race

Yukio Hatoyama was assured Monday of remaining leader of the Democratic Party of Japan after hopeful contenders failed to file their candidacies due to the lack of sufficient backing.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2000

Welcome end to the zero-rate policy

The Bank of Japan lifted its zero-interest-rate policy Aug. 11, despite strong resistance by the government, which exercised its right for the first time under the new BOJ law in its unsuccessful attempt to have the vote by the central bank's Policy Board postponed. One week later, the Nikkei-225 average...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Japan agrees to investigate past misdeeds

Tokyo will accept a request by Pyongyang to set up two working-level panels to discuss Korean cultural assets seized or destroyed by Japan and the granting of permanent residency to North Koreans in Japan, Foreign Ministry officials said.
COMMUNITY
Aug 17, 2000

Preparing to teach for the next 500 years

It is remarkable that in 150 years of mainstream education, there has been little serious investigation into how the human brain learns. An exception is the work of Bulgarian scientist Dr. Georgi Lozanov, who began studies and experiments in the 1950s.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2000

Okinawa conservation plan in works

The Environment Agency will draft a two-year plan to help protect biological diversity in Okinawa Prefecture's unique subtropical ecosystem, agency officials said Monday.
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 15, 2000

International kyogen performance to be held in Sendagaya

Participants in a nine-day international kyogen workshop will present their performance on Aug. 18, 1 p.m. at the rehearsal stage of the National Noh Theater in Sendagaya. "Tojin Sumo (Sumo With Chinese Wrestlers)" and other works will be performed.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Aug 12, 2000

Bringing out the flavor of the clay

Shuroku Harada is the consummate potter. First off, this highly successful ceramist doesn't put on any proud airs; he maintains a humbleness that is important when working with the earth. He shapes the clay and the clay has shaped him, so to speak, into what he is today; mutual respect at its best.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2000

Former construction minister indicted over bribes

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office indicted former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao on Thursday on charges of receiving 30 million yen in bribes from Wakachiku Construction Co. between June 1996 and September 1996.
COMMUNITY
Aug 10, 2000

Japan's favorite schlemiel goes international

The great manga artist Fujio Akatsuka sits casually, a glass of Chivas Regal in one hand, for all the world as if he were drinking at an izakaya with friends rather than sitting in his hospital room in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2000

Nakaumi land-reclamation project likely to be spiked

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has informally decided to terminate a controversial national project to reclaim part of Lake Nakaumi in Shimane Prefecture, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori effectively acknowledged Tuesday.
COMMUNITY
Aug 9, 2000

Echoes of the past in an oasis of beauty

The Japanese lords of yesteryear certainly lived in grand style. Famous gardens in Japan are like very expensive works of art. Luckily the Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, cannot be sold at Christie's.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2000

Court allowed defendant in Itoman scandal to travel

The Osaka District Court allowed a defendant in a scandal involving defunct trading house Itoman Corp. to travel abroad 29 times between December 1993 and his disappearance while on trial in October 1997, according to Supreme Court officials.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2000

Untruely, unmadly, shallowly in love

Daisuke Takeya went to New York to study art in 1989 and got thoroughly sick of being told by everybody and anybody that they loved him, in typically free and easy American style. On the other hand, he enjoyed the mispronunciation of his name Daisuke into Daisuki, meaning "I really like you" in Japanese...
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2000

Average Cabinet minister has 258 million yen in assets

The personal and family assets of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and his Cabinet at the time of the Cabinet's formation July 4 averaged 258 million yen, according to government data released on Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2000

Toyota, affiliate to merge logistics, forklift divisions

Toyota Motor Corp. and its affiliate Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. agreed Monday to integrate their logistics and forklift divisions in April 2001, the two firms said.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 1, 2000

Part 1: The most hated man in football

So the South Africans want to sue after failing to win the 2006 World Cup. Sue who? Well, they haven't quite figured that one out yet, but they know the World Cup was theirs by right. Right?
CULTURE / Music
Aug 1, 2000

Best of Asian music on offer

Asian Music Week 2000 in Yokohama (the 21st Asian Composers League, Conference and Festival) will be held at Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall and elsewhere in Yokohama Aug. 3-9, featuring a variety of music by Asian composers and performers. Programs will include many Japan premieres and world premieres as...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 31, 2000

Roots of juvenile crime lie in parenting

Children are the mirrors of our society. They are the first ones to sense the hypocrisy of the adult world. But most of them do not have the proper means to make their voices heard or have themselves taken seriously. Not all of them are good at verbally articulating their feelings. And when their feelings...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

A dollhouse of sorrow and villainy

Dolls of Japanese warriors Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen from the Sengoku Period are on display at doll museum Jusaburo-kan in Ningyo-cho, Tokyo. -- JT: Toshiki Sawaguchi photos Although the face of the kimono-clad puppet is set, Jusaburo Tsujimura deftly manipulates the two wires controlling its hands...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Hair care for all the community . . . with a twist

Most people are a bit weary of hair salons; it's difficult to get what you want. Granted this may have something to do with the desired image you want. Yourself with say, Julia Robert's hair. It just can't be done. In a parallel universe maybe, but not this one.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 30, 2000

Music for repressed romantics

Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Opera
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2000

Mori stresses IT as path to self-sustained recovery

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori opened a 13-day extraordinary Diet session Friday by renewing pledges to exert leadership to put the economy on a self-sustained recovery track. He also pledged to work on structural reforms by promoting the development of information technology.
COMMUNITY
Jul 27, 2000

Massage helps women overcome breast-feeding difficulties

The first article in this series provided a general introduction to breast-feeding and to the views of La Leche League, a support group that provides free counseling and holds regular meetings on issues related to breast-feeding. This article focuses on the Oketani massage method, which helps breast-feeding...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 27, 2000

Obana: Heat got you down? Eel thyself

Obana is certainly not the most illustrious of Tokyo's unagi restaurants. How could it be when most of the flash money lies west of the Ginza, not up in blue-collar Arakawa-ku? But there are plenty of people, especially those of humbler birth, who will go to the grave swearing by the name of their ancestors...
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Students in Japan struggle with Japanese language and math sections on national exam
The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section on a national test dropped to 67.0% from 67.8% the previous year among elementary school sixth-graders.
Japan launches government body to address concerns over foreign nationals
The new administrative body would serve as a cross-agency "control tower" to respond to issues such as crime and overtourism involving foreign nationals, according to the government.
Japan's Emperor Emeritus admitted to hospital to begin new heart treatment
Emperor Emeritus Akihito is accompanied by Empress Emerita Michiko as he travels to the University of Tokyo Hospital on Monday.
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.
Music idol and anime fandom merch is big business
Businesses who cater to fandoms gathered at Tokyo Lifestyle Week for the second annual Oshikatsu — Merch Collection Expo, a trade show devoted to fandom goods.

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