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BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2002

Dollar's rapid fall must be checked: Shiokawa

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday that the rapid decline of the dollar must be checked before it reaches the 115 yen level.
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2002

Manufacturing key to job picture

The manufacturing sector still creates more jobs than the services industry in Japan, and prefectures with a reliance on manufacturers have lower unemployment rates than those that bank on services, the government said in an annual report Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Jul 8, 2002

Great country; pity about the institutions

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- My good friend Philippe Pons, the Japan correspondent for the leading French daily Le Monde, wrote an excellent article, "Au Japon, la crise n'est pas ce que l'on croit" (In Japan, the crisis is not what people think), for the newspaper's June 19 edition. Pons rectifies many...
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2002

Japan to launch biotechnology panel

The government said Friday it will launch a new biotechnology panel in a bid to put Japan at the forefront of the emerging field.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2002

'Spy vessel' had contact with ship off Shanghai

A vessel that may have been the suspected North Korean spy ship that sank after a gunbattle with Japan Coast Guard boats in December had previous contact with another mystery ship off Shanghai, government sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2002

Ruling bloc submits diluted postal bills to chamber

The ruling coalition parties on Wednesday submitted a watered-down version of a postal services deregulation bill to the House of Representatives.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2002

Nation must focus on better uses for IT, white paper says

Japan should aim to make more sophisticated use of information technology now that Internet access has become widespread, the government said in an annual white paper released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2002

Diet likely to pass postal bills into law

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party basically agreed Tuesday to revise a package of postal-services deregulation bills, making it likely that the legislation will pass the Diet before the current session ends July 31.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2002

The challenge that awaits Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD -- Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, is clearly eager to claim that his newly installed government rests on a stable foundation.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2002

Japan, EU in no hurry to ratify nuclear energy treaty

In what may be somewhat disappointing news for the domestic power industry, Japan will not be able to sign a long-awaited nuclear energy treaty with the European Union at a regular summit next month.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

Schroeder to hitch ride to Japan

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will fly to Japan with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the latter's government jet to watch the World Cup Soccer final between Germany and Brazil in Yokohama on Sunday, the top government spokesman said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2002

New pollution-reduction plan set up

Senior ministry officials involved with antipollution policy agreed on a new pollutant reduction plan Thursday for Japan's three most contaminated bodies of water, the Environment Ministry said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Economic gloom just adds to illegal workers' plight

Practically every working condition endured by 36-year-old Sajidur Rahman during his 4 1/2-year stint at a Yokohama factory is illegal under the Labor Standards Law.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2002

Snow seeks public trust via appointment of consumer guru

With many Japanese companies having finally recognized the importance of beefing up their corporate governance, Snow Brand Milk Products Co. is eager to show it is no exception to this trend.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2002

Japan must deregulate and reform before it's too late: METI report

Japan should quickly deregulate its markets and reform its policies so it can take part in the rapid economic growth of East Asia, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a annual report released Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2002

Shenyang highlights bilateral problems

BEIJING -- Although the furor raised by the two-week dispute over the Shenyang incident has died down, it has not entirely dissipated -- particularly in Japan. The incident highlighted Japan's sensitivity toward China's growing power, and demonstrated that if frictions in this area are not effectively...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2002

Nuclear taboo remains strong

Recent comments by leading Japanese politicians have raised international concern about Tokyo's nuclear intentions. Those fears are misplaced: Japan's nuclear taboo remains as powerful as ever. The comments do signal growing frustration within Japan's policy community over the need for a long-delayed...
COMMENTARY
Jun 23, 2002

Time for redesigning tacky U.S. images

WASHINGTON -- This will, for obvious reasons, be the biggest Fourth of July ever. People who tally such things predict record numbers of flag displays, cookouts and youthful fingers blown off by cherry bombs. Expressions of gung-ho patriotic sentimentality are selling briskly, from Royal Doulton firefighter...
EDITORIALS
Jun 22, 2002

Diet apathetic on political ethics

The regular Diet session, which was extended on Wednesday for 42 days through July 31, appears headed for further turmoil. The arrest of Lower House member Muneo Suzuki on the same day, immediately following a unanimous vote accepting a court request for an arrest warrant, has removed a big thorn in...
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2002

Lower House demands that Suzuki quit

The House of Representatives passed a motion Friday demanding the resignation of lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, who was arrested earlier in the week on corruption charges.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2002

Reforms seen weak in short-term

Although a package of reforms finalized by a key government panel on Friday may point Japan's economic and fiscal systems in the right direction in the long term, pundits are skeptical whether it can deliver the boost of confidence necessary now.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2002

Yamarin escaped illegal logging penalties

Yamarin, the Hokkaido logging firm that allegedly bribed arrested lawmaker Muneo Suzuki in 1998, escaped punishment for unauthorized logging in national forests in 1997 and paid some 6 million yen in political donations to him that same year, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2002

Cost of salvage may hit 5.9 billion yen

It may cost 5.9 billion yen to salvage the suspected North Korean spy ship that sank in the East China Sea in December, sources in the Japan Coast Guard said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2002

Tanaka hit with suspension over LDP salary probe

The Liberal Democratic Party suspended former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka from the party for two years Thursday, effectively kicking the popular lawmaker out of the party.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2002

Improved PR urged for Foreign Ministry

The Foreign Ministry could improve its handling of public relations matters by reinforcing the role of senior officials in charge of dealing with the media, an advisory panel said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 20, 2002

Mr. Suzuki's arrest

Lower House member Muneo Suzuki was arrested Wednesday on charges of receiving 5 million yen in cash from a Hokkaido lumber company in August 1998 when he was the deputy chief Cabinet secretary. According to investigators, Mr. Suzuki is charged with accepting a bribe in return for working on Forestry...
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
Japan doubles down on stimulus to counter effects of Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks about U.S. tariffs in Tokyo last week.
Tokyo court fines Amazon Japan ¥35 million over counterfeit products
Takahiro Fujii (center), the president of Try and E, and his lawyers speak during a news conference on Friday in Tokyo after a ruling was handed down in a case against Amazon Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

Podcast

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

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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