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JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Bill compiled to help state take privately owned land

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has compiled a draft bill that would expedite expropriations of land for dams, roads and other public works projects, ministry sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2001

Consumption tax hike ruled out for now

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Wednesday that the government has no intention of immediately raising the consumption tax.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

External panel meets to review workings of Foreign Ministry

A panel of outside experts advising the Foreign Ministry held its first meeting Wednesday morning to review ministerial operations and discuss ways of preventing further misuses of public funds.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

External panel meets to review workings of Foreign Ministry

A panel of outside experts advising the Foreign Ministry held its first meeting Wednesday morning to review ministerial operations and discuss ways of preventing further misuses of public funds.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Mori scoffs at suggestion that he bet on golf game

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Wednesday shrugged off suggestions that he had wagered on the round of golf he continued after learning of the sinking of the Ehime Maru, which had been struck by a U.S. submarine.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Mori scoffs at suggestion that he bet on golf game

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Wednesday shrugged off suggestions that he had wagered on the round of golf he continued after learning of the sinking of the Ehime Maru, which had been struck by a U.S. submarine.
COMMENTARY
Feb 21, 2001

Japan-U.S. ties: lost at sea?

LOS ANGELES -- The Japanese people are angry about a lot of things these days, not just their soggy economy. They are angry about the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fisheries ship off Hawaii. They are angry about their prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, who incredibly continued with a golf...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Miyazawa says 10% sales tax inevitable

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday that raising Japan's consumption tax rate to around 10 percent, the same level as in European nations, from the current 5 percent is inevitable in order to realize fiscal reconstruction.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Cuba's foreign minister to visit in March; aid may be further away

After decades of estrangement, Japan and Cuba in recent years have warmed to each other through visits by high-level political figures. But it likely will take much longer for the sunny disposition to shine on the economic landscape.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Kamei says BOJ is to blame for the 'unstable' economy

Shizuka Kamei, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, urged the Bank of Japan to ease monetary policies to put the economy on a self-sustainable recovery path.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Supreme Court accepts advisory panel on judges

The Supreme Court said Monday it will accept the establishment of a panel that will advise the top court on appointing district and high court judges.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

WTO to approve Japan's rice tariffs as Uruguay backs down

When Japan introduced a controversial tariff scheme for its rice imports in April 1999, it was like a train departing before all passengers were on board.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

WTO to approve Japan's rice tariffs as Uruguay backs down

When Japan introduced a controversial tariff scheme for its rice imports in April 1999, it was like a train departing before all passengers were on board.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2001

Coalition partners distance themselves from Mori

Top officials from the two coalition partners of the Liberal Democratic Party remained noncommittal Sunday about whether they would support embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori once the fiscal 2001 budget clears the Diet.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2001

Coalition partners distance themselves from Mori

Top officials from the two coalition partners of the Liberal Democratic Party remained noncommittal Sunday about whether they would support embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori once the fiscal 2001 budget clears the Diet.
COMMENTARY
Feb 19, 2001

Defense issues move to the fore

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, in a policy speech to the Diet Jan. 31, stated: "Emergency legislation (designed to defend Japan in the event of foreign aggression) is necessary to ensure the security of the state and the people. I intend to initiate considerations in this regard." Earlier, on Jan. 26,...
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2001

Task force disbanded as Japanese confirmed safe in Iraq

The government on Saturday set up a liaison office at Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's Official Residence and convened a Foreign Ministry task force following an air strike by U.S. and British warplanes on radar facilities south of Baghdad on Friday, government officials said.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 18, 2001

Memories of Fido remain from hair to eternity

I am covered, head to foot, in dog hair. It's as if it had rained cats and dogs and I splashed through a puddle of them.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2001

New Komeito may desert Mori in no-confidence vote

The tide of ill will against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori gained momentum Friday when the leader of a key coalition partner said his party may not support Mori in a no-confidence motion.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2001

Career bureaucrats increasingly opting out

An increasing number of young, fast-track career bureaucrats handling Japan's economic policymaking are leaving public positions, either because they are seeking better work in the private sector or because the recent government realignment is reducing their administrative authority.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Cabbies, waiters and retailers predict a slowdown

Taxi drivers, waiters and workers in other sectors considered close to the man on the street in January were more pessimistic about the economy than in any other month since the government began conducting its so-called Economy Watchers poll a year earlier, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2001

Shed light on unbelievable accident

The collision between a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine and a Japanese fisheries training ship Friday off Oahu Island, Hawaii, was simply unbelievable. It is a sad fact, however, that the collision, which is believed to have been caused by negligence on the part of the submarine, sank the ship, leaving...
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2001

Head of embezzlement probe replaced after being hospitalized for exhaustion

The Foreign Ministry will replace its secretariat director general, Tomoyuki Abe, who is expected to remain in hospital for a long time to recover from work exhaustion, a high-ranking ministry official said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2001

Head of embezzlement probe replaced after being hospitalized for exhaustion

The Foreign Ministry will replace its secretariat director general, Tomoyuki Abe, who is expected to remain in hospital for a long time to recover from work exhaustion, a high-ranking ministry official said Wednesday.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
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‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
Takaichi's PM bid faces further headwinds with coalition split
LDP leader Sanae Takaichi and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito attend a party leaders' meeting on Friday in Tokyo.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.

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