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Akemi Nakamura
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1999
Singapore Airlines banks on new services, alliance
Staff writer Singapore Airlines hopes to increase its share of the passenger market for travel between Japan and Singapore by upgrading in-flight services and forming an alliance of multiple carriers, says T.K. Tan, general manager of the company's Japan office. "Our strategy is to emphasize our products...
JAPAN
Dec 14, 1999
Taiwanese tourism still paralyzed by earthquake fears
Staff writer TAIPEI -- More than two months after a deadly earthquake struck Taiwan on Sept. 21, a well-paved road running through Taroko Canyon, one of the island's more popular tourist destinations, still drew little vehicle traffic. "This area didn't suffer any damage, but the occupancy rate of our...
JAPAN
Nov 26, 1999
Retailers rev up for holiday shoppers
Staff writers
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999
Efforts afoot to woo foreign tourists
Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 10, 1999
Air travel unruffled by Y2K: IATA chief
Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 1, 1999
Taxi perks aim to win back fares
Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 21, 1999
Tokyo Motor Show: GM to expand Asia-Pacific presence
Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999
ANA pins survival hopes on global alliance
Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999
Major airlines launch fare war on Skymark
Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999
Kawasaki takes on housing discrimination
Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1999
Foreign women who leave husbands have few options
Second of two parts
JAPAN
Jun 3, 1999
Immigrants: Foreign laborers attempt to organize
First of two parts
CULTURE / Art
May 16, 1999
Doors of modest home open to lessons of the past
Slide open the door to a two-story wooden house in Tokyo's Ota Ward and enter into the life of an ordinary family in the mid-Showa Era, when people lived in homes with mostly tatami rooms, wooden furniture, traditional cooking tools and fetched their water from a well.
JAPAN
May 13, 1999
Bill could enlarge temp workforce, magnify woes
Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1999
Professor brings POW drama to stage
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 31, 1999
New equal opportunity law called a start
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999
Groups seek to help victims of violence
Staff writer
JAPAN
Feb 11, 1999
Gaming fans snatch up latest Final Fantasy
Hundreds of electronic game lovers mobbed stores in Tokyo's Akihabara Thursday to snap up the latest version of Final Fantasy, a popular PlayStation computer game that went on sale in the morning.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999
Kobe facility gives quake orphans place to reach out
A black rainbow drawn by a 10-year-old boy who lost his father and sister in the Great Hanshin Earthquake four years ago has become a symbol of the psychological damage suffered by child survivors of the temblor.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 1998
Video 'magazines' to fill foreigners' news needs
Staff writer
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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