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JAPAN

Mar 9, 1999

Kobe urged to woo foreign investment

JAPAN

Mar 5, 1999

Airport, deficit likely top issues for Kobe voters

JAPAN

Feb 26, 1999

More Maishima dioxin tests urged

Dioxin found buried on Maishima Island is approaching dangerous levels and thus more environmental testing must be carried out, a scientist with Greenpeace Australia warned.

JAPAN

Jan 29, 1999

Nagano bribe suspicions spoiling Osaka's Games plan

As the International Olympic Committee extends its investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption during Nagano's bid for the 1998 Winter Games, Osaka officials wonder what the effect will be on their bid for the 2008 Summer Games.

JAPAN

Jan 25, 1999

Osaka floods in own disaster movie

Imagine the following: During a particularly wet rainy season, runoff water flows into tributaries of the Yodogawa River faster than a series of dams, built to avoid such a problem, can handle it.

JAPAN

Jan 21, 1999

Osaka's Olympics bid outlays probed

As the bribery scandal smolders around the International Olympic Committee, the heat is increasing for Osaka Olympic officials over allocations of city funds to various Games-related functions, including meetings with IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and payments to intermediaries for Osaka and various...

JAPAN

Jan 13, 1999

Universal theme park faces developer pullout

With the recent pullout of a group of investors from plans to develop the area around Universal Studios Japan, there are growing concerns among potential investors that Osaka's hopes for a USJ-led economic revival face a serious setback.

JAPAN

Jan 6, 1999

Century of Change: Foreign press find Japan tough to figure

In 1890, an Irish-born writer of limited success found his spiritual home after arriving upon the shores of what was then considered by the West to be the world's most exotic country.

JAPAN

Dec 28, 1998

Osaka evicts squatter camp near school

JAPAN

Dec 4, 1998

WHC can list sites, but can it really protect them?

JAPAN

Dec 2, 1998

Aborigines protest Osaka utility's uranium mine link

JAPAN

Dec 2, 1998

Nara sites added to World Heritage List

JAPAN

Nov 27, 1998

Kobe mayor targeted after city hall stomps plebiscite push

JAPAN

Nov 5, 1998

Kobe mayor slights call for airport plebiscite

JAPAN

Oct 16, 1998

Hyogo quake-housing tenants starve to victory

Staff writerKOBE -- A four-day hunger strike against Hyogo Prefecture's public housing policy helped survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake still living in temporary housing score a major victory recently when prefectural officials agreed to the protesters' major demands."Finally, officials realized they...

JAPAN

Oct 6, 1998

Osaka faces uphill battle to host G-8

Staff writerOSAKA -- A comparative lack of local governmental interest, cool relations between the mayor and governor, and an uninspired promotional campaign have greatly dimmed Osaka's bid to host the Group of Eight summit in 2000, senior prefectural officials said recently.Osaka is one of eight cities...

JAPAN

Sep 29, 1998

Social tyranny keeps Japan far from U.N. rights ideals: expert

JAPAN

Sep 3, 1998

High costs, low demand stifling Kansai airport growth

JAPAN

Aug 31, 1998

Calls rise for Kobe airport plebiscite

JAPAN

Aug 28, 1998

Foreign teachers push for equitable pensions

You can often see generations of families enjoying performances together at Fuji Rock Festival.

Japan’s summer music festivals are feeling the heat in more ways than one

Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.

The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'

By Tomoko Otake

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