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Tetsushi Kajimoto
JAPAN
Dec 30, 1999
Japan urged to consider free-trade pacts
Mazda Motor Corp. plans to start producing passenger cars in Europe by 2002, company sources said Thursday. Mazda will use the European production facilities of U.S. auto giant Ford Motor Co., its largest shareholder, and purchase engines from PSA Peugeot-Citroen of France, they said. The company plans...
JAPAN
Dec 30, 1999
Japan urged to consider free-trade pacts
Staff writer Japan should keep its commitment to trade liberalization under the World Trade Organization, but this must not prevent it from seeking free-trade agreements with its trading partners, according to Noboru Hatakeyama, chairman of the Japan External Trade Organization. Earlier this month,...
JAPAN
Nov 26, 1999
It's WTO vs. budget for Cabinet trio
Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1999
Government plans shot in arm for small companies
Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 15, 1999
Don Quijote sees itself as lord of discount 'jungle'
Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 6, 1999
Supply-side overhaul first step to competitiveness
Staff writer
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999
Telecom Realignment: Will breakup fuel competition?
Fourth in a series
JAPAN
Jun 11, 1999
Analysis: Job measures short-sighted
Can the emergency package of job security and industrial competitiveness measures endorsed by the government Friday help jolt the country out of record-high unemployment?
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1999
State-employed Sony candidate upset with civil servant law
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 15, 1999
MITI readies pollutant tracking bill
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999
State moves to draft stronger consumer protection law
Staff writer
JAPAN
Jan 25, 1999
Thai canal envisioned to promote trade
To boost regional investment and cross-border trade in Southeast Asia, Gen. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former Thai prime minister, is advocating a bold plan to cut a canal across the narrow part of southern Thailand between the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 1999
Century of Change: Job security feels tug of evolution
More than two decades ago — just as Japan was impressing the world by emerging from the first oil crisis with a leaner economy — Taichi Sakaiya, now head of the Economic Planning Agency, warned in a novel that the nation would face a midlife crisis before the turn of the century.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1998
Diversity urged for energy security ahead of APEC meet
Staff writerGINOWAN, Okinawa Pref. -- Australia must make the most of its rich natural resources and knowledge of efficient energy infrastructure to help Asia-Pacific economies meet the surging energy demands of the next century, said Warwick Parer, Australian minister for resources and energy."One...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998
Asian energy talks get under way in Okinawa
Staff writerGINOWAN, Okinawa, Pref. -- Ministerial-level officials from 18 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum gathered here Friday for two days of meetings in a joint effort to promote energy efficiency and market competitiveness in the region.The Third APEC Energy Ministers...
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998
Global Warming: Industrialized nations told to look home first
Third in a series
JAPAN
Jun 16, 1998
MSDF Hovercraft debuts in Oshima disaster drills
Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 4, 1998
JICA member takes on Ghana ball team
Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 27, 1998
GSDF ready reservists sworn in
Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 20, 1998
Aum Three Years Later: Victims struggle for redress
Last of three parts
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
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.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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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