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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2000

A history lesson for the litigants in Florida

HONG KONG -- It was with a sense of sickening dread that one heard, not the result of the U.S. presidential election, but the news that at least 50 high-powered (and highly priced) lawyers were hastening to the state of Florida on behalf of the Democratic Party, quickly followed by a similar squad representing...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

Aid given on work-related death

A legal-aid service involved in stress-related deaths in the workplace will set up a one-day phone-in counseling service in Tokyo, Osaka and 17 other localities in Japan on Saturday to answer inquiries on compensation for work-related deaths and illnesses.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

Key panel suggests independence for DoCoMo

A subcommittee of a key government advisory panel on Thursday urged "effective independence" for NTT DoCoMo Inc. from its parent, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., if sufficient competition fails to form in the nation's telecommunications market.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 17, 2000

Division One promotion on hold

OMIYA -- The battle for promotion to Division One of the J. League was extended to Sunday, the final day of Division Two action, after both second-place Urawa Reds and third-place Oita Trinita won their games Thursday night.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2000

The Austrian disaster

Tragedies and disasters happen somewhere on the planet every day. A plane crash, a train collision, an avalanche, a bombing: These are the routine stuff of headlines, so predictable an element of the news that, unless they happen in one's own back yard, like the Kobe earthquake or the 1996 Hokkaido tunnel...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

Lawmaker's ex-aide arrested over loan scam

Prosecutors on Thursday arrested a former secretary of House of Representatives member Koichi Yoshida for allegedly receiving illegal commissions from a loan broker in return for securing debt guarantees from a public corporation, investigative sources said.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

Mita ex-president avoids prison sentence

OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court handed down a suspended prison term Thursday to Yoshihiro Mita, 61, former president of failed photocopier maker Mita Industrial Co., for damaging the firm by falsifying financial reports and bribing an auditor.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

LDP factions prepared for no-confidence motion

The warring sides within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party appeared ready Thursday to bring their row to the Lower House plenary session, with both indicating they were prepared for a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori submitted by the opposition camp.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2000

Osaka recalls booklet over offensive cartoon

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Government will discard new booklets aimed at raising students' awareness of human rights after a Korean organization and the prefectural board of education complained that a cartoon in it would reinforce Japanese prejudice against Koreans, informed sources said.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 17, 2000

A song that stirred the music of the heart

The season was far advanced when Etoile Nord came to Kyoto to study at a certain university.
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 17, 2000

Skirting the gender issue, H.Art excels in the abstract

H.Art Chaos is a clued-up modern dance company of women. The myriad questionnaire forms it distributes after every performance help it to read prevailing audience moods well enough to know that you can never generate as much enthusiasm for a full-length work as for two short snappy pieces bisected by...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2000

Deadly defoliant continues to take a toll

BOSTON -- U.S. President Bill Clinton's historic visit to Vietnam this week conjures up troubling memories from the past, but it also draws attention to a Vietnam War-related public-health disaster that continues to plague both Vietnamese and Americans: Agent Orange contamination.
COMMENTARY
Nov 17, 2000

Kato challenge divides LDP

A political drama is unfolding over the fate of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's administration, and it is anybody's guess how it will end.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2000

Generosity toward China faces tough test

The first sweeping review of Japan's generous official development assistance for China is under way within the government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, amid growing domestic criticism of such aid.
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2000

The Middle East loses a lioness

The Middle East has lost a passionate advocate of peace. Ms. Leah Rabin, the widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, died of cancer this week at the age of 72. For some, Ms. Rabin was a meddlesome, divisive figure. For many more, she was a tireless campaigner for peace and friendship...
MORE SPORTS
Nov 16, 2000

Callaway takes technology to the masses

Technology vs. tradition: It's been a battleground in golf for decades, but in recent years, with rapid advances in both the human side and technical side of the game, the battle has intensified.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2000

Small classes but big ideas at new multicultural school

MAEBASHI, Gunma Pref. -- A new international school here may be starting off small, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in aspirations.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2000

Panel discusses granting voting rights to minorities

A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday began discussing two bills that would give permanent foreign residents in Japan the right to vote in local elections.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2000

1 billion yen in ODA wasted on failed Indonesia project

A roughly 1 billion yen technical assistance project in Indonesia launched in the late 1980s, in which dairy cows were bred using artificial insemination, faltered after six seed bulls sent from Japan died, it was learned Wednesday through a report by the Board of Audit.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2000

Osaka postpones shelters after clash with residents

OSAKA -- A controversial plan to build temporary shelters for nearly 400 homeless men living in Osaka's Nagai Park was postponed Wednesday after city officials clashed with local residents in the morning.

Longform

Capsule hotels were created as a way to deal with the amount of overwork employees tend to do in Japan. Can't commute home? Then spend the night in an tiny, affordable sleeping space.
Japan wakes up to the market for a proper sleep