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Nov 7, 2000

Seagulls clinch top spot in division

Both Kohei Satomi and Nobutaka Horie returned kickoffs for touchdowns as the Recruit Club Seagulls defeated their archrival Kajima Deers in a 35-28 shootout Monday at the Tokyo Dome in X League Central Division action.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2000

China refuses to let history be

The recent visit to Japan by Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has certainly created a favorable impression among the Japanese -- a contrast with Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit two years ago -- but it has had no significant politi cal impact on public opinion in this country.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2000

1 million yen in bags stolen from display

OSAKA -- Two men broke a storefront window at Osaka's Takashimaya Co. department store outlet and stole six Louis Vuitton handbags worth about 1 million yen in total, local police said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2000

Neighbors, yet strangers

The latest round of normalization talks held in Beijing last week between Japan and North Korea failed to reach any specific agreement. Although no statement was issued, it seems clear that the two sides largely agreed to disagree, at least for the moment. The two nations remained divided over the pivotal...
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Leather artisan Okubo dies one day after state recognition

Fukuko Okubo, Japan's most celebrated leather artisan, died Saturday evening at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 81.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Anti-Russia group slipped by security during Putin's visit

A pickup truck carrying a group of Japanese rightists protesting Russian policies slipped through a police cordon near the Russian Embassy during Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to Tokyo in September, police disclosed Sunday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Mori relieved at hostages' release, hopes for safe return

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Sunday he wishes a safe return to Japan for a group of Japanese tourists freed unharmed Saturday after a nearly nine-hour hijacking ordeal in Greece.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2000

Ninth set of organ transplants begins

Japan's ninth set of organ transplant operations got under way Sunday afternoon on two women, one in her 40s and another in her 50s, from organs donated by a brain-dead woman, the Japan Organ Transplant Network said.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 6, 2000

Sexual wounding, kicking and early death

Sex can sometimes be awkward in humans, and sometimes painful, but rarely do human females have to put up with what females of the bean weevil endure. The male's penis carries a formidable array of sharp spines which lacerate the female reproductive tract during copulation.
COMMENTARY
Nov 6, 2000

Profit, but at whose expense?

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COMMENTARY
Nov 6, 2000

Japan has no monopoly on obscuring past

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EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2000

The ETA wages war against reason

The terror campaign waged by Basque separatists continues. Last week, a car bomb in Madrid killed three people, including a supreme court judge, and wounded 70 others. A few days later, another bomb went off in Barcelona; fortunately, no one was killed when it exploded, although several people were injured....
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 5, 2000

MLB stars win on Vizquel's blast

Omar Vizquel hit a two-run "sayonara" homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday as the visiting major league all-stars held off the Japanese squad 7-5 in Game Two of their eight-game exhibition series.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Japan group held hostage on Greek bus

ATHENS -- A gunman hijacked a bus carrying more than 30 Japanese tourists, after killing his mother-in-law and a friend in southern Greece on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injuries to the bus passengers.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

RTRI makes avalanche alert system

The Railway Technical Research Institute has developed a snow avalanche alarm system that its engineers say could help local authorities and ski-resort operators better cope with the avalanche threat.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Kato goes on the offensive as storm swirls around Mori

Koichi Kato, former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, has stepped up his criticism of the embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, saying that he has "no intention at all" of accepting a possible request from Mori to join his Cabinet.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Matchmaking still common despite its bad image

One in three single men and women in big cities have gone on matchmaking dates despite a general trend among urbanites of regarding arranged marriages as unfashionable, according to a recent survey conducted in Tokyo and Osaka.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Police take action to fight surge in lock-pickings

There was a time not so long ago when it wasn't even necessary to lock the front door in Kenichi Sonada's neighborhood in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 5, 2000

Nakata, Bismarck kick Antlers to victory in Nabisco Cup final

After 2 1/2 months of inactivity for Division One of the J. League due to the Olympics and Asian Cup, the Nabisco Cup final kicked off the remaining portion of the soccer season at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2000

Panel seeks new legislation on diesel exhaust emissions

An Environment Agency advisory panel wants the government to revise legislation controlling nitrogen oxide emissions to include diesel exhaust particulate matter, according to a copy of a report obtained by Kyodo News on Saturday.
Taiwan spots Chinese carrier as video says military 'prepared for battle'
Visitors hold their mobile phones in front of exhibits showing the Chinese Navy's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, during an exhibition on China's achievements marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Beijing Exhibition Center, in September 2019.
Israeli envoy criticizes Japanese atomic survivor's Gaza comparison
The co-chair of the Nihon Hidankyo atomic bomb survivors' group, Toshiyuki Mimaki, who lived through the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, attends an online news conference from the city on Saturday.
Amid skepticism, CDP faces once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Oct. 27 polls
Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Thursday.
Challenges remain six months to go before Osaka Expo
The Osaka Expo site under construction. The expo is scheduled to take place on Yumeshima, an artificial island, from April 13 through Oct. 13 of next year.
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.
Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson
A view shows a screen in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences where the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is announced in Stockholm on Monday.
A frustrated Trump lashes out behind closed doors over money
Former President Donald Trump makes calls to voters backstage after a town hall-style presidential campaign appearance at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on Sept. 27.
Poorest nations in worst financial shape since 2006, World Bank says
Afghan women after an earthquake in Herat, Afghanistan, on Oct. 10, 2023
SpaceX captures booster rocket in step toward Musk’s Mars dream
Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Sunday, during the Starship Flight 5 test.
Nihon Hidankyo members hope surprise Nobel win cements nuclear taboo
Toshiko Hamanaka (left), the assistant secretary-general of Nihon Hidankyo, and the organization's co-chair, Terumi Tanaka, during a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday, the day after the group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
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