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JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Experiments on humans outpacing ethics, WMA chief warns

The incoming head of an international physicians' association says excessive experiments involving human subjects should be curbed amid the growing range of experiments in this age of advanced medical science.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Medical researcher accused of embezzlement

The chief of the Juntendo University medical department misappropriated around 60 million yen in government subsidies over the five-year period to 1999, sources close to tax authorities alleged Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Firms continue to be optimistic: 'tankan'

The outlook of the nation's corporations -- particularly large manufacturers -- continued to improve over the past three months, according to the latest quarterly "tankan" business sentiment survey, released Tuesday by the Bank of Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Four Asahara charges to be dropped to speed up trial

Tokyo prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to drop four of the 17 charges against Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara in a bid to speed up his trial.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Opposition boycott of Diet goes into second day

The opposition's boycott of Diet deliberations entered its second day Tuesday as the ruling camp offered no concessions over its plan to revise the House of Councilors election roster system.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Magazine seeks Mori's printsto verify story

A magazine on Tuesday asked the Tokyo District Court to obtain Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's fingerprints in order to verify its article that says he was caught by police in a brothel 42 years ago.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

'Indefinite' sentences lengthen

Prisoners in Japan serving "indefinite" sentences are locked up longer these days before they get paroled compared with 20 years ago, according to information the government released to the Diet on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Lage urges closer ties with Cuba

Visiting Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage on Tuesday called for strengthening bilateral relations with Japan on various fronts, ranging from tourism, sports and culture to business.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Mobster's 'suicide' raises questions

The official account of how a gangster died during questioning at a Yokohama police station in 1997 is being challenged in court by the victim's daughter, who says Kanagawa Prefectural Police are hiding crucial evidence that could disprove the alleged suicide.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Obituary: Toshisada Oka

Toshisada Oka, a member of the House of Councilors who once served as parliamentary vice minister at the Science and Technology Agency, died Monday of liver failure at Tokyo Teishin Hospital, his family said. He was 66.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 4, 2000

We must interrupt our bowling for a thrilling Olympic moment

Equality of the sexes I generally accept as a fundamental truth -- as certain as sunrise in the east, the rhythm of the tides and bubbles in the o-furo.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2000

Step back in time to Sado Island

There is something about ferries that puts you in a frame of mind to think back in time.
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
Oct 4, 2000

Quick -- while no one's looking

infiltration.org This isn't about corporate espionage but rather sightseeing in "places you're not supposed to go." One of the myriad subcultures exposing themselves to the rest of the world via the Internet is all about urban archaeology: crawling around slimy drain pipes, forgotten subway tunnels and...
LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2000

On the track of buried treasure

George Braseros is certain there is gold buried in the jungles of Mindanao. He is so sure it is there, just waiting to be dug up, that he has sunk a small fortune of his own into searching for it. And he knows other men have died for it.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

JR East to sell digital music in stations

East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday that it will set up multimedia terminals in stations in February to jointly distribute music in digital format in collaboration with Japan Telecom Co. and the J-Phone group.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2000

Close-up and personal with Peak District scenery

On Friday morning I was a point, press and hope-to-get-a-good-one sort of photographer; by Sunday evening I knew the raison d'e^tre of an f-stop and could talk solarization, ambient lighting and reversals.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 4, 2000

Who's your buddy?

Last week, AOL and DoCoMo announced a major strategic alliance, but few techno-journos were blindsided by the news. Rumors had been floating since early summer, and the potential benefits were fairly easy to digest. Savvy scribes had probably already put together rough drafts. It was just a matter of...
COMMENTARY
Oct 4, 2000

Putin's key mission to India

NEW DELHI -- On the heels of a marked pro-U.S. shift in its foreign policy, India is now welcoming the president of its old friend, Russia. The focus of President Vladimir Putin's four-day visit is on reviving Russia's sagging ties with India.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Medical carbon found to absorb E. coli bacteria

OSAKA -- Refined activated charcoal has been found to be able to absorb the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria and its toxin that causes food-poisoning, according to a joint research team from the University of Osaka Prefecture and Okayama University.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Talks on management of Nago base to begin

The central government and local governments in Okinawa Prefecture agreed Tuesday to commence talks on managing the U.S. military facility expected to take over the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan city.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 4, 2000

Many life cycles under the moon

A fluttering of powdery wings, silent in the night, and the moon moth came, drawn to the proverbial candle flame. Its guidance system, fine-tuned over millions of years of evolution to a satellite system predating our GPS systems by billions of years, was overwhelmed and confused by a modern source of...
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 4, 2000

Lions top Hawks in PL showdown

Daisuke Matsuzaka shook off some first-inning jitters and a quick one-run deficit Tuesday to hold the Daiei Hawks scoreless over the next nine frames and give the Seibu Lions a 2-1 victory in 10 innings at the Fukuoka Dome.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2000

Why the Arabs are rallying to Baghdad

DUBAI -- International civilian flights into Baghdad are turning into a stampede as one Arab country after another announces, or carries out, its intention of joining France and Russia in breaking the 10-year aerial blockade. This may not breach the essence of U.N. sanctions -- the restrictions on trade...
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Foreign Ministry opens NGO center

The Foreign Ministry launches a new "NGO Center" today that is designed to improve communication and cooperation with nongovernmental organizations.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2000

Just a pot of gold on the moon? Or stolen billions?

In January 1971, a locksmith called Rogelio Roxas from Baguio City, 200 km north of Manila, met a half-Japanese-half-Filipino "mestizo" whose father had been a translator for Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita during the war. When the man was 15 years old, his father had taken him into the jungles near to the hospital...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 4, 2000

The parochial charm of Carmel

Rough Guide guidebooks are some of the best on the store shelf: thorough, entertaining and with excellent briefings on things historical, political and environmental. By and large we, and the Rough Guides, think alike.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Tokyo hotel reheats G8 menu

The Okinawa Prefectural Government and a top Tokyo hotel launched a festival of culinary delights Tuesday featuring the same menu served during the Okinawa summit of the Group of Eight nations in July.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2000

Don't shortchange young readers

Despite all the talk about the need for educational reforms, little serious attention is being paid to a fundamental way in which Japan's schoolchildren are being shortchanged. Except among the educators directly involved, few have expressed concern over the Education Ministry's announcement that libraries...
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.
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 is a warning to a world on the nuclear brink
The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in September 1945.
Dodgers drop Padres in historic Japanese pitchers' duel to advance in MLB playoffs
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto pumps his fist during the fourth inning of Friday's series-clinching win over the Padres at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
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.
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.

Podcast

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

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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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