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OLYMPICS
Oct 3, 2000

Time for Japan to look forward

SYDNEY -- Nippon, Nippon, Nippon! Banzai!
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Crime victims to gain access to records

The government said Monday it will legally guarantee the rights of people victimized by crimes to view court records and voice their feelings during hearings starting on Nov. 1, officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Museum buffs image of newspapers

YOKOHAMA -- A museum visit is not likely to raise the pulse rates of children these days, and a museum dedicated to newspapers seems certain to draw only yawns.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Tickets for carry-over jackpot lotto on sale

People dreaming of making a fortune buy "Loto 6" tickets in Tokyo's Ginza district Monday. Tickets for a lottery with Japan's first jackpot that can accumulate with successive draws went on sale Monday, allowing for a possible grand prize of up to 400 million yen.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Tokyo hails visit of Pyongyang envoy

Japan welcomes North Korea's plan to dispatch a senior official to the United States next month, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Son, 23, used golf club to kill dad

OSAKA -- A 23-year-old man was arrested early Monday for fatally striking his father on the head with a golf club at their apartment in Higashi-Yodogawa Ward here, police said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Opposition boycotts election reform panel

An Upper House special electoral reform committee got off to a rough start Monday as opposition lawmakers boycotted the first meeting to protest the ruling bloc's forcible move to revise the chamber's election roster system.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

MMC slapped on wrist for concealing auto defects

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. was ordered Monday by the Tokyo District Court to pay a fine of 4 million yen (about $37,400) for violating the Road Vehicles Law by covering up auto defects.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Mori plans more letters pitching UNSC seat bid

In yet another effort to promote Japan's quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will write most of the U.N. member nations as early as next week to reiterate calls for UNSC reforms, government sources said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Jail sought for alleged blackmailer

OSAKA -- Public prosecutors on Monday demanded that the Osaka District Court sentence a 56-year-old unemployed man to five years in prison for allegedly attempting to blackmail Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Japan's leading eyedrops maker, by threatening to put alien substances in its products.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 3, 2000

Troussier sees progress in Olympic performance

SHIZUOKA -- "I don't think it was a defeat," Japan manager Philippe Troussier said Monday of Japan's performance in the Sydney Olympics, a day after the Summer Games ended.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Japan, U.S. forces to hold troop evacuation drill

Japan and the United States will hold their first joint evacuation of U.S. troops escaping from a battlefield in large-scale maneuvers in November, sources at the Self-Defense Forces said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Magnitude-5 quakes hit Kagoshima

Three earthquakes measuring magnitudes between 5.0 and 5.6 hit Akuseki Island and nearby islands in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday afternoon, the Meteorological Agency reported.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

South Korean based in Japan to sing in North

Japan-based South Korean singer Kim Yon Ja plans to hold a concert next April in North Korea, her Tokyo office said.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2000

A real German lesson for the two Koreas

SEOUL -- In one of numerous books dealing with unification matters, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung refers to his meetings with leading German politicians in the early part of the 1990s. According to Kim's account, the German politicians told him, "You are fortunate because you can analyze all the...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 3, 2000

Diners, look before you eat

AT THE JAPANESE TABLE, by Richard Hosking. Images of Asia. Oxford University Press, 2000, 70 pp., 22 color plates, 19 b/w, unpriced. THE ESSENCE OF JAPANESE CUISINE: An Essay on Food and Culture, by Michael Ashkenazi and Jeanne Jacob. Richmond/Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000, 252 pp., 11 b/w photos, 45 British...
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Oct 3, 2000

We've got a personality crisis

If you go to a live event you don't just want to listen to music, you want to witness a show, right? You want the people on stage to be rock stars for the night. And you want to be swept away on a flood of shared adrenalin.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2000

JCP reforms in name only

The Japanese Communist Party, at the Sept. 19 general meeting of the Central Committee, proposed scrapping the preamble to the party charter that sets out basic principles for its activities and organization. The preamble contains words symbolic of the Communist Party, such as "socialist revolution,"...
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Child counselors may pitch in against crime

The Health and Welfare Ministry will ask child counselors and psychiatric experts in five cities to organize teams to deal with juvenile crimes, in a trial project starting in April, ministry officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Dig turns up rare earthenware jug

A gourd-shaped jug estimated to be about 2,000 years old has been unearthed at a Yayoi Period ruins in Kitakyushu. KITAKYUSHU (Kyodo) A gourd-shaped jug has recently been dug up at the ruins of a Yayoi Period dwelling that dates back some 2,000 years, local officials said.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 3, 2000

U.S. alliances build peace in Asia

AMERICA'S ASIAN ALLIANCES, edited by Robert Blackwill and Paul Dibb. The MIT Press, BCSIA Studies in International Security, 2000, 143 pp., (paper). Asia is -- potentially -- a very dangerous place. Paul Dibb, one of Australia's leading security thinkers and co-editor of this valuable new book, explains...
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Groups demand explanation of plan to help North Korea

Citizens' groups seeking the return of Japanese nationals allegedly abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s demanded Monday that Japan explain its reported plan to provide food aid to North Korea at a time when there is no visible improvement in the communist country's efforts to resolve...
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2000

Indonesia's justice on trial

Indonesia's wobbly democracy is being sorely tested as the government attempts to bring former President Suharto and his children to justice. At the same time, it must cope with escalating violence both in the capital of Jakarta and in the provinces. Ominously, the two problems appear to overlap: President...
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 2, 2000

Hawks move closer to lock on flag in PL

Yusuke Torigoe looped a single into center field in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday to give the Daiei Hawks a 3-2 "sayonara" win over the Kintetsu Buffaloes and their fifth straight win in the Pacific League.
OLYMPICS
Oct 2, 2000

Olympics end -- the party begins

SYDNEY -- The world's premier sporting carnival drew to a close in an extravaganza of sight and sound Sunday as the Olympic host city prepared to party the night away to bid farewell to the last Summer Games of the 20th Century.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2000

Woman hired as vehicle inspector

The Transport Ministry on Sunday named a woman for the first time as a motor vehicle inspector, whose job it is to oversee vehicles allowed to run on public roads.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2000

Consolidated business tax eyed for 2002

The tax panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to introduce a consolidated corporate tax system in fiscal 2002 to help companies restructure, panel sources said Sunday.
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.
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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