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CULTURE / Art
Sep 10, 2000

Cambodian art regains its youth

"It's my everyday passion," says Phloeun Prim, the 24-year-old commercial manager of Les Artisans d'Angkor, a Siem Reap-based school which is training young people in skills such as silk weaving and stone carving.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 10, 2000

Chris McDonald

To commemorate his having lived for 50 years in Japan, Chris McDonald produced an engaging book of memories. In it he wrote: "If I were asked to single out one aspect of Japan that I have found more rewarding and enjoyable than any other, I would not hesitate to answer quite simply: 'Its people.' From...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2000

High costs a barrier for foreign students

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- An editorial in The Japan Times a few weeks ago focused on the Japanese government's efforts to increase the number of foreign students in Japan. No one would disagree with the government's dual aims of assisting in the development of human resources of poorer Asian countries...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2000

Lake Biwa water supply reduced

OSAKA -- Following months of fierce heat and below-average rainfall, authorities ordered a reduction in water taken from Lake Biwa and the Yodo River from Saturday, affecting Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka and Hyogo prefectures.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 10, 2000

A philosopher behind the video camera

Hitherto, people confronted by "video art" would mentally steel themselves to be bored by an alienating experience that excluded rather than included. This is the reason why an artist such as Pipilotta Rist, originally a rock-video director, has gained such enormous popularity for being the easy and...
CULTURE / Music
Sep 10, 2000

Long trip from Kiev to Tokyo justified by 'Pathetique' results

Kiev National Opera and Ballet Theater Orchestra July 25, Vladimir Kozhukhar conducting in Takemitsu Memorial Hall -- Ballad (Pormbescu), Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 99 (Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 1906-75), featuring Atsuko Tenma; Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathetique"...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2000

Unemployment adds to Miyake Island evacuees' woes

With an end to the volcanic activity on Mount Oyama nowhere in sight, evacuees from Miyake Island are facing an uphill battle in trying to secure sources of income upon settling into temporary housing in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2000

Corruption continues to plague Cambodia

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia has become more stable since the 1998 election, a major victory for a country that has suffered so much turmoil in the past three decades. The infighting between the two parties of the coalition government has receded, and it is safer to travel around the country as the number...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2000

Shibuya residents furious with graffiti seen as art

Some call it the latest art trend, but others lambaste it as an ugly symbol of present-day Japanese society.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2000

Multiculturalism and meritocracy are key

We live in a world of at least 2,000 nationalities, 200 states and 20 nation-states (where the populations are more or less homogeneous). The doctrine of self-determination was one of the most powerful ideologies of the 20th century. The drive to self-determination by disaffected communities created...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Home-care show draws record firms

A record number of companies from Japan and overseas will take part in a three-day Tokyo exhibition of home care and rehabilitation equipment for the disabled and elderly that starts Tuesday, organizers say.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Orders for machinery down in July

Domestic machinery orders in the private-sector in July fell a seasonally adjusted 11.7 percent from the previous month, following a rise of 14.4 percent in June, the Economic Planning Agency said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Deposit, CD balance slips 1.6% at nation's city banks

The outstanding balance of deposits and certificates of deposit at banks with nationwide branch networks -- known as city banks -- fell 1.6 percent in August from a year before, the first fall since March 1997, the Bank of Japan said in a preliminary report released Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Criminal accusation filed against Mitsubishi Motors

The Transport Ministry lodged a criminal accusation Friday with police against Mitsubishi Motors Corp. for allegedly concealing approximately 1,700 user complaints last year -- a scandal that prompted MMC President Katsuhiko Kawasoe the same day to announce his intention to step down.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Police inspect Snow Brand factory

OSAKA -- Osaka police on Friday inspected Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s Taiki factory in Hokkaido that is suspected of being the source of a widespread outbreak of food poisoning in June and July in the Osaka area.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

MMC's Kawasoe to resign

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. officially announced Friday that senior vice president Takashi Sonobe will take over the presidency from Katsuhiko Kawasoe, who will resign over a coverup scandal now plaguing the company.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Centenarian ranks to top 13,000, set record: poll

The population of Japanese centenarians will hit a record-high 13,036 this month, and the number of women at least 100 years old will top 10,000 for the first time, a Health and Welfare Ministry survey showed Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Nikkei index to replace six of its issues

Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., which controls and operates the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said Friday it will replace six of the issues in the benchmark index later this month and in early October.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

NPA orders streamlining of forces, operations

The National Police Agency ordered prefectural police forces throughout the country Friday to drastically streamline operations by cutting management personnel and outsourcing work, NPA officials said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 9, 2000

Hawks widen PL lead with victory over Lions

The Daiei Hawks extended their winning run to six games and widened their Pacific League lead to 2 1/2 games over the second place Seibu Lions after beating their closest rival for the pennant 6-3 at the Seibu Dome on Friday night. With the score tied at 3-3 in the top of the ninth inning, pinch...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

MSDF officer arrested, admits spying for Russia

The Metropolitan Police Department and Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested Lt. Cmdr. Shigehiro Hagisaki, a researcher at the Defense Agency's National Institute for Defense Studies, on suspicion of violating the Self-Defense Forces Law, which prohibits SDF members from divulging classified security...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

86% of aged in rehab sites termed senile

Nearly 86 percent of senior citizens placed in health facilities for elderly people to undergo rehabilitative treatment are senile, according to a report by the Health and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

DPJ race for Upper House begins

The ultimate goal of the Democratic Party of Japan to wrest power from the current ruling triumvirate is seen to mainly hinge on whether party leader Yukio Hatoyama can steer his party to victory in next summer's House of Councilors election.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Japan's hopes of holding new round of trade talks this year begin to fade

Although top leaders from the Group of Eight fired themselves up in late July to get a new round of global trade liberalization negotiations started by yearend, their agreement appears likely to fizzle out.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Moody's cuts rating on state's yen bonds

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Friday it has lowered its rating on yen-denominated domestic securities issued or guaranteed by the Japanese government to Aa2 from Aa1, given Japan's massive public-sector debt.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2000

Bust of Gratama to be erected in fall

OSAKA -- A bronze bust of Koenraad Wolter Gratama, a 19th-century Dutch chemist considered to be the father of Japanese chemistry, will be erected this fall in Osaka, where he began Japan's first organized teaching of the science.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2000

Decline of excess workforce continues: ministry survey

Companies in Japan say excess labor forces were reduced in August from May, according to a quarterly survey released Friday by the Labor Ministry.
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.
Danish-style 'schools for life' gaining popularity in Japan
People engage in discussions during a program of School for Life Compath in Biei, Hokkaido, in August 2021.
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.
Bank of Japan vows better messaging to avoid more market turmoil
The Bank of Japan's surprise rate increase on July 31 led to Japanese stocks plummeting into bear-market territory, with the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average falling 12.4% on Aug. 5 alone.
Peter Barakan’s Live Magic! takes its final bow
Annual festival Peter Barakan’s Live Magic! was born a decade ago when Barakan (left) decided to create a platform to share his love of roots music, which he attributes to growing up in 1960s England.
Spate of sumo tour dropouts highlights need to rethink wrestlers' health
Shonannoumi hits the dirt at the hands of Kotozakura during a bout in Tokyo in May. Shonannoumi is among the many top wrestlers who have dropped out of this month's regional tour due to injury.
Japan pushes fossil fuel tech in Asia carbon neutrality initiative
Coal-fired power plants in Bataan, the Philippines, in June 2023. A third of the 158 agreements signed under the Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community are linked to fossil fuel technologies, a recent study by a climate research group has found.

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