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ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 30, 2000

Feeling the pulse of the seasons

Recently, and for the first time, I flew right across Australia. Heading northwest from New Zealand, I crossed Australia's southeast coast somewhere south of Sydney and traversed the country northwest to the coast near Broome.
COMMENTARY
Aug 30, 2000

The 21st-century neurosis

LONDON -- I think I've discovered a new neurosis of the 21st century. It involves frustration, guilt, shame and outbursts of destructive violence. The neurosis lurks wherever there are personal computers. (Business computers, and the work and commercial systems they create, produce similar feelings,...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 30, 2000

Proposal primer: winning over the in-laws

I never truly asked for my wife's hand in marriage, primarily because I was interested more in the whole than individual parts.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2000

Fourth Bridgestone plant ups output

Bridgestone Corp. said Tuesday that it will step up production at a fourth plant in Japan to more quickly meet the demand created by the recall of 6.5 million tires that its U.S. unit, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., announced earlier this month.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 30, 2000

In the realm of the accidental tourist

While there are women who work exclusively as travel writers, many women writers, journalists and novelists among them, have chosen at one time or another to temporarily commandeer the travel vehicle to get their ideas or dreams across.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 30, 2000

Lowly Tigers club front-running Giants

Hanshin outfielder Tomochika Tsuboi doubled home a pair of runs in the ninth inning Tuesday and the Hanshin Tigers ended a four-game losing streak to the Yomiuri Giants by winning 3-1 at the Tokyo Dome.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 30, 2000

Skin diving to save the world's coral reefs

Learn to scuba dive free, receive a complimentary education in tropical marine biology, and get to help save the threatened coral reefs of Southeast Asia and Central America at the same time?
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Market to clear low hurdles, creep upward

The Tokyo stock market has rebounded strongly after confirming its bottom on Aug. 4, when the 225-issue Nikkei average hit 15,666.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Taisho Life collapses amid scandal

The Financial Services Agency on Monday ordered Taisho Life Insurance Co. to suspend its operations following the arrest earlier in the day of the head of the insurer's largest shareholder, in connection with the insurer's capital-building methods.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

MMC chief to exit over coverup

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Katsuhiko Kawasoe plans to resign in connection with the firm's concealment of customer complaints and recalls, company sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Children of over-stayers stage sit-in

Fourteen children of visa over-stayers in detention staged a sit-in protest Monday in front of the Justice Ministry complex in Tokyo demanding the release of their fathers.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Researchers find key to fighting neural disorders

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered new clues to how some neurodegenerative diseases occur, possibly paving the way for effective treatment of nervous disorders such as Huntington's disease and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

U.S. prodigy, 15, says Japan lags in IT

Japan's information technology industry is about five years behind the United States and there is a need to rapidly promote IT education here by training teachers, a 15-year-old American business prodigy says.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Sulfur smell in Tokyo attributed to Miyake

A sulfurous smell reported Monday in western Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture was probably caused by smoke from volcanic activity on Miyake Island, according to Kanagawa prefectural officials.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Toshiba, Amkor link on Tokyo test site

Toshiba Corp. and Amkor Technology Inc. of the United States said Monday that they have agreed to establish a joint venture in Tokyo in early November for semiconductor assembly and testing.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2000

An achievement of sorts

The latest normalization talks between Japan and North Korea, held here for two days last week, ended in a draw, although the two sides agreed to meet again later this year. While North Korea focused on "liquidating the past," demanding a Japanese apology and compensation for the 1910-1945 colonization...
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

IT revolution must benefit all: NGO

Will information technology be utilized for the benefit of all or merely as a business tool? This is a major challenge Japan faces in implementing an IT society, according to Nami Takenaka, president of Prop Station, who spoke Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Windows Me to hit shelves Sept. 23

Microsoft Co. said Monday that it will start sales of the Japanese version of its latest edition of the Windows operating system on Sept. 23, with the upgrade to be released the day before.
OLYMPICS
Aug 29, 2000

Chairman of JOC encourages Japanese squad to go for gold

Japanese Olympic officials called on the country's athletes to the Sydney Olympic Games to more than double their gold medal haul from Atlanta, when the Olympic delegation was officially launched in ceremonies Sunday. "Judging from the Olympic qualifiers and other competitions, we believe that this team...
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

20,000 fans rank animated series

Brutus magazine has released an extensive poll of Japan's best 100 animated series, based on the responses of 20,000 enthusiasts.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Daiwa House, Daiwa Danchi to merge

OSAKA-- Daiwa House Industry Co. said Monday it will merge with Daiwa Danchi Co. on April 1 to reinforce sales operations.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Joint team probes Snow fiasco

The Osaka Municipal Government on Monday launched a joint study group of experts with the Health and Welfare Ministry that will investigate the causes of Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s mass food-poisoning incident and attempt to recommend countermeasures.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2000

Nichiei collector gets prison for extortion

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former employee of Kyoto-based nonbank moneylender Nichiei Co. to 20 months in prison Monday for using threatening tactics to collect loans while working for the company in 1998.
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2000

Pressure India and Pakistan

Like U.S. President Bill Clinton before him, Japanese Prime Minister Mori has just completed a trip to South Asia that has been high on hope and symbolism but disappointingly low on results. Both leaders argued that it was important to engage India and Pakistan in order to revive the global nonproliferation...
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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