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JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Pyongyang offered economic help instead of redress

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono confirmed Friday that Japan has offered to extend economic cooperation to North Korea instead of monetary compensation for its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Inamine reiterates stance on new U.S. base time limit

Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine on Friday reiterated the prefecture's demand that the central government work toward imposing a 15-year limit on the use of a new facility for the U.S. Marine Corps to be built in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, that will take over the helicopter operations of the Futenma Air Station...
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Kansai business adviser gains fame for book on Hiroshima bombing

OSAKA -- While Yoshikuni Inoue's is a familiar face in Kansai business circles, he is better known for his efforts to boost the region's economy as joint chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in the early 1990s than as a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Japan to push WTO dialogue with China

Japan will propose to China that the two nations establish a high-level regular forum for dialogue on matters related to the World Trade Organization, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

New combined ministry seeks 20 trillion yen budget

The General Affairs Ministry, to be created in January, will seek a budget for fiscal 2001 that is 18.3 percent larger than the combined initial budget of its three predecessor organizations for fiscal 2000, government officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

'Knock' ordered to return allowance

OSAKA -- Former Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama must pay back the 46 million yen retirement allowance he received for his first four-year term now that his suspended prison sentence for molestation has been finalized, it was announced Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Child-abuse watchdogs to monitor health checks

The Health and Welfare Ministry will assign child-care experts to public health facilities nationwide from fiscal 2001 to identify signs of child abuse when parents bring their children in for mandatory health checkups, ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Coalition scraps 250 public works projects

Senior officials of the ruling coalition agreed Friday to abandon plans for about 250 public works projects nationwide, including a plan to build a dam with flood gates across the Yoshino River, Tokushima Prefecture, coalition sources said.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2000

Making peace the hard way

Next month, the United Nations convenes its Millennium Summit. One of the key issues the world body must face in the next century is its role in peacekeeping operations. The magnitude of the challenges were made plain this week when a special commission released its final report. It makes for grim reading....
SUMO
Aug 26, 2000

Akebono, Taka skip workout

Yokozuna Akebono and fellow-grand champion Takanohana missed the public practice session Thursday before the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, raising questions about their readiness for the upcoming Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Mexico, Japan discuss trade pact

Hermino Blanco, Mexican secretary for commerce and industrial development, said Friday that he expects Mexico and Japan to sign an investment promotion accord in the near future.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 26, 2000

'Stars deal 'sayonara' loss to Giants

Ryoji Aikawa hit a game-ending "sayonara" single deep to left field with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Yokohama BayStars edged the Yomiuri Giants 3-2 on Friday night at Yokohama Stadium.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Softbank gets approval to take over NCB

The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Friday officially approved the Sept. 1 transfer of the nationalized Nippon Credit Bank to a consortium led by Internet investor Softbank Corp.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Report calls for retired cops to field public complaints

The National Police Agency released a draft report Friday on reforming Japan's police force that calls for the creation of a center to handle public complaints in a bid to foster trust in the scandal-tainted force, NPA officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Martial arts and TV star Andy Hug dies of leukemia

Popular Swiss martial artist Andy Hug died of acute promyelocytic leukemia at a Tokyo hospital Thursday evening, organizers of the K-1 fighting events said. He was 35.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2000

Tokyo Internet costs almost double N.Y. charges

The cost of continuously using the Internet in Tokyo for 24 hours is nearly twice as high as that in New York, according to a survey released Friday by the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2000

Language questions reflect changing times

In times of transition, when the need for reform is felt more keenly than usual, there is heightened openness to bold suggestions. Japan is in the middle of such a period. Public debt exceeds 100 percent of GDP. The social-welfare system needs a drastic overhaul. Unemployment is at an all-time high....
COMMENTARY
Aug 26, 2000

Is the Bank of Japan right?

LONDON -- The governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaru Hayami, and the majority of the BOJ's policy council have drawn criticism from the Japanese government and leaders of Japanese industry for the decision to end the BOJ's zero-interest-rate policy. These criticisms have been echoed in the British press....
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2000

Capital gains tax system should stay: FRC chief

Hideyuki Aizawa, chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission, said Friday that he will call on the Finance Ministry to maintain the current capital gains tax system in order to prevent the ministry's proposed reforms from negatively affecting the domestic stock market.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2000

The case against Japan's whaling program

While U.S. President Bill Clinton was signing legislation to protect the oceans, Japan expanded its whale hunt in the North Pacific. In defiance of international pleas from Clinton, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders, Japan has gone beyond hunting smaller minke whales to include the...
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Aug 26, 2000

Magic of Momoyama Mino still shines across the years

Let's take a walk back in time, say to the 1570s. Not just any ol' hike through the woods, but a pilgrimage to the birthplace of some of Japan's greatest ceramic wares.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 26, 2000

Hair ornament exhibitions

The Sawanoi Museum of Traditional Japanese Hair Ornaments in the western suburbs of Tokyo will hold a three-day event Sept. 8-10 commemorating Kushi no Hi (Comb Day). Stores and institutions with connections to combs and hair ornaments usually organize a variety of events on Sept. 4, as the numerals...
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2000

Listen to the market

The market is the judge in the market-driven economy. For instance, the stock market tells -- through prices formed by the collective will of investors -- where the real economy stands. Although this fact is self-evident, it is often forgotten or misunderstood. The current slump in the Tokyo stock market,...
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2000

LDP sidelines 17.2 billion yen loan to China

The Liberal Democratic Party said Thursday that it will postpone approval of a plan to loan 17.2 billion yen to China to protest recent Chinese naval activity in and around Japanese territorial waters, LDP officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2000

Psychiatrists took brains for research without consent

Two psychiatrists at a national health institution in Chiba Prefecture kept for research purposes the brains of 95 people autopsied at the Medical Examiner's Office in Tokyo without the consent of relatives of the deceased or the proper authorities, it was learned Thursday.
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.
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.
Japan to ‘seriously consider’ U.N. nuke ban treaty observer status, Ishiba says
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a debate with other political party leaders at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Saturday.
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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