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CULTURE / Art
Jun 25, 2000

The phoenix from the end of time

When the great Heian Period statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga died in 1027, he left his comfortable suburban retreat on the banks of the Uji River to his son Yorimichi (along with a good deal else).
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Jun 25, 2000

Again and again

A part of this is from a column written in 1993 about "ijime" (bullying). It was not the first, and today I can't even recall that specific case. There have been so many. At the time I objected to the newspaper comment that ijime had been a serious problem for a decade. Brutal discrimination against...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2000

Making humanitarian aid more effective

NEW YORK -- One of the greatest challenges facing governments and international aid agencies today is how to respond better to humanitarian disasters.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2000

Team gives small firms help in environment management

KYOTO — Although major companies are accelerating efforts to obtain international recognition of their environmental management systems, few small and medium-size firms are following suit due to the high cost of certification and a lack of knowledge.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2000

Political volume up before vote

Closing the official 12-day campaign period, political party leaders on Saturday made their final appeals before today's general election for the Lower House.
LIFE / Travel
Jun 25, 2000

A humbling experience in the Himalayas

"We have to focus. This is going to suck. We're going to hate it. It's going to be 12 hours of misery worse than we ever imagined."
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Laboratory tracks acid rain's seasonal roots

Pollution responsible for acid rain and acid snow in coastal areas along the Sea of Japan travels via China and the Korean Peninsula during the winter, but comes from other areas in Japan in the summer, an environmental research laboratory in Niigata Prefecture said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Nissho Iwai, Samsung to share overseas units

Japanese trading company Nissho Iwai Corp. said Friday that it has agreed with South Korean trader Samsung Corp. to share overseas outlets.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

London to get first overseas Uniqlo store

Fast Retailing Co., operator of the rapidly growing Uniqlo chain of clothing stores, said Friday it will open its first overseas outlet in London in autumn 2001.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Cultist hints Asahara ordered attack

An Aum Shinrikyo doctor testified in court Friday that he believes cult leader Shoko Asahara meant for him to use sarin when he ordered him to attack a Yokohama lawyer in 1994.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Carmakers' overseas output up 9.6%

Overseas production by Japan's 11 automakers increased 9.6 percent in 1999 from the previous year to 5.89 million units, due to the economic recovery in Asia and the expansion of the U.S. auto market, according to data released Friday by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2000

Barak fights for peace on two fronts

Since taking office last year, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has battled on two fronts in the effort to finalize peace agreements with his neighbors. The obvious front involved the parties on the other side of the table: the Syrians and the Palestinians. But the other fight takes place within Israel...
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Debt waiver for Sogo 'possible,' DIC says

The head of the semigovernmental Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday described the proposed partial forgiveness by the DIC of loans owed by the Sogo Co. department store chain to Shinsei Bank as a "possible option."
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Chubu airport project OK'd

The Transport and Construction ministries on Friday gave the green light for reclamation work to begin off Ise Bay in Aichi Prefecture, paving the way for construction of the 770 billion yen Chubu International Airport.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2000: VOX POPULI
Jun 24, 2000

Voters to blame for deadbeats, nepotism in Diet, says Totten

If citizens want a better Japan, they need to turn out for Sunday's election and vote against the old-school lawmakers and those who aim to inherit a parent's seat as if it were a birthright, according to American businessman Bill Totten.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Electronic firms link on digital TV specs

Toshiba Corp., Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will create common specifications for next-generation television tuners for digital broadcasts and interactive programs, it was learned Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

G7 wants IMF votes redistributed

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations are poised to push for a redistribution of voting power within the International Monetary Fund when they assemble in Japan next week, an international financial source said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Hitachi pays up in U.S. chip dispute

Hitachi Ltd. said Friday it has settled a semiconductor patent dispute with U.S. chip maker Rambus Inc. by agreeing to pay a licensing fee to Rambus for the use of its technology.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Dentsu admits fault in worker suicide

Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. admitted Friday that it was responsible for the 1991 suicide of a 24-year-old employee who had become depressed due to overwork and agreed to pay the family about 168 million yen in compensation to settle the case, a lawyer for the family said.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jun 24, 2000

An unknown craftsman from Mashiko

Many of you are familiar with the name and works of Shoji Hamada (1894-1977), arguably the most widely famed of all Japanese potters. When he settled in the backwater potting town of Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, in Taisho 13 (1924), no one imagined that he would turn the conservative potters' world upside...
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Copper wires in snack bars force recall

Threads of copper found in some CalorieMate snack bars prompted Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. on Friday to begin recalling around 14 million packets made at its factory in Tokushima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

Cops look away in domestic violence

Anne van Pletsen, a Tokyo resident for 13 years, was lying in a bed in Akasaka Hospital in Minato Ward last year when she decided to end her three-year marriage.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Outstanding debt hits record high

Increased bond issues to fund fiscal-stimulus measures caused the government's outstanding debt to hit a record-high 492.97 trillion yen at the end of March, up 12.7 percent from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2000

Hino to reclaim top FSA post after enlargement

The government unofficially decided Friday to reappoint Masaharu Hino as head of the Financial Supervisory Agency and Hideichiro Hamanaka as his deputy when the agency becomes larger on July 1, an FSA official said.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2000

72.6% of case lawyers appointed by courts

The percentage of cases handled by district and summary courts that involved court-appointed lawyers reached a record 72.6 percent in 1998, it was learned Friday.
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 24, 2000

J. League second-stage race looks wide open

After the Yokohama F. Marinos dramatically won the first stage a month ago, the J. League Division One second stage is set to get underway Saturday.
17-year-old girl found dead in Osaka hotel room was strangled
A security camera footage shows a 17-year-old girl and a man entering a hotel in the city of Osaka on Saturday. She was found dead in the hotel room several hours later.
Ban on dual nationality is constitutional, Fukuoka High Court rules
Yuri Kondo (center), who filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Japan's ban on dual nationality, speaks at a news conference in the city of Fukuoka in December 2023.
Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to achieve nuclear-free world
Toshiyuki Mimaki, the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at an event held in November at United Nations headquarters in New York on the sidelines of the second meeting of state parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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.
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.
The forgotten Japanese naturalist who created a U.S. national park
Without Japanese outdoorsman George Masa, America might not have the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — so why do so many people in Japan not know he existed?

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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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