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JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Political fundraising jumped to new record in '98

Political funds raised by local political organizations nationwide totaled 176.1 billion yen in 1998, up 17.4 percent from a year before, the Home Affairs Ministry said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Legislation sought to ban gene-based discrimination

The government should enact legislation to ban discrimination based on genes, according to a draft report compiled by a subcommittee of the Council for Science and Technology, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 5, 2000

Goalkeeper Ozaki the hero as Jubilo wins Xerox Cup

Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper Yushi Ozaki blocked three shots in a penalty shootout to lead the J. League champion to victory over Emperor's Cup winner Nagoya Grampus Eight in the Xerox Super Cup Saturday at Tokyo's National Stadium.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 5, 2000

Masanao Murai

"Horses are very gentle and kind to the weak," Dr. Masanao Murai said. "A child suffering from cerebral palsy can sit on a horse and feel the animal's warmth. He can see farther. The horse's movement reaches the child's brain through the spine, so that a child who cannot walk feels he has one body with...
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 5, 2000

Who's afraid of August Strindberg?

If a single metaphor could speak for the career and life of Sweden's greatest playwright and author, it would be the following taken from one of his novels: "We were dancing on the edge of the volcano."
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2000

Er, dyu know wot they mean?

My man Toshi and I discussed the new Oasis single on the way to the opening concert of the band's world tour at Yokohama Arena last Tuesday. What is Noel Gallagher telling people to "let out" in the chorus of "Go Let It Out?" I think he's talking about people's illusions of the real world, how you've...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Game fans snap up PlayStation2

More than 7,000 stores nationwide started selling at 7 a.m. Saturday an advanced version of the popular PlayStation game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
COMMUNITY
Mar 5, 2000

Researcher dives deep, flies high, blows bubbles

Minoru Yamada thinks there is something rather beautiful -- poetic even -- about the location of the headquarters of JAMSTEC (Japan Marine Science and Technology Center) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. And this has nothing to do with being right beside the sea, with a great view across Tokyo Bay to...
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Mar 5, 2000

The arts

A woman who first came to Japan some 40 years ago remembers that in those days there were many dinner clubs that featured dancing and floor shows. One act she has never forgotten: A Chinese family sat in a row at a table with the grandmother in the middle and the youngest at the two ends. They were dressed...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

IOC wining-dining ban puts Games bid in bind

OSAKA -- Enthusiasm for Osaka's 2008 Olympic bid continues to fade after the International Olympic Committee announced strict conditions on candidate cities.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2000

Dynamo Chung generates musical electricity with French National

Orchestre National de France
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2000

Treasures of the House of Orange

Four hundred years ago, in spring 1600, a Dutch ship made landfall in Kyushu, the sole survivor of five that had set out on the hazardous journey from Rotterdam two years before.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Prefectural police chiefs get pep talk from NPA

In an effort to restore public trust in the nation's police, the National Police Agency on Saturday held an urgent meeting of 46 prefectural police chiefs following a series of recent scandals over misconduct within the force.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2000

A new dawn for marketing in Japan

and MASAAKI KOTABE The Japanese market holds much promise for U.S. firms as new forms of doing business evolve. Mail-order and nonstore retailing are becoming part of the daily consumer landscape. Likely to be even more prominent is the ability to conduct business in "market space" rather than the traditional...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Farm ministry searched after arrest

Police searched the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry and several dozen other places Friday in connection with charges that a former ministry official received about 500,000 yen in cash for helping an agricultural cooperative receive favors related to government-backed projects.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Japan to pay Taiwanese to junk boats

Japan has agreed in principle to pay Taiwanese tuna fishing boat owners to scrap boats that have been registered to countries not under an international treaty limiting tuna catches, the Fisheries Agency said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Parents sue to learn truth of son's death

The parents of a 14-year-old boy who was killed in what a family court deemed to have been a one-on-one fight with another boy are to file a damages suit next week against the state and Ibaraki Prefecture, claiming the investigation was unfair, it was learned Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Nine staff of Hiroo hospital charged

A case credited with shedding light on a tendency within the medical community to cover up malpractice has taken another step into uncharted waters.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 4, 2000

Olympic wrestler fights for money to fuel dream of reaching Sydney

Dan Henderson wishes he didn't have to compete in last weekend's King of Kings no-holds-barred tournament in Tokyo. But the stocky American has an Olympic dream, and if he wants to realize it he needs money.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

New LTCB boss details his vision for the future

The chief executive officer of the newly privatized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan has vowed that he will strive to transform the institution into a highly profitable commercial bank, utilizing high-level expertise from western financial institutions.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Japan compiles new rules against illegal trash exports

The government announced Friday that it has tightened rules to require authorities to keep a lookout for illegal exports of garbage.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 4, 2000

Ota Memorial Museum of Art marks 20th anniversary

To mark its 20th anniversary, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is holding a series of special ukiyo-e exhibitions through April 26.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Hokkaido Bank seeks 45 billion yen

Hokkaido Bank, the second largest lender in the northern prefecture, formally asked the Financial Reconstruction Commission on Friday for some 45 billion yen in public funds to shore up its capital base, the bank said.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Agency Internet sites hacked from Web servers in China

Of 16 illegal hacking attacks on Japanese government Web sites that began in January, 12 were carried out through servers in China, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

401(k) pension plan OK'd

The government approved legislation Friday to introduce a Japanese version of U.S.-style 401(k) pension plans providing for tax breaks aimed at encouraging firms and workers to take up the new programs, officials said.
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.
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.
University of Tokyo moves up a spot to 28th in World University Rankings
The University of Tokyo is ranked 28th in the latest World University Rankings, advancing one place from the previous rankings.
Ishiba keeps low profile as he makes diplomatic debut
Ishiba addresses the ASEAN-Japan Summit meeting in Laos on Thursday.
Chinese nationals in Japan testify to harassment by Beijing, report says
Chinese residents living in Japan take part in a “white paper” protest in solidarity against China's COVID-19 lockdowns, in Tokyo in November 2022.
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?
Experts move to allay replicon COVID shot fears in Japan amid backlash
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo on Oct. 1. Experts say fears over the newly approved replicon vaccine are unwarranted.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Dul Saroth (left) and Soeum Samrach, deminers with the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, practice using the Advanced Landmine Imaging System in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in August.
The Japanese tech that could one day make Southeast Asia landmine-free
By Anton L. Delgado

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