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JAPAN
Aug 20, 1999

Demo flights to boast Y2K safety

The country's three major airlines will jointly conduct demonstration flights next month to show that airplanes will not be threatened by the Year 2000 computer problem, industry sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 20, 1999

Will wiretap law catch mob off guard?

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 20, 1999

LDP, New Komeito plan policy accord by September

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito agreed Friday to form a basic agreement on five key policy areas by the end of the month, taking another step toward a tripartite alliance, officials of the two parties said.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 20, 1999

Plotting the return of a '70s icon

Prodigy's Keith Flint declared himself a big fan. Gary Barlow says, "he was my reason for getting into the business. The man is a God." Britain's most infamous tabloid, The Sun, chimes in with, "The legend is reinstated for a whole new generation."
JAPAN
Aug 20, 1999

New British envoy urges more market restructuring

New British ambassador to Japan Stephen Gomersall suggested Friday that Japan could learn from wide-scale restructuring measures Britain implemented in the 1980s, and also called for further deregulation of Japan's markets.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Aug 20, 1999

Meanies: '10% weird,' 90 percent addictive

There are certain shambolic punk rock moments, usually involving beer or hard spirits, when an otherwise imbecilic song becomes an anthem. In a drunken haze, the driving force of the Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict," G.G. Allin's "Expose Yourself to Kids" or anything by the Ramones rises to the level of "The...
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

Sumitomo Metal may spin off iron plants

In a move to accelerate its restructuring efforts, Sumitomo Metal Industries is considering spinning off two of its iron manufacturing plants into separate companies, company sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

DKB, Fuji, IBJ plan to create world's biggest bank

Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan on Thursday acknowledged they are talking about forming an alliance to create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

Tokyo to host U.N. regional hearing

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

Nippon Life feeling assured of 401(k) role for small firms

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

Exec leaves 10 billion yen inheritance

Takashi Fukuda, former chairman of Fukuda Electronics Co., who died last August at 81, left some 10.6 billion yen taxable inheritance, Tokyo tax officials revealed Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 1999

Kobe seabed survey begins amid airport protests

KOBE -- City officials Thursday began surveying the sea bottom off Port Island to prepare for construction of Kobe airport, scheduled to begin in mid-September, while airport opponents continued to call on the mayor to stop the project.
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 1999

All eyes on Mr. Bush

The Republican campaign for the U.S. presidential elections has drawn its first blood. A mere 15 months ahead of the actual ballot, the party hopefuls descended upon Ames, Iowa, to participate in an unofficial straw poll that has no standing in the nomination process, which begins next February. Originally,...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Aug 18, 1999

Faster, faster, faster

The vast majority of people access the Internet through a telephone modem. Plug it in, turn on your machine and ... wait. And wait. And wait a little more. First, there is the search for the modem, then the connection, then the handshaking. Once you're online, you wait for the software to load, the right...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Transport plans 'green tax' as bait for cleaner cars

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Alleged gang-rapists put on probation

The Tokyo Family Court has decided to place four former students of Keio University's department of medicine arrested on rape charges under probation, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Prof gives shtick a shot to loosen up academia stodge

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Obuchi, Kato open campaign offices for LDP race

Liberal Democratic Party factions led by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and former party Secretary General Koichi Kato separately opened election campaign headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday for next month's party presidential race.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Japan reinforces Turkey quake team

The government sent 17 more rescue workers to Turkey on Wednesday, including four Kobe firefighters who helped in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Kato would finance welfare with lower sales tax

All revenues from the 5 percent consumption tax should be used for welfare purposes as part of fiscal reforms in the coming decade, and the levy should be lowered for daily necessities, a Liberal Democratic Party faction led by former Secretary General Koichi Kato said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Fiscal woes, controversy stop plan for air raid hall

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to scrap a plan to secure funds for construction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Peace Memorial Hall under next year's budget.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 1999

High price of blood politics

You see it in Kosovo and you see it in Taiwan -- indeed it is everywhere. International disputes are shaped by disputes about blood. Sometimes, as in Kosovo, the argument is that Serbs and Albanians cannot live together because they are deeply divided by blood and resulting ethnicity. Sometimes, as in...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 18, 1999

Yes, there was a Nanjing Massacre

Did the 1937 Nanjing Massacre really happen? This might seem like an absurd question, but then the recently elected governor of Tokyo is on record as having denied that the looting, rape and assembly-line murder reported by eyewitnesses ever took place. The Dr. Feelgoods of Japanese history, Yoshinori...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 18, 1999

You're only as old as you tell

Here is a scenario that happens in the first hour of every single new English conversation class in Japan _ a sort of annual rite of spring.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 18, 1999

Re-enactors make history come alive

I was buying a jar of jam at the sutler's tent when the cannon went off, close enough and loud enough to make my teeth rattle and my eyes widen into an excellent impersonation of fear. The salesman, a stout, bearded fellow in the woolen blues of a Union soldier, barely blinked. As he handed me my credit...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 1999

Japan nears deal to ease Saudi Arabia's WTO entry

Staff writer
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 18, 1999

Refuge of the world's wildest rabbit

The wildlife of the Nansei Shoto is a fascinating mixture of species, and as is clear from recent research on the spiny rats that are unique to the central islands, there may be more species there than we realize.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Aug 18, 1999

Another farewell

It was a sad Monday last week when I saw the name Andre Lecomte in the obituary column. He was invited to come to Japan in the '60s to be the head pastry chef at the Okura Hotel. Before Andre, the taste of bread and pastry available for those with a Western preference was always somewhat askew. After...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 18, 1999

A big bang, and then there was life

Five days and 116 years ago, a small island in the Sunda Straight between Java and Sumatra exploded.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 1999

The good fight against war crimes

On Aug. 12, the world observed the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, four international agreements that set limits on the conduct of participants in armed conflicts. At first glance, the conventions seem quixotic: How can we apply the rule of law to war itself, where the goal is to bend an...
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.
Hedge funds warming to yen caught out by biggest drop in 15 years
Speculative investors flipped to a net long position on the yen just before Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said the nation wasn’t ready for further interest rate hikes, data shows.
Ishiba's 'Asian NATO' dead on arrival as new PM set for diplomatic debut
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has floated an idea of creating an Asian version of the NATO security framework.
Japan records highest number of bankruptcies in a decade as costs rise
Japan saw the highest number of bankruptcies since 2013 in the six months through September.
After Helene devastation, over 1 million people flee path of Hurricane Milton
People line up to buy wood to protect their assets before the hurricane Milton, in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday.
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.
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.

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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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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
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