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JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

City joins quest to list air raid victims of '45

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

Yosano agrees to U.S. steel talks

The minister of international trade and industry expressed readiness Tuesday to hold bilateral steel talks with the United States, noting that Japan will take the opportunity to address Washington's overuse of antidumping measures.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

Diet flap over wiretap bills continues

The Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition party, is planning a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's Cabinet over Monday night's Upper House panel vote on wiretapping bills.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

ODA to be governed by national interests

The government intends to put greater emphasis on national and diplomatic interests in doling out official development assistance, according to a medium-term ODA policy guideline released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

Utada's album hits 7 million mark

Teenage R&B diva Hikaru Utada's debut album, "First Love," has sold 7.02 million copies, becoming the first record to reach the 7 million mark in the nation's popular music history, music magazine officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

Environmental groups urge rethink of Philippines dam

Two nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday called on Tokyo to rethink its support for a dam under construction in the Philippines, saying assessments of the project's impact are flawed.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 10, 1999

Goodbye yuckie duckies, hello hollering herons

Have you been shopping lately? The price of rubber ducks is outrageous. While remodeling my bathroom, I paid over 1,000 yen for a mother duck and three chicks for my bathtub. And they were pink! I think someone's been tampering with the rubber duckie formula because within minutes of tubbing with these...
CULTURE / Film
Aug 10, 1999

Strangers on the crossroads of life

Each generation has its own way of telling love stories on the screen. What is supremely romantic to one strikes the next as supremely corny (until it begins to fondlylook back, as Meg Ryan's character does in "Sleepless in Seattle," at "An Affair to Remember" and other genre classics).
JAPAN
Aug 10, 1999

State specifies guidelines for Hinomaru, 'Kimigayo'

Following Monday's approval of legislation legally recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and "Kimigayo" as the anthem, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka announced Tuesday guidelines regarding the official symbols for government organizations to follow.
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Aug 10, 1999

Exotic rhythms spice up world-music scene

Exotic and tropical are words that are overused in the descriptions of music from foreign cultures -- they are more appropriate for tourist brochures. However, with musicians set to tour Japan from Hawaii, Bali and Congo, those descriptions are actually fairly fitting, and should provide the perfect...
LIFE / Travel
Aug 10, 1999

Dive into the dazzling Philippines

Ask scuba divers what attracts them to the sport, and they'll probably tell you that it's the exotic underwater world. A dive in Japan, however, often means endless train rides, big crowds, small spaces and exorbitant sums of money -- all too similar to the everyday world.
EDITORIALS
Aug 9, 1999

Rethink North Korea policy

The four-way Korea peace talks are again in the news as negotiators from North and South Korea, the United States and China return to the table in Geneva. Few people are holding their breath, and no one should. Diplomacy has hit a bind as Pyongyang keeps the world guessing about its intentions to develop...
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

GSDF moves to dump 1 million land mines

Japan's army has just over 1 million antipersonnel land mines in stock and plans to dispose of them by 2003, Defense Agency Vice Minister Seiji Ema said Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Wife kills spouse amid holiday spat

A 43-year-old wife fatally stabbed her husband with a fruit knife early Monday because he opposed her going on a summer trip with their son and the wife's friends, police said.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Nomura, IBJ lead startup of joint 401(k) company

A joint venture between Nomura Securities Co. and the Industrial Bank of Japan announced Monday that it will establish a 401(k)-style pension account management company Wednesday along with 22 other firms.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

No progress but Obuchi, Ozawa continue talks

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa met Monday and confirmed they will "make efforts till the last minute to realize their policy agreement."
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Flag, anthem now official

The Diet enacted controversial legislation Monday that legally recognizes the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and "Kimigayo" as its anthem.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Flag-anthem law no end to controversy

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Four arrested for 'fixing' phone cards

Tokyo police arrested three Iranians and a Chinese on Monday for unlawfully converting used telephone cards into reusable ones for sale.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 1999

Finance jumped gun on making Namihaya: Usui

Vice Finance Minister Nobuaki Usui on Monday admitted the ministry was less than thorough in inspecting the failed, Osaka-based Namihaya Bank's predecessors and added that the state's inability to help the bank rebuild is "regrettable."
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Aug 9, 1999

A learning experience

It is interesting to follow the drinking culture of Japan. In times when "Japaneseness" is being emphasized, sales of "Nihon-shu" (sake) and "shochu" (an indigenous distilled beverage that uses a variety of things that will ferment but mainly sweet potatoes) tend to increase. Beer is seldom affected...
EDITORIALS
Aug 8, 1999

Bringing peace to the Balkans

The avowed aim of the Sarajevo summit Aug. 6 was simple in its grandeur: to promote peace and prosperity in the war-ravaged region and prepare it for eventual membership in the European Union and NATO. Whether the means and the commitment exist to achieve this lofty goal remains to be seen.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 1999

Japan makes its mark in U.S.

ALFRED BALITZER Special to The Japan Times The town of Kanab, population 4,500, is located on a two-lane highway between Zion National Park and Lake Powell in southern Utah. The country is filled with breathtaking scenery -- tall, lonesome bluffs, massive rock formations the color of copper, natural...
COMMENTARY
Aug 8, 1999

Uncle Sam doesn't need draft registration

WASHINGTON -- The Cold War has been over for a decade, but you wouldn't know it after looking at U.S. security policy. Spending on the military is rising; all 18-year-old men must register for the draft. However, a House appropriations subcommittee has voted to kill the Selective Service System, along...
COMMENTARY / World / GUEST FORUM
Aug 7, 1999

For the Japanese, the future is now

There has been much soul-searching among the Japanese in recent years, following the collapse of the bubble economy and the recession it triggered. Economic woes aside, a crisis of confidence exists at the most fundamental level. People have come to doubt not only the ability of society as a whole, but...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 1999

Nationalism to the rescue

LONDON -- A French philosopher remarked some years ago that national politics had become "a secondary activity." What he meant was that, with the globalization of finance and economic forces, and with the citizens of the world linking up across borders (700 million people will be linked to the Internet...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 1999

Afghanistan's miserable war continues

ISLAMABAD -- The fresh military victories scored by Afghanistan's Taliban militia in the past few weeks have once again thrown into doubt the prospects for a stable government in the war-torn central Asian country. Despite controlling more than 90 percent of Afghan territory, the Taliban is no closer...
EDITORIALS
Aug 7, 1999

A summer of new health threats

During what is proving to be one of Japan's hottest summers in recent memory, most people are concentrating on ways to beat the heat. Heat-related ailments pose a great health risk, especially among the very young and very old. It appears, however, that this summer the public should be paying even more...
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 1999

Through the unflinching eye of realism

Most painters, whatever style they eventually adopt, generally start their career by setting their own likeness down on canvas. It is a kind of baptism by fire attempted once and usually abandoned. This we know because there are far fewer portraits of artists in middle or old age than in their youth....
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 1999

First a tally, now the trading

Almost two months after voting for the national assembly took place, Indonesia has its election results. Wednesday, President B.J. Habibie endorsed the final tally of the national election commission over the objections of several small parties who claimed ballot fraud. The holdouts represented less...
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.

Podcast

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
By Anton L. Delgado

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