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JAPAN
Jul 2, 1999

NTT ordered to probe allegations of customer data leak

Executives of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone group were asked Friday to investigate allegations that more than 10 of its employees released private data on NTT subscribers, officials of the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said.
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 1999

Serving justice in Turkey

To no one's surprise, a Turkish court earlier this week found Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan guilty of murder and treason and sentenced him to hang. The 14-year war waged by Kurdish separatists has claimed more than 30,000 lives; the measures taken by the Turkish government to combat the insurgency...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 1999

East Timorese exile recounts the horrors of Indonesia's quarter-century occupation

Special to The Japan Times When Bella Galhos packed up her Indonesian military youth-corps uniform and shipped it off to the Indonesian government from Canada, she was saying goodbye to a dangerous double life and was beginning her crusade to inform people about a genocide that has largely been hidden...
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

NTT now holding company, three carriers

Monolithic NTT Corp. reorganized Thursday in a step being watched by a rapidly transforming telecom industry eager to learn whether the move will foster competition or make the giant even stronger.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Japan, U.S. settle procurement row with voluntary rules

SAN FRANCISCO -- Japan and the United States on Wednesday concluded talks here on equipment procurement procedures for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., agreeing to allow the Japanese telecom giant to introduce voluntary procurement rules.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Quake-prone Japan still unprepared, U.S. expert warns

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

MITI knocks latest U.S. dumping charge

Vice trade minister Osamu Watanabe expressed deep regret Thursday about the latest dumping charge filed by U.S. steelmakers against Japanese imports.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

TSE surge follows rally on Wall Street

Stock prices in Tokyo surged Thursday, propelled by an overnight rally on Wall Street, where share prices jubilantly rose on a decision by the Federal Reserve Board to keep monetary policy more or less intact.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Yamaichi bankruptcy lawyers may sue former auditor

The head of a team of lawyers assigned with liquidating assets of failed Yamaichi Securities Co. hinted Thursday that they may sue the brokerage's former auditor, Chuo Audit Corp.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Palau proposes capital city ties

Staff writer
CULTURE / Art
Jul 1, 1999

Wood blocks carved from nostalgia

Tsuzen Nakajima's woodblock prints trigger memories in the same way certain melodies or particular scenes may whisk us back to pleasant moments of the past. Nakajima depicts the landscapes of Japan and often uses geta, Japanese umbrellas or tatami rooms as his subjects, complementing those backgrounds...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 1999

France's right on the run

PARIS -- The French political scene is presently -- and probably for sometime to come -- dominated by the results of the European parliamentary election held June 13. Many commentators spoke of an earthquake. Here are the reasons why.
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 1999

No sacrifice made in taste of new low-malt beers

A high tax rate is to blame for remarkably expensive beer in Japan. Current taxation is 222 yen per liter, pushing the price of an ordinary 350-ml can of beer to 225 yen.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Telecom Realignment: Will breakup fuel competition?

Fourth in a series
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 1999

The Hunt for ultimate beauty is on

Makeup artist Maggie Hunt is a wanted woman.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Norota urges tighter SDF discipline

Defense chief Hosei Norota told some 650 agency officials at a hastily arranged meeting Thursday to tighten discipline following a recent series of scandals involving members of the Self-Defense Forces.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Temporary housing closed to quake victims

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

NTT-West hefts ax as cost-cutting option

OSAKA -- NTT-West Corp. President Kazuo Asada on Thursday said job cuts are one option for trimming costs and putting the firm's business into the black within three years.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Government to aid Kure residents with relief funds

The government will provide relief funds to Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, to help people seriously hit by recent heavy rain, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Thursday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 1, 1999

'Liberation' of birth control proves a bitter pill to swallow

On Aug. 16, the Health and Welfare Ministry announced that it had finally approved the low-dosage birth control pill, which will likely become available through prescription in the fall. Oral contraceptives for women have been available in the West for close to 40 years, but in Japan they've always been...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jul 1, 1999

Be prepared to relax on summer break

It's summer, that getaway time of year when we are allowed a bit of an escape from it all. It is the time we want a break, relaxation of the deepest sort, freedom from everything by which we are ordinarily burdened. Not that I foresee any holiday for myself in the near future, but it is precisely the...
JAPAN
Jul 1, 1999

Fixed-rate ISDN service to be offered

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. announced Thursday it plans to launch fixed-rate Internet access for its ISDN users later this year.
EDITORIALS
Jun 30, 1999

Mercosur's new allure

Forty-eight heads of state from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean are holding their first summit in Rio de Janeiro this week. This long overdue meeting between two of the world's largest trade blocs -- the European Union and Mercosur -- could yet prove to be no more than a symbolic gesture, but...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jun 30, 1999

Let's digital

Let's digital. That's the message in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications 1999 White Paper on Communications in Japan. The annual survey, released earlier this month, reveals a nation poised for the millennium, its finger firmly on the mouse, clicking its way into the 21st century
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 1999

Getting tough on dioxin pollution

After years of neglect, politicians and bureaucrats are finally getting their acts together and addressing the issue of dioxin contamination. In March, the government announced plans to cut nationwide dioxin emissions by 90 percent of its 1997 level by 2002, and the ruling parties are poised to submit...
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1999

Debate on new coalition begins

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party began full-scale debate Tuesday on a plan to expand its coalition government to include New Komeito — and secure a majority in the Upper House.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1999

Japanese passports big ticket for forgers, scam artists

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1999

Sony appoints economist Nakatani

Sony Corp. said Tuesday it has appointed Iwao Nakatani, a former economics professor at Hitotsubashi University, as an outside director, effective immediately.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 1999

Industrial output declined 0.7 percent in May

Japan's monthly industrial output dropped 0.7 percent in May from April, marking a decline of two straight months due to stagnant plant and equipment investment, according to a preliminary report issued Tuesday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 1999

Japan presses Asia's agenda

In a strong warning to North Korea, the Group of Eight leaders who met in Cologne, Germany, earlier this month said in a declaration that they "are deeply concerned about recent missile flight tests and developments in missile proliferation, such as actions by North Korea."
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.
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.
Important tool or alarmism? Japan experts split on megaquake advisories.
A damaged road in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 6, after a major earthquake struck the area on New Year's Day

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
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