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JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

January trade surplus falls 91.7%

The nation's customs-cleared merchandise trade surplus for January plunged 91.7 percent from the same month last year to 5.2 billion yen, according to preliminary figures released Feb. 19.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

New rules on holding companies delayed

Due to continuing disputes over the handling of labor-management relations, the ruling coalition on Feb. 19 decided to allow one extra day for discussions before finalizing new guidelines for holding companies under a revised Antimonopoly Law.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

DPJ issues budget-cutting plan

The Democratic Party of Japan submitted a set of proposals Feb. 19 to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its two smaller allies to cut by 3.4 trillion yen a planned 77.4 trillion yen budget package for fiscal 1997. Its proposals are an effort to prevent the already debt-stricken national coffers...
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

Citizens' group calls for law to give Koreans war pensions

A citizens' group submitted a request Feb. 19 to both houses of the Diet calling for special legislation to make Korean residents who worked for Japan during World War II eligible to receive war pensions from the government.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

Financial leaders play down worries, give support to banks

Financial authorities continued Feb. 19 to play down concerns that the nation's financial system is in dire straits, stressing that they will support banks while urging them to continue restructuring efforts.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1997

Ministry aims to disclose '72 memo on Okinawa

The government plans to disclose as much as it can of a 1972 memorandum that set conditions for the use of military facilities in Okinawa Prefecture by U.S. military forces, Foreign Ministry officials said Feb. 19.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

No law planned for NTT breakup, minister says

The splitup of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. through the formation of a holding company will not be handled by the creation of a separate taxation law, Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said Feb. 18.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Japan wants WTO panel to end Indonesia car row

Japan will file a request with the World Trade Organization next month for the creation of a dispute-settlement panel to deal with its simmering dispute with Indonesia over the Southeast Asian country's "national car" policy, government sources said Feb. 18.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Kobe budgets 200 billion yen to rebuild

KOBE -- The Kobe Municipal Government has allocated about 200 billion yen of its fiscal 1997 budget to help its citizens rebuild their lives in the wake of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Shinshinto postpones national convention

Shinshinto was rocked Feb. 18 by mushrooming allegations that a former member of the main opposition party at the center of a massive fraud scandal may have bought his candidacy ahead of a 1995 Diet election.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Jupiter links with Canadian firm

Jupiter Telecommunications Co. announced Feb. 18 that it has signed a five-year contract with Canada-based digital communication device maker Northern Telecom Japan Inc. for the supply of telecommunications systems to be used in Japan's first cable TV telephone service network.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Oil-hit prefectures state their case for compensation

The governors of nine prefectures along the Sea of Japan badly affected by oil from a wrecked Russian tanker gathered Feb. 18 in Tokyo to call on the central government to remove the wreckage and pay compensation for damage caused to local fisheries.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Mothers resorting to store-bought food for infants

An increasing number of mothers are feeding their infants with store-bought baby food instead of preparing the food themselves, according to a survey recently released by the Health and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Sex-slave fund to publish its stance

Amid smoldering opposition from some circles to the planned reference to military "comfort women" in school textbooks, the government-initiated fund to distribute atonement money to the wartime sex slaves will release a paper later this week to state its case.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Banker raps holding-company rules

Less stringent limitations than those currently proposed should be placed on financial holding companies to be allowed under a revised Antimonopoly Law, the head of the nation's banking industry said Feb. 18.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 1997

Ex-Pan Am employees announce revival in Asia

Hoping to complete an ironic twist of fortune, former employees of a U.S. airline that collapsed under deregulation in 1991 said Feb. 18 that they want to revive the carrier in East Asia -- by taking advantage of ongoing deregulation in Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

DPJ to submit pair of bills for more Kobe quake relief

The Democratic Party of Japan -- the second largest opposition force -- will soon submit to the Diet two bills designed to provide more financial aid to survivors of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

Reform group to study 'zaito' in full

A review of the government's fiscal investment and loan program needs to be undertaken in its entirety, and not in bits and pieces, a new panel on the issue agreed at its first meeting Feb. 17.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

Sanyo audio works being turned into subsidiary

OSAKA -- Sanyo Electric Co. has decided to shift its sluggish audio-equipment arm to a subsidiary that it plans to set up this spring, company officials said Feb. 17. The intention is to speed up development of products such as digital videodisks and information-related goods, the officials said.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

TV Asahi hit over radio left at hostage site

TV Asahi came under government fire Feb. 17 for having left a radio device at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima for about one month in attempt to communicate with captives being held inside the compound by Marxist rebels.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

Tomobe's second son, wife indicted in Orange Kyosai fraud scandal

Arrested Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe's wife, his second son and two executives were indicted Feb. 17 on the charges of fraud in connection with the Orange Kyosai mutual fund scandal, prosecution sources said.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

FTC holding firm proposals tied to zaibatsu fear

Proposed guidelines for holding companies under a revised Antimonopoly Law are too rigid to fit the times, members of an advisory study group to the finance minister said Feb. 17.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

MITI role as power plant assessor urged

An advisory body to the MITI chief said Feb. 17 that the ministry should play a key role in the environmental assessment of power plants to ensure that the facilities are ecologically friendly and energy is developed smoothly.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

Hashimoto apologizes to Ota for bullet disclosure delay

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto apologized Feb. 17 to Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota over the government's delay in disclosing an incident in which the U.S. military fired uranium-depleted bullets during training near the southernmost prefecture.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 1997

Tokyo ponders splitup of utility firms

That Tokyo residents have but one option for electrifying their homes has long been an accepted reality, as has been the position of Tokyo Electric Power Co. as the metropolis' supplier.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 1997

Iwatsu to market 'all-in-one' phone

To help upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure at small offices and home offices, Iwatsu Electric Co. announced Feb. 14 that it will start selling on March 1 an all-in-one digital telephone that can connect to the Internet and a personal handy-phone system.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 1997

Reform of fiscal investment program to offer 'no sanctuary'

All aspects of the government's fiscal investment and loan program will be scrutinized "with no sanctuaries" to ensure the system is overhauled in line with administrative reforms, Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said Feb. 14.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 1997

ASDF officer admits using drugs

A 33-year-old senior officer at the Air Self-Defense Force's Matsushima Base in Miyagi Prefecture has been arrested and dismissed after he admitted taking stimulant drugs, Defense Agency officials said Feb. 14.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 1997

Cab firms to slash minimum fares April 1

In the hope of attracting more customers, four Tokyo-based taxi companies jointly announced Feb. 14 that they plan to reduce their minimum fares to 340 yen from the current 650 yen, starting April 1.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 1997

Missing Aum cultists may be dead

Seven of the 10 Aum Shinrikyo cult members that the National Police Agency has been unable to account for may already be dead, it was reported Feb. 14.
High temperatures to continue in Japan throughout October
The city of Kumamoto on Sept. 18, when the temperature climbed to 37.5 degrees Celsius
Masamitsu Yoshioka, last Pearl Harbor bombardier, dies at 106
Masamitsu Yoshioka in 2023, when he was 105
Tokyo passes nation's first customer harassment ordinance
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to a reporter on Sept. 27. Aggressive acts toward front-line workers, dubbed "customer harassment," have become a growing problem.
The Russian war economy’s days are numbered
A funeral is held for Russian military personnel and civilians killed in the war with Ukraine, at a cemetery in Luhansk, in Russian-controlled Ukraine, in May 2023. The U.S. estimates that 120,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and another 180,000 injured, further worsening the nation's manpower shortages and economic output.
Ishiba omits divisive proposals in first policy speech as PM
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his inaugural policy address to parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
Sure, Tokyo’s trains are amazing. But are they ruining your trip?
Walking through Tokyo's varied neighborhoods and the sub-communities within them can be the best way for a tourist, even one with limited time, to take the city in.
Japan’s biggest Louise Bourgeois exhibit yet leans into ambivalence
Bourgeois is perhaps best known among the general public for her giant steel spider sculptures, particularly in Tokyo, where a nearly 10-meter tall bronze cast of the original spider has loomed over the walkway in Roppongi Hills since 2003.
Japan great Ayami Sato helps shine light on women's baseball in new documentary
Ayami Sato is one of the best female players in baseball history.
Tokyo passes nation's first customer harassment ordinance
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to a reporter on Sept. 27. Aggressive acts toward front-line workers, dubbed "customer harassment," have become a growing problem.
Ishiba omits divisive proposals in first policy speech as PM
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his inaugural policy address to parliament in Tokyo on Friday.

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