search

 
Menu
Search
 
November 29, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
326,070 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

PerfecTV, JSkyB merge to form new digital broadcaster

PerfecTV Corp. and Japan Broadcasting Co. (JSkyB) merged into a new company May 1 called Japan Digital Broadcasting Services Inc., for operation of a new service called SKY PerfecTV!
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Unions mark May Day with demand for change

Unionists observed the 69th May Day event at about 1,100 sites across the country amid a gloomy economic atmosphere.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Israel issues Sugihara commemorative stamp

To mark its 50th anniversary, Israel has issued stamps bearing the likeness of five diplomats who were instrumental in helping Jews escape the Holocaust, including the late Japanese consul of Lithuania, who issued exit visas to refugees, it was learned May 1.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Police catch 116 illegal immigrants in major sweep

A total of 116 Asians suspected of illegally entering Japan were taken into custody in Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures on May 1, police said.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Auto sales defy hopes with 7.4% plunge in April

April's domestic auto sales dropped 7.4 percent to 302,667 units from a year earlier, despite it being the first monthly comparison not skewed by the April 1, 1997, sales tax hike, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said May 1.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Bar group urges prosecutor presence in youth trials

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations on May 1 decided to propose allowing prosecutors to participate in juvenile inquiry proceedings under certain conditions, changing its long-standing opposition to prosecutors' presence in family courts.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Cigarette sales fall first time in nine years

Nationwide cigarette sales in fiscal 1997 registered the first fall in nine years due partly to price hikes, an industry group has reported.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Superior toilet trend forces makers to turn up the heat

OSAKA -- As the market for toilet seats with warm water bidet functions continues to expand, manufacturers are competing to introduce new models with various designs and functions.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Crisis in Asia: Taiwan urged to assist struggling neighbors

Although the stability of Taiwan's economy stands out amid the financial crisis in Asia, the island cannot remain an idle spectator as neighbor countries suffer, according to Wei-Te Liu, executive adviser of the Coordinating Council on Sino-Japanese Business Affairs.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Realtor's president allegedly started scam in '93

OSAKA -- The housing firm Asahi Juken, a major borrower from the bankrupt "jusen" mortgage lenders, began forging sales contracts for mortgaged properties to bilk creditors in autumn 1993 at the instruction of the firm's president, Kizo Matsumoto, sources alleged.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Nissan Diesel names new president

Nissan Diesel Motor Co. announced April 30 that President Masayuki Saito will step down and be replaced by Managing Director Hirofumi Nakazawa in late June.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Deadline passes for KDD-Teleway merger plan

The president of KDD Co. announced that the country's leading international telecommunications carrier has been unable to reach a formal merger agreement with Teleway Japan Corp., a domestic long-distance carrier, by the self-imposed deadline of April 30.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Rengo begins membership drive to boost union ranks

In the face of rising unemployment and pay cuts due to corporate restructuring, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) will establish a hotline to provide counseling on labor issues and union organization.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Hosokawa announces resignation from Diet

Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who has been the glue linking the intraparty groups within the Democratic Party of Japan, announced April 30 that he will resign as a Diet member.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Korean resident tastes victory in 12-year legal defeat

Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Negotiations on fisheries make little progress

South Korea and Japan on April 30 concluded the first round of resumed negotiations to hammer out a new fisheries pact, but made little significant progress.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1998

Disgraced bureaucrats to get 40 million yen in retirement pay

Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga on April 30 told the Diet that two former top ministry officials who resigned in disgrace Monday will each receive more than 40 million yen as a retirement allowance.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Asahi Juken allegedly enlisted other realtors for fraud

OSAKA -- Asahi Juken, a real estate company whose president and three other executives were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of defrauding 600 million yen from creditors, had other realtors mediate in its property deals and divert about 1 billion yen of their commission to its group companies, police sources...
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Crisis in Asia: Lessons learned from painful economic reforms

Third in a series
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

More girls being held for role in serious crimes

Sixty-five young women were taken into so-called protective custody for their roles in robberies, extortion attempts or other forms of intimidation last year, a jump of 42 from the previous year, according to statistics made public April 29 by the Metropolitan Police Department.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Watchdog demands outside assessment of Universal Studios site

Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Oshima volcano walkway ready

More than 11 years after the huge eruption of Mount Mihara on Oshima Island, a 2-km promenade that overlooks the crater has been completed.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Peeping Tom says he 'went too far'

A Peeping Tom alleged to have followed 1,900 women and taken hundreds of photographs of them through peep holes has been arrested on suspicion of trespassing, police sources said April 29.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Foreigners' council offers city feedback

More than 30 foreign residents of Tokyo gathered Tuesday at Shibuya Workers' Welfare Hall for a brainstorming session on ways to improve life for the city's foreign community.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 1998

Sensitivity part of row with Russia, Chirac says

Japan and Russia should be less sentimental in resolving their differences over a territorial row and concluding a World War II peace treaty, French President Jacques Chirac said April 29.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1998

Kankaku branch chief held for swindling old lady

The former head of a Kankaku Securities Co. branch was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of defrauding a client of about 54 million yen, Metropolitan Police Department sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1998

Crisis in Asia: Turmoil points Philippines in right direction

Second in a series
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1998

Statue illumination kicks off 'Year of France' event

An 11.5-meter-tall statue of liberty was illuminated Tuesday evening on a man-made island in Tokyo Bay with French President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and the Crown Prince and Princess attending a ceremony to kick off the Year of France in Japan.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1998

Asahi Juken chief held in 600 million yen fraud

OSAKA -- The president and founder of Asahi Juken, an Osaka housing company, was arrested Tuesday in connection with an alleged conspiracy by the firm to defraud creditors out of 600 million yen.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1998

Industrial output continues downtrend

Industrial output continued its downtrend in March by dropping 1.9 percent, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said in a preliminary report released Tuesday.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Tokyo’s take on that viral chocolate from Dubai
Cafe N°_5's take on the Dubai chocolate craze that has been circulating on social media over the past few months is a mix of bitter and sweet.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

Podcast

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

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
By Greg Dvorak

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

mission sustainability vol.12 : Kose Corp.Kose takes pride in creating beauty in the world
mission sustainability vol.12 : Kose Corp.Kose takes pride in creating beauty in the world

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER