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JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Tokyo, Okinawa to resume talks on military bases

The central and the Okinawa governments will soon resume previously stalled talks on U.S. military bases in the prefecture, a special adviser to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on Okinawa affairs said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Universal gets go-ahead as experts urge paving of toxic waste

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JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Parents cope with slaying of Japanese-Brazilian son

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JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Politics seen behind EPA fudging on recession

The Economic Planning Agency concealed the opinions of some of its panel members who believe the economy entered a recession months ago, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

New Kirin-Tropicana chief named

Paul G. Guilfoile has been appointed president and representative director of Kirin-Tropicana, Inc., a joint venture between Tropicana and the Kirin Beverage Corp., effective March 27, Tropicana Asia Pacific announced.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Aum's Dr. Hayashi faces life term for sarin attack

Prosecutors Monday demanded that Dr. Ikuo Hayashi, one of five Aum Shinrikyo figures accused of releasing nerve gas on the Tokyo subway system in March 1995, be sentenced to life in prison.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Cabinet expresses concern over business conditions

During a Lower House Budget Committee meeting Friday, Cabinet members admitted serious concern over current business conditions.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

January industrial output up 2.9%

The nation's industrial output in January rose 2.9 percent from the previous month, marking the second consecutive monthly increase, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said in a preliminary report released Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Azerbaijan says Japan lagging in investment

Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev said Friday that Japan lags behind other countries such as the United States in making investments in Azerbaijan, but contends his visit to Tokyo will result in increasing Japan's investment.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

PHS subscriber slump threatens Astel

Astel Tokyo Corp., a Tokyo-based personal handy-phone system (PHS) company, selected Ken Kitazono, the former chairman of Tokyo Telemessage Inc., as its new president Friday amid continued difficulties to gain subscribers.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

School acts to stem sexual harassment after Korean incident

Tokyo Keizai University said it has taken measures following an incident in June in which a Japanese male student was accused of sexually harassing female South Korean students on campus.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Doctor queried on Aum gas attack autopsy

Defense lawyers for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara on Friday cross-examined a professor of forensic medicine who conducted an autopsy on a victim of the March 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Delays on administrative reform bill worry Hashimoto

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said he was concerned Friday that his pet bill on administrative consolidation may be abandoned due to a dearth of deliberation time and persistent opposition from lawmakers, bureaucrats and labor unions.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Diet gets chance to view four banks' inspection papers

The Cabinet gave the green light Friday for the Diet to receive Finance Ministry documents relating to ministry inspections of four banks that are named in a bribery scandal involving ministry banking inspectors.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Open cell makes barefoot jailbreak easy

A Chinese man charged with not carrying a passport ran barefoot from a Tokyo police jail early Friday morning after an officer apparently failed to lock the detention hall and his cell.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Small companies not yet ready for 2000 Bug

About half of small and midsize companies using computers in Tokyo have not yet adapted their systems to cope with the "Year 2000 problem," or Millennium Bug, which is expected to wreak havoc on companies with computers unable to process 21st century dates, a metropolitan survey says.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

Plan to store nuclear waste in Hokkaido withdrawn

A controversial plan to build a high-level nuclear waste storage facility in Horonobe, Hokkaido, has been withdrawn, the Science and Technology Agency made clear Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 1998

LDP panel fails to endorse policyholder-protection unit

A Liberal Democratic Party panel on financial affairs held off Friday from formally endorsing proposals to set up a new body offering protection to insurance policyholders in the event of an insurer's collapse.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Aum cult member gets 10 years for murder, abduction

The Tokyo District Court sentenced Aum Shinrikyo follower Makoto Goto to 10 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 1994 lynching of another cultist and the 1994 abduction of an innkeeper in Miyazaki Prefecture.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Arai's widow decides not to run in Lower House by-election

Just a day after the surprise announcement of her candidacy in a Lower House by-election, the widow of lawmaker Shokei Arai decided Thursday to pull out of the running to fill the seat made vacant when her husband hanged himself last week.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Japan, U.S. set up group for Okinawa base move

Japan and the United States set up a special task force Thursday to facilitate the relocation of U.S. military installations in Okinawa.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Monetary policy to stay unchanged, BOJ says

The Bank of Japan decided Thursday to leave unchanged its ultraeasy monetary policy and the 0.5 percent official discount rate, the central bank said.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Japan, U.S. firms form venture for trans-Pacific telecom cable

Four U.S. and Japanese companies seeking to become the "carriers' carrier" will construct an underwater telecommunications cable between the two countries, the firms announced Thursday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Former President George Bush visits The Japan Times

Former U.S. President George Bush expressed support for the U.S. position in the recent standoff with Iraq during a visit to The Japan Times on Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Mitsubishi Motors mulls plant closure in Thailand

A Mitsubishi Motors Corp. subsidiary in Thailand may close one of its plants due to sagging demand, MMC said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Plan to resume government aid to Myanmar criticized

Policy chiefs of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its two non-Cabinet allies expressed dissatisfaction with a Foreign Ministry plan to resume official development assistance to Myanmar, saying there has been little improvement in the country's democratization.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

Overseas calls made free, after word from our sponsor

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JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

Monetary gifts from coffers OK'd

The limited use of taxpayer money by local government officials for private occasions such as weddings and funerals among coworkers is permissible, the Audit and Inspection Commissioners of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

Car sales seen growing 1.7% in '98

Reflecting the nation's economic slowdown, Japan's domestic auto sales will only grow slightly to about 5.2 million units in 1998, the new chairman of the Japan Automobile Dealers Association predicted Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

12 boys held for robbing the aged

Tokyo police have booked 12 boys ranging in age from 10 to 17 for allegedly robbing elderly people out of 1 million yen, police said Monday.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘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.

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