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BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2000

Sogo to close down Yurakucho store

Sogo Co., the failed department store operator that has applied for rehabilitation measures under court protection, will close its store in the Yurakucho district of Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 24, the company announced Wednesday.
COMMUNITY
Aug 24, 2000

A new deal for man's best friend

Theta was a month-and-a-half-old puppy when she first came to live with Fuyumi Morita and her husband in the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, one year after the couple's marriage. Morita remembers Theta's little paws scrabbling at her when she picked her up, Theta's little eyes looking into her...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 24, 2000

Shooting the breeze with affable Eddie

Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Eddie Thomson HIROSHIMA -- Former Australian national team coach Eddie Thomson is the longest-serving manager in the J. League, but two weeks ago he announced that he would be leaving Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the end of the current season. However, the affable, 53-year-old...
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2000

Panel urges revisions to law on transplants

A Health and Welfare Ministry panel on organ transplantation has drafted a report proposing that the current law be revised to enable the harvesting of organs from brain-dead patients with the written consent of family members, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2000

Yokoyama's suspended term won't be appealed

OSAKA -- Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will not appeal the Aug. 10 court ruling that gave former Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama a suspended jail term for molesting a 22-year-old former campaign worker last year.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Aug 24, 2000

Handling of Kursk fiasco belies Putin's promise of change

"Shameful and disgraceful" -- these are the words many Russians are using now to describe the attitude of their government toward the sunken nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea. Slow and incompetent rescue attempts, an inability to assess the scope and nature of the damage and, above all, a stubborn...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 24, 2000

Sampling the best the world of wine writing has to offer

Next to a good wine, I might settle for a good wine book, if only I had time to read them. Having just finished writing a 20,000-word thesis last week on a rather weighty subject, I decided to reward myself with a little wine reading. Fate recently fed my bibliophilia with a few wine books, some of them...
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2000

Phones to give location-specific data

Cellular operator J-Phone Tokyo Co. said Wednesday that the J-Phone group will launch a new service in October that automatically sends geographically specific information to the screen of smart phones.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 24, 2000

Diaz ruins Saito return

Eddy Diaz hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning Wednesday as the Hiroshima Carp rallied to defeat the Yomiuri Giants 4-3 and hand the Central League leaders their third straight loss.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 24, 2000

Al fresco evenings in Heisei style

Just when you feel it's safe to venture out of the air conditioning to enjoy a drink or three in the mellow evening air of the late summer, that's about the time most beer gardens are starting to think about shutting down for the year.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2000

Korea's chaebol are obstacles, not answers

South Korea's industrial conglomerates, the chaebol, were once seen as a driving force behind that country's high rates of economic growth. At the beginning of the 1997 economic crisis, optimists saw them as the engine that would pull South Korea out of its doldrums. Indeed, about 40 chaebol still account...
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2000

Beetle, worm found in Kobeya products

OSAKA -- Parts of an insect and a worm have been found inside buns produced by Osaka-based Kobeya Baking Co., while a thread-like object has been detected in doughnuts made by Yamazaki Baking Co., officials of the two companies said Wednesday.
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Aug 24, 2000

Where new discoveries and old favorites await

For exploring the world of sake, nothing is more helpful than a reliable sake retailer with a wide and varying selection. There are many such retailers in all parts of Japan, and developing a good relationship with one is key.
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2000

Pride before a fall

After a nine-day rescue operation that transfixed the world, the Russian government announced Monday that all 118 crew members of the downed submarine Kursk were dead. An international rescue team discovered that all the compartments in the vessel were flooded; it is likely that almost all of the crew...
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2000

Japan, North Korea resume talks

Japan and North Korea launched a 10th round of normalization talks Tuesday in Tokyo, reiterating basic positions over which the two sides clashed during the previous round of discussions in Pyongyang in April.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

Budget to again top 80 trillion yen in 2001

General-account budget requests from government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2001 are likely to total about 84 trillion yen, exceeding the 80 trillion yen mark for the third year in a row, government sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

TSE to tie up with two Chinese stock exchanges

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is planning to conclude broad business tieups with China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges next year, TSE officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2000

Rare birds to be tracked by satellite

Albatrosses, seen resting on Torishima Island, are among rare migratory birds of Northeast Asia. Japan will launch a project next fiscal year to track the movements of rare migratory birds in Northeast Asia such as the albatross and Saunders' gull, according to Environment Agency officials.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

FSA approves cross-sales at life, nonlife insurers

The Financial Services Agency has decided to allow life and nonlife insurance firms to sell each other's products for commission fees, industry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2000

Protesters demand abductees' return

Relatives and supporters of Japanese nationals allegedly abducted by North Korean agents cry "Return our family members!" at a Foreign Ministry building. Relatives and supporters of Japanese allegedly abducted by North Korean agents staged a demonstration Tuesday at a Foreign Ministry building where...
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

BOJ policy options seen in positive light

Although it still remains anybody's guess whether the timing of the latest shift in monetary policy was correct, the effect could be that market participants now see the Bank of Japan's policy options in a more positive light.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

Forum calls for new WTO round

WASHINGTON — Despite the failure of last year's World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, panelists and participants at a recent symposium in Washington remain hopeful that a new round of multilateral trade talks will be launched before the end of next year.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2000

Police asked to verify Mori brothel story

The Tokyo District Court decided Tuesday to ask the Metropolitan Police Department to confirm whether Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was caught in a brothel more than four decades ago, as claimed by a monthly magazine involved in a libel suit.
Japanese stocks fall almost 6% just days after shock rate rise
The Nikkei 225 fell more than 2,000 points on Friday, capping a volatile week in the financial markets.
An ideal AC temperature for sleep? Science says yes ... and no.
Temperatures are soaring across Japan, making getting to sleep at night a constant battle between your body and the right setting for your air conditioner to help you nod off.
IOC addresses boxing controversy at Paris Olympics
Algeria's Imane Khelif walks to the ring for her bout against Italy's Angela Carini during the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
Social media trolls beware: Olympic athletes have had enough
Members of the Romanian Olympic women's gymnastics team check their smartphones during a training session early last month.
Leon Marchand breaks Michael Phelps’ Olympic record to win fourth gold in Paris
Leon Marchand swims during the 200-meter individual medley final at La Defense Arena in Paris on Friday.
Summer sumo tour may be tough for wrestlers, but it's a boon for fans
An event that was part of a regional sumo tour in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, in April 2019.
Koshien at 100: 'Sacred' dirt, the Hanshin Tigers and a storied high school tourney
The front facade at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The stadium, widely regarded as the spiritual home of Japanese baseball, turns 100 on Thursday.
Japan experienced its hottest July on record
People cross a street in Tokyo's Harajuku district on Wednesday. In July, the deviation from the average temperature between 1991 and 2020 — a period when warming was already well underway — was 2.16 degrees Celsius.
How Japan's gymnasts picked each other up and toppled China
Teammates swarm Daiki Hashimoto after his gold medal-clinching performance on the horizontal bar on Monday.
A President Harris might be decidedly Trumpy in approach to Asia trade
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris might maintain some of the economic policies of former President Donald Trump.

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

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The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
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