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CULTURE / Stage
Aug 19, 2000

Kabuki featured at Edo-Tokyo Museum

The Edo-Tokyo Museum will offer its annual kabuki program featuring young, up-and-coming kabuki actors Sept. 5-15. Reasonably priced, the program is steadily gaining popularity among younger theatergoers as well as kabuki enthusiasts.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2000

Lawyers resign from beleaguered Nepalese man's case

Five lawyers representing a Nepalese man acquitted of robbery and murder by a district court resigned Friday to protest the Tokyo High Court's decision not to appoint them as his defense team during the state's appeal of the ruling.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2000

Socialist International surveys the scene

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MORE SPORTS
Aug 19, 2000

All Blacks set for Tokyo charity match

The New Zealand All Blacks will play a charity match against a Pacific Barbarians side in Tokyo on Nov. 3 at Tokyo's Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, the Japan Rugby Football Union announced Friday in Tokyo. Kickoff time will be 2 p.m.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2000

South Asia's place in Japan's agenda

DHAKA -- Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will undertake a visit to South Asia starting Sunday. His brief itinerary will take him to three capitals in the region -- Dhaka, New Delhi and Islamabad.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 19, 2000

Akiyama chalks up 2,000th career hit

Daiei slugger Koji Akiyama notched his 2,000th career hit on Friday night, but his Hawks fell to the Lotte Marines 8-5 at Kitakyushu Stadium to slide down from the top of the Pacific League standings to second, two percentage points behind idle Seibu.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2000

Life expectancy fell in 1999

The average life expectancy for Japanese fell slightly in 1999 as an outbreak of influenza in the winter boosted pneumonia-linked deaths, government statistics showed Friday.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Aug 19, 2000

Autumn wind from Tsugaru fans Tokyo's waning summer

The last weeks of summer offer many hogaku concerts, both in Tokyo and around Japan, including two spectacular outdoor events.
COMMENTARY
Aug 19, 2000

Labor challenges for Japan

Since the end of the Cold War -- symbolized by the collapse of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 -- "globalization" has become the world's most controversial subject. But what does "globalization" mean?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2000

Lessons for peace from a double failure

ISLAMABAD -- A recent two-week lull in the fighting in Kashmir has momentarily aroused hope that South Asia's two bitter, nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan, might be facing a window of opportunity in the struggle to overcome 53 years of animosity. For much of the outside world, concerned over...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Pyongyang talks to be in Tokyo, Chiba

Next week's second round of normalization talks between Japan and North Korea on establishing diplomatic ties will be held in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, government sources said.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Fears of deflationary pressure unfounded

The Bank of Japan's decision to abandon its "zero-interest-rate" policy has in effect marked a switch from its decade-old easy money policy.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Tanaka says no to factions, holds on to freedom

One of the questions surrounding a group of Liberal Democratic Party members trying to stand up to the old guard is who the group would support in the next LDP presidential race.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Suicides in Japan hit all-time high in 1999

The number of suicides in 1999 hit a record-high 33,048, up 0.6 percent from the previous high, set the year before, according to a National Police Agency report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

NTT urged to sell DoCoMo stake to promote competition

A trade ministry advisory panel has released a draft report Thursday that calls for terminating Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.'s monopoly on local telephone networks.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

LDP reformists to take issues to voters outside Tokyo, Ishihara says

Since issuing the call for reform of the Liberal Democratic Party more than a month ago, Nobuteru Ishihara has been bombarded with questions from reporters and political observers:
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2000

When technology fails

Two accidents have claimed international attention this summer. A Concorde supersonic airliner crashed after takeoff in Paris last month, killing 114 people. Today, the world is riveted by the unfolding disaster involving the Russian submarine Kursk, trapped on the floor of the Barents Sea with 118 sailors...
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Secondhand comic book firm tapping into American interest in 'manga'

Savoring his success dealing in secondhand comic books and character items in Japan, Masuzo Furukawa, president of Mandarake Inc., is now eyeing an overseas market he believes is thirsting for Japanese "manga" culture.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Panel to mediate in disputes over Net domain names

The Arbitration Center for Industrial Property on Oct. 19 will begin arbitration services to resolve ownership disputes over Internet domain names, association officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

China withdraws Morita's welcome

China has declined to accept a visit by Transport Minister Hajime Morita, in what some see as an indication of its displeasure over his visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, it was learned Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Japan agrees to investigate past misdeeds

Tokyo will accept a request by Pyongyang to set up two working-level panels to discuss Korean cultural assets seized or destroyed by Japan and the granting of permanent residency to North Koreans in Japan, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Illegal use of passports on rise, ministry warns

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday reminded travel agencies and Japanese nationals traveling abroad to be mindful of their passports, citing the growing incidence of lost or stolen passports being used illegally.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Japan aided U.S. in search for Vietnam deserters

The Japanese government helped the United States track down American deserters from the Vietnam War who hid in Japan with the aid of Japanese peace activists, former Japanese intelligence officers admitted for the first time in recent interviews with Kyodo News.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 18, 2000

Japan walks over UAE 3-1

HIROSHIMA -- Another day, another facile victory against another substandard team. Japan cruised to a 3-1 victory over the United Arab Emirates in the Kirin Challenge 2000 at Hiroshima's Big Arch on Wednesday, though quite where the challenge was meant to come from was difficult to see.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Toyota set to introduce low-cost tire technology

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to introduce low-cost, high-quality tires jointly developed with a tire maker for use in some of its cars in 2001, a company official said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Lawmakers try to rid LDP of stodgy ways

A new breed of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker openly says that the party is an anachronism.

Longform

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