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BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Money market call rate at 0.3%, over BOJ target

The key unsecured overnight call rate in the short-term money market stood at 0.3 percent Thursday morning, higher than the Bank of Japan's target of 0.25 percent.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Music industry sets fees for downloaded tunes

Two music industry groups have formally agreed on the fees they will set for copyrights and music delivery over the Internet, the groups said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2000

State-owned enterprises continue to hinder Chinese growth

WASHINGTON -- In January, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Wu Bangguo said that whether or not China gets into the World Trade Organization, China's policy would be "to reform and build a market economy." Now that China is assured of entering the WTO, the hard work of transforming China's socialist market...
COMMENTARY
Aug 18, 2000

World War II lessons go unlearned

On Aug. 15, 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered to the U.S.-led Allied Powers, ending World War II. An estimated 3 million Japanese military personnel and civilians died in the war.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2000

Five found dead at self-styled guru's house

OSAKA -- The badly decomposed bodies of five adult siblings were found by police Wednesday evening in the Sennan, Osaka Prefecture, home of their 66-year-old uncle, a self-styled guru.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Aug 18, 2000

Incubators nurture the American dream

Since the Beatles crossed the Atlantic in 1964, success in the United States has been the Holy Grail of foreign artists, no matter how popular they are in their home countries.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 18, 2000

Japanese kids' art to exhibit in Dili

DILI, East Timor (Kyodo) A Japanese man promoting cultural exchanges between Japan and East Timor has brought to Dili 100 drawings by Japanese children for exhibition.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 18, 2000

Lions blank Buffaloes

Kazuhiro Wada hit a three-run homer and Tony Fernandez rapped out three hits, scoring twice and driving in two more runs, as the Seibu Lions stopped the Kintetsu Buffaloes 6-0 at the Seibu Dome on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2000

Calbee plant running again after lizard scare

Calbee Foods Co. has resumed operations at a confectionery factory where work had been suspended since Saturday following the discovery of a dead lizard in a bag of potato chips produced there, the confectionery maker said.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Man nabbed in fatal beating of girl

OSAKA -- A 30-year-old truck driver was arrested in Osaka Prefecture on suspicion of beating to death the 4-year-old daughter of his live-in partner, police said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

Snow Brand sales down 77% in July

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Wednesday its sales in July declined 76.7 percent from the same month a year earlier to 11.1 billion yen, hit by massive food poisoning blamed on its goods.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Northeast Asian security pact pitched

Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi on Wednesday explained to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori her party's proposals for a Northeast Asian security organization and a regional nonnuclear pact, party officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Normalization talks to be held 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 Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

GM unit seeks benefits from Internet revolution

The advent of the Internet age is bringing new opportunities not only to electronic venture businesses but also to companies in traditional industries.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

5 billion yen lent to Papua New Guinea

The governmental Japan Bank for International Cooperation on Wednesday signed an agreement with Papua New Guinea to extend a 5.35 billion yen official development assistance loan.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

War archives prove draw for everyday people

Nowadays, scholars are not the only ones poring through the archives of the library at the Defense Agency's National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo's Meguro Ward.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 17, 2000

Shaky ace wins 12th

Daisuke Matsuzaka may have been shaky, giving up four runs over 5 1/3 innings Wednesday, but he still bagged his 12th win of the season as the Seibu Lions rolled over Narciso Elvira and the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-4 at the Seibu Dome.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

Seibu scheme brings in 108 billion yen

In an effort to reduce interest-bearing debts, Seibu Department Stores Ltd. said Wednesday it raised 108.1 billion yen by securitizing its flagship store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

BOJ delayed rate change to check data

Bank of Japan policymakers decided at a June 28 meeting to keep in place the "zero-interest-rate" policy and check economic data to reaffirm a recovery before ending the policy, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Plan for spy-satellite system is finalized

Japan's plan to set up a system of four reconnaissance satellites has been finalized, with Kagoshima Prefecture chosen as the second of two sites for the system's ground antennas, according to a government source.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Top civil service test yields lowest pass rate in 15 years

The National Personnel Authority said Wednesday that 1,228 candidates passed the nation's top civil service exam for fiscal 2000, 24 fewer than last year and the lowest number since the current exam system took effect in fiscal 1985.
COMMUNITY
Aug 17, 2000

Masatomo couture at the Ritz

The dragons are coming!
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2000

MITI to expand loan guarantees

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is planning to expand its loan-guarantee program for small businesses to direct fundraising from the market starting in fiscal 2001, MITI officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2000

Scholar suspected of leaking exam questions faces disgrace

The Health and Welfare Ministry on Wednesday urged a university professor sitting on the committee that formulates National Dentistry Examination questions to refrain from attending today's committee meeting due to suspicions he had earlier leaked questions.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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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