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JAPAN
May 30, 2000

Spoiled kids reared on expectations, not values

Young people today are taught to expect things but are not taught their value or how to secure them, and adults are at fault for overprotecting and spoiling their offspring, according to psychiatrist Shizuo Machizawa.
JAPAN
May 30, 2000

Press worried by cost and lack of G8 hotels

Foreign journalists in Japan have expressed concern to the Foreign Ministry about the high cost of hotel accommodations for July's Group of Eight summit in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
May 30, 2000

Trouble in paradise

Fiji is tiny cluster of islands about 3,600 km east of Australia. With a population of fewer than a million people scattered across some 300 islands, it is sometimes considered the South Pacific ideal, offering secluded beaches, crystal-clear waters and a relaxed lifestyle that beckons to visitors from...
JAPAN
May 30, 2000

State denies Okinawa deals with U.S. ever took place

The government on Monday denied a report by a major Japanese daily that Japan paid about $200 million to the United States in clandestine deals over the May 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule.
BUSINESS
May 30, 2000

Setback fuels recovery doubt

Feeling the jolts of unstable stock markets worldwide, the Tokyo bourse has been hit by sharp corrections since the start of April.
BUSINESS
May 30, 2000

Palmtops to be fourth pillar of Sony's electronics lineup

Sony Corp. said Monday that it will make palmtop mobile personal computer terminals a major part of its electronics product lineup.
JAPAN
May 30, 2000

Foot cult founder, seven senior members indicted

Prosecutors on Monday indicted Hogen Fukunaga, founder and former leader of the Honohana Sanpogyo cult, and seven of its senior members on charges of fraud.
JAPAN
May 30, 2000

Global warming to strike hard: IPCC

Global warming may cause large-scale flooding after 2100, leading to water shortages and the spread of infectious diseases, according to the draft of a report to be issued next year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
BUSINESS
May 30, 2000

Industrial output drops by a preliminary 0.4%

The nation's industrial output declined 0.4 percent in April from the previous month, marking the first decrease in two months, according to a preliminary report issued Monday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 30, 2000

Kyoto, Basho, a mouse and you

KYOTO GARDENS: A Virtual Stroll through Zen Landscapes. CD-ROM (Apple Macintosh). Yorba Linda, Calif.: Lunaflora. Distributed by Mercury Software Japan. 4,000 yen. You stride your mouse and gallop off on a tour of two dozen of Kyoto's most famous gardens. If, that is, you have slipped this CD-ROM into...
CULTURE / Music
May 30, 2000

Rocking out to bicultural rhythms

BANGKOK -- Hundreds of kids line up patiently outside the air-conditioned convention hall for an hour, only to learn the hottest, cheapest concert of the month has just been sold out. The logo for the event is the Japanese flag, a red sun on a field of white, bearing the English words: Asia 2000 Music...
BUSINESS
May 30, 2000

Economy needs extra budget, IMF's Fischer says

A top International Monetary Fund official urged Japan on Monday to prepare a supplementary state budget to prevent the nation's economy from worsening later this year.
SOCCER / J. League
May 30, 2000

S-Pulse's Endo impresses the Mechelen man

If Mechelen boss Ivan Buskens had actually seen a J. League game before signing Masahiro Endo, perhaps it would have changed his mind.
BUSINESS
May 30, 2000

Toyota to enter Chinese market

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Monday that the automaker has received formal permission from the Chinese government to soon establish a joint venture with a Chinese carmaker to produce a new compact model in Tianjin.
CULTURE / Books
May 30, 2000

Ghost in the political machine

NATION AND RELIGION: Perspectives on Europe and Asia, edited by Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, 231 pp., $17.95 (paper). The modern world is characterized by the differentiation and separation of social domains that in ancient and medieval...
CULTURE / Books
May 30, 2000

Only atom bombs could end WWII

DOWNFALL: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, by Richard B. Frank. New York: Random House, 1999, 484 pp., $35 (cloth). The tragic folly of the war-mongering leaders of Imperial Japan and their casual disregard for the welfare of their fellow citizens seem almost forgotten because the end of the...
JAPAN
May 30, 2000

Prosecutors get fake stamp cases

OSAKA -- Police on Monday sent the cases of two men suspected of selling forged postage stamps to businesses, including voucher shops, to prosecutors.
COMMENTARY
May 30, 2000

A losing fight against smoking

Amid global moves to tighten controls on smoking, the Health and Welfare Ministry, nongovernnmental organizations and other groups will hold various events in Japan to mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31.
EDITORIALS
May 29, 2000

The rush to deal with stalking

A rush is on in this country at both the national and local levels to enact new laws and regulations aimed at controlling stalking. Where once it seemed that young women -- the usual but not the exclusive victims of this activity -- were expected to endure the terrifying harassment in silence, lawmakers...
North-South Korea Olympic podium selfie goes viral
Medalists in the mixed doubles Olympic table tennis competition take a selfie on the podium on Tuesday in Paris.
Bank of Japan delivers one-two punch few were expecting
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Harley-Davidson's Japan unit raided after quotas force dealers into hardship
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display in Tokyo. Japan's antitrust watchdog has raided the manufacturer's Japan unit for allegedly imposing excessive sales quotas on its dealers.
Why do young people in Hungary want kids more than in Japan?
Hungary, which has increased its birth rate since 2010, has adopted policies that support those who want or have children, including financial incentives, housing subsidies and better work-life balance.
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.
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.
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.
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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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