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JAPAN
May 19, 2000

Report blames adults for kids' problems

Teachers and other adults must take countermeasures at an early stage and deal with problems as a group to tackle "classroom collapse," according to an Education Ministry report released Thursday.
EDITORIALS
May 18, 2000

Digital exterminators

The year rang in with the threat of a computer meltdown — the Y2K bug — but it proved to be more hype than horror. Yet having weathered that digital storm, the world has faced a succession of bugs and viruses that have done real damage to both computer systems and confidence in the network...
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

First woman to conquer Everest claims May '75 feat was unintended

A Japanese housewife who made climbing history May 16, 1975 by becoming the first woman to conquer the world's tallest peak says her achievement was unintended.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Ministry to enhance law covering forgery

The Justice Ministry is considering drafting a bill that would criminalize the possession of forged prepaid cards and gift certificates, according to ministry officials.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Diet enacts law to keep abusive parents from kids

A law banning abusive parents from meeting or corresponding with their children was enacted by the Diet on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
May 18, 2000

Hypocrisy is the only standard

When white Europeans are dying, the Clinton administration acts. When black Africans are dying, Washington talks. Such is the hypocritical cynicism that passes for U.S. foreign policy today.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Lawyers' group offers plan to democratize legal system

A requirement that judges work as lawyers before sitting on the bench and the introduction of a jury system are necessary to forge a more democratic judicial system, the chairman of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (Nichibenren) said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Greenpeace complains over seizure of data

Greenpeace Japan has filed a legal complaint with the Tokyo District Court demanding that police return documents seized during an investigation into the environmentalist group's recent protest over dioxin pollution, members said.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Crime victims need your help, police ranks told

National Police Agency chief Setsuo Tanaka told a gathering of officers Wednesday to better support the victims of crime.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Pyongyang postpones talks on normalizing Tokyo ties

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori confirmed Wednesday that normalization talks between Japan and North Korea scheduled to start Tuesday in Tokyo have been postponed.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Philippine mixed parentage kids in limbo

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JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Stolen aluminum ingots found in the Philippines

Philippine agents have seized 214 stacks of aluminum ingots reportedly stolen by pirates from a Japanese freighter sailing from Malaysia to Japan, government officials said Wednesday. Tim Rejano told reporters that National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents are still looking for more ingots in the...
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Emperor meets Russian patriarch

The Emperor met with visiting Russian Patriarch Alexiy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Wednesday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the Imperial Household Agency said.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Classes help individuals learn about stock market

With the devastatingly low interest rate available on deposits and the prospect of the introduction in Japan of U.S. 401(k)-style pension plans, more people are studying stock market investment.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Sumitomo swings into black

Trading house Sumitomo Corp. said Wednesday that its 1999 group business swung into the black for the first time in two years, posting a consolidated net profit of 26.05 billion yen.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

NTT, builders plan Net-based procurement

Three major building contractors and NTT Data Corp. have agreed in principle to set up, possibly by the end of the year, an Internet market for the procurement of construction materials and machinery, officials close to the talks said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Mori apologizes for remark

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori apologized before the Diet on Wednesday for having invited a barrage of criticism by saying earlier this week that Japan is a "divine nation centering on the Emperor," but he refused to retract the remark.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Corporate bankruptcies rose 34% year-on-year in April

Corporate bankruptcies surged 34 percent in April from a year before to 1,562, the second-largest figure for the month since the asset-inflated bubble economy burst in the early 1990s, a private credit research institution said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2000

Ambivalence, hope greet Korean summit

YANJI, China -- When Eun-byol crossed the Tumen River from North Korea into China three years ago, she was nearly bald from malnutrition after subsisting on a diet of grass and bark mixed with an occasional spoonful of rice.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Extra budget depends on GDP figures

The government will decide whether to compile a large-scale auxiliary budget for fiscal 2000 after examining gross domestic product figures for the April-June quarter, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Reimbursed wages hit record high

The number of cases involving reimbursement of workers' unpaid wages due to bankruptcy hit a record-high 2,773 in fiscal 1999, with recipients numbering 46,402, the Labor Ministry said in a report released Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Ishihara to attend inauguration in Taipei

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara will visit Taiwan beginning Friday to attend the inauguration of new Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, a trip that is likely to be condemned by China.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
May 18, 2000

The facts you should know before trying to take it all off

More people than ever are overweight, and I would guess that the percentage of people on diets has gone up proportionally as well. Add the number of dieters who really do need to lose weight to those who diet out of some misguided desire to be skeletal, and you've got a lot of people. Weight loss is...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 18, 2000

'Sports executive' a misnomer in Japan

I don't know if it's just my imagination but in recent weeks the incompetence of Japan's alleged "sports executives" seems to have reached an all-time low.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Family court gets papers on boys in extortion case

Two more of the 10 youths arrested on suspicion of extorting about 54 million yen from a 15-year-old boy in Nagoya were transferred to a family court Wednesday, prosecutors said. One is a high school student and the other is a construction worker. The youths, both 16, were one year ahead at the same...
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Intel joins Mitsubishi on cell phones

U.S. microchip maker Intel Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Wednesday they have agreed to jointly develop a chip set for next-generation cellular telephones that can tap into the Internet.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Toyota's profits, sales up in '99

Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday reported the first increases in two years in both pretax profits and sales on a consolidated basis for fiscal 1999, which ended March 31.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

India, Pakistan expand nuclear sites: scientists

New satellite photos of Indian and Pakistani military facilities show the two countries are bolstering their nuclear weapons and missile programs, the Federation of American Scientists said Tuesday. The federation, a Washington-based private advocacy group on global security, predicted that India and...
BUSINESS
May 18, 2000

Profit, not size, best for banks: LTCB head

Banks must increase profitability -- rather than merely their size -- in order to survive, the chairman and chief executive officer of the newly-privatized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2000

Hijacker felt deserted by parents

The 17-year-old Saga Prefecture boy arrested in a bus hijacking has told police he "felt deserted" by his parents when he was put into a mental institution two months before the incident, police sources said Wednesday. Police the same day handed the youth over to prosecutors in connection with the Golden...
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.
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.
What’s in a handshake? In Olympic judo, quite a lot
Japan's Ryuju Nagayama (right) refuses to shake hands with Spain's Francisco Garrigos after a controversial decision in their under-60 kg quarterfinal bout at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
For aging Japan, a troubling link between heat and dementia
The latest research indicates that heat stress is likely to worsen the condition of people with Alzheimer’s disease — which accounts for over half of all dementia cases in Japan — by making them more irritated or exacerbating their cognitive decline.

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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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