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LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
May 17, 2000

Flurry of fast food

www.mcspotlight.orgThe first revolution the world eagerly followed the Americans into after World War II went largely unnoticed as a revolution. But perhaps even more than the Internet, fast food has allowed hundreds of millions of people to drastically alter their lifestyles. Now when we discuss the...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
May 17, 2000

Pride and prejudices

Time to update the mental computers. Recent news bytes oblige us to abandon some long-held ideas about the Internet. Reality 2000 looks like this.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
May 17, 2000

Street entertainment

Honoring Golden Week, Omotesando lined its streetside with wondrous bamboo sculptures. I recognized the deft hand of flower master Hiroshi Teshigahara; he had once filled his Sogetsu headquarters building with similar fanciful forms, a display that visitors could walk among, and those of us who did will...
JAPAN
May 17, 2000

Red Army deportee gets warrant for falsification

Police on Tuesday arrested Kazuo Tohira, one of four Japanese Red Army members held by Japanese authorities since their deportation from Lebanon in March, on suspicion of submitting false documents in order to enter Ecuador in 1994.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 17, 2000

Multi-gap family falls into valley of stress

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
LIFE / Digital
May 17, 2000

In.five.words.or.less

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Webbys may bill themselves as the antidote to the Academy Awards, but the truth is that this Internet awards gala has a severe case of Oscar envy.
EDITORIALS
May 17, 2000

A stewardship cut short

Former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi died on Sunday without having regained consciousness after he was seriously incapacitated by a stroke April 2. He was 62. Mr. Obuchi's death came before he could realize his cherished dream of hosting the annual G8 meeting in Okinawa and also before being able to confirm...
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 17, 2000

Wild and free, within certain restrictions

"Wildlife," "natural," "wild" and "free" are terms that are loaded with meaning, redolent with atmosphere. They are words that may transport you mentally to the tundra, patrolled by polar bears, to the acacia-dotted African savanna across which herds of buffalo, gazelle, elephant and giraffe roam, or...
LIFE / Travel
May 17, 2000

A journey to the highlands of Mindanao

He knows that I know it's a scam, but we go through the motions anyway.
COMMUNITY
May 17, 2000

Chance to play with sea mammals

This summer, Kamogawa Sea World will offer visitors a chance to play with the park's killer whales, white whales and dolphins.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2000

Rival bourse head hails Nasdaq Japan's arrival

Tokyo Stock Exchange President Mitsuhide Yamaguchi on Tuesday welcomed the launch of Nasdaq Japan, a stock exchange for new ventures that rivals the TSE's Mothers stock market.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2000

Daihatsu reports gains in '99

Daihatsu Motor Co. reported higher sales and pretax profits on a consolidated basis for the 1999 business year due to improved sales of minivehicles, company executives said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 17, 2000

Nagoya community to hold walk-a-thon

Each year for the past nine years, Nagoya's foreign community has gathered in the city's Meijo Park district for an annual charity walk-a-thon. Thousands of people, from members of the local expatriate business community to players from the Chunichi Dragons to ordinary citizens, participate in a day...
COMMENTARY / World
May 17, 2000

A grim future for China's hinterlands

A sense of deja vu comes over me when I read the Chinese government's proposals for the development of China's western, or hinterland, provinces.
EDITORIALS
May 16, 2000

Rockets under review

There is no humor to be found in Japan's recent disappointing -- and expensive -- rocket failures. Nevertheless, the news that the spectacular crash of an H-II rocket last November may have been caused by design and planning errors does more than suggest that the nation's rocket scientists should go...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Caribbean immigrants to sue Japan

At least 90 Japanese who immigrated to the Dominican Republic more than 40 years ago are preparing to sue the Japanese government next month to seek compensation for their hardships in the Caribbean country, their representatives said Monday.
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Hijacker served murder warrant

A 17-year-old boy in custody in connection with the May 3-4 hijacking of a bus was served warrants Monday accusing him of murder and attempted murder, police said. The teen, from Saga Prefecture, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, is suspected of fatally stabbing Tatsuko Tsukamoto,...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Love-crazed stabbing leads to prison

An 18-year-old youth was sentenced Monday to a prison term of between five and 10 years at a district court here for stabbing a classmate to death after stalking her because she refused his advances. Judge Tsutomu Yasue, of the Okazaki branch of the Nagoya District Court, said the defendant had earlier...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Obuchi's death is mourned

Some 3,000 mourners paid their respects Monday to former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who died Sunday at a Tokyo hospital six weeks after suffering a stroke and lapsing into a coma.
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Four cities accept East Indies war exhibit

An exhibition commemorating the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in World War II is set to arrive in Japan later this year, but will not be held in either Tokyo or Osaka due to pressure from rightwing groups and certain bureaucrats.
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Radiation protection meeting begins

A five-day international conference on radiation protection, involving approximately 1,000 researchers from 58 countries and regions, began Monday in Hiroshima. The 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association will focus on a variety of radiation issues under the...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Aging Dutch still waiting for redress

On the second Tuesday of every month, a group of elderly Dutch men and women gather in front of the Japanese Embassy here. They show up at its front gate to participate in a peaceful demonstration demanding an apology and financial compensation.
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

G7 to emphasize IT for the first time

The Group of Seven nations plan to discuss financial and economic aspects of advancing information technology as the key to world economic growth when their finance ministers hold a pre-summit meeting July 8 in Fukuoka, G7 officials said Monday. The IT issues are expected to focus on macroeconomics,...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Mori hails new defense headquarters

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Monday that the completion of the Defense Agency's new headquarters presented a good opportunity for him as chief commander of the Self-Defense Forces to talk about the nation's defense policies.
COMMENTARY
May 16, 2000

Failing youth and the victims of crime

The whole nation was shocked by the hijacking of a bus in the middle of the "Golden Week" holiday season. And it was a 17-year-old boy who seized the bus and killed one passenger.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2000

Special losses at DDI, IDO weigh down bottom line

Telecommunications firms DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., which plan to merge with international call operator KDD Corp. in the fall, released their 1999 earnings reports Monday showing lower pretax profits despite higher sales.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2000

Deutsche Securities faces penalty

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended Monday that financial regulators punish the Tokyo branch of Deutsche Securities Ltd. for illegal soliciting and two other financial violations.
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Activist's wife slams Japan for Greenpeace detentions

The wife of a Hong Kong environmentalist on Monday condemned Japanese authorities for having detained her husband and three other Greenpeace International campaigners in Tokyo since last Tuesday without bringing any formal charges against them. "It's inhumane," a sobbing Phoebe Lam told reporters after...
JAPAN
May 16, 2000

Japan to push Balkan peace as chair of Okinawa summit

Japan intends to step up its efforts to promote peace and stability in Southeast Europe in an effort to become a leader in the field of conflict prevention as the chair of July's Group of Eight summit in Okinawa, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said Monday.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2000

Correction cloud has bargain silver lining

Major factors driving the corrections last month on the Tokyo stock market were steep reactionary price falls in the information technology sector and foreign investors' sales following tumbles in New York stock prices.
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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