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LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jun 1, 2000

Losing weight the intelligent way

In my last column we had a look at some of the substances now on the market as fat-fighters: chitosan, bromelain, caffeine, Fucus vesiculosis, aromatherapy diet pens, Urtica urens and St. John's wort. Today we'll consider a few more options in our hunt for what might work and what probably doesn't.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2000

Law to compensate foreign war veterans

The Diet enacted landmark legislation Wednesday that will provide a one-off payment to foreign veterans who fought for Japan during the war but are currently barred from receiving pensions.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 1, 2000

Who wants to say he's a millionaire?

Everybody knows that the popular quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was dumbed-down after it was exported from England to the U.S. Some advertisers, in fact, were very angry because they thought the level of difficulty made it too easy for contestants to go all the way.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2000

Democracy vs. ethnicity in Fiji

LONDON -- There are rare occasions when a military takeover may be the least bad solution to a country's problems. Monday's military coup in Fiji may be one of them.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2000

More schools obey flag, anthem edict

There was a greater level of compliance this spring with an edict calling for the hoisting of the Hinomaru flag and singing of "Kimigayo" at graduation and admission ceremonies at public schools nationwide, according to a government report.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 1, 2000

Tea goes down well in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON -- A beautiful Japanese tea room emerges as one enters and goes down the hall in Katherine Lyons' and Austin Babcock's spacious brick house. In this quiet neighborhood in suburban D.C., Lyons, or Soshu, her tea name, teaches the Urasenke tradition of chanoyu. The house has been Urasenke's...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 1, 2000

F. Marinos starting to shape up, but other teams aren't far away

Well, that was a curious one, wasn't it? In the end, it almost seemed as if no team wanted to win the J. League's first stage. And the way the Yokohama F. Marinos triumphed, it felt like they won it by default after having to rely on Cerezo Osaka's extra-time loss to Kawasaki Frontale.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2000

Bright prospects for corporate Japan

Corporate-earnings reports for fiscal 1999, which ended March 31, provide further evidence of a budding recovery in the corporate sector. Most of the companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange posted their first net profit increase in three years. On a consolidated basis, pretax profits surged an estimated...
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

LDP peace declaration criticized as election ploy

The Lower House adopted a "farewell to war" declaration Tuesday supported by the three ruling coalition parties, but the move was labeled an election ploy by the opposition.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Cabinet likely to feel nicotine jitters

Some Cabinet members may get particularly edgy as they are temporarily deprived of a habitual means of relaxation during a weeklong no-smoking campaign that kicked off Tuesday as part of a government health plan.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Murayama gives eulogy for Obuchi in Diet

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama offered a eulogy Tuesday in the Diet for the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, expressing his sorrow and regret over Obuchi's death earlier this month.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Globe's population set to gray in next 50 years

The percentage of the world's population aged 65 or older will soar to 16.4 percent in 2050 from 6.9 percent in 2000, according to a white paper submitted and approved at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Unemployment rate fell to 4.8% in April

Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 4.8 percent in April, down 0.1 percentage point from the postwar record high of 4.9 percent registered in February and March, the Management and Coordination Agency said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Osaka lawmakers pass bill to tax banks

OSAKA -- The Osaka Prefectural Assembly approved a controversial bill Tuesday to impose a 3 percent tax on the gross profits of major banks operating in the prefecture.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

No payoff to U.S. for Okinawa, Kono says

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on Tuesday denied a report that Japan secretly paid $200 million to the United States over the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule, saying he has checked it directly with the official allegedly involved.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Motherly love a hurdle for teens

In today's society, families are having fewer children, fathers are working more and mothers are clinging to their children with greater intensity, hampering children's growth, according to psychologist Yoshiomi Takahashi.
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
May 31, 2000

Environmental links

[email protected]/pressreleases/toxics/2000may19.htmlFour Greenpeace activists were recently thrown in a Tokyo jail on trespassing charges; they had unfurled a banner from a water tower proclaiming Tokyo to be the world's dioxin capital. Here the group explains why it wants to decloak the Japanese government's...
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Censure motion seen as blow to Mori's Cabinet

Three opposition parties on Tuesday jointly submitted a nonbinding resolution of censure to the House of Councilors against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, claiming that his remark that Japan is "a divine nation centering on the Emperor" violates the Constitution.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Report suggests environment tax to combat global warming

The 2000 white paper on the environment released Tuesday called for the introduction of an environment tax so Japan can more vigorously combat global warming and waste dumping, government officials said.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2000

BOJ assets ballooned by 33% in fiscal 1999

The balance of the Bank of Japan's assets rocketed 33.2 percent higher to 106.2 trillion yen in fiscal 1999 due mainly to huge lending to the money market arising from its zero-interest rate policy, the BOJ said Tuesday.
COMMUNITY
May 31, 2000

Getting to know the mystics

In Japan yamabushi, or mountain mystics, are well known for their distinctive clothing and practice of using conch shells as horns, but who they are and what they do are not as widely known.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2000

Is calm or chaos in store for 'divine nation?'

With the July Group of Eight summit in Okinawa drawing near, the dollar appears likely to remain locked between 105 yen and 110 yen through much of the coming month and beyond.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Foreigners at record high

The number of registered foreign residents of Japan hit a record high 1.55 million -- or 1.23 percent of the population -- at the end of 1999, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel
May 31, 2000

Unclimbable peaks in Kuala Lumpur

In pictures, the Petronas Towers looked like ornamental salt and pepper shakers, or sometimes, taking into account the skybridge halfway up, they resembled rugby goalposts.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2000

Japan beats antidumping drum at APEC

Japan will join forces with other members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in its upcoming trade ministers' meeting to pressure the United States to help strengthen global regulations to prevent the abuse of antidumping measures, trade chief Takashi Fukaya said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 31, 2000

Passerby hurt as man leaps to his death from store roof

A man who jumped to his death Tuesday from the roof of a department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward seriously injured a passerby in the fall, police said.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2000

FRC outlines new banks' rules

The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Tuesday released its preliminary guidelines for granting licenses to new banks, emphasizing the need to shield them from potential business risks of their parent companies.
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.
Grilled eel leaves one dead and 140 sick in Japan
President Shinji Kaneko (left) and other executives of Keikyu Department Store bow in apology during a news conference in Yokohama on Monday.
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.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
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.
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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