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BUSINESS
May 13, 2000

Machinery orders mark third month of decline

Private-sector machinery orders in Japan, excluding volatile orders for ships and from power companies, fell 4.9 percent in March from February after seasonal adjustment, marking their third consecutive month of decline, the Economic Planning Agency said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2000

DDI-IDO team to use U.S. tech

Avoiding what could have triggered further trade friction with the United States, the DDI Corp. group companies and IDO Corp. on Friday jointly submitted an application to launch in 2002 next-generation cellular phone services based on technologies developed by a U.S.-based firm.
JAPAN
May 13, 2000

Record-low level of new graduates obtained jobs

A record-low 91.1 percent of job-seeking college graduates found full-time jobs this spring, down 0.9 percentage point from the previous year, according to a joint survey by the Education and Labor ministries released Friday.
EDITORIALS
May 12, 2000

Sierra Leone, and the U.N., at risk

Sierra Leone is once again about to dissolve in violence. This time, however, it threatens to take the United Nations with it. A rebel leader bent on undermining a peace agreement faces a poorly organized, ill-equipped peacekeeping force that has been denied the political support that is critical to...
BASEBALL / MLB
May 12, 2000

Carp reclaim CL lead

Outfielder Kojiro Machida belted a solo homer in the third inning Wednesday and Tomonori Maeda followed with a two-run blast in the fifth to lead the Hiroshima Carp to an 8-7 victory over the Yakult Swallows.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Mori, Tang discuss Taiwan issue and wartime aggression by Japan

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori asked China to peacefully settle its disputes with Taiwan and renew dialogue with the government of the island during a meeting Thursday in Tokyo with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Honohana leaders questioned about millions in kickbacks

Senior members of the cult Honohana Sanpogyo received millions of yen in kickbacks around 1996 from several companies engaged in the construction of a cult facility in Tokyo, sources within the group said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Usui backs lowering age limit for adult trials

Justice Minister Hideo Usui indicated Thursday that he supports lowering the minimum age at which people can be penalized for crimes as adults, which currently stands at 16.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Kyokudozan set to retire from Lower House

Legislator and former sumo wrestler Kyokudozan said he will retire from politics at the end of the current House of Representatives term and will not run in the next general election.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Canine training dogged by amateurs

Tomoe Yazawa knows about the particular needs of her clients. The service-dog trainer, who raised Japan's first four-legged helper for the physically disabled, worked as a home care-giver before she took up her current position.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

People living near Mount Usu hit the road to push tourism

Residents of areas in southwestern Hokkaido close to Mount Usu, which erupted recently, kicked off a 10-day caravan tour across the nation Thursday to boost tourism there, local officials said. In an inaugural meeting the same day, organizers said the caravan tour, which also aims to provide job opportunities...
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Tokyo Sowa execs held for fixing books

Police on Thursday arrested six former executives of the failed Tokyo Sowa Bank on suspicion they conspired to falsify accounts to hide the company's capital inadequacy.
COMMENTARY
May 12, 2000

LDP members pass the baton

The general election to be held in June will provide an opportunity for the rejuvenation of the Lower House. About 30 Lower House members have already announced -- or are moving to announce before the election -- their retirement from politics. They cite old age, illness and family reasons for retiring....
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Panel wants driver license rules relaxed

An advisory panel of the National Police Agency on Thursday recommended easing rules governing the renewal of drivers' licenses, including allowing renewal applications to be filed in places other than the driver's place of residence.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2000

Dull markets spell slow recovery for yen

The yen opened the new fiscal year on a lower note last month, replaying its weak showing in January. It could take time to turn higher.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2000

Rival steel companies agree to leave sectors of the market to each other

Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. will cease production of certain steel products that are unprofitable for each while increasing production of the other's discontinued item, company officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Giving opinions on candidates might violate election laws: Mori

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Thursday he was not amused by a civic group's campaign to target certain politicians for removal from the Diet and vowed to look into the case.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2000

Japan Telecom to unify Nissan info networks

Nissan Motor Co. announced Thursday that its group will start receiving total information network services from Japan Telecom Co. next month in an effort to cut telecommunications costs and establish seamless global networks.
SOCCER / J. League
May 12, 2000

Farcical Troussier saga will continue until June

Japan manager Philippe Troussier has stayed alive in the position -- not until the 2002 World Cup but until the end of next month -- as the Japan Football Association postponed making a decision Thursday on the Frenchman's future.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
May 12, 2000

Ascendancy of ska-core captured on compilation

With the latest releases by Kemuri, Snailramp and Potshot turning up in the record charts, ska-core has emerged from the underground. Ska-core has thrived through a network of small clubs and indie record labels across Japan much like its musical cousin, mellowcore. (Members of Snailramp run one of the...
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Japan to help clear Nicaragua of mines

Japan promised Nicaragua on Thursday that it would help the Central American nation purchase equipment to remove antipersonnel land mines buried during its civil war in the 1980s, a Japanese government official said.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Police search Greenpeace ship following protest

Police searched the Greenpeace International ship early Thursday after the arrest of four Greenpeace members who scaled a tower near an incinerator plant in Tokyo to protest Japan's waste-incineration policies.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Register your Web site -- in Japanese

Japanese characters can now be used in registering Internet site addresses, U.S. Web technology developer i-DNS.net International Inc. said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Driver recounts hijacking ordeal

The driver of a bus that was hijacked by a 17-year-old last week recounted on Thursday how he urged the youth to let a woman get off to use the restroom so police could be notified of the incident. Tadashi Hirano, the 57-year-old driver of the Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co. (Nishitetsu) bus, was at the wheel...
BUSINESS
May 12, 2000

GDP revised down to minus 5.6% for October-December quarter

Japan's gross domestic product for the October-December quarter showed an annualized contraction of 5.6 percent in real terms, instead of the 5.5 percent contraction announced in March, the Economic Planning Agency said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2000

Malaysia's Islamists counting on Chinese to tip balance of power

KOTA BAHRU, Malaysia -- Malaysia's opposition theocratic Islamic Party (PAS) sees Chinese support as crucial to its bid to head an alternative broad-based multiracial coalition party capable of taking over the federal government of Malaysia in future, and is working very hard to dispel their fears of...
COMMUNITY
May 12, 2000

Keeping your money alive and kicking

Because I come from a family whose men are confirmed gamblers, I grew up thinking that a chronic shortage of o-kane (money) was the normal state in any household. The grownups didn't even call it o-kane but o-ashi (honorable legs), which accounted for the attack of wanderlust money seemed to get when...
BUSINESS
May 12, 2000

Firms downplay fall in their share prices

Japan's business community on Thursday generally downplayed the Nikkei Stock Average's precipitous plunge, saying the dive is merely a reaction to irrational buying of high-tech shares in recent months.
SOCCER / J. League
May 11, 2000

Troussier report due today

An assessment report on Japan manager Philippe Troussier's performance will be submitted to Japan Football Association president Shunichiro Okano on Thursday morning, Kunishige Kamamoto, a vice president and chief of the JFA technical development department, said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
May 11, 2000

After the tour, the real work begins

During his nine-day whirlwind trip of seven major nations that ended last weekend, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori laid the groundwork for a G8 summit scheduled for July in Okinawa, a meeting that he will chair as head of the host government. His main purpose, of course, was to get acquainted with leaders...
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.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
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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