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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 11, 2000

French with a difference

We have no shortage of bargain-basement French-accented bistros scattered around the metropolis. But for my money, Tete-a-tete is the cream of the current crop. I could reel off about a dozen cogent reasons why I rate this little place so highly. But there's only one that you really need to know -- it...
COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2000

Dubai: the Mideast's global village

DUBAI -- Last month, Gen. Sheikh Muhammad bin Maktum, minister of defense of the United Arab Emirates, announced at a press conference that the Internet revolution and the "new economy" were coming to the government of Dubai. It was an incongruous spectacle, so traditional a figure, in distinctive black...
EDITORIALS
May 10, 2000

The IRA cuts the knot

The Irish Republican Army has broken the logjam in the Northern Irish peace process. Last weekend, the group offered to put its vast stockpiles of weapons "completely and verifiably beyond use." That gesture will allow the suspended power-sharing agreement in the province to go forward. The implicit...
SUMO
May 10, 2000

Taka cruises, Akebono loses

Takanohana put on a clinic Tuesday to preserve his unbeaten record, but yokozuna rival Akebono lost the plot badly and flopped to his first defeat on Day 3 of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 10, 2000

Dragons cut Onishi's pay after ump hurt

The Chunichi Dragons of the Central League slashed the salary of Takayuki Onishi by 1 million yen on Monday for the outfielder's involvement in a shoving incident that caused a broken rib to an umpire in Saturday's game.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Champion of Korean rights found slain

A 51-year-old Korean campaigner for human rights in North Korea has been found stabbed to death at his home in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, police said Tuesday. Kim Yong Dal, a researcher and lecturer at Kansai University's Institute of Human Rights Studies, was found dead with chest stab wounds Monday...
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Temple fire chars rare statue

A suspected arson fire raged at the historic Jakko-in Temple in Kyoto early Tuesday, causing extensive damage to the main hall and damaging the centuries-old Buddhist statue dedicated to the temple, fire officials said. The temple appears in the 13th century "The Tale of the Heike," said to be one of...
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Feeding G8 press a tall order

It's said that too many cooks can spoil the broth. But for those charged with feeding the thousands at the upcoming Okinawa summit of the Group of Eight, it's likely a dash of diplomacy will be a key ingredient along with local flavors.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

DNA advance seen yielding new drugs

A team of Japanese and German scientists has decoded the DNA sequence of a human chromosome containing genes causing diseases that include Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and leukemia, Japanese scientists said.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Police chief wants juveniles to repent

National Police Agency chief Setsuo Tanaka told senior police officials at a meeting Tuesday to make juvenile crime suspects reflect on their offenses.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Bad parents to be denied access to their kids

The Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday endorsed a government-proposed draft of a bill that calls for restricting the rights of parents who abuse their children to see or talk with them.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Landlord poll finds a quarter turn elderly away

About 25 percent of real estate agents and other property managers said they have denied elderly clients a lease on such grounds as difficulty in dealing with sudden illness, an industry survey said earlier this week.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2000

Japan lacks leadership: OECD chief

Japan needs political leadership to carry out regulatory reforms necessary for people to enjoy the benefits of the emerging globalized economy, the head of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Communities tapped to teach kids foreign languages

Elementary school students in 29 communities across Japan will receive community-run foreign language lessons outside of school, Education Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Court rejects Okinawans' air base claim

The Naha District Court on Tuesday dismissed a suit by residents of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, claiming compensation from the city for ignoring a plebiscite on a plan to build a U.S. military heliport in Nago. Presiding Judge Toshio Hara turned down the demand, saying the result of a plebiscite is not...
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Honohana leader, 11 cohorts arrested for bilking believers

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Hogen Fukunaga, the founder of the foot-reading cult Honohana Sanpogyo, and 11 other senior cult members Tuesday on suspicion of fraud.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2000

Correction episode may be near an end

The trigger for Tokyo stock price corrections in recent weeks has been volatility on the New York Stock Exchange.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2000

Minicars take first fall in five months

Domestic sales of new minivehicles in April decreased 2.9 percent to 141,600 units, marking the first year-on-year drop in five months, the Japan Minivehicles Association said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Mori to visit Seoul May 29 for talks with President Kim

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will make a one-day trip to Seoul on May 29 to hold informal talks with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2000

Economic growth in March was ninth straight expansion

The March coincident index of economic indicators, which gauges the current state of the economy, measured above 50 percent -- an indication of economic expansion -- for the ninth straight month, the Economic Planning Agency said Tuesday.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
May 10, 2000

Sea of love

Ponder, if you will, these two recent headlines:
LIFE / Travel
May 10, 2000

Postcards from the flip side of Japan

Think of the antithesis of Japan. A place where there are few people, an abundance of unspoiled natural beauty, a low standard of living and, perhaps most importantly for the visitor, sparkling blue oceans teeming with fish and alive with coral reefs.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Crane to help team watch forest

A group of scientists from Japan and Malaysia will soon begin monitoring a tropical forest in Malaysia's Sarawak region from a lookout atop the world's largest nature-observation crane.
JAPAN
May 10, 2000

Report focuses on NGOs, missile threat

The government will step up its efforts to build partnerships with nongovernmental organizations and other groups to meet emerging diplomatic challenges, according to the Foreign Ministry's annual foreign policy report released Tuesday.
CULTURE / Stage
May 10, 2000

Kee Company explores facets of communication

If we could see language, if language relied on visual instead of aural means, it would become a kind of communication closely resembling telepathy: a fusion of the observer with the observed.
ENVIRONMENT
May 10, 2000

Trees and taste at Mito Botanic Garden

Mito, in Ibaraki Prefecture, is well known throughout Japan for natto (fermented soybeans), an acquired taste. It is also known for Kairakuen Garden, one of the Three Famous Gardens in Japan, which I've written about before. Just a couple of kilometers south of Mito in the lush green countryside, there...
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2000

Modest hopes for summit between Koreas

Last month, the leaders of North and South Korea stunned the world with an announcement of plans to meet in Pyongyang in June at the first ever summit between the two nations. It is an event fraught with both danger and opportunity.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
May 10, 2000

We all have problems

A foreign man, engaged to be married to a Japanese woman, has a problem. They have decided they want to buy a mansion (apartment) rather than pay rent for someone else's property. He has heard that foreigners wishing to buy property or arrange a mortgage are required to have permanent residence status,...
LIFE / Travel
May 10, 2000

Panasonic shows off high tech for the kids

What's a kyoiku mama to do?
BUSINESS
May 10, 2000

Five firms tie up on trust bank

Four Japanese financial institutions have teamed up with Deutsche Bank AG to acquire DMG Trust Bank, a Deutsche Bank subsidiary, with the intention of turning it into Japan's first trust bank specializing in administering corporate pension funds, company officials announced Tuesday.
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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