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JAPAN
May 9, 2000

City strives to school foreign youth

TOYOTA, Aichi Pref. -- When the bell signals the end of the day at Homi Junior High School here, students run out of the building to play on the grounds.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2000

'Love Bug' virus swamps Japan's firms

More than 84,000 e-mail messages carrying the "Love Bug" computer virus had been detected as of Monday evening in Japan, leading antivirus software provider Trend Micro Inc. said.
CULTURE / Music
May 9, 2000

They call it 'avant-pop,' but hum along if you like

Pop aficionados often feel the need to be apologetic. Few would would openly admit to preferring those early bouncy Beatles singles to the Fab Four's more musically adventurous output of later years, or to having danced around the living room to "La Vida Loca." Even the shiny surfaces of Cornelius are...
CULTURE / Books
May 9, 2000

'Shuttered' to the West, Japan opened to the East

CHINA IN THE TOKUGAWA WORLD, by Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2000, 137 pp., $8.50 (paper). With the 400th anniversary of Japanese-Dutch relations upon us, interest has been rekindled in Japan's foreign relations during the Tokugawa period, and the part played...
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2000

The return of 'Red Ken'

Red is the color of the British Labor Party. Last week, British voters were a little too red for Prime Minister Tony Blair. The election of Mr. Ken Livingstone, known as "Red Ken" for his feisty leftwing politics, as London's first directly elected mayor, left Mr. Blair with a nasty black eye, but that...
SOCCER / J. League
May 8, 2000

Rumors of Troussier sacking roll on

The Japan Football Association will not renew the contract of national coach Philippe Troussier, informed sources said late Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
May 8, 2000

Webb cruises to 9-shot victory in Nichirei golf

Karrie Webb shot an unfashionable 1-over-par 73 in troublesome winds Sunday but still impressed the Japan LPGA field with her dominance in women's golf with a nine-stroke victory at the Nichirei Cup World Ladies tournament.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 8, 2000

Asai slam lifts Carp

Outfielder Itsuki Asai belted a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday to lift the Hiroshima Carp to a 9-5 "sayonara" victory over the Hanshin Tigers at Hiroshima Stadium.
SOCCER / J. League
May 8, 2000

Bellmare, Reds tumble in J2

HIRATSUKA, Kanagawa Pref. -- Shonan Bellmare bowed to Albirex Niigata 2-1 in extra time Sunday in a game that saw two red cards and 10 yellow in a Division Two J. League match. Meanwhile, J2 leaders the Urawa Reds suffered their first loss of the season after falling 1-0 away to Montedio Yamagata.
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2000

Tackling sectarian strife in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD -- A volley of gunfire that followed a grenade attack last month in a small village two hours from Islamabad shattered the myth that the government had begun to effectively contain the country's religious extremists.
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Japan pledges 10 billion yen to poverty fund

Japan is prepared to contribute 10 billion yen to a new Asian Development Bank fund targeting poverty in Asia, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said here Sunday. "By drawing upon this fund, we hope that the bank's loans for poverty reduction will become even more effective," he said in a speech delivered...
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Woman confesses in insurance scheme

A woman has confessed to participating in the killing of a man in a murder-for-insurance scheme in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, police sources said. Mayumi Take, 32, has reportedly started telling investigators she administered unnecessary but unspecified quantities of a cold remedy to Akira Morita, a...
BUSINESS
May 8, 2000

E-commerce tax under construction

PARIS -- Talk about the information technology revolution is everywhere. Electronic commerce is taking off, financial institutions are trading online, and schools are holding class on the Internet.
COMMENTARY
May 8, 2000

Japan drifts without goals

This last decade of the 20th century has been labeled a "lost decade" for Japan. The Heisei recession that began in May 1991 bottomed out in October 1993. In subsequent years, however, Japan's economy continued to stagnate, contrary to general expectations. A decade of economic drift has created a sense...
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Carbon tax is needed to cut CO2 levels: panel

A carbon tax is vital for curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming, according to the draft of a report being compiled by an Environment Agency panel.
SUMO
May 8, 2000

Yokozuna pair win openers

Yokozuna Akebono bounced komusubi Takatoriki into the ringside seats at Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sunday as most of the top wrestlers posted wins on the opening day of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Hijacking suspect explains motive

The 17-year-old youth arrested Thursday for allegedly hijacking a bus and killing a passenger has said that one reason he did it was to "show what I can do," investigative sources said Sunday. But the youth, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, has not yet disclosed who he was trying...
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Cult may have paid to get religious status

The Honohana Sampogyo religious group paid several million yen to a then member of the Fuji city assembly in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1986, one year before the prefectural government certified it as an authorized religious corporation, cult sources said.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
May 8, 2000

Orangutans smuggled in underwear

You're flying back from a week in Indonesia and the guy next to you seems unusually twitchy. Considering all he's had to drink, he ought to be adequately sedated, but he's just ordered another Scotch.
JAPAN
May 8, 2000

Second crested ibis chick on the way

The egg of a crested ibis that began to hatch Sunday morning at a conservation center on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, is expected to give way to Japan's second ibis chick bred in captivity as early as today, breeders at the center said. Cracks have already developed on the egg's surface, and...
BUSINESS
May 8, 2000

G7 drop vital hints on future of fundamentals, forex market

Many observers have brushed aside the latest agreement made by the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers in Washington last month.
EDITORIALS
May 7, 2000

Gods and monsters

It wasn't so much a papal bull that was issued by the Vatican recently as a papal bear, and a teddy bear at that. In the week that "Pokemon: The First Movie" opened in Italy, an announcement on the Vatican's satellite television station reassured Italian children -- or their parents, since the children...
MORE SPORTS
May 7, 2000

Webb blows away field at Nichirei golf

Australian Karrie Webb demonstrated her world No. 1 credentials Saturday, firing a course-record 8-under-par 64 to extend her overnight lead to eight strokes after the third round of the 60 million yen Nichirei Cup World Ladies golf tournament.
SOCCER / J. League
May 7, 2000

Gon goes from hero to goat as Jubilo falls to Antlers

Japan striker Masashi "Gon" Nakayama went from hero to villain for Jubilo Iwata on Saturday, scoring two equalizers but fluffing an extra-time penalty moments before Masashi Motoyama's "golden goal" gave the Kashima Antlers a dramatic 3-2 away victory.
JAPAN
May 7, 2000

Thousands line up to see Izumo Shrine find

Nearly 9,500 people traveled from across Japan to see for themselves a recently discovery pillar that reportedly sustained an ancient, 48-meter-tall building on the site of Izumo Shrine when it was unveiled to the public Saturday. The 800-year-old pillar, which has a diameter of 3 meters, is the largest...
JAPAN
May 7, 2000

Mori, Clinton say aggression needed for Japan to recover

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and U.S. President Bill Clinton agreed Friday that Japan should take aggressive steps to spur a genuine rebound in the Japanese economy and that both countries should resolve a long-festering dispute over telephone interconnection fees in Japan through discussions. The two...
JAPAN
May 7, 2000

G8 to address developing states' concerns

Japan and Canada agreed Thursday that the Group of Eight leaders must address the concerns of developing nations during their summit in Okinawa in July, a Japanese official said. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and his Canadian counterpart, Jean Chretien, discussed the agenda of the July 21-23 summit in...
COMMENTARY / World
May 7, 2000

Controversial look at Constitutional change

Resurgent nationalism by Japan's youth, a feeling that military dependence on the United States cannot last forever and a sense that Tokyo should be more ready to participate unambiguously in peacekeeping are reasons for a renewed interest in constitutional change, analysts say.
JAPAN
May 7, 2000

Brazilian held in professor's death

Rio police on Thursday arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly robbing and causing the death of a Japanese professor in September 1995, a police spokesman said. Paulo Sergio, described by the police as a man who specializes in robbing foreign tourists, allegedly killed Minato Kawaguchi, a professor...
JAPAN
May 7, 2000

Vulcanologists give evacuees update on state of Mount Usu

About 200 people evacuated from their homes in Sobetsu because of volcanic activity on nearby Mount Usu gathered at a local community center Saturday to listen to a report on the state of the mountain from the Coordinating Committee for the Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions, a government panel of volcano...
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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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