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CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
May 5, 2000

Classification, distinction and ecumenism

There is a tendency in Japan to adhere to strict classifications and distinctions. This is especially true in regards to music. Hogaku is one kind of music, Western classical is another. Pop and world music belong to yet other genres. Each genre is considered entirely separate, and performers, audiences...
BUSINESS
May 5, 2000

Fashion chain Uniqlo aims at global casualization

With the resounding success of its Uniqlo casual fashion chain in Japan, Yamaguchi-based Fast Retailing Co. now has its eye on overseas markets with hopes of becoming the world's No. 1.
JAPAN
May 5, 2000

Second plane accident on 'Pearl Harbor' set

The filming of a Walt Disney Co. movie about Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was disrupted again earlier this week when a second replica Japanese warplane was involved in an accident, according to media reports from Honolulu on Wednesday. In the latest accident, a replica of a Zero fighter, Japan's...
JAPAN
May 5, 2000

Chronology of bus hijacking

The following is a chronology of the 15-hour bus hijacking in Kyushu that ended Thursday morning after one woman was killed and at least four others were injured.
JAPAN
May 5, 2000

Japan's black reality grist for novel detective

Over a decade ago, Peter Tasker decided to challenge the cowboys and Indians.
BUSINESS
May 5, 2000

'Satisfied' Greenspan urges continued efforts

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday urged Economic Planning Agency chief Taichi Sakaiya to continue efforts to stimulate the Japanese economy and put it on a sustainable recovery track. "The Fed chief appears very satisfied with the recent significant recovery of the Japanese...
JAPAN
May 5, 2000

Cops storm hijacked bus, detain knife-wielding boy

About 15 riot policemen stormed a hijacked bus early Thursday in Hiroshima Prefecture, arresting the 17-year-old youth who had commandeered the vehicle and releasing the driver and the nine remaining passengers, including a 6-year-old girl he had been holding at knife-point. The storming of the bus at...
CULTURE / Art
May 5, 2000

Swimming 'Sea Monkeys' and rolling digital mice

Sometimes you just get lucky. That, better than anything else, works for me as the reason why the unfocused, gadget-dependent and low-tech exhibition "New Media New Face/New York" manages, against the odds, to end up being a fairly good show.
CULTURE / Music
May 5, 2000

Santana keeps the flame -- with a little help from friends

Eric Clapton's appearance halfway through Carlos Santana's April 28 concert at the Budokan, the last date on his recent Japan tour, was unexpected but, in hindsight, not surprising.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 5, 2000

BlueWave complete sweep of Fighters, widen PL lead

Yasuo Fujii hit a three-run homer and Koichi Oshima doubled home the winning run Thursday as the Orix BlueWave swept their three-game series with the Nippon Ham Fighters with a 4-3 victory in Kobe.
CULTURE / Music
May 5, 2000

Healing with grassroots harmony

Japanese-Jamaican-Korean fusion? Korean-flavored Japanese rock with a bit of Memphis blues thrown in? It's hard to put a label on the multiethnic multigenre sounds of the Pak Poe Band.
EDITORIALS
May 4, 2000

Make the high seas safe

It seems hard to believe, but pirates still roam the seas. The International Chamber of Commerce reported 285 attacks on ships in 1999, up from 42 in 1991, but even that statistic is assumed to be a fraction of the actual number. Nearly three-quarters of the attacks occur in Southeast Asian waters. A...
EDITORIALS
May 4, 2000

A swashbuckler sheathes his sword

Mr. George Soros, "the man who broke the British pound" in 1992 and forced Britain from the European exchange-rate mechanism, is going to wind down his aggressive investment funds. Citing market volatility and dwindling returns, he decided last week "to bring an epoch to an end." He is abandoning the...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Japan, U.S. to link defense changes

The Defense Agency will discuss with the United States the equipment and organization of the Self-Defense Forces with a medium- and long-term perspective in mind when Tokyo compiles its next five-year defense development plan, the agency's chief said Wednesday. "It's time for the two countries to reshape...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Consensus sought on release of genome data

Japanese and U.S. science and technology officials proposed Tuesday that an international consensus be formed rapidly on the release of raw sequence data on the human genome. The science officials made the proposal at the eighth meeting of a Japan-U.S. joint committee set up under a bilateral science...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Bureaucracy had large role in political power play

Kyodo News On the night of April 2, when then Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, Teijiro Furukawa was one of the few people immediately informed, and he promptly busied himself arranging for a smooth transfer of power.
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2000

U.S. foreign policy overlooks democratic progress in Asia

ROBERT A. MANNING Special to The Japan Times KUALA LUMPUR A series of fascinating recent displays of democracy entrenching itself in East Asia imply an important critique of, and profound lessons for, U.S. foreign policy, making that question a central one. Yet with the notable exception of Taiwan's...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Wahid says Aceh peace agreement is near

Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said Wednesday his government and rebels in Aceh Province have reached a peace accord in principle and are set to finalize it in several days during ongoing talks in Geneva. Wahid said in an interview that he has now come to grips with political and security problems...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Okinawans depart for North Korea

A group of about 130 Japanese, led by former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota, left Japan on Wednesday to visit North Korea in an effort to defuse regional tensions. The mission will be in North Korea until Sunday to promote grassroots exchanges and mutual understanding to help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Bus hijacker kills woman; police negotiate for hostages

A passenger bus from Saga Prefecture bound for Fukuoka was hijacked Wednesday afternoon by a teenage male who apparently stabbed three of the passengers. One of the women was later reported to have died of her injuries.
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Divisions run deeper on Constitution Day

Activists from the left and right of the political spectrum staged rallies Wednesday as Japan observed its 53rd Constitution Day, coinciding with an increase in interest in the document because of the establishment of Diet panels to study its revision.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

IBJ portal promises to take e-commerce in new direction

The Industrial Bank of Japan plans to develop an Internet-based system that will enable companies to import and export products as well as settle payments online, sources close to the project said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

Malaysian firm to construct gas platform for Nippon Oil

Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd. (NOMA), a subsidiary of Japan's largest oil company, Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corp. (NMOC), on Wednesday consigned a Malaysian firm to build a giant platform substructure in its gas field in the South China Sea. NOMA signed the 110 million ringgit ($28.95 million)...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Paris wants IT talks at G8

Japan and France agreed Tuesday that the Group of Eight leaders should discuss information technology and ways to help least-developed countries at the upcoming G8 summit in Okinawa. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori discussed the G8 summit agenda in separate meetings in Paris with French President Jacques...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Should Constitution lead or follow?

Wednesday marked the first time Constitution Day -- commemorating the day the document was put into effect in 1947 -- coincided with lawmakers locking horns over whether to change the sacred charter.
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Japan targets more whale species

The Japanese government plans to expand the number of whale species it can catch, ostensibly for scientific research, to include the sperm whale and Bryde's whale, sources close to the situation said Wednesday.
LIFE / Digital
May 4, 2000

Internet radio islands floating in the stream

In a study released earlier this year, Arbitron/Edison Media Research dubbed people who listen to radio over the Internet "streamies." Bored with local programming, streamies tune in to radio stations streaming over the World Wide Web.
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Location of leader's summit hinges on the whim of nature

OSAKA — It's billed as the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit, but if Mother Nature turns capricious, then this year's Group of Eight gathering may be forced to a different venue.
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Portillo apologizes over tourist attack at Mayan village

Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo said Tuesday he has extended an apology to the people of Japan over Saturday's stoning of a group of tourists by some 500 Mayan villagers that left a Japanese tourist and a local tour bus driver dead. Portillo said he has asked Akira Urabe, Japanese ambassador to...
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Nagasaki survivors discover joy of cooking

Some 20 men who were exposed to radiation in the 1945 atomic bombing here have recently formed a cooking circle in order to more actively enjoy the art. The group's members are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. All of them learned basic cookery skills in monthly cooking classes held last year by the Nagasaki...
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.
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.
In historic move, U.S. to upgrade military command structure in Japan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left to right), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara prior their "two-plus-two" talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Sunday

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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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