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BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

Ito-Yokado eyes Sony banking tieup

Ito-Yokado Co.'s senior adviser said Tuesday that the major Japanese retailer may cooperate with Sony Corp. in banking services when the two companies set up their individual banking operations. Yukiko Ohara told a business forum in New York that a teaming up of the two prospective newcomers to the banking...
LIFE / ALTERNATIVE LUXURIES
May 4, 2000

Threads of culture weave picture of a wider world

One of the great paradoxes of world travel (especially that which is slow and makes intimate contact with the peoples of other lands) is that the traveler returns with a greater appreciation of what is valuable and troubled in her own native land. Talking with fabric artist and mother Keiko Haraguchi,...
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2000

Global economy faces a structural crisis

The Nasdaq has fallen 34 percent since March, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is following suit. The decline might be only a technical correction, but the world economy may be hit because the inflow of capital into the United States may decline and restrict that country's ability to import goods...
BASEBALL / MLB
May 4, 2000

Sato sparks streaking Swallows past Carp

Outfielder Shinichi Sato hit a game-tying solo homer in the sixth and followed with another solo blast in the seventh to lift the Yakult Swallows to a 5-3 victory over the Central League front-running Hiroshima Carp on Wednesday at Hiroshima Stadium.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

Cameras clash over digital divide

The Japanese camera market is splitting into opposite directions, with high-tech digital models catching consumers' fancy while old-fashioned range finders are staging a strong comeback.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

More enroll for Harley training than expected

Japan's first training course on maintaining Harley-Davidson motorcycles is proving a hit, with more people enrolling than expected, officials at a car mechanic school in Sendai said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 4, 2000

Convict transfer agreement likely to be ratified in 2001

The Justice Ministry will seek Diet approval for the ratification of an international convention on prisoner transfers during an ordinary session to open early next year, it was learned Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

Retailers forced to change their ways

Browsing through the array of goods -- from kitchenware to clothing -- at a new outlet in the Shinjuku branch of the Isetan department store in Tokyo, the price tags may surprise you: 900 yen for a nylon tote bag, 1,900 yen for a T-shirt, 550 yen for a ceramic mug.
SOCCER / J. League
May 4, 2000

Fujita nets three as Jubilo gains top spot

KAWASAKI -- Jubilo midfielder Toshiya Fujita set a J. League record by converting three penalties as Iwata rallied past Kawasaki Frontale 5-1 at Todoroki Stadium on Wednesday.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
May 4, 2000

How to hang on to luscious locks

Rakugami, kuzume: When you're happy, your hair grows; / when sad, your fingernails -- Japanese proverb
COMMENTARY
May 4, 2000

Will Clinton crumble again?

If Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's overseas foreign-policy tour this week has a theme, it is "coverup" and "damage control." Mori, known as a colorless political fixer, has been tasked with assuring foreign leaders that the July G8 summit will go forward successfully no matter what happens on the Japanese...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 4, 2000

Enough to drive a person to distraction

Is he staying or is he going? This is the question being asked ad nauseam about Japan's national soccer coach Philippe Troussier.
JAPAN / History
May 4, 2000

MacArthur pondered Showa conversion

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander during the Allied Occupation of Japan, once considered attempting to convert Emperor Showa to Christianity, a diary of the U.S. secretary of the Navy shows.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

B2B firm opens for business

WizOffice.com Japan, a business-to-business e-commerce company providing a wide range of services via the Internet, officially opened for business in Japan in May. The firm aims to be a one-stop solution provider enabling small and medium-size companies to streamline and outsource their back-office functions...
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2000

Russia struggles to stem the tide of illegal Chinese immigration to Primorye region

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Inspector Alexander Torenko is in a philosophical frame of mind as he drives toward a staging point for a raid on a compound of warehouses and makeshift apartment rooms where Chinese illegal aliens live.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2000

Doing battle over Article 9

More than two months have passed since the Diet began debating the Constitution for the first time. It is too early to predict how the debate at the Constitutional Review Council will develop, but conservative hardliners both in and outside the ruling coalition are already talking up the need to rewrite...
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Record number on the dole in 1999

A record high 1.068 million people per month on average received unemployment allowances in fiscal 1999, breaking the previous record set in fiscal 1998, the Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Sexual harassment consultations up 35%

There were nearly 9,500 consultations over cases of workplace sexual harassment in Japan in fiscal 1999, up about 35 percent from the previous year, according to a Labor Ministry report released Tuesday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Harmonica craze hits high note

Considering he's been out of work for over seven months, you'd expect Yusuke Ozaki's harmonica playing to hit a melancholic note.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Hold Jakarta to Timor vows, Tokyo told

Japan should pressure Indonesia to disarm militia groups still operating in West Timor and closely monitor Jakarta's investigation into human rights violations committed in East Timor, an East Timorese nongovernmental organization worker said in a recent public meeting in Tokyo.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Singapore grants permission for SDF to use military bases

Singapore agreed Tuesday to permit Japan to use their military bases to evacuate Japanese nationals and to help with peacekeeping operations in Southeast Asia, Japanese government officials said. Defense Agency chief Tsutomu Kawara requested advance approval for use of the bases in a meeting with his...
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Administrators ask Aum to begin paying victims

Aum Shinrikyo's financial administrators said Tuesday that they have asked Aleph -- the new name the cult gave itself -- to pay the 4.1 billion yen that it owes in compensation to the victims of the March 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Tang sets May 10 visit to Tokyo

Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan will begin a four-day visit to Japan on May 10 for talks on bilateral and international issues, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said Monday. "We hope to have frank discussions on bilateral and international issues . . . to deepen relations of trust," Kono told reporters...
SOCCER / J. League
May 3, 2000

Wenger rules out taking over as boss of Japan soccer team

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has apparently ruled himself out of the running for the job of Japan national coach until his contract with the Premier League club expires in 2002, the Guardian said Tuesday. "I really enjoyed my two years there (in Japan) as a club manager and I have already had offers...
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

12 Mayan villagers sought in slayings

Guatemalan police are searching for 12 Mayan villagers they believe are responsible for the Saturday lynching of a Japanese man and a tour-bus driver, the local police chief said Monday. Baudilio Portillo Merlos, chief of the Guatemalan national police, said arrest warrants have been obtained for the...
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Constitution writer backs limited role for SDF

A former officer of the GHQ of the Allied Forces who helped draft Japan's postwar Constitution suggested Tuesday that the nation's possession of armed forces and their roles be clearly written down in the supreme law.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

JR Tokai bullet trains threatened with sabotage

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) has received what appears to be a letter threatening to disrupt train operations unless it pays more than 100 million yen, investigative sources said Tuesday. Police are taking the threat seriously because part of the letter's contents resembles written statements...
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Teen held in woman's death

A 17-year-old high school student was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing an elderly woman Monday in her house in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, police said. The teenager, a third-year student at a private high school, surrendered Tuesday afternoon shortly after police obtained an arrest warrant for...
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2000

Regaining the spirit of prewar Japan

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JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Man admits defaming coed, denies murder tie

A man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of ordering the murder of his brother's ex-girlfriend in Saitama Prefecture last October after distributing hundreds of fliers and posters to defame her. Takeshi Komatsu, 33, of Kawaguchi in the prefecture, told the Urawa District Court: "I completely deny...
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

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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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