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JAPAN
May 2, 2000

Panel warns against early English study

An Education Ministry advisory panel has warned against introducing foreign language studies too early, arguing that concentrating on the study of Japanese until around age 10 is essential to master the mother tongue, it was learned Monday.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
May 2, 2000

Punkers united will never be divided

It's three in the morning at the livehouse Gig-Antic in Shibuya and as the girl band launches into the first song a skinhead leaps on stage, screams "Manchester United" into a mike and dives headfirst into the mosh pit. He's caught by a studded-leather-clad kid with a yellow mohawk, a skate-punk in baggy...
JAPAN
May 2, 2000

Asian Wall Street Journal goes bilingual

Competition in the newspaper industry is intensifying, and The Asian Wall Street Journal, as part of efforts to woo more readers in Japan, is addressing the challenge with a new look that started with its April 3 editions.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 2, 2000

Natural genki drink fuels aerial pollinators

For most of our planet's mind-numbingly long history of around 4.6 billion years, the most complex life form on Earth was the prokaryotic cell. The ghostly signatures of these simple cells without nuclei first appear in rocks dated to about 3.75 billion years ago. The length of their nearly 2-billion-year...
JAPAN
May 2, 2000

Labor chief a no-show at May Day fete

An estimated 1.7 million people took part in May Day rallies at some 1,070 locations nationwide Monday, calling on the government to alleviate the worsening employment situation and protect workers' rights, but the labor minister was conspicuously absent from the festivities.
JAPAN
May 2, 2000

Kin connect with long-lost mariner

When 94-year-old Californian John Ramsay was asked by his daughter-in-law if there was anything he wanted to do before he died, he said yes.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 2, 2000

Everything about Tanizaki

TANIZAKI IN WESTERN LANGUAGES: A Bibliography of Translations and Studies, by Adriana Boscaro, with a list of films based on Tanizaki's works compiled by Maria Roberta Novielli. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2000, 82 pp., $19.95. This fine bibliography is one...
BUSINESS
May 2, 2000

Norinchukin plotting 401(k) course

If farmers want to join Japan's equivalent of U.S. 401(k) pension plans, there is no reason why agricultural cooperatives should not provide related services.
BUSINESS
May 2, 2000

Fukaya unveils Myanmar aid package

Trade minister Takashi Fukaya unveiled an assistance package Monday to help Myanmar develop its human resources and nurture small and medium-size firms. Fukaya unveiled the package in a meeting with Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt, first secretary of the State Peace and Development Council, the country's military...
BUSINESS
May 2, 2000

New products on the market

Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a fuel-efficient, full-size luxury sedan that features a spacious interior and luggage area.
BUSINESS
May 2, 2000

Domestic auto sales down 0.4%

Domestic sales of new cars, trucks and buses decreased 0.4 percent in April from a year earlier to 268,259 units, down for the second consecutive month, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Monday.
CULTURE / Books
May 2, 2000

'The gooks from Gardena' go to war

FROM PEARL HARBOR TO SAIGON: Japanese-American Soldiers and the Vietnam War, by Toshio Whelchel. London & New York: Verso, 1999, 203 pp., three maps, 12 photos, 16.20 British pounds (cloth). At last, a simple but moving book about the violent soul of America that almost any educated Japanese...
EDITORIALS
May 1, 2000

The prime minister's empty chair

Four weeks after former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was hospitalized with a stroke on April 2, the administration headed by new Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, appears to be functioning in a business-as-usual manner. In the past month, however, government...
MORE SPORTS
May 1, 2000

Tanaka fires 67 for Chunichi victory

Hidemichi Tanaka broke away from overnight co-leader Mitsutaka Kusakabe with three birdies on the front nine of a 3-under-par 67 Sunday to win the 110 million yen Chunichi Crowns golf tournament by five strokes. Tanaka carded three birdies without a bogey on the front nine of the Nagoya Golf Club's par-70...
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Kono promises aid in visit to East Timor

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono promised new aid initiatives for East Timor on Sunday, including offering some 8,000 radio receivers and programs to develop human resources. "My visit may have been a little bit too late . . . but I brought all our warm feelings," Kono said after witnessing a signing ceremony...
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Group wants lost relatives handed back

The government should not normalize diplomatic relations with North Korea unless it hands back Japanese nationals allegedly abducted by Pyongyang agents, a group of family members of such missing people and their supporters said Sunday.
SOCCER / J. League
May 1, 2000

Troussier's future with Japan in doubt

Japan manager Philippe Troussier, with less than two months left on his contract, is on the verge of being dismissed and is likely to be replaced by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger or anyone else the Japan Football Association can think of before its next board meeting on May 25.
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Murder case fugitive surrenders after 9 years

A 30-year-old woman who had been on the run for nine years for a 1990 murder-for-insurance case in Akaike, Fukuoka Prefecture, was arrested on Saturday after turning herself in. According to police, Chie Masuda, former owner of a jewelry shop, collaborated with Yoshikatsu Oda, 52, in December 1990 in...
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Overstayers march in plea for resident permits

About 250 foreigners staying illegally in Japan and their supporters marched Sunday in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, calling on the government to grant them resident permits that would allow them to stay in the country legally.
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Putin saves Mori blushes by offering August visit

The two leaders reached the agreement while attending an ice hockey game after they failed to set the schedule in an informal summit earlier in the day, the official told a press briefing Saturday night.
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

Subway crash puzzles experts

Experts trying to find the cause of a fatal train crash near Tokyo's Nakameguro Station have succeeded in making a train wheel lift off the tracks at the spot where the accident happened, but they have yet to pin down the actual reason for the derailment that caused the crash, Transport Ministry officials...
COMMUNITY
May 1, 2000

New treatments can save stroke victims if diagnosed in time

It creeps up on you unawares and attacks suddenly. One day you are fine and leading a nation. The next day you are in a coma at a hospital.
BUSINESS
May 1, 2000

Lessons from Japan needed for Asian structural reforms

The world's view of East Asian economies has drastically changed since the turmoil that swept the region in mid-1997.
MORE SPORTS
May 1, 2000

T.M. Opera O races to Emperor's Cup win

KYOTO -- The competition was high but the return rock-bottom on Sunday as the four top picks crossed the finish line in exact order of their popularity in the spring Emperor's Cup. Race favorite T.M. Opera O topped the field of 12 by three-quarters of a length in the 3,200-meter Grade I classic followed...
COMMENTARY
May 1, 2000

Racism and human rights

LONDON -- Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's recent remarks suggesting that many foreigners in Japan are criminals and could cause trouble in a time of crisis have inevitably aroused fears abroad that Japanese rightwing politicians are continuing to pander to popular prejudice and have their eyes on re-election...
BUSINESS
May 1, 2000

Daiichi Mutual quits survival fight

Daiichi Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co. has decided to give up its restructuring efforts, paving the way for another company to take over the financially troubled insurer's operations, company sources said Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2000

'Education for all' is an attainable goal

Ten years ago, in March 1990, the World Conference on Education for All, held in Jomtien, Thailand, with 155 governments and 150 organizations attending, set a goal of getting all children into primary school and reducing adult illiteracy by half by 2000. Where do we stand on this goal at the dawn of...
JAPAN
May 1, 2000

China fumes over rightists' shrine on Senkaku Islands

China has urged Japan to look into a media report that a Japanese rightist group has constructed a shrine on one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which are claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing said Sunday. If the report is true, the Japanese government must...
LIFE / Travel
May 1, 2000

Spotting spots at cheetah breeding center

PELINDABA, South Africa -- Grrrr . . . grrrr . . . grrr . . . I couldn't help feeling a little nervous while hoping that the deep dog-growl sound emanating from the magnificent cheetah under my sweaty palm was actually a purr. Luckily for me, it was.
SOCCER / J. League
May 1, 2000

Nakata says he wants to play out contract with AS Roma

Japan's midfield star Hidetoshi Nakata, the subject of media reports about a possible transfer, has said he wants to stay at Italian Serie A club AS Roma. Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport quoted Nakata on Saturday as calling speculation over a move to Parma or English champions Manchester United "incomprehensible"...
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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