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BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2000

Yen could test 115 to the dollar in summer

Judging from widening gaps in interest rates between Japan and other countries, the yen could possibly head to around 115 to the dollar this summer.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

ODA guidelines set for Thailand, Bangladesh

The Foreign Ministry has issued policy guidelines for extending official development assistance to Bangladesh and Thailand, the first among nine initial country-by-country plans it has been preparing since November 1998.
COMMUNITY
Mar 31, 2000

Party offers gays more than just fun

Dancers in flamboyant costumes and heavy makeup performed for around 400 students at a small night club in Tokyo on Wednesday night as part of an event to raise money for HIV education and provide a supportive social network for young gays.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2000

Sony headquarters gets new moniker; call it eHQ

In a move to demonstrate its renewed focus on network business, Sony Corp. will rename its group headquarters "eHQ" -- short for e-headquarters -- effective Saturday, President Nobuyuki Idei announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2000

Toyota, NTT Com to invest in stores' e-trade venture

Toyota Motor Corp. and NTT Communications Corp. (NTT Com.) said Thursday that they will invest in an e-commerce venture designed by five Japanese convenience store operators.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 31, 2000

Evolution of grunge and the cutting edge of simian style

It used to be that a band had to be dead and buried for a good decade before popping up in interviews and liner notes as an "influence." Not anymore. Though Kurt Cobain has been dead less than 10 years, the reverberations of the Seattle sound are beginning to be felt in Tokyo's live houses, most especially...
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Supposed North Korean refugee released

A 46-year-old man who claims to be a North Korean refugee was temporarily released on Thursday from a detention center in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, after being held for 20 months, immigration center officials said. Lawyers representing Kim Yong Hwa have completed the paperwork for his release from...
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Osaka considers Tokyo-style bank tax

OSAKA -- The Osaka chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday submitted a bill that would impose a tax of between 2 percent and 3 percent on the gross profits of large banks in the prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Coordination needed on North Korea

Japan, the United States and South Korea reaffirmed their commitment Thursday to closely coordinate policies toward North Korea in an effort to draw positive steps from Pyongyang for improving its relations with the three countries.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Tokai disaster no closer to resolution

Many things have been said about last September's fatal nuclear accident at the JCO Co. uranium processing plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2000

Sharpening Japan-U.S. strategic ties

U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen's recent visit to Tokyo demonstrates the immaturity of the U.S.-Japan alliance, particularly from a strategic point of view.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Tokyo approves tax plan for big banks

Less than two months after the plan was first announced, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly voted almost unanimously Thursday to levy a controversial size-based corporate tax on major banks operating within the metropolis.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2000

Japan praises 'successful' handling of Y2K problem

The government released a report Thursday on the measures it took to combat the Year 2000 computer bug and leap-year glitch, concluding that its handling of the situations was "very successful."
EDITORIALS
Mar 30, 2000

The real need for foreign workers

Japan must soon get ready to accept, even to welcome, a far greater number of legal foreign workers in its midst. The possibility is not remote, in view of plans just announced by the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau to relax visa procedures for non-Japanese workers in a wider range of fields than...
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 30, 2000

Aaron says time is right for 'real' World Series

It's been more than a quarter of a century now since he surpassed baseball's most hallowed record, but Hank Aaron still carries a big stick when it comes to his thoughts on the future of the game.
SUMO
Mar 30, 2000

Musoyama promoted

on Wednesday approved the promotion of Musashigawa stable wrestler Musoyama to the sport's second-highest rank of ozeki following his runnerup finish at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament. Musoyama, who won his first Emperor's Cup in the New Year tourney with a 13-2 record, posted 12 wins at the just-concluded...
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

Liberals' place in triumvirate shaky

Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa indicated Wednesday that a final decision on whether he will take the party out of the ruling coalition will be made after he receives word from the Liberal Democratic Party on the possibility of further electoral cooperation.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2000

Car sales help February industrial output leap 3%

Industrial output grew 3 percent in February from the previous month, thanks to strong sales of new-model automobiles and extra working hours because of the leap year, according to a preliminary report issued Wednesday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

8,000 evacuated as volcano experts warn Mount Usu eruption imminent

Mount Usu in southern Hokkaido could erupt in a day or two as seismic tremors have continued to increase in frequency and strength, experts said Wednesday. About 8,000 residents of neighboring municipalities and guests at nearby hotels had been evacuated to public facilities by Wednesday evening. A section...
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2000

Fuji Heavy execs 'kept defective car on road'

Prosecutors filed a summary indictment Wednesday against two former senior officials of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. for allegedly keeping a car on the road despite knowing it was defective, leading to the serious injury of a woman in 1996. In charges filed with the Otsu Summary Court, the Otsu District...
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2000

Sony eyes Sakura as key Internet bank partner

Sony Corp. plans to have Sakura Bank become a major investor in an Internet-based bank it hopes to set up next year, industry sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

Two Japanese researchers drown off Mexican coast

Two Japanese scholars drowned and another was missing after an inflatable boat carrying nine people on a research trip organized by the University of California at Davis sank Monday night in the Gulf of California, local police said Tuesday. Takuya Abe, a 55-year-old professor at the Center for Ecological...
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2000

Nisso license revoked for dumping

The Tochigi Prefectural Government on Wednesday revoked the business permit of Nisso Ltd., an industrial waste disposal company that unlawfully exported toxic waste to the Philippines last year, prefectural government officials said. In a move not directly related to the illegal shipments, Nisso's permit...
MORE SPORTS
Mar 30, 2000

Japan Under-23 side outkicks Kiwis 4-0

Buy your lottery tickets now and get Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Eddie Thompson to select your numbers.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

Two face prison in sale of arms parts to Iran

Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded prison terms for two former executives of a defunct Tokyo trading firm charged with illegally shipping parts for antitank rocket launchers to Iran.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

Lengthy prison terms issued for drug runners

The Fukuoka District Court sentenced a Taiwanese man to life imprisonment on Wednesday and fined him 8 million yen for smuggling a record amount of amphetamines into Japan last year. Hsieh Ming-chiang, a 37-year-old crew member of a Taiwan-registered fishing vessel, received the sentence in a smuggling...
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2000

Report says 'amakudari' recruiting is declining

A record-low 62 retiring central-government bureaucrats landed jobs at firms with close ties to their offices in 1999, the National Personnel Authority said Wednesday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 30, 2000

American arrogance rears its head

Over the years, the United States has gained a reputation for arrogance and self-centeredness. A couple of opinions expressed in The New York Times last week did nothing to dispel this perception.
COMMENTARY
Mar 30, 2000

For Taiwan and China, patience is key

BEIJING -- Now what? Since Taiwan has elected Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party as its next president, despite heavy-handed Chinese efforts to discourage this outcome, what does Beijing do next?
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 30, 2000

Cubs take historic opener in Tokyo

One small step for the Chicago Cubs, one giant leap for Major League Baseball.
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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