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CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2000

Tried and true not always the way to go

As mentioned last time in this column, a new restaurant/venue, Tribute to the Love Generation, will open in Odaiba on Tokyo Bay next month. It is not, as you may expect, a hangout for "Dead-heads," or ex-flower power hippies hiding out in Tokyo, but in fact will host mainly "world music" concerts. With...
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2000

NTT to offer early warning to allergy-sufferers via phone

Come next spring, your cell phone may tell you how runny your nose and how itchy your eyes will be the next day -- a warning of what might happen if you walk outside.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 28, 2000

Compassion, discretion and social pressure key to rehabilitation

LINKING COMMUNITY AND CORRECTIONS IN JAPAN, by Elmer H. Johnson with Carol H. Johnson. Carbondale and Edwardsville, U.S.: Southern Illinois University Press; 2000; 413 pp., $44.95. One morning a Japanese farmer sees his deranged wife trying to hang herself. Rushing to her side he manages to calm her...
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2000

Health-care plan to benefit middle class

Many corporate employees, self-employed people and civil servants can expect to enjoy better and inexpensive welfare services under a new insurance system set to begin April 1 to deal with the nation's rapidly aging population, according to a leading economist.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2000

No stopping the IT revolution

Most economic experts seem to agree that the information-technology revolution will bring profound changes to the global economy, and to the Japanese economy as well. Some people still believe that the revolution and the development of multimedia communications technology are only a bubble. However,...
CULTURE / Books
Mar 28, 2000

Blindness tips the scales of history

THE POSTWAR CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF ASIA: How the Political Right has Delayed Japan's Coming to Terms with its History of Aggression in Asia, by Yoshibumi Wakamiya. Tokyo: LTCB International Library Foundation, 1999, 370 pp. 3,000 yen, This study of Japan's dilatory and grudging attempts to come to terms...
CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2000

Disciples of authenticity and the exact science of madness

"If I count to four, can you make yourself feel angry?" asks bass player Kentaro Kawaguchi, founder and visionary of the band 54-71. "One. . . two . . . three . . . four . . .."
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2000

DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors announce alliance

DaimlerChrysler AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. announced Monday a capital and business alliance that will create the world's third-largest auto group in terms of sales while giving the world's fifth-largest automaker a controlling stake in Mitsubishi Motors. DaimlerChrysler will acquire a 34 percent...
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2000

Fukaya, Lamy to push WTO round

Trade chief Takashi Fukaya said he and Pascal Lamy, the European Union's trade commissioner, agreed Monday to pursue efforts to jointly hold working-level meetings with the United States and Canada in Geneva on Friday to encourage the World Trade Organization to swiftly launch a new round of free-trade...
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2000

Dioxin in Fujisawa river 16 times official standard

Samples taken from the Hikichi River in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, late last year showed dioxin levels up to 16 times the recently-set environmental standard, the Environment Agency announced on Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2000

Obuchi hails Putin's win in Russia

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Monday congratulated acting Russian President Vladimir Putin via telephone on his victory in Sunday's presidential elections, a Foreign Ministry official said.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2000

Police arrest ministry official

Police on Monday arrested a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries who was allegedly wined and dined to the tune of about 1.9 million yen by an agricultural cooperative in Kagawa Prefecture in return for favors involving farm subsidies.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2000

Clinton walks the tightrope

For all the aspersions cast at U.S. President Bill Clinton, it cannot be said that he lacks courage. For no other word can describe Mr. Clinton's foray into the treacherous politics of South Asia. The decades-long standoff between India and Pakistan has become yet more threatening since the two governments...
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 27, 2000

Lazio triumphs in Rome derby

Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata was substituted at the break Saturday as AS Roma tried to erase a 2-1 halftime deficit, but Lazio held on in a scoreless second half to win the Rome derby and close the gap on Juventus at the top of the Italian league. Roma took the lead in the third minute in front...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

Ever been to Nakamura?

Nakamura has turned out to be the most common town name in Japan, with 698 towns bearing the name nationwide, according to a new map produced by the Geographical Survey Institute.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2000

Excessive currency liquidity fuels speculative rise in crude

Crude oil prices, which just a year ago appeared on the verge of falling below $10 per barrel, began a steep climb this year, at one point hitting $34 per barrel -- the highest level since the Persian Gulf Crisis. There are two major reasons behind this phenomenon.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

Rules for weapons-use needed by SDF: Kawara

Defense Agency chief Tsutomu Kawara said Sunday that the agency will step up its efforts to draft rules of engagement for the Self-Defense Forces. Speaking at the graduation ceremony for the National Defense Medical College in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Kawara said, "It is extremely important to...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

Obuchi to reform police before general election

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi expressed readiness Sunday to take legislative steps during the current Diet session to reform the nation's police system and restore public confidence. Speaking at a news conference at a hotel here, Obuchi said he will quickly take action once the recently launched panel...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

Kono offers to aid Koreans visiting kin left in Sakhalin

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono visited an apartment complex outside Seoul on Sunday built especially for South Koreans repatriated from Sakhalin who were left behind on the Russian island at the end of World War II. Kono, who is in Seoul for a two-day visit, told residents of the complex, located some 60...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

Tokyo, Seoul to discuss Pyongyang with U.S.

Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday to hold a three-way meeting involving the United States to coordinate policies toward North Korea before the April 4 resumption of diplomatic normalization talks between Japan and North Korea, Japanese officials said.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

LDP aide held for role in coverup

Police arrested a private secretary of Lower House legislator Katsuhiko Shirakawa and two others Sunday for allegedly asking the Niigata Prefectural Police to cover up a traffic violation last year in Itakura, Niigata Prefecture, police sources said. The secretary, Akio Fujimaki, 39, allegedly acted...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2000

KDD set to lead new advance overseas

The three-way merger of KDD Corp., DDI Corp. and IDO Corp. in October will turn the new firm into a competitive mobile phone and Internet business that will enable KDD to shine, KDD President Tadashi Nishimoto says.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2000

State slow in Tokai fiasco, report notes

The government reacted slowly last year to the nuclear disaster in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, which resulted in the first fatality from radiation exposure in postwar Japanese history, according to a government report obtained by Kyodo News.
COMMENTARY
Mar 27, 2000

Election reform isn't the cure

The ruling coalition and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan have worked out a bill to correct defects in the existing election system. If approved by the current Diet, the proposed changes to the Public Office Election Law will apply to the next Lower House.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 27, 2000

World's forests cut to feed voracious Japanese industry

For those who suffer from cedar pollen allergies, these dry, sunny days of spring are sheer torture. After Finland and Sweden, Japan has the most forest cover in the world: 67 percent. My itchy eyes tell me 98 percent of those trees must be cedar.
SUMO
Mar 27, 2000

Lowly Takatoriki captures first Emperor's Cup

No. 14 maegashira Takatoriki stunned Miyabiyama and the entire sumo world Sunday when he upset heavily favored sekiwake Miyabiyama to clinch the championship of the Haru Basho in Osaka with a spectacular 13-2 record. It not only marked 'Riki's first yusho, but it was also the first time in sumo history...
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2000

A man of faith, frustrated

Pope John Paul II declared that his visit to Israel and the Middle East was a spiritual journey. The pontiff wanted to fulfill a long cherished dream and walk in the footsteps of Christ, 2,000 years after his birth. The pope did just that, with trips to the site of Christ's birth, baptism and the Sea...
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2000

Four bodies found in gutted temple

Police and firefighters said Saturday that they had found four charred bodies following a fire that gutted the main hall of a Buddhist temple and a connected two-story house Friday night in the town of Hiranai, Aomori Prefecture. The fire broke out around midnight Friday at the residence of Toshiaki...
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2000

Development reaches the east

Today, it's free and takes only five minutes. But getting to the other side of JR Shinagawa Station was once no easy matter.
COMMENTARY
Mar 26, 2000

All eyes on nuclear energy

It is axiomatic that any group in Japan -- doctors, dentists or candlestick makers -- will want to turn itself into a tightly bound community, closed off from the outside world. It will be concerned almost entirely with its own survival and prosperity.
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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