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CULTURE / Music
Mar 24, 2000

Tony Bennett: a true master of the fine art of sincerity

Hyperbole becomes Tony Bennett. His effusiveness is all-encompassing, gathering his audience, his musicians, the people who wrote the songs he sings, and even the singers who covered those songs before him into a warm, gushing embrace. Performing more than 90 minutes' worth of material at Suntory Hall...
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2000

Crisis may not be over, more work to do: experts

The economic beating that Asia's tigers and dragons took from July 1997 left them dragging their tails between their legs, but the assumption that they have weathered the crisis is potentially an even greater danger, according to panelists attending the Asian Economic Crisis and Prospects for ASEAN-Japan...
COMMUNITY
Mar 24, 2000

On speaking to a tulip in the garden

Late in the autumn I dug up a spot of earth in my small garden and planted a tulip bulb. Several days later, frost fell and before long snow covered the garden. When spring arrived the next year and the snow had all but disappeared, the tulip broke through the earth, sending out its sturdy stem and green...
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2000

Trade surplus surges 26.8%

The nation's trade surplus increased in February for the first time in 11 months, as exports -- especially to the rest of Asia -- expanded more than imports, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2000

DPJ submits bill to rein in 'daily usurers'

The Democratic Party of Japan on Thursday submitted to the Lower House a bill to regulate moneylending businesses being run by so-called "daily usurers."
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2000

Nissan ready to launch first hybrid vehicle

Nissan Motor Co. will launch its first hybrid car, the Tino Hybrid wagon, for limited sales next month on a first-come first-served basis, the automaker said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2000

Entry to be made easier for legal foreign workers

Japan will aim to promote smoother acceptance of legal foreign workers, while at the same time taking stronger measures to weed out illegal aliens, according to a revised edition of the Basic Plan for Immigration Control to be released today by the Justice Ministry.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2000

Diet holdout Tomobe gets 10-year sentence for fraud

Independent Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for swindling 35 people out of about 665 million yen between 1994 and 1996 in a scam involving his Orange Kyosai bogus mutual aid scheme.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2000

Uranium solution transferred from JCO

Containers of high-concentration uranium solution were transferred Thursday from uranium processing firm JCO. Co.'s plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, the site of the nation's worst nuclear accident. The uranium solution had been diluted with boric acid and water to terminate the nuclear chain reaction...
CULTURE / Music
Mar 24, 2000

Teacher takes a radical route to nurturing the shamisen

Some Westerners might be surprised to learn to what extent Japanese people have little or no interest in traditional Japanese music. Many young people simply prefer to listen to contemporary pop music, but it is also not uncommon to come across those who are not even sure what traditional Japanese music...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2000

Election aftershocks rocking Taiwan

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COMMENTARY
Mar 24, 2000

Police resisting vital reform

The Japanese police have long enjoyed a high reputation both at home and abroad, due partly to their efficiency in apprehending criminals. Today, however, the Japanese police system is suffering from a breakdown of ethics, caused in part by its insular nature.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 23, 2000

2002 World Cup tickets on the pricey side

JAWOC, the Japanese organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup of soccer, said Wednesday that top-priced tickets for the final in Yokohama will go on sale in Japan for as much as 85,000 yen each, while overseas fans will have to pay up to $750.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

11 of 47 police chiefs say NPA let officer off lightly

The heads of 11 of Japan's 47 prefectural police commissions believe the National Police Agency should have punished a top police official in connection with a scandal that rocked the Niigata Prefectural Police in late January, according to a Kyodo News survey released Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

Domestic slump cuts Brazil's chances of gaining funds

Brazil is turning to Japan to raise badly needed funds for a new four-year development program that is expected to go into effect this year.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

Keidanren urges Asia to back yen

Japan must enlist the support of Asian governments and private sectors to promote the yen as an international currency, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) said in a recommendation Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2000

Economic doomsayers are off the mark

The government's projection for Japanese economic growth is 0.6 percent for fiscal 1999 and 1 percent for fiscal 2000. Both are based on unrealistic assumptions about the present and future state of the economy. The projection appears to have been verified by the negative GDP growth recorded in the last...
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Pension bills approved by Upper House

A package of bills designed to save the nation's financially strapped pension system cleared the Upper House on Wednesday, paving the way for the introduction of new pension measures in April.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2000

No more Indian idealism

NEW DELHI -- U.S. President Bill Clinton's weeklong tour of South Asia has caused an outbreak of Clinton-mania in the region, generating bloated expectations. In the Indian cities on his itinerary, streets have been cleaned, signposts washed or repainted, and tree branches cut back. The Great White Messiah...
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

Aid mission set to go to El Salvador

Japan promised El Salvador on Wednesday that it will dispatch a fact-finding mission to determine projects suitable for the extension of yen-denominated loans, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Tobacco-curbing target up in smoke

Up in smoke -- that is the simplest way to describe the fate of an ambitious Health and Welfare Ministry plan to drastically cut the number of smokers as well as overall tobacco consumption in Japan by 2010.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2000

Beijing all bark and no bite? Think again

Tensions over the Taiwan Strait are palpable after China did its best to intimidate Taiwanese voters in the runup to last weekend's election. First, the Cabinet released a white paper that drew an unmistakable line -- thickened with a new condition -- regarding the limits of acceptable Taiwanese behavior...
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

Department stores need after-sales service

Department stores have been facing intensifying harsh conditions caused by weak consumer spending, mounting bad debts stem- ming from the bubble economy, and marketing offensives by supermarkets and discount stores.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Prosecutors indict Cresvale executive over bogus securities

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday indicted a former executive of Cresvale International Ltd. on charges of selling customers securities that turned out to be irredeemable, prosecutors said.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Dead suspect's case goes to prosecutors

Police turned over to prosecutors Wednesday their case against a 21-year-old murder suspect who committed suicide on Feb. 5 shortly before he was to be arrested for the December slaying of a 7-year-old boy in a Kyoto elementary school playground. Police said they took the action after analyzing the purported...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 23, 2000

Troussier: Will he stay or will he go?

It wasn't the greatest 0-0 draw in the world but last Wednesday's game in Kobe meant more to Japan and Japanese soccer fans than such exercises in futility as the nine-goal win over Brunei in the Asian Cup qualifiers last month.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Fukuoka set to pitch port outside Japan

The Fukuoka Municipal Government will launch in fiscal 2000 an international advertising campaign for the city's port, city harbor officials said. As part of efforts to promote Hakata port, three public relations officers will be posted outside Japan -- one each to cities in Europe, North America and...
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

DaimlerChrysler to acquire controlling stake in MMC

DaimlerChrysler AG, the world's fifth-largest automaker, has agreed with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to take a controlling stake in the Japanese automaker, MMC sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2000

Talks on NTT fees extended

Japan and the United States decided Wednesday to extend by one day their high-level deregulation talks in an effort to bridge gaps over the degree by which the interconnection fees Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. charges its competitors should be reduced, Japanese officials said.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2000

Monju ruling infuriates plaintiffs

OSAKA -- Antinuclear activists expressed shock and outrage Wednesday over the Fukui District Court's ruling against local residents' efforts to permanently close the Monju fast-breeder reactor, and both plaintiffs and their lawyers vowed their nearly 15-year battle was not over.
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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