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Mar 6, 2000

Fujino's 75 is enough to win JLPGA opener

Third-year pro Orie Fujino almost fluffed her lines with a 75 Sunday but managed to hold on to win the season-opening Daikin Orchid Ladies golf tournament by two strokes. Three bogeys before the turn at the Ryukyu Golf Club threatened to derail Fujino, but she negotiated the back nine in even par to...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2000

The risks of banking on Japan's future

SYDNEY -- The near-zero interest-rate policy pursued so doggedly by Japan's government and central bank has created an incentive structure for corporate managers that encourages bank borrowing rather than turning to security markets for investment funds. In so doing, corporate borrowers face less pressure...
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2000

Tokyo plans meeting with Beijing, Seoul

Japan intends to hold the first-ever trilateral meeting among foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea in Bangkok in late July, government sources said Sunday.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2000

Indulge in a refresher course on basic policy coordination

One of the privileges of being a civil servant in this country is that you can participate in important decision-making processes related to policy, even if you are a junior official.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2000

Climbers go missing on Dainichidake

Two university students went missing Sunday near the summit of Dainichidake in Toyama Prefecture after an outcropping of snow they were resting on collapsed during their ascent, local police said. Three members of a rescue team searching for them were also injured when another snow ledge collapsed later...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2000

Clinton's tightrope act in South Asia

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- U.S. President Bill Clinton's upcoming visit to South Asia is praiseworthy, but critics have raised questions concerning the presidential trip.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2000

Diplomacy without guideposts

Ten years after the Cold War ended, we are moving toward the 21st century. In the past decade, the international community has been trying to catch up with fast changes and to establish a viable theory for creating a new order. However, drastic changes in the world have made it impossible for human wisdom...
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2000

Denial of nuclear-armed ships puzzled Kennedy

Then U.S. President John F. Kennedy expressed anxiety in 1963 about the Japanese government's denial in the Diet that American warships armed with nuclear weapons passed through Japanese ports, according to a U.S. file revealed Sunday. During a hurriedly convened meeting March 26, 1963, Kennedy and senior...
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 6, 2000

Never mind lions, look at the birds

When thinking of traveling in South Africa, many people imagine safari-style ventures into the bush to spy elephant, rhino and cheetah.
EDITORIALS
Mar 5, 2000

The public interest must be served

Japan's journalists, editors and broadcasters -- indeed, representatives of all of the popular media -- received a stunning surprise from the Osaka High Court last week. In a historic decision with potentially far-reaching consequences, the presiding judge overturned a lower-court ruling that had ordered...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Firms moving to push employees out

More and more firms are stepping up downsizing programs by transferring staff to subsidiaries or offering generous retirement deals, according to a survey released Saturday by Japan's largest trade union group.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Taisho Life ordered to recapitalize

The Financial Supervisory Agency has ordered Taisho Life Insurance Co. to recapitalize and improve its management after an agency inspection found the small life insurer to be financially weak, industry sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Debit cards aim to break spending habits

Full-scale use of the debit card system, which allows consumers to pay for purchases with ordinary bank cards, is to begin in Japan on Monday amid hopes that it will alter the deeply ingrained habit of consumers paying in cash and also become an effective business tool.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Murayama to step down from politics

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama formally announced Saturday that he will not run in the House of Representatives general election later this year. Murayama, 76, former leader of the Social Democratic Party, was elected from the No. 1 Oita constituency.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Tokai fiasco to cost JCO 10 billion yen

JCO Co. is likely to pay around 10 billion yen in compensation over last September's nuclear accident at its uranium processing plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, local government officials said. The officials reached the estimate Saturday night after all 578 compensation claims in Tokai were calculated...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Visaless family seeks resident status

KOBE -- For over six years, 40-year-old Peruvian Jose could enjoy his stay in Japan, where he had a stable job at a leather processing factory and his family had a peaceful life in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Shop plaza taps 'platinum' generation for jobs, revival

NAGAHAMA, Shiga Pref. -- Although Tamae Shibata has many hobbies to pick from to bide her time, they offer the 71-year-old little satisfaction.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Political fundraising jumped to new record in '98

Political funds raised by local political organizations nationwide totaled 176.1 billion yen in 1998, up 17.4 percent from a year before, the Home Affairs Ministry said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Legislation sought to ban gene-based discrimination

The government should enact legislation to ban discrimination based on genes, according to a draft report compiled by a subcommittee of the Council for Science and Technology, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 5, 2000

Goalkeeper Ozaki the hero as Jubilo wins Xerox Cup

Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper Yushi Ozaki blocked three shots in a penalty shootout to lead the J. League champion to victory over Emperor's Cup winner Nagoya Grampus Eight in the Xerox Super Cup Saturday at Tokyo's National Stadium.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 5, 2000

Masanao Murai

"Horses are very gentle and kind to the weak," Dr. Masanao Murai said. "A child suffering from cerebral palsy can sit on a horse and feel the animal's warmth. He can see farther. The horse's movement reaches the child's brain through the spine, so that a child who cannot walk feels he has one body with...
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 5, 2000

Who's afraid of August Strindberg?

If a single metaphor could speak for the career and life of Sweden's greatest playwright and author, it would be the following taken from one of his novels: "We were dancing on the edge of the volcano."
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2000

Er, dyu know wot they mean?

My man Toshi and I discussed the new Oasis single on the way to the opening concert of the band's world tour at Yokohama Arena last Tuesday. What is Noel Gallagher telling people to "let out" in the chorus of "Go Let It Out?" I think he's talking about people's illusions of the real world, how you've...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Game fans snap up PlayStation2

More than 7,000 stores nationwide started selling at 7 a.m. Saturday an advanced version of the popular PlayStation game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
COMMUNITY
Mar 5, 2000

Researcher dives deep, flies high, blows bubbles

Minoru Yamada thinks there is something rather beautiful -- poetic even -- about the location of the headquarters of JAMSTEC (Japan Marine Science and Technology Center) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. And this has nothing to do with being right beside the sea, with a great view across Tokyo Bay to...
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Mar 5, 2000

The arts

A woman who first came to Japan some 40 years ago remembers that in those days there were many dinner clubs that featured dancing and floor shows. One act she has never forgotten: A Chinese family sat in a row at a table with the grandmother in the middle and the youngest at the two ends. They were dressed...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Steel imports not hurting U.S. industry, ITC rules

The U.S. International Trade Commission, in a reversal of its preliminary decision, ruled Friday that cold-rolled steel imported from Japan and five other countries is not hurting U.S. industry. The five-to-one final ITC ruling acquitted importers from the six countries -- Argentina, Brazil, Russia,...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

IOC wining-dining ban puts Games bid in bind

OSAKA -- Enthusiasm for Osaka's 2008 Olympic bid continues to fade after the International Olympic Committee announced strict conditions on candidate cities.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2000

Dynamo Chung generates musical electricity with French National

Orchestre National de France
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2000

Treasures of the House of Orange

Four hundred years ago, in spring 1600, a Dutch ship made landfall in Kyushu, the sole survivor of five that had set out on the hazardous journey from Rotterdam two years before.
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.
Multiple places in Japan see mercury top 40 C for first time this year
A man cools himself in a water mist spray in Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Multiple regions topped 40 degrees Celsius for the first time this year on Monday.
Japan rallies past China to win gold in men's team gymnastics
Team Japan celebrates after winning gold in the men's team gymnastics event at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
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.
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.
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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