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JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Prefectural police chiefs get pep talk from NPA

In an effort to restore public trust in the nation's police, the National Police Agency on Saturday held an urgent meeting of 46 prefectural police chiefs following a series of recent scandals over misconduct within the force.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Japan scolds Europe on new waste rules

Japan warned the European Union on Thursday that its proposed directives to regulate waste from electrical and electronic equipment and cars could result in trade restrictions if they are too strict. Japan made the call in a meeting with the EU on regulatory reform, Japanese officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2000

A new dawn for marketing in Japan

and MASAAKI KOTABE The Japanese market holds much promise for U.S. firms as new forms of doing business evolve. Mail-order and nonstore retailing are becoming part of the daily consumer landscape. Likely to be even more prominent is the ability to conduct business in "market space" rather than the traditional...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Farm ministry searched after arrest

Police searched the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry and several dozen other places Friday in connection with charges that a former ministry official received about 500,000 yen in cash for helping an agricultural cooperative receive favors related to government-backed projects.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Japan to pay Taiwanese to junk boats

Japan has agreed in principle to pay Taiwanese tuna fishing boat owners to scrap boats that have been registered to countries not under an international treaty limiting tuna catches, the Fisheries Agency said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Parents sue to learn truth of son's death

The parents of a 14-year-old boy who was killed in what a family court deemed to have been a one-on-one fight with another boy are to file a damages suit next week against the state and Ibaraki Prefecture, claiming the investigation was unfair, it was learned Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Nine staff of Hiroo hospital charged

A case credited with shedding light on a tendency within the medical community to cover up malpractice has taken another step into uncharted waters.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Niigata man indicted for kidnapping and bodily harm

The Niigata District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 37-year-old man on charges of abducting and confining a girl at his home for more than nine years and inflicting bodily injury. Nobuyuki Sato, unemployed, of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, was arrested Feb. 11 on suspicion of forcibly taking...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

North Korean team tours A-bomb museum

Seven North Koreans who are in Japan to learn treatment techniques for victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki paid a visit Friday to the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum. Ri Myong Guk, leader of the group, said, "I am enraged at how they used science and technology for murderous means....
MORE SPORTS
Mar 4, 2000

Olympic wrestler fights for money to fuel dream of reaching Sydney

Dan Henderson wishes he didn't have to compete in last weekend's King of Kings no-holds-barred tournament in Tokyo. But the stocky American has an Olympic dream, and if he wants to realize it he needs money.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Rural politicians seek to scrap 'gun' naming system

Although Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara may have portrayed himself as a champion of local autonomy with his idea of a local tax on banks, a less colorful effort to challenge the central government is in progress by towns in Yamagata Prefecture that are out to revise an outdated naming system. Late last...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

New LTCB boss details his vision for the future

The chief executive officer of the newly privatized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan has vowed that he will strive to transform the institution into a highly profitable commercial bank, utilizing high-level expertise from western financial institutions.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Japan compiles new rules against illegal trash exports

The government announced Friday that it has tightened rules to require authorities to keep a lookout for illegal exports of garbage.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 4, 2000

Ota Memorial Museum of Art marks 20th anniversary

To mark its 20th anniversary, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is holding a series of special ukiyo-e exhibitions through April 26.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Hokkaido Bank seeks 45 billion yen

Hokkaido Bank, the second largest lender in the northern prefecture, formally asked the Financial Reconstruction Commission on Friday for some 45 billion yen in public funds to shore up its capital base, the bank said.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Agency Internet sites hacked from Web servers in China

Of 16 illegal hacking attacks on Japanese government Web sites that began in January, 12 were carried out through servers in China, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

401(k) pension plan OK'd

The government approved legislation Friday to introduce a Japanese version of U.S.-style 401(k) pension plans providing for tax breaks aimed at encouraging firms and workers to take up the new programs, officials said.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 4, 2000

Synthesizing the old and the new

The individual genres of the traditional Japanese performing arts rarely stood alone. Each instrument or genre had a role to play, either religious, theatrical or social, and Japanese instrumental music, with a few exceptions, existed to provide accompaniment to song, dance or theater.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Cultist designed bank program

An Aum Shinrikyo follower in her 30s was involved in the development of computer systems for Wakayama-based Kiyo Bank and several other financial institutions, it was learned Friday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 4, 2000

China menaced by corruption

In the runup to the National People's Congress that opens Sunday, Chinese authorities have intensified their crackdown on corruption and smuggling. Chinese leaders, who see 2000 as a milestone in their anticorruption drive, are gripped by a sense of crisis: They will lose the trust and support of the...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

N. Korea diplomatic talks set for April

Japan and North Korea have agreed in principle to launch negotiations in early April on normalizing diplomatic relations, resuming talks that collapsed in 1992, Japanese government sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Police raid homes and offices of leftist group Kakurokyo

Police on Friday raided 35 homes and offices belonging to members of a radical leftist group in connection with a 1998 rocket attack on New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, police said. The raids in Tokyo, Chiba and nine other prefectures were apparently carried out to update...
CULTURE / Art
Mar 4, 2000

Reaching for light beyond darkness

KYOTO -- Many foreigners new to Japan feel the pulls and strains of adapting to the feeling of demanding but hidden rules in this country, trying to understand things that seem generally accepted but never quite articulated.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Date club assailants' van sought

Police have identified the license plate of a van suspected to have picked up the two men who firebombed a telephone dating club here early Thursday, killing four patrons, they said Friday. Investigators are trying to identify the owner of the vehicle, they said.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Hitler letter to Emperor fetches 6,500 pounds in London

A 1943 diplomatic letter from Adolf Hitler to Emperor Showa concerning the recall of a German ambassador following a spy scandal was sold to an unidentified bidder at a British auction Thursday for 6,500 British pounds. The A-4 size, two-page letter was found in a secondhand book market in Britain and...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

Ontario files lawsuit against Japan Tobacco, other firms

The provincial government of Ontario, Canada, has filed a lawsuit in the United States against major tobacco companies, including Japan Tobacco Inc., seeking damages for tobacco-related health care costs. The provincial government said Thursday it filed the lawsuit in New York City on Wednesday. Reuters...
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2000

Updated PlayStation lands in stores

PlayStation2, the advanced version of the world's most popular video game console, goes on sale today amid growing expectations that the new machine will serve as a powerful tool connecting homes to cyberspace in the near future.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2000

U.K. activist seeks testimony in quest to ban nuclear arms

A British antinuclear activist acquitted by a Scottish court in October of criminal responsibility for damage she inflicted on a British nuclear submarine facility called for Japanese citizens to support her efforts to outlaw atomic weapons.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 4, 2000

Twisted tradition that's knotty but nice

A kimono is never complete without an obijime (narrow braided sash cord). Although the color and pattern of the kimono and obi (belt) are what catch the eye on first glance, an obijime is essential to pull the whole look together.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2000

'But it couldn't happen here'

There is no refuge from the senseless gun violence that plagues the United States. Homes, offices, places of worship, city streets and even schools -- no place is safe. This week, there was an especially horrifying episode: the shooting of one first-grader by another. The details tell a tragic story,...
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

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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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