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EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 1999

Integrity too precious to squander

The Kanagawa Prefectural Police has apparently run amok. One day after nine senior current and former officers were referred to public prosecutors on suspicion of involvement in the coverup of a fellow officer's drug use, the prefectural police headquarters meekly announced that a current and a former...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Debate grows on future of Japanese education

Education Minister Hirofumi Nakasone asked an advisory panel of experts Thursday to discuss specific steps on university reform in the next century, calling for advanced use of information technology, development of the continuing education system and more international exchanges.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Japan Telecom net profit jumps 78.3%

Japan Telecom Co. reported an unconsolidated pretax profit of 13.3 billion yen for the first half of fiscal 1999, compared with 2.2 billion yen for the same period last year, company officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Heiwa Life sells off shares to Aetna

Heiwa Life Insurance Co. announced Thursday that it will sell a third of its shares to U.S. financial services company Aetna International Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

First-half profits fall for Toyota

Hurt by the high appreciation of the yen, Toyota Motor Corp. suffered declines in pretax and operating profits for the first half of fiscal 1999, according to its midterm earning report released Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Efforts afoot to woo foreign tourists

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Japan files WTO complaint, seeks talks with U.S.

Japan formally filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday, calling a U.S. ruling made in June against Japanese hot-rolled steel imports unfair.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

2000 may be watershed year for yen

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

BTM, WebTV link on bank services

WebTV Networks and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi announced Thursday they will start offering banking services via television by the end of December.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Beijing boycotts sister-city celebrations

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Man faces life term for Sakai stabbings

OSAKA -- Prosecutors demanded life in prison Thursday for a 21-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a girl and wounding two others on the street in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, in 1998.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 1999

Kansai groups seek MOX injunction on Kepco

OSAKA -- Two Kansai-based antinuclear groups announced Thursday that they will seek an injunction to stop Kansai Electric Power Company from burning mixed plutonium-uranium fuel at the Takahama No. 4 nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture later this month.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 1999

Bringing China into the fold

The breakthrough trade agreement signed in Beijing on Monday between China and the United States heralds the imminent global debut of the world's last-remaining large market that is basically free and operates on the basis of common global rules. This is a real boon, not only for the two nations concerned,...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Internet school to grant U.S. diploma

In a new attempt at alternative education, a Japanese venture company said Wednesday it will launch a home school in April in which students use the Internet to study at home in Japan and "graduate" from an American high school.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Highlights of the legislation

The first of two bills aimed at curbing the activities of Aum Shinrikyo imposes controls on groups whose members have carried out or attempted indiscriminate mass murder. The following conditions apply to the bill:
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Lower House panel approves bills to crack down on Aum

The Lower House Judicial Committee approved two bills Wednesday designed to tighten control of Aum Shinrikyo and facilitate redress to the cult's victims.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Metropolitan worker unions approve pay cut

After nightlong negotiations with Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government workers' unions agreed Wednesday to a two-year pay cut of 4 percent across the board and to cancel its two-hour strike planned the same day.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 17, 1999

A Web DJ saved my life

Let's look at the headlines from Net music news. Maestro, hit the rewind:
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

No date again given for Yeltsin visit

Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in a telephone conversation Wednesday with former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, underlined the importance of holding a bilateral summit in Japan but did not specify a date for any meeting, a Foreign Ministry official said.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Doi corners Obuchi on donations loophole

Takako Doi, head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, accused the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of preparing to exploit a loophole in the Political Funds Control Law during a debate in the Diet on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Drunk riders exact violent toll on rail workers

A growing number of railway station workers and train conductors are falling victim to violence perpetrated by drunken passengers on the Yamanote Line and other main lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area, according to East Japan Railway Co.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 17, 1999

An 'overseas Vietnamese' goes home

CATFISH AND MANDALA: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, by Andrew X. Pham. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999; 344 pp., $25. After Vietnam's "American War" ended, the victorious Viet Cong captured and imprisoned Andrew X. Pham and his family as, along with scores...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 17, 1999

An eyewitness to early Meiji

REMEMBERING AIZU: The Testament of Shiba Goro, edited by Ishimitsu Mahito, translated with an introduction and notes by Teruko Craig. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999; 160 pp., $37 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). A popular account of the beginnings of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) has it that the...
COMMENTARY
Nov 17, 1999

Japan on the verge of change?

LONDON -- A three-week visit to Japan in October left me somewhat more optimistic about the Japanese scene than I was six months or a year ago. Why? There seemed to be a greater recognition that Japan had to change if its economy were not only to deliver continued prosperity to the Japanese people but...
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 17, 1999

On the mystery of the mooses, or meese

One of the basic rules of biodiversity is that species diversity increases toward the tropics and decreases toward the poles.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 17, 1999

Journey to the land of the Exodus

As I stood in front of the bush that burned in Exodus 3:2 but was consumed not, a voice shouted loudly to make itself heard. It was the guide. And he spake unto me (and my tour group), and said, "That is the holy burning bush. It grows nowhere else on the Sinai Peninsula. All attempts to grow cuttings...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

H-II failure a big step back for space program

The first launch of the H-IIA rocket, originally scheduled for early next year, will be delayed at least until May or June because of Monday's failure of the No. 8 H-II rocket launch, officials of the National Space Development Agency of Japan said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1999

Bangladesh envoy promotes corporate interaction

The new Bangladeshi ambassador to Japan, who arrived to take up his post recently, said Wednesday that he hopes to play a role in helping to bring representatives of the two countries' private sectors closer together to enable them to cooperate in a variety of fields.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 17, 1999

Hemingway's dead; long live the future

Hemingway once said that good writing begins with the simple production of but one true sentence. OK. Here's something that's true. Hemingway is dead.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 17, 1999

Window on the fragile world of the Ainu

LAND OF ELMS: The History, Culture and Present-Day Situation of the Ainu People, by Toshimitsu Miyajima, translated by Robert Witmer. Ontario, Canada: United Church Publishing House, 1998; 184 pp., 2,000 yen (paper). Some books are published before the happy ending even happens, which can give readers...
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.
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.
Doves in ascendancy ahead of big Bank of Japan meeting this week
Taro Kono, Japan's digital transformation minister, during a Bloomberg Television interview in Tokyo, during which he mentioned that the Bank of Japan to needs to introduce a rate hike to stop the weak yen trend.
Japan's 'savage' Horigome retains Olympic street skateboarding crown
Japan's Yuto Horigome competes in the Olympic men's street skateboarding final at La Concorde in Paris on Monday.
Doves in ascendancy ahead of big Bank of Japan meeting this week
Taro Kono, Japan's digital transformation minister, during a Bloomberg Television interview in Tokyo, during which he mentioned that the Bank of Japan to needs to introduce a rate hike to stop the weak yen trend.
The Olympic roar is back in Paris after two pandemic-hit Games
French fans cheer on their team during an Olympic rugby sevens match on Sunday. Fans are back in force at the Games and providing a lively atmosphere for the competition after COVID-19 forced the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics to be mostly played without spectators.
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
Influencers helped cause overtourism. Can they help fix it?
More tourists than ever are guided around Japan based on the content they consume online, but can those same creators help direct them to less-populated areas of the country?

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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