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JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Nichiei chief threatened staff, managers say

Three former managers of Nichiei Co., now under fire for excessively aggressive loan-collection practices, have told investigators that President Kazuo Matsuda threatened to dismiss or demote employees who failed to collect debts, it was learned Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Bilateral glass talks open in Tokyo

Japan and the United States will begin a two-day meeting today in Tokyo over foreign access to the nation's flat-glass market -- one of the pending areas of trade disputes between the two countries, officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Honda takes beating from strong yen

Honda Motor Co. announced Tuesday that it suffered a 19.6 percent decline in pretax profit on a group basis during the April-September period to 226.4 billion yen.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1999

Y2K problem wrecks holiday season for finance industry

Staff writer
EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 1999

A welcome step toward Pyongyang

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JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Minority suffrage bill may split coalition

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Mita chief given 32-month sentence

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Monday sentenced Yoshihiro Mita, former president of the failed copier manufacturer Mita Industrial Co., to two years and eight months in prison for violating the Commercial Code in an earnings window-dressing case.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

MSDF conducts dry run of evacuation plan

The Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted its first drill using helicopters and ships to practice evacuating Japanese living abroad in case of emergencies near Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

LDP gives partners nod to submit foreign suffrage bill

New Komeito and the Liberal Party will jointly submit to the current Diet session a bill to grant foreign permanent residents of Japan the right to vote in local polls, New Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Toyota's Okuda wins business award

Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., has won the 1999 Zaikai Award, or Business World Award, the business magazine company Zaikai announced Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Loose gutter in tunnel suspends bullet trains

OSAKA -- A plastic drain gutter inside a Sanyo Shinkansen Line tunnel in Yamaguchi Prefecture was found sagging along the tunnel wall Monday, disrupting the operations of several trains and forcing West Japan Railway Co. to suspend nine bullet train runs, JR officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Coalition's nursing care rift on the mend

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

LDP executives cave in to corporate donation ban

Reversing an earlier decision, top executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Monday that corporate donations should be banned beginning next year as stipulated in a 1995 law.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Nishimura sticks to his guns, urges defense debate

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

Tokai health checks set; DNA found damaged

A Nuclear Safety Commission subcommittee decided Monday how they would study people who came within 350 meters of the site of the Sept. 30 nuclear criticality accident in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 1999

15 years sought for Aum lawyer in sarin gassing

Prosecutors on Monday demanded 15 years in prison for a former Aum Shinrikyo lawyer accused of conspiring to kill anticult lawyer Taro Takimoto in May 1994 by releasing sarin gas. Takimoto suffered minor injuries at the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 1999

Prospects of a military coup in India

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. Part 1 appeared in yesterday's Opinion page.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 1999

Another Anglo-French beef

LONDON -- So here we are, 60 days short of the new millennium and 66 years short of the date one thousand years ago (1066) when the French conquered Britain -- and we are in the middle of La Guerre du Rosbif, or the Beef War, or Le Front de la vache folle (the mad cow front) as the French daily paper...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 7, 1999

Hail Japan, for you will surely miss it one day

The foreign community in Japan is transient. People come and go. The funny thing is, when they go, they're usually ready. It's something biological: that need to return home.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Nov 7, 1999

Our troubled world

Only 55 more days to go until the end of this century. It has been a troubled one, yet one filled with new discoveries and hope. More people have been assured of at least the basics of comfort in life while large numbers have been left in devastating poverty. Perhaps it will be remembered as a century...
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 1999

Coming to legal grips with Aum

Citizens who are justifiably wary of the lingering threat to public safety posed by the Aum Shinrikyo cult welcome the bill seeking to control its activities now under consideration in the Diet. It is expected to be enacted into law before the end of the year. The numerous criminal activities with which...
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Minicar sales continue rise; imports drop

Monthly sales of new minicars rose 2.4 percent to 139,621 vehicles in October, marking the 13th consecutive year-on-year increase, the Japan Mini Vehicles Association reported Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Y2K fears boost cruises over New Year's

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Pros offer multilingual counseling for stressed foreigners

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Profits up at shipping firms

Japan's three major shipping companies announced Friday that their unconsolidated profits increased in the first half of fiscal 1999.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

New Komeito's ethics clash with new partner

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Incense maker going strong 12 generations into business

Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

State unveils measures to slash nursing-care burden

The government formally announced a set of measures Friday aimed at reducing the financial burden on people under a planned public nursing care system to be launched in April.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

EU on the fence on antidumping review

European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy expressed mixed views Friday on calls from Japan and other Asian nations to have the World Trade Organization take up antidumping issues in the upcoming round of trade liberalization negotiations.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Ishihara outraged over misplaced mail

Staff writer
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’

Longform

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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