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LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Sep 22, 1999

Where the women are

No presses need to be stopped to inform you of the growing number of women on the Internet in Japan. And the sizes of our headlines won't increase to tell you that number will continue to rise steadily, if not dramatically, over the next few years
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Japan grabs for promise of MOX

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Railway, works outlays back on track

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party agreed Wednesday to use part of 500 billion yen in reserves for public works -- allocated in the initial budget for fiscal 1999 -- to build new bullet train lines, officials of the two coalition partners said.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Measures sought to seize more Aum assets

Court-appointed administrators for Aum Shinrikyo will seek legislative measures to enable them to seize additional assets from the religious cult, their representative said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Small business law outdated, panel tells state

Japan must change its policy from supporting all small businesses -- including weak ones -- to promoting competitive small companies and startups, the Small and Medium Enterprise Policymaking Council said in a report submitted to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Ruling party slams BOJ over policy decision

A top economic adviser to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi harshly criticized the Bank of Japan's decision Wednesday not to ease its monetary policy, a matter he said Obuchi took "very seriously."
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Weather, condo sales slow service industry

Monthly service industry activities slipped 0.3 percent in July from the previous month, the first decline in three months, due to cool weather and a big drop in condominium sales, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 1999

'Advance Australia fair' takes on a whole new meaning

"There goes another shiftless Aboriginal," said the Pioneer bus driver to those of us taking the half-day tour of Alice Springs. "We give them cars, they drive them till they're out of petrol, then, bloody hell, they just leave the bloody things by the side of the road."
LIFE / Food & Drink / KISSA KULTUR
Sep 22, 1999

Green-tea cappuccino under the Ark Hills leaves

Looking for a stylish spot to meet a client? Blossoming romance needs to be nurtured over a cappuccino? Maybe, like most of us, you just need a respite from the mad rush of the city, but don't have the time (or cash) to catch the next train out of town.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 1999

Americans debate the whys and whens of intervention

WASHINGTON -- When is military intervention justified? What is a just war? Are some wars mere whims? Americans have been debating these questions recently as the crisis in East Timor escalated.
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Sep 22, 1999

Borrowing scenery for a lord's lagoon

A short distance from the center of Wakayama City, on an inlet very close to the sea, is a flat piece of land called Suiken, where a well-preserved daimyo garden known as Yosui-en stands.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Alleged Aum driver faces life for role in subway gassing

Prosecutors demanded a life sentence Wednesday for former Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Kiyotaka Tonozaki, who is charged with driving a getaway car for one of the cultists accused of releasing sarin in the March 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Court rejects Chinese war victims' damages case

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday dismissed claims from 10 Chinese demanding a formal apology and 100 million yen from the state over suffering they endured due to Japan's wartime activities in China.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Typhoon-triggered landslide kills two

A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed two people Wednesday morning in the city of Oita as a major typhoon headed north-northeast over the sea southwest of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, hitting Okinawa's main island with wind up to 90 kph.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Keidanren suggests increased use of tied loans

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) called on the Japanese government to increase the ratio of tied loans in yen loans to Asia as part of proposals on Japan's official development assistance announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

The Asahara Trial: Guru speaks, blames cultists for attack

Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara on Wednesday blamed senior cultists for the deadly March 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, saying he never discussed it with anyone.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Sep 22, 1999

Qualified clarification

Today's column attempts to clarify some common questions about Japanese health insurance. First it is necessary to understand the differences between the two types. Shakai Hoken (SH), or Employees Health Insurance, covers employees/dependents of companies that subscribe to some health insurance plan....
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Ex-Im Bank hit by protests over dam loans

As the board of directors prepared to meet inside, activists rallied outside the Export-Import Bank of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday, protesting the organization's plan to resume funding for a controversial dam in the Philippines.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 22, 1999

Good things come in Iki packages

Iki Island, administratively part of Nagasaki Prefecture but located in the straits between Fukuoka and Korea, has some of the finest white sand beaches in Kyushu.
EDITORIALS
Sep 21, 1999

When the whole world is watching

What can we do when faced with atrocities being committed on a monstrous scale? It is an old question, but it has taken on a renewed urgency with the advent of new communications technologies and mass media eager to exploit them in the competition for viewers. Being blind to distant injustices is a luxury...
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Sep 21, 1999

Honeys, ah sugar, sugar

I'm sitting opposite Vivi, Yuri, Kotome and Zina, trying desperately hard not to think about sex. But it's hard, it's very hard.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 21, 1999

Get ready for the second nuclear age

FIRE IN THE EAST: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age, by Paul Bracken. HarperCollins, 1999, 186 pp., $25 (cloth). The last two years have upset a lot of strategic certainties. Rather than moving toward nuclear disarmament, the nuclear club has expanded as India and Pakistan exploded...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 21, 1999

Does the American Dream beat Hong Kong custard?

PAPER DAUGHTER: A Memoir, by M. Elaine Mar. HarperFlamingo, New York, 1999, 240 pp., $23. "From Hong Kong to Harvard" proclaims the publicity cover letter accompanying M. Elaine Mar's first book. As a memoir, it is but one drop in the growing flood of reminiscences engulfing publishing houses, and Mar's...
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 21, 1999

The sorrow and the pity: fateful meetings at Kabukiza

Through the month of September, the Kabukiza Theater in Ginza is offering an excellent selection of historical and realistic plays and a dance number for the afternoon and evening, starring Uzaemon Ichimura, Kichiemon Nakamura, Tomijuro Nakamura and Baigyoku Nakamura. Participating also in the current...
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 1999

Negotiating with North Korea

The United States and North Korea have struck yet another deal. This time, the two parties seem to have negotiated a framework for the relaxation of U.S. economic sanctions against North Korea in exchange for the suspension of Pyongyang's ballistic missile testing program. Some ask, why does the U.S....
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999

Obuchi certain to win re-election to LDP presidency

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi is almost certain to win re-election as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, easily defeating rivals Koichi Kato and Taku Yamasaki, in a vote by party members today.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999

Toyota launches the young person's Celica

Toyota Motor Corp. has launched the newly remodeled Celica sports sedan, targeting younger-generation customers in their mid-20s, the nation's top automaker announced Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999

Cresvale's office blames parent for investor losses

The Tokyo branch of Cresvale International Ltd. said Monday it knew nothing about the losses incurred on the privately placed bonds it had marketed since 1991, blaming its parent company for the mismanagement of clients' money.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999

Review conditions for SDF deployment: Kan

The incumbent leader of the Democratic Party of Japan said Monday that Japan should review the five principles under which the Self-Defense Forces are dispatched to a United Nations-led peacekeeping operation.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 1999

Tear-stained faces are just another fad

RYAN NAKASHIMA Staff writer
Dominant Natsumi Tsunoda delivers Japan's first gold medal at Paris Olympics
Gold medalist Natsumi Tsunoda celebrates on the podium after she won the women's under 48-kg division at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Japan's Hifumi Abe defends Olympic title after sister falls early
Hifumi Abe reacts after defending his Olympic title in the judo men's under-66 kg division at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Sunday.
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.
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
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.
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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