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JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

General Motors looking for another nation to run

General Motors Corp., the world's largest auto manufacturer, is considering going into production in Japan, the Asia-Pacific head office of the company said on Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

More cell phone antennas planned for tunnels, highways

The Construction Ministry said Thursday it will set up antennas in more than 200 tunnels on highways and national roads nationwide over the next five years to enable transmission for cellular phone use.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

Kyoto to reconsider building apartments on fault line

KYOTO -- The municipal government here has agreed to consider local concerns about a modern building planned for a site in a traditional neighborhood in northeast Kyoto that sits directly on top of a fault line.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

Japan readies policy advice for Vietnam

Staff writer
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 5, 1999

Jambalaya! Cooking to die for in the Big Easy

A visitor to New Orleans in the early part of this century described the city as "a paradise for gluttons," and considering that the Big Easy has the highest number of restaurants per square kilometer in the United States and its denizens have the lowest life expectancy in the country, it's easy to see...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 5, 1999

Emperors, journalists, critics and other influential people

Several weeks ago Time Magazine's Tokyo bureau asked Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to nominate someone for the magazine's series of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, and Obuchi chose Emperor Showa.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

Ban lifted on Belgian egg whites, dairy goods

The Health and Welfare Ministry on Thursday lifted its temporary ban on the import of egg whites and dairy products from Belgium after it confirmed that these shipments were not contaminated with dioxin.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 1999

UNDP hopes to work more with Japan

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Ministry pushes labels for 28 genetically altered foods

A total of 28 kinds of food using genetically modified soybeans, corn and potatoes should be subjected to mandated labeling for genetically modified organisms, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry proposed on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Brazil to suspend favorable auto tariffs early

Staff writer
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Aug 4, 1999

The usual suspects

Several months ago, I wrote about day trading and the thousands of investors who see it as the avenue to quick riches ("Easy money," Feb. 2). They use new technology to scamper through markets in ways that were impossible for ordinary citizens only a few years ago.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Land values drop 7.1% as banks unload properties

Land prices in Japan fell on average for the seventh consecutive year as the pace of decline again picked up amid banks' ongoing efforts to dispose of bad loans, the National Tax Administration Agency reported Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Kawasaki takes on housing discrimination

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Wiretap legislation enters final debate

The Upper House Judicial Affairs Committee held a first public hearing Wednesday on controversial bills to allow law enforcement authorities to monitor communications during investigations of organized crime.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

LDP lawmakers want remittances to North halted

Japan should suspend cash remittances to North Korea if Pyongyang test-launches a second ballistic missile, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 1999

A last push by the Taliban

The Taliban, the Islamic fundamentalist movement that controls 80 to 90 percent of Afghanistan, has launched a long-anticipated summer offensive to recapture the rest of the country. The fighting has been fierce, involving more than 100,000 men on five fronts. Civilian casualties have been high, since...
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Magic hopefuls gather at Yokohama

More than 200 players from 39 countries will converge on the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Plaza today for the opening of the 1999 Magic: The Gathering World Championships.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 1999

Facing the reality of Taiwan

Later this week, government officials I have never used the words "one China." In fact, I have never learned the usage of "one China," and today I have found that this is not my singular experience. One of the distinguished participants from the United States told us that he did not remember having used...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Aug 4, 1999

Consider the alternatives

A woman asks about cats. She would like to do something to help them. She doesn't tell us what kind of help she would like to provide, but it is a reasonably safe assumption to think she wants to help homeless cats, the ones that gather in any neighborhood where residents will give them food. Mine is...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 4, 1999

How to keep the main clause interesting

Many years ago when she was studying for the TOEFL exam, my wife asked me to explain the difference between a main clause and a subordinate one. She somehow had it in her head that as a native speaker I would instinctively know what those words meant.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 1999

Finance firm held up for 2 million yen

OSAKA -- A knife-wielding man robbed a consumer finance company in the Nanba district here Wednesday morning and made off with about 2 million yen in cash, police said.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 4, 1999

Islands of diversity and divergence

Although the islands of New Zealand, which I wrote about last time, are fascinating, we don't need to travel so far to find isolated islands supporting interesting biodiversity. Japan's own southern archipelago, straggling from Kyushu toward Taiwan, known as the Nansei Shoto, is so rich in both flora...
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 1999

Mending relations with Russia

NATO's bombing campaign may have won the war in Kosovo but damaged relations between Russia and the West were part of the price of victory. The decision by Moscow and Washington to open new talks on arms control and renew efforts to integrate Russia into the world economy is a welcome sign that the breach...
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Tokyo probes Sumida Ward hospital infections

Metropolitan authorities have inspected a hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward after it was found that seven inpatients were infected with serratia bacteria, of whom three died last week, officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Brief JR service stoppage planned for New Year's Eve

East Japan Railway Co. will halt trains at stations for a few minutes shortly before midnight Dec. 31 to forestall possible Year 2000 problems, JR East sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Yasuda Kasai CIGNA eyes 5% of 401(k) market

Staff writer
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Justice Ministry to exempt media from wiretaps

The Justice Ministry has decided in principle to exempt the media from being wiretapped in a bill currently before the Diet, ministry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Ex-campaign worker sues Yokoyama over groping

OSAKA -- A 21-year woman filed a 12 million yen damages suit Tuesday against Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama, accusing him of sexually harassing her while she was working for his re-election campaign in April.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Colombian ambassador seeks support over guerrillas

Colombia's new ambassador to Japan, Ricardo Gutierrez, on Tuesday urged the international community to support his government's efforts to achieve peace after 35 years of conflict with guerrillas.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 1999

Nissho Iwai announces major restructuring

Nissho Iwai Corp., a major trading firm struggling under heavy financial burdens, will carry out a drastic restructuring that will halve its textile business, company sources said Tuesday.
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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