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JAPAN
May 10, 1999

Toyota insists bid not only factor in selling IDC stake

Hiroshi Okuda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., said Monday that a higher bid would not be the only element it will consider in a sale of its stake in International Digital Communications Inc.
JAPAN
May 10, 1999

Hyogo opens support center for foreign firms

KOBE -- The Hyogo Investment Support Center held its opening ceremony Monday afternoon at the Kobe International House in central Kobe.
JAPAN
May 10, 1999

Landowners delay second Narita runway

The Transport Ministry officially dropped plans Monday to build a second runway at Narita airport by March 2001 after failing to break an impasse with landowners opposed to the expansion.
JAPAN
May 10, 1999

MITI chief Yosano meets Canadian counterpart Marchi

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JAPAN
May 10, 1999

Protesters march on U.S. embassy in Tokyo

About 100 Chinese students demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo's Minato Ward for the second straight day Monday, protesting Friday's NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and demanding an immediate halt to the airstrikes.
EDITORIALS
May 8, 1999

Blair gambles on federalism and wins

The United Kingdom remains united. In a historic vote earlier this week, the Scots and the Welsh held elections to select representatives for their own newly created Parliaments. Preliminary results indicate that the Labor Party will hold the most seats in the new legislature sitting in Edinburgh, but...
COMMENTARY
May 8, 1999

Japan remains a military laughingstock

After much political wrangling, the House of Representatives has passed the bills relating to the new defense guidelines between Japan and the United States. Deliberations in the House of Councilors got under way April 28. With the full cooperation of the Liberal Party and Komeito, and with the partial...
COMMENTARY
May 8, 1999

Hope returns to Lebanon

LONDON -- While the lights go out and buildings collapse in one great European city -- the Serbian capital, Belgrade -- some 1,500 km to the east, in another once war-ravaged metropolis, a glittering reconstruction obliterates the recent past.
CULTURE / Music
May 8, 1999

Beethoven's global harmony ballet

Ludwig van Beethoven is not the composer that springs to mind when trawling the classics for a composition to accompany dance, but in "The Ninth Symphony" choreographed by Maurice Bejart, the doughty chords are given a vivid and fresh life with mid-century choreography.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
May 8, 1999

Kawai exhibit shows grace under fire

The term mingei (folk art) was coined by Soetsu Yanagi in 1926 to refer to common crafts that had been brushed aside and overlooked by the industrial revolution.
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 1999

The tip top of a beautiful craft

At the corner of a room in their house in Iriya, Tokyo, Isamu Sase and his wife Hatsue work day and night making glass pens. They have had a surge of orders from shops all over Tokyo such as Tokyu Hands, Matsuya department store and Itoya in Ginza, which will keep them busy straight until June.
EDITORIALS
May 7, 1999

A brush with history

Mallory, Hillary.... The airwaves have been buzzing this week with two of the best-known names in mountain-climbing history. Some people even reportedly got confused, thinking the body found near the summit of Mount Everest May 1 was that of Sir Edmund Hillary (who is very much alive in New Zealand)...
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Public must mold info-disclosure system to needs

Staff writer
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Mitsui firms to set up 401(k) plan consultancy

Four financial institutions belonging to the Mitsui group announced Friday they will establish a consulting company to help firms implement a Japanese version of the U.S. 401(k) pension plan.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Dioxin: Levels high in incinerator-happy Japan

Last in a series Staff writer
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Honda set to build third plant in North America

Honda Motor Co. announced Friday that it will invest $400 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Lincoln, Ala., boosting annual production capacity in North America from 960,000 to 1.13 million units by 2003.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Ishihara's old secretary unlikely to get position

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is likely to shelve or vote down Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's nomination of his former secretary as vice governor, political sources said Friday.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Disclosure worries persist in Kansai

OSAKA -- Passage of the freedom-of-information bill Friday was welcomed here with caution by members of supporting citizens' groups, who expressed concern over just how the law will be applied.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Mercury hits year's highs

A high pressure system brought clear skies to most of the archipelago on Friday, giving Tokyo and other parts of the country their highest temperatures this year.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

FSA plans guidelines for regional banks

The Financial Supervisory Agency will map out guidelines for the recapitalization of regional banks through public funds by the time they release their earnings reports in late May, FSA head Hakuo Yanagisawa said Friday.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

State plans aid bills to help industry slim down

The government hopes to enact bills to reinvigorate Japanese industry by the end of the current Diet session, including measures such as tax breaks for manufacturers disposing of unnecessary facilities accumulated during the asset-inflated bubble economy, a top government official indicated Friday.
JAPAN
May 7, 1999

Man gets nine years for batting girl to death

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Friday sentenced a 21-year-old man to nine years in jail for beating a girl to death after breaking into her home in 1996.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Renault acquires 15% of Nissan Diesel

Nissan Diesel Motor Co. said Friday that French auto maker Renault SA acquired a 15.21 percent stake in the firm, becoming the No. 2 shareholder after Nissan Motor Co.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

NPA reports rise in crimes by foreigners

Felonies committed by non-Japanese last year numbered 228, an increase of 41, or 21.9 percent, over the previous year, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Low-pollution vehicles need higher profile

The government needs to boost efforts to promote low-pollution cars, according to an interim report released by a panel under the Environment Agency on Friday.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Dioxin: Seveso disaster testament to effects of dioxin

Third in a series
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

C&W makes new takeover bid for IDC

Britain's Cable & Wireless PLC on Thursday upped the stakes in its war with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. to buy International Digital Communications Inc., announcing a new bid of 107,372 yen per share.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Homeless man cleared in drowning

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court found a homeless man not guilty of manslaughter Thursday in the 1995 drowning of an older homeless man, even though the defendant had at one time admitted to throwing the victim into the river.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Questioned LTCB vice president found hanged

Takashi Uehara, a former vice president of the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, was found hanged Thursday in a hotel room in Tokyo's Suginami Ward, police said.
JAPAN
May 6, 1999

Nikkei surges to 17,300 on new stimulus hopes

The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei average ended above 17,000 for the first time in almost 14 months Thursday as share prices shot up on expectations the government has additional economic stimulus measures in the works.
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.
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?
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
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.

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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