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JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Osaka evicts squatter camp near school

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JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Lawyers need global outlook as borders shrink, dean says

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JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Moody's may be misjudging firms: JCIF

Moody's Investors Service may not be correctly evaluating Japanese companies, argues a paper released Monday by the Japan Center for International Finance.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Lung recipient released from hospital

OKAYAMA -- A 24-year-old woman who underwent the nation's first lung transplant operation using live donors was discharged from Okayama University Hospital Monday after two months of postoperative treatment there.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

LDP, Liberals aim to keep tieup afloat

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party on Monday agreed to launch five project teams on five key issues in an effort to continue their talks toward establishing a coalition government.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Lingerie trips up robber

YAMAGUCHI -- A 36-year-old man has been handed over to prosecutors for allegedly stealing 4,500 pieces of women's underwear from lingerie shops while on business trips, police sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Monorail zips to mark

OSAKA -- What is dubbed the world's longest monorail, located in northern Osaka Prefecture, saw its 100 millionth passenger Monday, eight years and seven months after it opened, officials said.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Fujita restructuring plan, default requests unveiled

Fujita Corp., a general contractor, unveiled a new five-year restructuring plan Monday and requested that six main creditor banks renounce a total of 120 billion yen in loans provided to the firm.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 1998

Haneda sets domestic travel record

The annual number of passengers using Tokyo's Haneda airport for domestic flights topped the 50 million mark Monday, 67 years after it opened in 1931, Haneda officials said.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

Pilot recalls '37 bombing of Panay

First of two partsStaff writer
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

DKB 'lender' to Koike faces jail time

Prosecutors Friday demanded an eight-month prison term for a former vice president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank on charges of violating the Commercial Code by extending illegal loans to "sokaiya" corporate extortionist Ryuichi Koike.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

High school dropouts reach record high

There were 111,491 high school dropouts in fiscal 1997, constituting a record 2.6 percent of total beginning-of-year enrollment, according to an Education Ministry survey released Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

Cabinet OKs 52.89 trillion yen 'zaito'

The Cabinet on Friday approved a 52.89 trillion yen fiscal investment and loan program, known as "zaito," for fiscal 1999, 5.9 percent more than that for the current year.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

81.86 trillion yen budget for '99 gets Cabinet nod

The Cabinet on Friday approved the final version of an expansionary 81.86 trillion yen general account budget for fiscal 1999 that calls for an 11 percent increase in public works spending.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

Japan approves theater missile defense study with U.S.

The government on Friday formally approved a plan to start joint research with the United States on Washington's theater missile defense program in fiscal 1999.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

NCB chief talks of new challenge

The new president of Nippon Credit Bank, which was nationalized earlier this month, promised on Friday that the bank will strive to quickly regain financial health and shake off government control.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1998

Kan to seek another term as Democratic Party chief

Naoto Kan, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, expressed his intention Friday to seek another term as the party's president in next month's election.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Japan, Iran agree on arms control measures

Japan and Iran agreed Thursday to make joint efforts to pursue weapons disarmament and nonproliferation, combat terrorism, press Iraq to comply with U.N. weapons inspections, and support the Middle East peace process.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Bribed highway exec off with suspended sentence

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former Japan Highway Public Corp. executive to a suspended 2 1/2-year prison term for accepting about 7.2 million yen in bribes in the form of wining and dining.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Hitachi to shuffle management, add post

Hitachi Ltd. announced Thursday that Executive Vice President Etsuhiko Shoyama will become president April 1, and Hiroshi Kuwahara, also an executive vice president, will take a newly created post of vice chairman in late June.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Boy held in slaying threatened others

OSAKA -- The 14-year-old boy arrested Wednesday on suspicion of killing an 80-year-old female neighbor had used knives and an ice pick to intimidate several female classmates over the last two months, sources from his Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, school said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

New Cabinet to be picked by Jan. 6

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi plans to reshuffle his Cabinet before he leaves for Europe on Jan. 6, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Electronics output dipped 6.2% in '98

Production by the nation's electronics industry in 1998 is estimated to have fallen 6.2 percent from last year to 24.12 trillion yen, the first drop in five years, an industry association said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Turkish envoy presents credentials

Turkey's new ambassador to Japan, Yaman Basket, presented his credentials to the Emperor Thursday in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1998

Tokyo dodges bankruptcy bullet

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has narrowly escaped effective bankruptcy in fiscal 1998, and the financial future looks dismal, Governor Yukio Aoshima said Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 1998

LTCB in trouble over hidden loan guarantees

The nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan kept off its books 62 billion yen in loan guarantees that it promised to its affiliated moneylender, in a possible violation of the Securities and Exchange Law, financial sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 1998

Ruling in Nanking Massacre libel suit upheld

The Tokyo High Court has upheld a lower court decision that ordered a writer and publisher to pay 500,000 yen in compensation to a former Imperial Japanese Army corporal who maintained he had been incorrectly mentioned in a book on the Nanking Massacre.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 1998

Hibiya stacks in danger of closing

Tokyo's 90-year-old Hibiya Library may close one year from now unless the capital's financially troubled metropolitan government comes to the rescue.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 1998

Panel suggests hiking consumption tax, sees 2% growth

The economy has the potential to achieve 2 percent annual growth, and drastic structural reforms could put it on a full-scale recovery path, according to an interim policy package announced Wednesday by the Economic Strategy Council.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 1998

China to send over train-study group

China has indicated that it plans to send senior officials to Japan early next year to exchange information on the construction of a high-speed train system between Beijing and Shanghai, a Transport Ministry official said Wednesday.
Ryuju Nagayama falls in controversial ruling in Paris but later earns bronze
Ryuju Nagayama reacts after his quarterfinal bout against Spain's Francisco Garrigos at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
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.
A mysterious plot prompts a rare call from Russia to the Pentagon
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in April. In July, Russia's defense minister said he needed to talk to Austin about an alleged Ukrainian operation. What happened next remains murky.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
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.
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?
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.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.

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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