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JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Police believe bogus bills may be work of foreigners

OSAKA -- Investigators believe an overseas counterfeiting ring is behind the recent discoveries of more than 50 fake 10,000 yen notes in Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo, informed sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

LDP maneuvers to delay ethics bill one more week

The ruling party has asked its two allies -- the Social Democratic Party and New Party Sakigake -- to postpone their self-imposed deadline to April 17 for a bill to ban lawmakers from raising funds through influence-peddling.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Albright to visit Tokyo on April 28

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will visit Japan on April 28 to meet with Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, ministry officials said April 10.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Raid on leftist lair yields police radio recordings

Police confiscated several thousand recordings April 10, many including conversations between investigators, during a search of a hideout of the ultra-leftist Kakumaru-ha (Revolutionary Marxist Faction).
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

EPA report shows weak spending, worsening economy

The economy has worsened due to weak consumer spending and grim corporate sentiment, the Economic Planning Agency said April 10 as it acknowledged that the economy's growth rate is shrinking.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Doctor tells how he saved sarin victim

Defense lawyers for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara on April 10 cross-examined a doctor who treated a man seriously injured in the March 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

BOJ reprimands 98 officials over bribery scandals

The Bank of Japan punished 98 officials April 10, including two executive directors, for their connections to the bribery scandal hanging over the central bank as well as other questionable conduct involving financial institutions.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Supreme Court dismisses Korean's fingerprint refusal case

The Supreme Court rejected claims by a South Korean woman April 10 who demanded a retraction of the government's refusal to issue her a re-entry permit after she refused to be fingerprinted.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

ANA chief asks for understanding amid strike

The president of All Nippon Airways Co. on April 10 asked for public understanding regarding the ongoing strike by the carriers' flight crew union.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Tokyo stocks ignore stimulus action

Tokyo share prices turned lower April 10, with the just-announced package of economic stimulus measures going largely unheeded. The dollar also fell sharply against the yen amid indications the Bank of Japan returned to the currency market to keep the Japanese currency from falling.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Traffic snarl seen for Golden Week

People planning to travel by car during Golden Week, from the end of the month through the first week in May, should brace for a traffic nightmare -- as usual.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Fiscal austerity law put up for revision

The Conference on Fiscal Structural Reform accepted a request late April 10 by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to revise the fiscal austerity law to include a flexibility clause, conference members said.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1998

Kyuma to inspect Chinese military forces in May

Defense Agency Chief Fumio Kyuma said April 10 that he plans to visit China in early May for defense talks and to inspect Chinese military units.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Better Japanese language studies for foreign students urged

A panel of education researchers submitted a list of proposals Thursday to the Education Ministry, calling on schools as well as the central and local governments to improve the learning environment for foreign students in public schools, focusing on their Japanese-language studies.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Opposition criticizes Hashimoto's shift

Opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's policy reversal on Thursday and are ready to pressure him to step down over his economic policy failures during Diet deliberations.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Panel seeks to certify cyberspace transactions

A Justice Ministry subcommittee has issued a report on cyber commerce recommending the creation of an electronic certification system to secure electronic transactions, ministry officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Mbeki urges accurate view of Africa

Citing a first-century Roman writer who depicted Africans as strange, monstrous creatures, South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said that almost 2,000 years later, the world still has not shed this view.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Taxation package hailed by analysts

Masaru Takagi, a professor of economics at Meiji University, welcomed Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's announcement Thursday of a plan to launch a pump-priming package, including 10 trillion yen in "real water" spending.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

New BOJ board decides to keep easy monetary policy

The Bank of Japan said Thursday that it will retain its easy monetary policy, including its official discount rate at an all-time low of 0.5 percent, reflecting the first decision of its new policy board.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Airlines may be given freer hand with fares

A Transport Ministry advisory committee Thursday recommended that domestic air fares be liberalized as early as 1999.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Cultist says water sales mulled in Kobe quake

A senior Aum Shinrikyo figure told the Tokyo District Court on Thursday that soon after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of January 1995, he was ordered to make polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for water to sell in Kobe.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Arianespace inks satellite contract for 2000 launch

France-based Arianespace announced in Tokyo on Thursday that it has signed a contract with Japan's Space Communications Corp. to launch a telecommunications satellite in the early part of 2000.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Hashimoto vows tax cuts

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced Thursday that his government will double the 2 trillion yen tax cut for this year and implement a 2 trillion yen tax cut in 1999.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

New tax cuts praised by business leaders

Business leaders welcomed Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's announcement to implement 2 trillion yen in additional tax cuts this year, but reiterated that the government should change the taxation system to implement the cuts permanently.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Kansai execs still tout affinity with Asia

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JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Acquisitions process said key barrier to foreign investment

While there are effectively no legal barriers, difficulty in carrying out corporate acquisitions poses a major obstacle to boosting foreign investment in Japan, says James Abegglen, a leading expert on Japanese business affairs.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Accord inked on Aha base return

U.S. and Japanese representatives signed an official agreement Thursday over the return of a U.S. military base in Aha, northern Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 1998

Hospital chief supplied drug to son

A director of a Chiba hospital has been questioned by police on suspicion that she supplied her son with a government controlled drug to help him study and prepare for a dentist license exam, it was learned April 8.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 1998

Japan to help Jakarta with $2 billion package

Japan is prepared to provide a total of $2 billion in financial assistance to Indonesia to help support Jakarta's trade financing, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said April 8.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 1998

21st century global leader is U.S.: poll

Which country will be the most influential in the next century? The answer, if you guessed: the United States.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
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.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘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.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
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.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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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
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