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JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

ACCJ urges Tokyo to guard trade agreements

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan urged Tokyo on Tuesday to adequately implement trade agreements with the United States -- especially in areas such as flat glass and insurance -- so as to not politicize the issues during a skyrocketing trade imbalance.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Nippon Life exec details Finance Ministry pressure

The Finance Ministry strongly urged Nippon Life Insurance Co. to provide financial support to Nippon Credit Bank, currently under state control, in the spring of 1997, Nippon Life Vice President Tsuyoshi Nahara said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Bulgaria ends visa rule for Japanese

The Bulgarian Embassy in Japan announced Tuesday that Japanese passport holders are now allowed to visit Bulgaria for up to 30 days without a visa regardless of the purpose of the visit.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Candidate who can say 'no' expected to say 'yes' today

Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shintaro Ishihara is determined to run in the April 11 Tokyo gubernatorial election and is expected to announce his candidacy today, political sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

State willing to help plan Urasoe port, defense chief says

The central government is willing to help the Okinawa Prefectural Government map out the outlines of a multipurpose port in the prefecture's city of Urasoe, Defense Agency chief Hosei Norota said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 9, 1999

Multi-ethnic Mali lets voice be heard

"If you have listened to the music of some great West African voices like Youssou N'dour, Salif Keita or Mory Kante -- and liked them -- then you'll surely adopt Habib Koite and make him a part of your musical life forever."
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

FRC tells bank chiefs to resign if restructuring falls short

Top executives of the 15 major banks seeking public funds should step down if they fail to guide their respective institutions through sweeping restructuring programs, the head of the Financial Reconstruction Commission indicated Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Kobe urged to woo foreign investment

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CULTURE / Music
Mar 9, 1999

Musician serves up jazz du jour

If you are a jazz fan Web-surfing maniac, you might have discovered the Page d'admiratrice de Louis Sclavis (page of a Louis Sclavis admirer, www.netlaputa.ne.jp~/lili/) Web site. Fully dedicated to the French clarinetist, bass-clarinetist and soprano saxophonist, this site comes complete with photographs,...
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Specialists missing from Juvenile bill debate, groups say

Groups opposed to a bill to revise the juvenile law said Tuesday that the bill failed to include the opinions of specialists in the juvenile court system and needs more discussion.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Banks increase writeoffs to 9.3 trillion yen

The 15 banks applying for public money will together write off some 9.3 trillion yen in bad loans by the end of fiscal 1998, according to the heads of the banks.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1999

Environment chief inspects Tokorozawa dioxin sites

Trading his tie and suit for a workman's uniform and rubber boots, Environment Agency chief Kenji Manabe on Monday visited dioxin hot spots in and around Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, as requested by the governor late last month.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 9, 1999

Building a nation in time and space

REINVENTING JAPAN: Time, Space, Nation, by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998, 236 pp., $19.95. Every country exists in time and in space. This is a simple fact that is often taken for granted.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 9, 1999

A love affair with the elephant

THE ELEPHANT IN THAI LIFE AND LEGEND, main text by William Warren, main photography by Pin Amranand. Bangkok: Monsoon Editions, 249 pp., 1,495 baht. William Warren has written the texts of a number of illustrated books: "Legendary Thailand," "Thai Style," "The Chao Phraya River" and "Thai Garden Style."...
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Top bank chiefs admit blame, vow reforms for funds

The 15 applicant banks for public funds said Monday they will write off 9.3 trillion yen in sour loans for fiscal 1998, ending this month, in an attempt to end the bad-loan problem.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Groups seek to help victims of violence

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JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Labor index hits record for surplus workers

The Labor Ministry on Monday announced that its labor index for Japanese corporations in February shows the highest perceived labor surplus since November 1984, the date when the ministry began compiling such statistics.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

LDP expels Kakizawa for entering governor race

The Liberal Democratic Party decided Monday to expel Koji Kakizawa, a Lower House member and former foreign minister, for entering the Tokyo gubernatorial election in defiance of party wishes.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

High school students boycott graduation over flag, anthem

URAWA, Saitama Pref. -- In the latest protest of Japan's de facto national anthem and flag, the majority of third-year students at a high school in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, skipped their graduation ceremony Monday for the second consecutive year.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 8, 1999

The view from the 20th floor

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN JAPAN, edited by Charles Pomeroy, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1998, 367 pp., 3,700 yen (cloth). The image Japan projects abroad comes not only from the government or big business; it also arises from a certain private club occupying the 20th floor of a building overlooking the...
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

State moves to draft stronger consumer protection law

Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Vietnamese prime minister to visit Tokyo soon

Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Keidanren names choices for posts

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) on Monday announced 12 corporate executive candidates -- including top executives of two major banks -- for key positions dealing with current financial problems confronting the nation.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 1999

Arnie flap terminates Justice chief; Jinnouchi new minister

Justice Minister Shozaburo Nakamura tendered his resignation Monday morning to take responsibility for several controversies swirling around him that have stalled Diet deliberations.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 7, 1999

Nothing like goulash when you're feeling Hungary

This week I write you from Budapest, where I sit immersed in Hungarian goulash. There is more Hungarian goulash per square kilometer in Budapest than there are McDonald's hamburgers per square kilometer in the United States. You'll see restaurants full of tourists, all of them eating Hungarian goulash....
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 7, 1999

The meaning of good breeding

DOUBTFUL PARTNERS, by John Haylock. London: Arcadian, 1998, 188 pp., 10.99 British Pounds. This is John Haylock's sixth novel. Like the others, it is a diverting essay on the English sense of class. His characters are members of the gentry in a world -- Asia -- where the pretensions of British birth...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 1999

Violence: The Americas' new pandemic

NEW YORK -- From Argentina in the south to Canada in the north, violence is becoming an increasingly serious problem in the Americas, affecting all nations in the hemisphere. What makes this phenomenon especially worrisome is that children and adolescents are among its main actors, and victims. Violence...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Mar 7, 1999

Is patience a Russian virtue?

Amid the apocalyptic news about Russian pensioners being unable to afford any medicines beyond traditional folk remedies, Russian workers not paid salaries for months and Russian children in the on the verge of starvation, one piece of news is conspicuously missing: reports of mass protests. It is true...
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 1999

Old men and bad dreams

Two unrelated news stories that have been gathering momentum in the United States in the past few weeks have focused attention all over again on the touchy issue of old crimes and delayed punishments. The conflicts involved are not novel -- they surfaced as recently as last year, when Spain attempted...
JAPAN
Mar 5, 1999

J.League 1999 Preview: Big pack takes aim at Antlers

Special to The Japan Times
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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