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JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

BOJ to pare luxuries

The Bank of Japan announced Friday it will sell all but one of the houses it maintains for its branch managers and all of its resort and golf club memberships as part of restructuring efforts.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

H.I.S. makes foray into securities business

Hideo Sawada, president of major discount travel agent H.I.S. Co., purchased a majority stake of Kyoritsu Securities Co., a midsize brokerage affiliated with now-defunct Yamaichi Securities Co., increasing its presence in the financial sector, it was announced Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

Nagano bribe suspicions spoiling Osaka's Games plan

As the International Olympic Committee extends its investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption during Nagano's bid for the 1998 Winter Games, Osaka officials wonder what the effect will be on their bid for the 2008 Summer Games.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

Konishiki broadens kids' horizons with trek to Japan

A warm breeze blew into Tokyo last week and on its wings were 35 of Konishiki's Kids.
EDITORIALS
Jan 28, 1999

A new political map in the Middle East

Even by the standards of Middle Eastern politics, it has been a tumultuous week. Former Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai has been engaged in a ferocious war of words after being sacked by his boss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the other side of the River Jordan, King Hussein announced...
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

BIS tells banks to tighten hedge fund dealings

A committee under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements has released a report urging banks to take more care in dealing with hedge funds, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Aoshima unveils metro restructuring plan

In an effort to streamline Tokyo's bloated bureaucracy, Gov. Yukio Aoshima unveiled Thursday what he calls an extensive and drastic administrative restructuring plan to reduce its 18 bureaus to seven bureaus and six departments by next year at the earliest.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

AGS strives for clean, sustainable world

Born on a farm in Switzerland, Jakob Nuesch was tormented by a question while studying agriculture at a vocational school — how is yogurt made?
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Agency revives Fujimae reservation plan

The Environment Agency decided Thursday to revive a plan originally articulated three years ago to make Nagoya's Fujimae tidal flats a special nature reserve, following local authorities' decision Tuesday not to turn the site into a landfill.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Industrial output, shipments take biggest plunge since '75

The nation's annual industrial production and shipment indexes last year suffered their biggest declines in 23 years, with the production index down 6.9 percent from 1997 and the shipment index down 6.4 percent, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

U.S. policy, experts called obstacle to stable foreign exchange

U.S. trade policy and influential American economists are obstacles to creating a system to enforce a trading band for yen-dollar exchange rates, according to Kenichi Ohno, an advocate of such a system.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Domestic auto output dropped 8.4% in '98

Total domestic automobile production in 1998 dropped 8.4 percent to 10,049,792 units from the previous year, the first decline in three years, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Finance sees no need for insurance talks with U.S.

The Finance Ministry says there is no need to resume bilateral insurance talks with the U.S., Vice Finance Minister Koji Tanami said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

Most nerve gas victims still in suffering

A majority of surviving victims of the March 1995 sarin gas attack, for which members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult stand accused, still suffer from physical problems as well as posttraumatic stress disorder, a police survey released Thursday shows.
EDITORIALS
Jan 27, 1999

Making real peace with Russia

Russia's political stability under the active leadership of President Boris Yeltsin is the most crucial factor in the success of the ongoing talks for a long-pending peace treaty with Japan. The track record of the bilateral negotiations is clear evidence of this. When Mr. Yeltsin was healthy and confident,...
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Asahi Chemical to sell food operations to JT

Asahi Chemical Industry Co. and Japan Tobacco Inc. have reached an agreement to transfer Asahi's food business operations to the tobacco giant, including Asahi Foods Corp. and seven other subsidiaries, on July 1, the two firms announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

December oil sales rose 0.5%

Domestic fuel oil sales increased by 0.5 percent in December from a year before to reach 24.16 million kiloliters, marking the first year-on-year increase in 15 months, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 27, 1999

Links you can trust

In the past few months, this column has addressed the trend of "portals," those jump-station sites where you're supposed to begin your journey onto the Web. Although Wired.com hasn't officially become a portal, it is where I often begin my Web sessions. I go to read Wired's superior tech features, but...
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Nissan to sell part of Kinugawa Rubber stake

Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday that it will sell 4 million shares of Kinugawa Rubber Industrial Co., a Nissan affiliate, to Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. to advance joint projects between the two rubber firms.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Obuchi miffed over 'Super 301' move

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said Wednesday he is "seriously concerned" over the U.S. reinstating its retaliatory "Super 301" trade provision and a revised "Buy American" law.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Aoshima now called friend of bureaucrats, status quo

Mavericks Yukio Aoshima and "Knock" Yokoyama rode a tidal wave of voter discontent with the status quo four years ago and won gubernatorial races in Tokyo and Osaka, pleasing the public and shocking lawmakers and assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party and other non-Communist forces.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Poll Preview: Celebrity governors in need of new shtick

Four years ago, comedian and Upper House member "Knock" Yokoyama entered the Osaka gubernatorial race three days before the official campaign started, saying he was angry about the collusion in the non-Communist ruling coalition in the prefectural assembly.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1999

Flu outbreak said cause of 24 deaths

At least 24 people nationwide have died of influenza-related diseases this month, according to a survey conducted by Kyodo News.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 1999

Europe's democracy deficit

The "European project" -- the continent's gradual evolution toward greater integration -- took a giant step forward this month with the launch of the euro. The single currency is a bold initiative, but it is merely the latest manifestation of a time-tested European strategy: Economic integration has...
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Asian telecom firms want Net connectivity costs shared

Eight Asian telecommunications carriers are calling on their U.S. counterparts to share costs for Internet circuits between the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, KDD Corp. President Tadashi Nishimoto said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Guidelines amendment aims for greater Diet say in SDF

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi indicated Tuesday his government may amend bills to approve updated guidelines for Japan-U.S. defense cooperation so that related operations by the Self-Defense Forces would require Diet approval.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Japan, Iran agree to debt-refinancing plan

Japan and Iran have agreed in principle to refinance $500 million of $2.6 billion in debts owed by the Persian Gulf country to private Japanese companies, to help strengthen bilateral economic relations, government and industry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Tokyo seeks foreigners for advisory council

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking for candidates to sit on its new Foreign Advisory Council.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Sony, Toyota enter data service venture with IIJ

A joint data communications venture established by Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Corp. and Internet Initiative Japan Inc. announced Tuesday that it will begin high-speed data services of up to 600 megabits per second in April for corporate users.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 1999

Japan Energy to halve workforce by 2003

In a desperate restructuring move, major oil refiner and distributor Japan Energy Corp. said Tuesday it will nearly halve its workforce by 2003 to survive ever-intensifying competition.
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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