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JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Bulgarian president to visit Nov. 16

Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov is scheduled to visit Japan from Nov. 16 to 20 as a state guest to discuss bilateral and international issues with Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Foreign Ministry officials said Oct. 17.The visit is intended to help strengthen relations between the two nations, the...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Japan to sign investment pact with Saudi Arabia

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JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Kobe boy ordered to medical institution

KOBE -- The 15-year-old boy who has confessed to murdering two children and assaulting three others here earlier this year will undergo mental treatment at a juvenile medical institution, the Kobe Family Court said Oct. 17.Judge Yasuhiro Igaki said the boy, whose name is being withheld, may have a serious...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Hashimoto pushes economic reform rather than tax cuts

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto indicated Oct. 17 his opposition to the use of deficit-covering bonds to finance any special income tax cuts for propping up the economy, stressing that increased efforts to change the nation's economic structure are more important in the longer term.Responding to questions...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Officer sentenced to three years for drug frameup

A former Tokyo police officer was sentenced Oct. 17 to three years in prison for trying to frame two innocent men on drug charges in April in conspiracy with two colleagues, who earlier received suspended terms.Nobuji Kawaguchi, 40, listened calmly as presiding Judge Toshiyuki Kosaka described his crime...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Western Canada, Kansai plan better ties

KOBE -- Government and business officials from the Kansai region and western Canada agreed Oct. 17 to strengthen private-sector-driven cooperation to revitalize and diversify their economies.Canadian participants at the Kansai-Canada West Business Forum said western Canada welcomes investment by Kansai-based...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 1997

Submarine tunnel connects Osaka to island

OSAKA -- A 2.2-km undersea tunnel for trains and vehicles linking Sakishima, a man-made island in Suminoe Ward, and Tempozan, in Minato Ward, was opened to road traffic Oct. 17.The tunnel is intended to provide easier access to the waterfront development district from the city center, local officials...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

The Asahara Trial: Counsel takes aim at Okazaki testimony

Defense counsel for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara cross-examined a senior cult figure Oct. 16 about his part in the killings of an anti-Aum lawyer, trying to disprove his contention he was simply following Asahara's orders.Kazuaki Okazaki, 37, one of six cultists accused of slaying Tsutsumi Sakamoto,...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

Include Ranariddh in Cambodia polls, Obuchi urges

The participation of ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh and exiled parliament members in the upcoming Cambodia general election should be guaranteed, Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi told Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng on Oct. 16.According to Foreign Ministry officials, Obuchi also...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

Access, not glut, said vital in fight against hunger

Giving the poor greater access to food, rather than simply increasing food production, is the key to solving the world's hunger problems, said Dr. Amos Namanga Ngongi in a speech at Yokohama City University on Oct. 16.Ngongi, the Cameroonian deputy executive director of the World Food Program, a U.N....
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

LDP stimulus plan drops tax incentives

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's economic stimulus package due out next week is unlikely to include tax incentives worth around 300 billion yen, party sources said Oct. 16.LDP officials said the package, originally to be released on Oct. 20, would be made public Oct. 21. In effect, the pump-priming...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

State to slash hiring 35%; seeks diversified recruits

The government will hire 632 fast-track civil servants for fiscal 1998, about 35 percent fewer than the number hired annually for the past five years, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka said Oct. 16.The reduction was made in line with a Cabinet decision in July 1996 to try to cut the number of newly...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

Neurologist speaks out as transplant law kicks in

Staff writerDoctors may be committing unforgivable crimes by performing organ transplants from brain-dead donors, a neurology expert warns.Tetsuo Furukawa, a neurology professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Neurology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, says it still has not been...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

Tung hears out Tokyo's hopes for Hong Kong

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto told Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa during talks Oct. 16 that he expects Hong Kong's market economy to help China reform its state-run corporations, government sources said.Tung said Hong Kong can contribute to China's economic reform in terms of funds, management...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

Oki to chair Kyoto climate conference

The government plans to recommend Hiroshi Oki, director general of the Environment Agency, as chairman of the forthcoming international conference on global warming, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka said Oct. 16.The recommendation is expected to be accepted by participants of the Third Conference...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1997

U.S. puts onus on developing nations in emissions talks

Developing nations must play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a senior U.S. official reiterated Oct. 16 in Tokyo, indicating that this will be a focal point in negotiations during a key U.N. conference on global warming to be held in Kyoto in December."The position that we have taken...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Japan Securities official arrested over embezzlement

A former official of Japan Securities Agents Ltd. was arrested Oct. 15 in Tokyo on suspicion of embezzling 550 million yen worth of convertible bonds.Mikizo Uno, 63, is suspected of taking 550 of the bonds belonging to customers and using them as collateral for a loan. Uno, a former section chief at...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

LDP, SDP request funds for public work projects

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party urged the government Oct. 15 to put public works projects for upgrading agricultural areas into the supplementary budget.It was basically agreed during a meeting of a group of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's Conference on Fiscal Structural...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Newspaper association calls for improved ethics

SENDAI -- The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association kicked off its 50th annual convention Oct. 15 in Sendai with the adoption of a resolution calling for further improvements in ethics in the industry.The resolution also says the current resale price system for newspaper subscriptions should...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Mercosur and Japan to step up ties

Japan and Mercosur, the South American common market comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, will step up cooperation, according to Alvaro Ramos, the foreign minister of Uruguay and leader of the Mercosur delegation.After three days of meetings with public and private sector officials, Ramos...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

New Okinawa minister pushed by Hashimoto panel

Any Okinawa-related matters following the downsizing of the Okinawa Development Agency should be handled by a specially appointed minister, members of a blue-ribbon reform panel said Oct. 15.The Administrative Reform Council, headed by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, agreed with his proposal for a...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Wife testifies in Unit 731 redress suit

A 75-year-old Chinese woman whose husband was killed by Unit 731 testified Oct. 15 that she did not know until 1986 that her husband died in Japanese medical experiments in the early 1940s.Guo Jinglan of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is one of 10 Chinese war victims seeking a total of 120 million yen...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Ito pushes tax incentives for raising confidence

Measures to boost the sluggish economy should focus on recovering consumer confidence through tax incentives, such as easing welfare and education burdens through taxation measures, Shigeru Ito, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, said Oct. 15.During a meeting of key members of the ruling...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Shinshinto leader Ozawa lashes out at defense guidelines

Shinshinto leader Ichiro Ozawa said Oct. 15 the revised guidelines for Japan-U.S. defense cooperation could lead Japan into a neighbors' war and a violation of the Constitution, which bans the right of collective defense.During his first news conference since June, Ozawa criticized the government for...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Mitsuzuka tells banks to pick up the pace

Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka urged regional banks Oct. 15 to step up efforts to improve operations ahead of the "Big Bang" of financial system deregulation.In a speech before the annual gathering of leaders of the nation's regional banks, Mitsuzuka stressed the importance of no-nonsense management...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Organ transplants from brain-dead become legal today

Organ transplants from brain-dead people, for decades regarded by Japanese police as murder, became on Oct. 16 legitimate acts of surgery as the landmark Organ Transplants Law went into effect.The implementation ends a nearly three-decade taboo on the procedure, which has virtually disappeared since...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Small, medium-size firms urge prompt cuts in taxes

Small and medium-size enterprises urged the government Oct. 15 to promptly reduce corporate and income taxes to stimulate the economy.The request was made during a meeting between Mitsuo Horiuchi, the minister of international trade and industry, and representatives for four organizations of small and...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

16,600 cancel policies at Aoba Life

About 16,600 insurance contracts with the failed Nissan Mutual Insurance Co. had been canceled as of Oct. 14, according to Aoba Life Insurance Co., which took over Nissan Mutual's operations.Aoba began operations on Oct. 1, and the rush to cancel policies hit immediately, apparently out of apprehension...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1997

Australian business raps carbon dioxide limits

Uniform targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions should not be implemented despite proposals to set such targets by Europe and Japan, Australian business leaders said during a three-day joint meeting of the Japan-Australia Business Cooperation Committees, which ended Oct. 15 in Tokyo.A total of 367 business...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 1997

Cipriani urges Osaka firms to aid Peru's needy

OSAKA -- Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani asked the businesspeople of Osaka on Oct. 14 to work more closely with grassroots organizations to establish a relief fund directly accessible to the needy in Peru.Speaking at the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cipriani especially called...
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.
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.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
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.
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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