search

 
Menu
Search
 
July 28, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
322,831 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 1997

Average household savings rising

The average level of savings per household increased 3.5 percent to 13.5 million yen this year, and average after-tax income rose slightly to 6.05 million yen, according to a Bank of Japan survey released Sept. 19.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 1997

Osaka to promote business through 'ambassador' plan

OSAKA -- The Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry created a "business ambassador" system Sept. 19, in which selected businesspeople travel abroad and promote Osaka and the Kansai region to foreign firms.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 1997

Honda unveils fuel-efficient drive system

Honda Motor Co. has unveiled a new motor-assisted driving system that will drastically improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Top court strikes Unification appeal

In a first-ever ruling on religious group tactics to canvass offerings, the Supreme Court on Sept. 18 upheld a high court decision that ordered a religious organization to pay 37.6 million yen in damages to two Fukuoka women who were coerced to donate their assets.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Machimura urges government to admit pain inflicted

Japan should attempt to build new relations with Asian countries with a forthright admission that its colonial rule and wartime aggression inflicted tremendous pain on them, according to Education Minister Nobutaka Machimura.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Metropolitan police musicians to compete in Europe

The Metropolitan Police Department's band is scheduled to leave Japan Sept. 25 to participate in police band contests to be held in France and Spain.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Hospital graft case yields pair of arrests

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office has arrested a senior prefectural government official and a managing director of a medical corporation in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on suspicion of graft.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Internet phone rattles industry

The recent liberalization of international Internet telephone services is leading to a variety of rates and a mushrooming of service operators.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Pioneering life of missionary remembered

A three-day international conference opened Sept. 24 at the United Nations University in Tokyo to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Luis Frois, a 16th century Jesuit who lived in Japan for 34 years until his death in Nagasaki.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Tokyo police continue gang sweeps

About 500 officers of the Metropolitan Police Department were mobilized Sept. 18 to search about 100 offices and locations in Tokyo related to the Yamaguchi-gumi and Nakano-kai crime syndicates on suspicion of violation of the Firearms and Swords Control Law.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Political donations declined 2.4% in 1996

Political parties, funding organizations and political groups with operations in more than two prefectures collected 166.575 billion yen in 1996, a drop of 2.4 percent from the previous year, according to a government report released Sept. 19 by the Home Affairs Ministry.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Coroners support sarin death claim

Two coroners who examined the bodies of six victims of the March 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack said in court Sept. 18 that their autopsy results do not contradict prosecutors' claims that the deaths were from sarin poisoning.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Opposition parties seek Sato no-confidence vote

Three opposition parties agreed Sept. 18 to introduce a no-confidence resolution in the Diet against convicted bribe-taker Koko Sato, the chief of the Management and Coordination Agency.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Daiwa raided over 67 million yen payoff

Tokyo prosecutors raided the head office of Daiwa Securities Co. on Sept. 18 to search for evidence of payoffs allegedly made by the major securities firm to corporate extortionist Ryuichi Koike, a "sokaiya" central to similar scandals involving Nomura Securities Co. and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1997

Northwest reaffirms support of 'open skies' as talks near

Prior to next week's scheduled bilateral aviation talks in Tokyo, executives of Northwest Airlines reaffirmed the carrier's position Sept. 18 to firmly support an "open skies" policy that would fully liberalize the air service market between the United States and Japan.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Designer of Aum sarin plant given 14-year sentence

A former senior Aum Shinrikyo member was sentenced Sept. 17 to 14 years in prison for designing a nerve gas laboratory and building the spraying device used in the June 1994 nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

ASEM action plan focuses on two-way investment boost

In an effort to boost the two-way flow of investment between Asia and Europe, Thailand has drafted the Asia-Europe Meeting action program.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Recruit's Ono given suspended sentence

Toshihiro Ono, the former chief of Recruit Co.'s presidential secretariat, was given a two-year prison term Sept. 17, suspended for three years, for selling unlisted Recruit Cosmos shares to two Diet members from 1985 to 1986.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

IMF halves Japan's growth forecast

Japan's economic growth forecast for the 1997 calendar year has been revised downward to 1.1 percent from April estimates of 2.2 percent, the International Monetary Fund said Sept. 17.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Chinese activist gets suspended term for ramming blockade

A Chinese prodemocracy activist was sentenced Sept. 17 to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for ramming his car into a police blockade last June in front of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Mitsuzuka begins trip for ASEM, G-7 talks

Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka departs Sept. 18 to attend a series of international financial meetings that will focus on the stability of Asian markets and the strength of the Japanese economy.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Iranian man alleges abuse in Fuchu prison

An Iranian man who was incarcerated at Fuchu prison has filed a 15 million yen damages suit against the national government, claiming that guards in the western Tokyo facility mistreated him, his lawyers said Sept. 17.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

SDP, Sakigake issue ultimatum on Sato

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's two non-Cabinet allies threatened Sept. 17 to end the tripartite alliance unless Koko Sato resigns as head of the Management and Coordination Agency.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Trade surplus up for fifth month

The nation's customs-cleared trade surplus for the month of August came to 742.1 billion yen, rising 113.6 percent from the same period last year, according to statistics released Sept. 17 by the Finance Ministry.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Yamaichi execs arrested over payoffs to 'sokaiya'

Prosecutors arrested five officials of Yamaichi Securities Co. on Sept. 17, including a former senior managing director, on suspicion of illegally making payoffs to a "sokaiya" corporate extortionist.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Industrial output increases 1.7%

Industrial output in July rose 1.7 percent from the previous month, with an upward revision from a preliminary increase of 1.1 percent, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said in a report released Sept. 17.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

New transport chief on course for clash over JR debt, taxes

When the new transport minister began talking about solutions to the long-running and lingering problem of debts left over by the former Japanese National Railways, one word kept coming up: "taxes."
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1997

Hashimoto comes out in favor of legislated spending limits

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and his Conference on Fiscal Structural Reform on Sept. 17 endorsed a draft bill that would oblige the government to reduce key expenditures to achieve its self-imposed fiscal reform targets by fiscal 2003.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1997

Embassy to hold service for Diana

The British Embassy will hold a service Sept. 20 dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, for the British community in Japan, the embassy announced on Sept. 16.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 1997

Survey finds Japan youths well-traveled

About 62.6 percent of Tokyo residents in their 20s have been to a foreign country at least once, according to a Tokyo Metropolitan Government survey released Sept. 16, which showed a sharp increase from the 34.5 percent of residents surveyed in 1989 who had been overseas.
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.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

JNTO promotes sustainable tourism initiatives
JNTO promotes sustainable tourism initiatives

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER