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JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

LDP requests extension of Diet session

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato on Tuesday requested Lower House Speaker Soichiro Ito and Upper House President Juro Saito to extend the current Diet session, originally scheduled to end today, by eight days.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 1998

Mazda launches new Familia

Mazda Motor Corp. on Tuesday launched a fully redesigned Familia model on the Japanese market.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Tokyo temple offers Zen with an American touch

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JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Tokai professor optimistic economy will pick up soon

Despite the dire predictions of some pundits, Japan's economy will defy the naysayers and recover from its sluggishness within the year, Tokai University Professor Hajime Karatsu predicted Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Life insurers see fall in aggregate contract value

The nation's eight major life insurance firms reported that the combined total of outstanding personal life insurance contracts in 1997 fell for the first time in some 50 years, according to fiscal 1997 earnings reports released Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Works kickbacks seen from small contractors

The Construction Ministry is looking into reports that small and medium-size contractors are charging commissions by "subcontracting" public works projects they can't handle to major construction firms, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

MITI recommends easing of oil industry rules

The government should scrap measures designed to balance supply and demand of petroleum products in nonemergency situations, the Petroleum Council, an advisory body to the minister for international trade and industry, said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Finance Ministry takes a step toward transparency

The Finance Ministry announced Monday it has abolished 382 of its 400 nonlegal official notices, or "tsutatsu," in a bid to promote transparency in its supervision of financial institutions.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Father of missing Japanese urges tough Lebanese approach

Megumi Yokota's father believes Japan should follow the example of the Lebanese government, which in 1979 repatriated its citizens who had been abducted to North Korea, after tough, behind-the-scenes negotiations with the communist government.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Female, rural grads face disadvantage during job hunt

Female students and students in remote areas are at a disadvantage in the current employment slump because they receive employment information from companies later than others, according to a meeting of school faculties Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Keidanren chairman responds to criticism

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) is not currently soliciting political donations from its member companies, the new head of Keidanren said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

New Chile ambassador sees change

New Chilean Ambassador Oscar Fuentes said Monday his country wants to consolidate its ties with Japan in trade and other areas and promote multilateral cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Singapore envoy happy with relations

With their economic strengths, Japan and Singapore should promote more cooperation in helping Asian neighbors in economic and other areas, Chew Tai Soo, the new Singapore ambassador to Japan, said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Dollar tops 140 yen in Tokyo trading

For the first time since June 1991, the yen Monday dropped to a seven-year low against the dollar in Tokyo on indications that the strong U.S. economy would continue and the anemic Japanese one would get worse before getting better.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Public works strategy hit by corporate execs

The government should not use public works projects to help stimulate the dormant economy, and the process of implementing such projects should be reformed substantially to make them more transparent, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Twins get death, life for S&M club killings

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a man to death and his twin brother to life imprisonment Friday for robbing and killing the owner and the manager of a sado-masochist club in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 1995.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

St. Lucia welcomes aid, visitors, Japanese seat on UNSC

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JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

BOJ sees need to speed up bank reform

Steps to accelerate deregulation and strengthen the banking sector will be needed to boost the economy in the coming months, the Bank of Japan said Friday in a paper to be published in its monthly report for June.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Mechanical failure cited as cause of '95 chopper crash

The fatal June 1995 crash off Sagami Bay of an antimine helicopter belonging to the Maritime Self-Defense Force was caused by a mechanical malfunction in the rotor controls, MSDF officials said Friday in its final report on the case.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Izui donation was legitimate, lawmaker says

In a closed Diet session viewed as an LDP gesture to draw the curtain on a money scandal before the July Upper House elections, the party's policy head said Friday that he received 225 million yen from an oil dealer as legitimate political donations.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

'Air Do' seeks approval for new Tokyo-Sapporo flights

Hokkaido International Airlines Co., a new entry in the country's aviation industry, applied Friday with the Transport Ministry to offer regular service between Tokyo and Sapporo starting Oct. 30.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Former Aum lawyer shows legal mettle

Although the 38-year-old former senior cultist is no longer a lawyer nor an Aum follower, his desire to exercise his legal expertise was apparent Friday as he testified in the trial of cult founder Shoko Asahara before the Tokyo District Court.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

APEC to survey impact of trade liberalization

Staff writer
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Insurance market talks get under way

Japan and the United States will hold working- and high-level talks next week in Tokyo to follow up on a 1996 bilateral agreement that aims to promote deregulation of the Japanese insurance market and protect U.S. insurers operating here.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Report says Japanese lifestyle unsustainable

Efforts to create an environmentally sustainable society in Japan have only just begun, according to the white paper on the environment for 1998.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Defensive-fire bill for peacekeepers passed by Diet

Despite resistance from the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party, the Diet passed a bill Friday to allow Self-Defense Forces commanders taking part in United Nations peacekeeping operations to order defensive fire if deemed necessary.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Major insurers release solvency figures for first time

The nation's five major nonlife insurance firms made public for the first time on Friday their solvency margin ratios -- a benchmark for their exposure to risk -- as part of new guidelines to better disclose information on operations.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

DKB beefs up stake in Kankaku

Kankaku Securities Co. formally announced Friday that it will shore up its capital base with 30 billion yen in aid from Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, making it a de facto subsidiary of the major city bank.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

Volvo's hybrid car available today

Volvo Car Corp. today begins selling a more environmentally sound car that runs on both gasoline and compressed natural gas.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1998

'Big Bang' package receives Upper House approval

A package of four laws for sweeping financial reform was enacted Friday at a plenary session of the Upper House.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘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.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.

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