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JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Woman arrested in knifing of pregnant woman

OSAKA -- A 22-year-old part-time worker was arrested April 22 on suspicion she asked her boyfriend to kill a pregnant postal worker, police said.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Yokoyama faces up to Osaka's cash woes

OSAKA -- Two years since he became governor of Osaka Prefecture on a wave of public outrage over political corruption involving his predecessor, former comedian "Knock" Yokoyama finds himself the target of discontent over the prefecture's financial problems.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Scandal forces Nomura to reshuffle management

Nomura Securities Co. said April 22 that Managing Director Junichi Ujiie will assume its presidency May 1 in place of Masashi Suzuki. The move is aimed at improving the brokerage's public image in the wake of a scandal involving shady stock deals and payments to a firm linked to a "sokaiya" corporate...
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Shinshinto ranks to discuss LDP union

The national convention today of Shinshinto, the largest opposition party, may seal the fate of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's priority set of reforms since Shinshinto leader Ichiro Ozawa has dropped his hostility toward the Hashimoto administration.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Banking head says industry 'positive' on NCB bailout

Nippon Credit Bank's recently announced restructuring plan seems sufficient to revitalize the bank and NCB's calls for financial aid will be considered in a positive way, the new head of the nation's banking industry said April 22.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Conservatives pay Yasukuni controversial visit

A group of lawmakers, including two Cabinet ministers, visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 22 to honor Japan's war dead during the shrine's spring festival.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 1997

Senkaku dispute hampers fisheries pact

Japan and China reaffirmed their intent April 22 to expedite a new fisheries pact covering waters in the East China Sea but were hampered by differences over delineating each nation's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Vote looms on legality of brain death, transplants

After years of inaction, members of the Diet must make the difficult decision of whether brain death should be stipulated as human death to pave the way for allowing organ transplants from brain-dead donors in Japan.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

New Vietnamese consul arrives to push Osaka trade

OSAKA -- Le Ngoc Thu, consul general for Vietnam in Osaka, said here April 21 the new consulate general will work to promote trade between Vietnam and Osaka Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Group seeks assistance for '95 quake victims

Representatives of a citizens' group and lawmakers submitted a petition April 21 to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto calling for legislation to financially support survivors of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Nine PNC executives will face 30% pay cuts

The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. announced April 21 that nine executives will have their salaries cut 30 percent for one month for their supervisory failures over mishaps at two nuclear plants.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Ribbon cut to inaugurate Kansai patent center

OSAKA -- Local government and business leaders from the Kansai region gathered April 21 to officially inaugurate the area's largest depository of domestic and international patent information.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Yamaichi denies report it reimbursed Hanwa

Yamaichi Securities Co. denied on April 21 a newspaper report that it had reimbursed Hanwa Co., an Osaka trader, for investment losses.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Panel backs longer time for public works plan

The government needs to extend its 10-year plan for 630 trillion yen in spending on public works projects instead of trimming the amount, members of the Conference on Fiscal Structural Reform agreed April 21, according to government officials.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 1997

Hungary's Kovacs backs Japan's UNSC bid

Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs expressed support April 21 of Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Japanese internees' literature to be published

Two scholars are trying to shed light on the novels, essays and poems written by Japanese internees at wartime relocation centers in the United States, so their experiences and feelings will not be lost to history forever.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

NGOs offer North Korea food aid

The alleged abductions of Japanese by North Korean agents has partly made Tokyo reluctant to extend food aid to the famine-threatened nation. However, this has not stopped some Japanese and Korean residents here from offering help, mainly through nongovernmental organizations.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Minister makes rare visit to Bank of Japan

For the first time in 15 years, a finance minister crossed the threshold of the Bank of Japan for a one-hour tour in a move befitting the approach of Diet debate on increasing the central bank's autonomy.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Navy commander gives warning on readiness

OSAKA -- A reduction in personnel in Japan would leave the U.S. Navy unable to maintain its necessary level of readiness, Rear Adm. Michael Haskins, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Japan, said April 18.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

JR firms doing just fine without government

Masatake Matsuda, president of East Japan Railway Co., recalls how his company, along with Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) and West Japan Railway Co., rejected the government's plan in December to have the three JR group firms shoulder a greater financial burden for building new bullet train lines....
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Tokyo governor eyes a cleaner metropolis

Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima, who will enter the last half of his four-year term next week, said April 18 that his priority in the remaining tenure will be a fight against garbage and changing Tokyo into a city of recycling.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Nuclear corporation could face the ax

Extensive reform -- including possible elimination -- of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (PNC) must be considered, according to Riichiro Chikaoka, director general of the Science and Technology Agency.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

WTO sought on Indonesia car row

Japan has initiated procedures to file a request with the World Trade Organization to set up a dispute settlement panel to examine Indonesia's national car policy, according to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Japan to drop 1994 public works pledge

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and the three-party ruling alliance decided April 18 to renege on a 1994 public works pledge made by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama to the United States, sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 1997

Aoshima to ask return of Akasaka plot

Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima reiterated his intention April 18 to seek return of a 4,300-sq.-meter plot in Tokyo's Akasaka district that the U.S. Army in Japan has continued to use as a heliport despite a 1983 agreement.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 1997

More travelers expected during Golden Week

More people will take a trip during the coming Golden Week holiday than last year, but the average travel expenditure will drop, a recent survey conducted by Japan Travel Bureau indicates.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 1997

Police unit boasts Snakehead arrest

OSAKA -- The new warrant served on Wang Yunfeng, who lives in Osaka and is allegedly a key member of a Chinese Snakehead syndicate that works with the yakuza to smuggle Chinese into Japan, marks the first major arrest since the prefectural police here set up a special task force earlier this month to...
JAPAN
Apr 17, 1997

Clerics query organ transplant bill

A group of religious leaders issued a statement April 17 calling for careful deliberations on a human organ transplant bill now in the final stage of legislative action.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 1997

Havana willing to grant asylum to Peruvian rebels

Cuba is willing to grant asylum to Peruvian rebels holding 72 hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina Gonzalez reaffirmed April 17 in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 1997

Trade surplus falls 29.6% but gap with U.S. climbs

Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus for fiscal 1996 fell 29.6 percent from the previous year to 6.42 trillion yen, logging the fourth straight year of decline, according to figures released April 17.
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.
Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and more levies on China
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19. Trump on Monday threatened to slap China, Mexico and Canada with hefty tariffs upon his return to the White House.
AI boom makes 139-year-old cable maker Japan’s hottest stock
Fujikura's headquarters in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The company's share price has surged by more than 400% this year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery
Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery 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.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
Rayssa Leal and Chloe Covell on Japan’s teen skaters: We are friends, not rivals
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal celebrates after winning the women's Street League Skateboarding competition on Saturday in Tokyo.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.

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