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BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Technical glitch forces J-Phone to delay launch of 3G mobile telephone

Cellular operator J-Phone Group announced Tuesday that it will postpone the planned launch of the next-generation mobile phone service (3G) from December to June 2002, due to technical problems caused by the latest version update of an international standard for the multimedia cellular phone.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Deadline on breakup of NTT unlikely to be issued

A set of telecommunications-related bills the government aims to pass in the current Diet session is unlikely to include a proposed two-year deadline for the breaking up of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., the telecom minister said Tuesday.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 7, 2001

Climb rain forests to the clouds

If you've climbed Mount Kinabalu in Sabah Province, Malaysian Borneo, under the impression that you were heroically scaling the highest peak in Southeast Asia, I have bad news.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2001

Agribusiness at a crossroads

LONDON -- Every industrialized country in the world has this idealized image: the farmer, full of robust common sense, tending his pig or his flock on his small land-holding, sturdily helped by his hardworking wife and children. He is close to the earth and nature. It is true that, in Japan or America's...
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

Komura joins chorus calling on Mori to quit

Fresh from surviving a no-confidence motion, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Tuesday faced renewed calls to resign, this time from Justice Minister Masahiko Komura.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2001

Meeting mutual expectations

The Bush administration attaches special importance to U.S. allies in its foreign policy. In a news conference held Dec. 16, immediately after he won the presidency, George W. Bush said his administration will work with its allies in Europe and the Far East.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2001

Panel split over Isahaya Bay dike

A panel of third-party experts ended its first meeting Saturday by postponing a decision on whether the gates of a huge reclamation dike traversing Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture should be opened.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2001

Osaka to emphasize dangers of lighting up

OSAKA -- Forget the bid for the 2008 Olympic Games or the opening of Universal Studios Japan. For those Osaka residents who have long suffered in the presence of cigarette smokers, a recent announcement by the city came as some of the best news in years.
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2001

Gwyneth and Ben's last tango in L.A.

My friend Mari has a dilemma -- she just split up with her boyfriend of three years. They work in the same company, on the same floor, and Mari had hoped it was leading to a church wedding in Tuscany. Instead, it ended after a screaming, 10-hour argument, and with the boyfriend owing Mari a total of...
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2001

Breaking stones and hearts

Of all the treasures in Afghanistan, the most famous by far are the two colossal Buddhas of Bamiyan Province. Carved out of a rocky cliff-face in the fourth or fifth centuries A.D., the statues have gazed out benevolently over the old Silk Road route below for centuries. According to scholars, the Bamiyan...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2001

Fujimori must return to face accusers: new Peru envoy

The newly appointed Peruvian ambassador to Japan has urged deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to return to Lima to answer accusations leveled at him following his decision to resign as president last year from Tokyo.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2001

Penal Code change would target credit card fraud

The government endorsed a bill Friday that increases the maximum jail term for credit card fraud to 10 years from the current five years and imposes heavier fines, officials said.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

Japan, South Korea firms see bigger benefits in forging more alliances

Kyodo News Relations between Japanese and South Korean business enterprises have deepened in the past two or three years with increases in business alliances and joint ventures as well as full-scale sales offensives in the Japanese market by firms such as Hyundai Motor Co.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2001

Jobless rate stays at 4.9%; spending remains in a lull

Dour economic indicators released Friday provided further evidence that Japan's economic recovery is stalling, with unemployment staying at a record-high level of 4.9 percent in January and consumer spending remaining flat.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2001

Union wants to pressure Myanmar

The secretary general of a major global trade union body wants the international community to review its relations with Myanmar to pressure the military leadership to stop using its people as forced laborers.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 2, 2001

Marathon champion set to profit

Kyodo News Sydney Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi appears set to join the ranks of other prominent figures who have attained fame and fortune after becoming champions in major sporting events.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2001

Just 12 officials say colleague in funds scandal provided gifts

Only 12 of the nearly 600 Foreign Ministry officials investigated for their connections with a former ministry official involved in an embezzlement scandal admitted receiving gifts from him or being entertained by him, all describing them as "modest."
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2001

Murakami balks in Diet testimony

Masakuni Murakami, the former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight at the center of a widening bribery scandal, testified under oath before the Diet on Wednesday but refused to reply to questions that he claimed could incriminate him before his possible indictment by prosecutors.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2001

Nikkei hits 29-month low

The Nikkei Stock Average plummeted to a 29-month closing low Wednesday as tumbling U.S. technology stocks and bleak data on Japan's economy dealt a double blow to the Tokyo equity market.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 1, 2001

NHK's hollow take on easy-money bubble era

What's impressive about the new Steven Soderbergh film, "Traffic," which opens here in April, is how thoroughly it presents all the ramifications of America's drug war by exclusively dramatic means: no charts, no explanations of cause and effect, no polemics. The movie's three separate plot vectors intersect...
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2001

Admiral gives apologies to families of missing

A special envoy dispatched by U.S. President George W. Bush apologized Wednesday in Tokyo to representatives of relatives of nine people still missing after the sinking of a high school fisheries training ship by a U.S. submarine.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

U.S. admiral apologizes over sub accident

A special envoy from Washington arrived in Japan on Tuesday afternoon to convey apologies from the United States to Japan over the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship off Hawaii, which left nine Japanese missing and presumed dead.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2001

Tokyo, Seoul in extradition treaty talks

Japan is holding talks with South Korea regarding the conclusion of a bilateral extradition treaty, Justice Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Mori faces difficult week as KSD scandal widens

Another critical week for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori began Monday with the Upper House approving the resignation of Masakuni Murakami, one of the embattled prime minister's staunch backers.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Approval rating for Mori declines to 7%

The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in the latest Kyodo News survey is down to a mere 7 percent, a drop of 12 percentage points from a similar poll in December. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, has leaped to 82 percent from 65 percent.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2001

Approval rating for Mori declines to 7%

The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in the latest Kyodo News survey is down to a mere 7 percent, a drop of 12 percentage points from a similar poll in December. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, has leaped to 82 percent from 65 percent.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 27, 2001

World Cup ticket glitch: Part IV

Internet ticket sales in South Korea and Japan for the 2002 World Cup were temporarily suspended Monday morning due to a computer glitch, just one day after the start of applications following a 10-day delay.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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