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JAPAN
Apr 17, 1998

Dad who beat violent son to death gets three years

A father who for two years put up with his son's violent outbursts was given a three-year prison term on Friday for killing the 14-year-old with a baseball bat while he slept.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 1998

Automakers take another look at diesel engines

BY SAYURI DAIMON
JAPAN
Apr 16, 1998

Magazine rapped for expose on Kobe boy

The Justice Ministry on April 16 admonished publishing company Bungei Shunju for printing what is alleged to be a copy of a Kobe youth's gruesome account of two slayings he perpetrated, including the May 1997 strangling and beheading of an 11-year-old boy.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 1998

Lawson raided in probe over rebate pressuring

The Fair Trade Commission raided Lawson Japan Co. and about 10 other related locations April 16 over allegations that the convenience store chain violated the Antimonopoly Law by demanding that suppliers deliver their products free of charge and seeking rebates for marketing their goods.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1998

NEC eludes Cray with remote supercomputer service

NEC Corp., effectively driven out of the American supercomputer market, has launched a remote computing service using its SX-4 supercomputer for overseas and domestic users.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 1998

Signal maker's sons arrested in tax evasion case

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on April 15 arrested two sons of the president of Japan Traffic Control Technology (Nikkokan) Co., a traffic signal maintenance firm, in connection with a tax evasion case.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1998

Arianespace inks satellite contract for 2000 launch

France-based Arianespace announced in Tokyo on Thursday that it has signed a contract with Japan's Space Communications Corp. to launch a telecommunications satellite in the early part of 2000.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 1998

21st century global leader is U.S.: poll

Which country will be the most influential in the next century? The answer, if you guessed: the United States.
JAPAN
Apr 6, 1998

Fish haulers, riders take to world's longest suspension span

The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which opened Sunday, began serving as a key link early April 6 in regional public transportation as commuter buses carried passengers and trucks brought fresh food from Shikoku and Awaji Island to Hyogo and Osaka prefectures.
JAPAN
Apr 1, 1998

Only 27.7 trillion yen left for JNR to clear

The debt incurred by the former Japanese National Railways totaled 27.7 trillion yen at the start of fiscal 1998, down 333.6 billion yen from one year ago, Transport Ministry officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 1998

Nippon Yusen to take over Showa Line

Nippon Yusen K.K., the country's leading maritime transport firm, will merge with Showa Line Ltd. in October, top executives of the two carriers announced March 27.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 1998

20 bus, railway unions go on strike over wages

Twenty bus and railway company labor unions went on strike early March 26 after unions and management failed to agree on an annual pay hike during ongoing spring labor negotiations.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 1998

Mitsui Marine plans Hungary entry

Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance Co. will set up a representative office in Budapest to cultivate the emerging market of Eastern Europe, the company said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

GE Capital receives insurance license

The Finance Ministry on March 19 issued an operating license to GE Capital Edison Life Insurance Co., a new insurer to be set up jointly by Toho Mutual Life Insurance Co. and leading U.S. nonbank financial firm GE Capital Services Inc.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Sanyo Electric promotes Kondo to presidency

OSAKA -- Sadao Kondo, a managing director of Sanyo Electric Co., will become president on June 26, succeeding Yasuaki Takano, who will then become vice chairman, it was announced here March 17.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Ford Japan names Honda veteran new president

Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Co., announced March 17 that Eiji Iwakuni, 55, will become the new president of Ford Japan, to replace Konen Suzuki, beginning April 1. "The company will introduce a series of strong new products next year," Suzuki said. "We concluded that new talent should...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 1998

Financier arrested in major stock fraud

The president of a Tokyo finance company was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of making 5.5 billion yen in profits through fraudulent stock transactions, police said.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Parents cope with slaying of Japanese-Brazilian son

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JAPAN
Feb 26, 1998

Japan, U.S. firms form venture for trans-Pacific telecom cable

Four U.S. and Japanese companies seeking to become the "carriers' carrier" will construct an underwater telecommunications cable between the two countries, the firms announced Thursday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 1998

DirecTV mum about subscribers

DirecTV Japan Inc. declined comment Monday on how many subscribers it has obtained so far in Japan, in an apparent indication the carrier is struggling to compete.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1998

On Paper: Electronics firms, automakers adapt to slump

Second in a series
JAPAN
Feb 16, 1998

Netherlands' Timmer claims gold, shatters speedskating record

Staff writer
JAPAN
Feb 13, 1998

Stores fear stale sales will befall Valentine's Saturday

Staff writer
JAPAN
Feb 12, 1998

Claris Japan to become FileMaker in April

Claris Japan Inc., the Japanese subsidiary of U.S.-based FileMaker Inc., will change its name to FileMaker Japan on April 1, Claris Japan President Takanobu Miyamoto said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 1998

Therapy turns into competition for Nagano Paralympic skier

NAGANO -- Before a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Kazuya Murozuka had never skied in his life.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 1998

Paralympics' legacy left in doubt

Last in a series
JAPAN
Feb 10, 1998

Olympic sponsors hold Games, torch sacred

Seventh in a series
JAPAN
Feb 10, 1998

Firms battle for visibility during Nagano hoopla

NAGANO -- Beyond the venues where some of the world's top athletes are competing for Olympic medals, another battle is under way in this city.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 1998

Fuji's Kasai named Yasuda Trust chairman

In a bid to strengthen its reconstruction, Yasuda Trust & Banking Co. will accept Kazuhiko Kasai, vice president of Fuji Bank, as new chairman with authority to represent the company, the trust bank announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 1998

WorldCom, BT move toward Japanese telecom licensing

Spurred by global deregulation, two foreign telecommunications giants applied Thursday for a license in Japan in a bid to become the country's first such foreign-owned firms.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
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.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
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.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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