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JAPAN
Oct 30, 1998

Global satellite phone systems prepare to power up

Staff writerA new global satellite phone system that promises to release users from the fetters of conventional, bulky and cumbersome mobile phones currently in use begins service Sunday amid mixed expectations regarding its success.Nippon Iridium Corp.'s new Iridium service will provide customers with...
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1998

Canada backs APEC on Japan's forestry, fishery tariffs

Canada on Thursday joined the APEC chorus in calling on Japan to further reduce tariffs on forestry and fishery products during a high-level meeting in Tokyo, Foreign Ministry officials said.At two-day vice ministerial talks ended Thursday, the Canadian side expressed dissatisfaction with Japan's failure...
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1998

WTO sides with U.S. in apple trade dispute

The WTO's dispute settlement panel on Tuesday agreed with the U.S. that Japan's required plant quarantines for testing apples and other produce is effectively a trade barrier.In its final report on the so-called apple dispute, the panel of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization told Japan to simplify...
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1998

Toshiba, Hitachi report huge midterm losses

Plagued by the prolonged economic slump and falling semiconductor prices worldwide, electronics giants Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. on Tuesday reported their first midterm net losses in decades.And they were huge. Hitachi Ltd. posted an unconsolidated net loss of 124.7 billion yen -- the first midterm...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998

Faltering Ford charts new recovery path

Struggling to gain a foothold in Japan, senior officials of Ford Motor's Japanese subsidiary next week will begin visiting affiliated auto dealers across the country.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998

Ostracized burakumin leather tanners faced with new threat

The biggest victim of a leather products trade dispute between Japan and the European Union may turn out to be the hisabetsu buraku — the ostracized hamlets where many of Japan's social outcasts earn a living tanning leather.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998

APEC may force Japan into tariff compromise

Japan intends to seek a compromise on the easing of its fisheries and forestry trade barriers at next month's meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the government's top spokesman indicated Friday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said the government has virtually given up its position...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1998

ANA changes course for Star Alliance

In an effort to pull in business class customers for its international routes, All Nippon Airways Co. will join the Star Alliance, a multilateral strategic linkup of international carriers, next October, ANA officials said Thursday.The alliance is made up of Air Canada, Lufthansa German Airlines, Scandinavian...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1998

MITI, Saudi trade chiefs chat

Japan and Saudi Arabia on Thursday reaffirmed their bilateral efforts to facilitate investment in the Arab nation, which pledged to be a primary oil supplier to Japan and other world economies, officials of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said.MITI Minister Kaoru Yosano met separately...
JAPAN
Oct 20, 1998

Sakakibara backs Mahathir on currency controls

Sharing Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's concerns over capitalism, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs supported Malaysia's foreign exchange controls Tuesday.At a Tokyo symposium, Eisuke Sakakibara said global capitalism backed by "market fundamentalism," or the belief...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 1998

Shiga rail crash hearings come to end

OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court concluded hearings Monday in a civil suit filed by relatives of some of the 42 people killed and 614 hurt in a head-on train collision in 1991 in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture.A group of 23 plaintiffs, relatives of nine of those killed, demanded a total of 1.14 billion...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1998

Expert calls for overhaul of emergency medical system

Staff writerThe nation's emergency medical system should be greatly improved before organ transplants from brain-dead donors are promoted, said one veteran doctor who specializes in emergency care.Yuichi Hamabe, director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Bokuto Hospital's Life Support Emergency Center in Sumida...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 1998

Northeast Asia security forum to go 'track 1'

Staff writerJapan, the United States and Russia will inaugurate an official security-dialogue forum as early as next year to discuss the Northeast Asian situation and possible security cooperation among the three major players in the region, government sources said Tuesday.The three countries will upgrade...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Cargill plans to takeover Toshoku

The world's largest grain trading house said on Monday that it will help collapsed Japanese food trader Toshoku Ltd. rehabilitate by turning it into a wholly owned subsidiary.Cargill Inc. of the United States, based in Minnesota, hopes to set up its own domestic food distribution system by using Toshoku's...
JAPAN
Oct 9, 1998

Tokyo court dismisses sex slave suit, ignores alleged ordeals

The Tokyo District Court on Friday rejected claims by 46 former "comfort women" from the Philippines who were seeking compensation from the Japanese government for forcing them to provide sex for Japanese soldiers during World War II.Presiding Judge Yoriaki Ichikawa of the Tokyo District Court dismissed...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Kim prods Japan to lead Asia's recovery

Liberalization of the Japanese market and expansion of domestic demand in Japan are critically important to resuscitate the Asian economy, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung stressed Thursday in Tokyo."Now is the time for Japan to take the initiative to revive the Asian economy," which is in the midst...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

Leaders sign wide-ranging action plan

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung signed during their summit meeting Thursday a 43-point joint action plan aimed at enhancing ties toward the next century.The paper covered a wide range of topics for the two countries to pursue together and covered five major areas...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

The Kim Visit: Leaders look ahead, vow cooperative ties

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and visiting South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put the past behind them Thursday, with Japan apologizing for its past colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and both pledging to establish a new partnership in a variety of fields for the 21st century.Obuchi said at a joint...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 1998

President Kim addresses Diet

Japan and South Korea must establish "future-oriented relations" while working to resolve differences in interpretation over Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung said Thursday in a speech to the Diet."The time has come for the two countries to look...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 1998

'Microcreditor' not for privileged

Staff writer Muhammad Yunus is not your typical banker. You won't catch him traipsing around in designer suits or marching briefcase in hand through the corporate halls looking for new clients.No, this simply dressed Bangladeshi banker marches to a different beat: he strives to lend money to the poor...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 1998

TSE fails to hold 13,000 line

Reflecting financial uncertainties worldwide, share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange tumbled Monday with the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average closing below 13,000 for the first time since Jan. 30, 1986.Trading closed at 12,948.12, down 275.57 points from Friday's close of 13,223.69 as sluggish afternoon...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 1998

The Kim Visit: 'Sorry' may not be enough to bridge past

Staff writerWhen South Korean President Kim Dae Jung makes his official visit this week, Japan is expected to apologize and express remorse for its past conduct toward Koreans. But complete reconciliation between the people of the two nations may not be possible until they come to a better mutual understanding...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 1998

ODA reduction requires greater efficiency: white paper

Reform of Japan's official development assistance is needed to achieve efficient and effective ways of extending foreign aid, an ODA white paper released Friday says."Japan's ODA in the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 1999, has been cut by 10.4 percent. ... Therefore, efficiency and effectiveness...
JAPAN
Oct 1, 1998

Clinton slating trip to Japan

The United States has officially informed Japan of President Bill Clinton's plan to visit Japan and hold talks with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi next month, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka confirmed Thursday.The government's chief spokesman said Tokyo and Washington are now adjusting the specific...
JAPAN
Sep 29, 1998

Japan, U.S. support Y2K contingency plans

Japan and the United States should draw up contingency and backup plans to secure critical services in case some computer systems do not correctly identify 2000, a senior U.S. government official in charge of millennium bug crisis management said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 1998

Social tyranny keeps Japan far from U.N. rights ideals: expert

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JAPAN
Sep 29, 1998

Japan likely to seek WTO in Canada auto row

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 25, 1998

TICAD-II looks to halve African poverty by 2015

Staff writer
JAPAN
Sep 21, 1998

Obuchi to push arms control at U.N. assembly

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi planned to stress the importance of arms control and disarmament in his speech at the United Nations in New York Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 1998

North Korea launch was aimed at U.S. negotiators, expert claims

Staff writer
Japan begins feeling the pain of BOJ rate hikes more concretely
People were more concerned about the direct and specific impact of the Bank of Japan's latest rate hike on their personal lives, according to an artificial intelligence-driven analysis of various platforms, including social media.
Sumo’s newest yokozuna is all smiles — but major challenges await
Hoshoryu (front, second from left) celebrates after being promoted to yokozuna on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Japanese man ends his 6,000 kilometer Africa rickshaw trek in Cape Town
Yuji "Gump" Suzuki, the Japanese runner and social media sensation, runs with supporters while pushing his rickshaw as he nears his goal in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday.
No survivors from jet and helicopter collision in Washington, officials say
Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue crews search the waters of the Potomac River Thursday morning after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river after colliding with a U.S. Army helicopter, near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening.
Cherry blossom season predicted to begin in Tokyo on March 21
Tokyo is expected to lead the season with its first cherry blossoms on March 21, followed by Fukuoka, Kochi and Hiroshima prefectures as well as the city of Yokohama on March 22.
For two weeks only, cold-water yellowtail can give you chills
Yellowtail caught during the coldest period of the year is delicious enough — but paired with a classic method of marinade and pan-searing, it's divine.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
Who are the key figures involved in the growing Fuji TV scandal?
Fuji TV adviser Hisashi Hieda in 2005
What we learned at Fuji TV's marathon Nakai scandal news conference
Members of the media raise their hands for questions as outgoing Fuji TV President Koichi Minato attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Kanoa Igarashi dreams big as surfing championship tour gets underway
Kanoa Igarashi surfs in the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach competition in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 18.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Ayumi Matsuki, a priestess at Yoshiwara Shrine, shows off some "o-mamori" charms. She says visitors to the shrine have increased since the NHK drama “Unbound” began airing this month.
Tracing Tsutaya Juzaburo, Edo’s media maverick
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