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JAPAN
Jun 9, 2001

Independent board to oversee U.N. AIDS fund

The Group of Eight major countries have reached a basic agreement on the framework of a fund proposed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to promote the international crusade against AIDS, G8 sources said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 9, 2001

Beijing should mind its own business

Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has finished his trip to the United States, and the Chinese government is upset. It considers Taiwan part of China, so how dare Washington allow the head of a "renegade province" to land in the U.S., even if he is only on his way to and from Latin America.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2001

Upper House unanimously OKs apology on Hansen's

The House of Councilors unanimously endorsed a resolution Friday offering an apology to current and former Hansen's disease patients and admitting the Diet's failure to promptly annul legislation that segregated them from society.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 9, 2001

Pablo Javier

Last evening, Philippine ambassador Romeo Arguelles opened an art exhibition in the embassy. Held in conjunction with the celebration of the republic's Independence Day, the exhibition features the oil paintings of Pablo Javier. "I am very proud to be giving this one-man show of my Western-style paintings,"...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2001

A prince who loved women and guns shatters course of a dynasty

NEW DELHI -- The massacre in Nepal's royal palace is intriguing to the core.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Tokyo Gov. Ishihara tops national list as 'ideal father'

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, 68, topped the list of a national survey as the "ideal father," with respondents noting his leadership qualities, articulation and ability to get things done.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Marubeni searched over tax evasion

Customs authorities searched Marubeni Corp.'s head office Thursday on suspicion that the major trading house evaded duties on octopuses imported from Africa, customs officials said.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2001

Takenaka proposes special IT zones

The government is considering a plan to designate some cities or areas as "model areas" where businesses promoting information technology would be given preferential tax and regulatory treatment, economic minister Heizo Takenaka said Thursday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 8, 2001

FIFA chief Blatter comes around on Japan-Korea 2002 cohosting

Sepp Blatter previously was opposed to the idea of cohosting the World Cup. But now the FIFA president accepts it, opening up possibilities for smaller countries to host the world's most prestigious single-sport event.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Top court rejects Tomobe's challenge

The Supreme Court put the final seal Thursday on a 10-year prison sentence imposed on Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe for fraud, court officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Kid gloves for teen prisoners: minister

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama called on prison heads Thursday to treat juvenile inmates more carefully to reflect a revised law lowering the age for punishment by a criminal court to 14.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Hansen's victims hear Diet regrets

The Lower House unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday offering an apology to former Hansen's disease patients for the failure by Diet members to promptly annul legislation that segregated them from society.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2001

Hansen's bill set for Diet approval

The ruling and opposition parties on Thursday agreed to jointly submit to the Diet on Monday a bill to offer compensation to current and former Hansen's disease patients who suffered under the government's segregation policy.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2001

Tanaka's reported faux pas concern U.S., Yanai says

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has expressed strong concern over the confusion surrounding reports that Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka has raised doubts about missile defense and the Japan-U.S. alliance, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S. said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2001

Can democracy live in the Muslim Mideast?

LONDON -- "No stable system of government can be established unless it is popular." It would be an unremarkable statement in most parts of the world, but in Iran it is a subversive remark faxed by a man who has been under house arrest since 1997. The fact that he is Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, one...
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2001

Falling land prices lure crowds back to Tokyo

Falling land prices in central Tokyo's Chiyoda, Chuo and Minato wards encouraged more people to live in the heart of the capital this year, the land ministry said in a report released Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2001

Does Bush's Spanish presage a bilingual America?

In his efforts to reach out to the American Hispanic community, former Republican leader Newt Gingrich sent out a greeting in Spanish to mark Cinco de Mayo, Mexico's Independence Day. The message came from "El Hablador de la Casa," which Gingrich's staff thought meant "Speaker of the House," but in fact...
CULTURE / Film
Jun 6, 2001

The toughest journey for Japan's toughest guy

Hotaru Rating: * * * 1/2 Director: Yasuo Furuhata Running time: 114 minutes Language: JapaneseNow showing at Toei Marunouchi and other theaters National cinemas from Hollywood to Bollywood have their icons -- veteran actors who have become box-office powerhouses less for their performances than...
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2001

Jetliner lands safely after gear fails to lock

A Northwest Airlines jetliner made an emergency landing at Tokyo's international airport after one of its landing gears failed to deploy Tuesday, airport officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2001

Saikyo Line to test female-only cars

As part of its efforts to stop the problem of groping on commuter trains, East Japan Railway Co. announced Monday that it will introduce female-only cars on its Saikyo Line trains on an experimental basis next month.
COMMENTARY
Jun 5, 2001

America's diplomatic passage to India

LOS ANGELES -- While there was scarcely any American media coverage of the visit of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to India last month, the Bush administration's gesture, as well as the prior one made by Clinton, was intended to be profoundly significant. The Clinton state visit represented...
MORE SPORTS / THE DUKE OF HAZARDS
Jun 5, 2001

Hogan's 'home' course set to host U.S. Open

Summer in Tulsa, Okla., is hot and humid. The golf season's second major of the year, the U.S. Open, will be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa from June 14-17. The defending champion, of course, is Tiger Woods.
EDITORIALS
Jun 5, 2001

The brass tacks of reform

Over the past month or more, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has told the nation time and again that he is determined to fight forces opposed to change. Now he is coming to the point where he must show he means what he says. The immediate challenge is to flesh out his vision of "structural reform with...
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2001

Justice minister refuses to halt hangings

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama on Monday rejected a plea from six nonpartisan Diet members to have the death penalty abolished, Justice Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2001

Tomobe's wife objects to ruling

The wife of House of Councilors member Tatsuo Tomobe has filed an objection to the recent Supreme Court dismissal of her appeal of a lower court ruling sentencing her to five years in prison for fraud, her lawyers said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2001

Hope for Macedonia

As has so often been the case in the Balkans, a political minority is making big waves in Macedonia. For once, however, a government seems to be trying to accommodate that group rather than fanning the flames of discontent. Prodded by NATO and the European Union, the government in Skopje is trying to...
Chinese buyer of Okinawa island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
More bird flu cases found in Japan; 1.44 million birds to be culled
Officials with the agriculture ministry hold a news conference in Nagoya on Friday following an outbreak of avian influenza in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, earlier this month.
Fuji TV loses more advertisers amid inquiry into host’s behavior
Fuji TV is losing more advertisers following allegations about inappropriate behavior by a celebrity host and questions about its handling of the case.
As Trump returns, will Japan be able to weather the storm?
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo in May 2019.
Top sumo pros to enter the ring in Paris in June 2026
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (right) alongside David Rothschild, the promoter of an upcoming tournament in Paris, on Sunday in Tokyo
As Trump returns, will Japan be able to weather the storm?
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo in May 2019.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.

Podcast

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

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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