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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...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 3, 2001

Clearing the shelves

Many business owners on the verge of financial ruin probably are loath to close the book on their companies. Yet, for long-term Nagoya resident Marvin Harvest, endeavors to write the ending to his 10-year business have dragged on like a bad saga.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 3, 2001

High style at a price that suits

Makoto Kobara is rather pleased with his Comme des Garcons suit. Yet the 24-year-old's favorite thing about it is not the chic design or subtle color, but the fact that it cost him under 26,000 yen.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jun 3, 2001

Bite into some music for thought

"You've got to come and see Gaji. They'll kill you," said the gig's promoter.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 3, 2001

Housing for human beings

THE JAPANESE HOUSE: Architecture and Interiors. Photographs by Noboru Murata, text by Alexandra Black. Boston/Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2000, 216 pp., copiously illustrated, 4,500 yen. Though the architect Le Corbusier learned a lot from Japan, he could not have been thinking of this country when he...
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Jun 3, 2001

Ume, back in the pink

Get out the salt and pop open the white liqueur — the season for ume is upon us. The diminutive Prunus mume — referred to erroneously as a plum but technically an apricot — has hit the shelves and is available in its preferred unripe form for the next month and a half. Farmers growing these apricots...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2001

Kihachi China moves uptown

When Kihachi China moved a few blocks across Ginza last November, it was not just a change of address -- it signified a definite change of status. The old premises, hidden away behind Printemps, were smart but lightweight. The new restaurant is a mere five minutes' stroll away -- just around the corner...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2001

Wellington reaches out to Asia

The first country to give the vote to women, New Zealand presently has the distinction of having all three top public posts occupied by women: the governor general, the prime minister and the chief justice. This provides a clue as to why at times Wellington has played a role and exercised an influence...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 3, 2001

From simple folk to the royal couple

When the American folk revival landed on the shores of Japan in the early '60s, it gave rise to the "modern folk" movement. Japanese musicians copied The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, and it was only a matter of time before students started writing songs that reflected their own situations....
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Korean wins state medical payout

OSAKA — The Osaka District Court ordered the Osaka Prefectural Government on Friday to pay a Korean survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima medical allowances that it had stopped paying after the man returned home from Japan.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Draft reform goals draw cold response

A set of reform proposals adopted by the Economic and Fiscal Policy Council drew a cold response Friday from Cabinet ministers and members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Errors plague new DoCoMo service

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday the trial service of its next-generation mobile phone service launched Wednesday experienced e-mail server problems from 6 p.m. Thursday until 12:30 p.m. Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Tanaka aired worry on U.S. missile plan

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka unofficially voiced concern over U.S. missile defense plans in a series of recent diplomatic talks with her counterparts from Italy, Germany and Australia, Japanese government sources said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2001

AIDS in prisons: a spreading problem

NEW YORK -- Several investigations worldwide have shown that the human immunodeficiency virus responsible for AIDS is spreading rapidly in prisons, where the rate of infection has been found to be several times higher than in the general population. Prisons have become one of the most potentially dangerous...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Tomobe challenges fraud ruling

Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe filed an objection Friday against a Supreme Court ruling upholding his 10-year prison term for fraud, his lawyers said.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2001

Disputes with foreign staff increase

Reflecting the prolonged economic slump, a record number of foreign workers and their Japanese employers consulted the Tokyo Labor Bureau in 2000 for advice on labor-related disputes, bureau officials announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2001

Fiscal panel eyes release of public entities

A key government panel on economic and fiscal policy is expected to recommend next month a partial privatization of employee pension programs and sweeping deregulation, government sources said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2001

New Zealand tailors defense to real needs

Some Kiwis can fly -- very fast. But the New Zealand government wants to clip their wings.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2001

Discrimination suit against golf club fails

An ethnic Korean resident in Tokyo lost a damages suit Thursday seeking compensation from a Chiba golf club operator for denying him membership because of his nationality.
JAPAN
May 31, 2001

Cultist gets life for role in deadly '94 gas attack

The Tokyo District Court sentenced an Aum Shinrikyo figure to life imprisonment Wednesday for his part in four crimes, including a 1994 nerve-gas attack that killed seven people in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.
JAPAN
May 31, 2001

Tanaka family villa seized in '99, asset report shows

The government in December 1999 seized a villa owned by a firm operated by the family of the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, sources said Wednesday.
SOCCER / J. League
May 31, 2001

France shows no mercy, blasts South Korea 5-0

DAEGU, South Korea -- You have to admit the French are fair. After thrashing Japan 5-0 in Paris two months ago, they opened the Confederations Cup with a similar scoreline over Japan's fellow-World Cup host South Korea on Tuesday.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Tokyo prices rise most in two years, backing central bank's hike path
Consumer prices excluding fresh food in Tokyo gained 3.4% in April from a year earlier, as a mixture of impacts from last year’s school fee cuts and higher food and energy costs accelerated inflation, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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