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BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2000

Japan key to Hyundai's global strategy

Hyundai Motor Co. will enter the Japanese market in January with an aggressive sales plan, taking advantage of expanding cultural and business exchanges between the country and South Korea, the president of the firm's Japanese affiliate said.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Aug 3, 2000

Dancing your way to fitness

Some medical experts claim a glass of wine is good for your heart, others believe chocolate is an excellent alternative to Prozac, but something they all tend to agree on is that adequate exercise is vital to a healthy life. However, if your idea of working out is a spot of intensive window-shopping...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2000

Train conductors left behind as Toei Subway becomes automated

In another verse from the machine-replaces-man songbook, Toei Subway is replacing the conductor on half of its Tokyo lines with a bevy of machines, including a safety wall that has been making its way through Toei Mita Line stations across Tokyo this summer.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2000

Milosevic vs. Montenegro

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been the architect of his country's destruction. Over the course of a decade, his twin pursuits of the Serb nationalist cause and his own power have torn the Yugoslav federation apart. It has been a bloody process, triggering foreign military intervention on...
LIFE / Digital
Aug 2, 2000

'Zine zone

www.failuremag.com The immediate image that came to mind upon hearing there's something out there called Failure Magazine was of four California college students getting stoned in a cramped dorm room, trying to figure out how to catch up with all their classmates' e-commerce sites. The light bulb dims...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 2, 2000

Part 2: Jealousies, revenges and tradeoffs

European soccer chief Lennart Johansson has never shied away from attacking FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, especially since being defeated in the race for the FIFA presidency two years ago.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 2, 2000

Sun, sand and surf are just a train ride away

Luckily for avid beachgoers, the Fukuoka Weather Bureau has predicted even more hot, sunny weather for August and September - as if it hasn't been enough of a sizzling summer already. In Kyushu, beachgoing choices range from long, curling waves at Miyazaki to the glorious peace a few hours away by ferry...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 2, 2000

Nature bites back in the Everglades

There isn't another river like it anywhere else in the world.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 2, 2000

'Grampa' walks among us

In most head counts my international family totals five: my wife and two sons, plus my mother-in-law and then yours truly. This reckoning, however, fails to include my father-in-law, who at times will visit for days on end.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2000

Toyota to boost output at Derby plant by 30%

Toyota Motor Corp. will spend billions of yen to increase the output of its British factory in Derby by some 30 percent until it is making about 230,000 vehicles a year in 2001, company officials said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2000

Hasten slowly on ties with Pyongyang

Japan is moving to expedite negotiations on a peace treaty with North Korea, but it should be in no hurry at all. Famine-stricken North Korea has often asked foreign countries for food aid, and Japan has obliged by supplying a large amount of rice. There is no way of knowing if the Japanese-supplied...
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2000

Mori appoints Aizawa new chairman of FRC

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Sunday night appointed former Economic Planning Agency chief Hideyuki Aizawa to replace scandal-hit FRC chief Kimitaka Kuze as the nation's top financial regulator.
COMMUNITY
Jul 31, 2000

Taking the bitter with the sweet

It looks scary at first -- more like Godzilla's back than like something you'd eat. Nor does the first taste come easy. A bite sends a bitter flavor along the tongue.
COMMENTARY
Jul 31, 2000

United States puts junk science on trial

There are few more potent combinations than lawyers and journalists in the United States today. Together they can demonize, loot and even bankrupt the largest industry. And do so based on the flimsiest evidence. But the tide is turning, as evidenced by the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Louis...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 31, 2000

Japan-Russia exchanges build vital trust

Last month I had an opportunity to visit Kunashiri and Etorofu Islands -- two of the four Russian-occupied islands claimed by Japan -- under a visa-free exchange program. It was my second trip to the Northern Territories, which consist of Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai Islands. On my first...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Kono to visit China Aug. 28 to set up Zhu's trip to Japan

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan meet at a Bangkok hotel on Saturday. -- Kyodo Photo BANGKOK (Kyodo) Foreign Minister Yohei Kono will visit China in late August to help pave the way for Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's planned visit to Japan in the fall, a Japanese...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Daikyo helped Kuze with 100 million yen

Kimitaka Kuze, head of the Financial Reconstruction Commission, received 100 million yen from the then president of Daikyo Inc., a leading condominium sales company, to help him fulfill his quota as a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker in recruiting new party members in 1991, his secretary said Saturday....
COMMUNITY
Jul 30, 2000

When life gets you down, litigate, litigate, litigate

SAN FRANCISCO -- There are those in the U.S. who tie up the courts with questionable lawsuits. Then there's Patricia Alice McColm.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Doi vows to make SDP genuine force

Takako Doi, leader of the Social Democratic Party, vowed Saturday to make her opposition party a force for the ruling camp to reckon with in its drive to safeguard the war-renouncing Constitution.
COMMUNITY
Jul 30, 2000

Getting the measure of a master suitsmith

Vijay Wadhwani is an international tailor. A very super-duper master craftsman, who runs a miniempire of cutters, machinists and hand stitchers in Hong Kong under the name "NobleHouse." His job is to travel the world to court customers, discuss clients' needs and take the full complement of 30 required...
CULTURE / Art
Jul 30, 2000

Brown as they wanna be -- ganguro phenomenon on film

Katrin Paul is making good use of her time studying photography in Tokyo. Full of intense Germanic energy, Paul observes the social environment of Tokyo from the perspective of an outsider in "Playing Summer," her second exhibition in as many months. A closer look at the Shibuya youth scene, the exhibition...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Summer nights and transient beauty

For many Japanese, summer just isn't summer without fireworks. The popularity of the displays can be attributed to the transient nature of their beauty, the same reason the short-lived cherry blossom is so appreciated.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 30, 2000

Music for repressed romantics

Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Opera
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2000

Enlist currency speculators in poverty war

BRUSSELS -- How can we eradicate world poverty? This is a question all developed nations have a responsibility to consider. At the beginning of the new millennium, we may have found the answer -- a global tax on capital transfers.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2000

Judge sentences third Aum cultist to death for role in Sakamoto killings

A key Aum Shinrikyo figure was sentenced to death Friday for playing an important role in the murders of an anticult lawyer, the lawyer's family and another member who wanted to leave the cult.

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