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JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Heavy thunderstorms disrupt traffic, transportation services

Downpours lashed many parts of the country Tuesday afternoon, disrupting railway services and road traffic amid temperatures of over 30 degrees during the day.
LIFE / Travel
Jul 5, 2000

Japanese researcher chips away at an ancient mystery

PHONSAVAN, Laos -- Archaeologist Eiji Nitta dug and scraped. The answer to the puzzle of the giant stone vessels scattered throughout the Plain of Jars in northern Laos lay, he believed, not in their material or their contents, but in what lay under them.
LIFE / Travel
Jul 5, 2000

The Plain of Jars: A place of war and death

PHONSAVAN, Laos -- It should be hard to go missing on the Plain of Jars. But hundreds have.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Mori and advisers make last-minute Cabinet decisions

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori continued consulting top Liberal Democratic Party officials Monday evening as he tried to finalize the lineup of his new Cabinet, to be launched today.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Children help to name ibis chicks

The pair of Japanese crested ibis chicks that hatched in early May at a conservation center on Sado Island were named Monday. The hatchling believed to be a male will be called Shin Shin, and the one believed to be a female will be known as Ai Ai, Environment Agency head Kayoko Shimizu said.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Bacteria outbreak at Osaka hospital claims lives of seven elderly patients

OSAKA -- Seven elderly patients at a hospital in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, died between May 7 and Saturday after contracting serratia bacteria -- apparently inside the facility, officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2000

Japan refuses to give specifics on reform to U.S.

In a fresh sign of its foot-dragging on deregulatory and other economic-reform efforts, Japan has rebutted a U.S. proposal to compile and submit a new joint progress report on investment issues to their top leaders later this month.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Diet members earn more despite slump

The average income among Diet members in 1999 was 30.44 million yen, up 1.94 million yen from a year earlier, according to a report released Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

Japanese photographer documents lives of Korean A-bomb survivors

Images of Korean survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who later returned to live in South Korea will be displayed in Japan this summer.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 4, 2000

Reinterpreting an American classic

Summertime, and the listenin' is easy. No, I don't mean "easy listening"; I mean jazz.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2000

Repairs begin as Kozu quakes

Restoration work began Sunday as aftershocks continued to rattle the island of Kozu following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake Saturday afternoon that killed one local resident.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2000

Australia warily watches arc of insecurity

SYDNEY -- Once the world romanticized about the South Pacific paradise. Today, Australia is guardedly debating the Balkanization of the South Pacific.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2000

Dumb and dumber

There is a wonderful anecdote about Oscar Wilde in Richard Ellmann's monumental biography of the Victorian wit, aesthete and playwright. In 1882-3, Wilde undertook a North American lecture tour, with the aim of bringing the gospel of beauty to the New World. A highlight of the tour was his stopover in...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2000

Kozu hit by strong temblor; one killed

A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted the island of Kozu in the Izu island chain on Saturday, killing at least one person, officials said.
COMMUNITY
Jul 2, 2000

Noh master calling U.K. college alumni

There was some initial confusion when Naohiko Umewaka requested help in finding graduates of Royal Holloway. What was he talking about? The only Holloway known to this Londoner is the district north of the River Thames best known for the prison of the same name. Now here was a story! Japan's best known...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2000

Measles up sharply among adults

The number of adults suffering from measles has risen sharply in recent months, with a Tokyo hospital reporting about 20 such cases in the last two months, according to officials at the Health and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2000

New Tokyo Mosque opens

Worshippers view the interior of the newly built Tokyo Mosque, in Shibuya Ward, on Friday. The Tokyo Mosque officially opened Friday in Shibuya Ward with a ceremony attended by Turkish government officials and other foreign dignitaries.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2000

Snow low-fat milk makes over 1,500 sick in Kansai

OSAKA -- Health authorities have announced that 1,524 people have complained of illness in Osaka and seven other prefectures in western Japan after drinking low-fat milk products produced by Snow Brand Milk Products Co.
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2000

Homage to the morning glory

If asked to name one flower that best symbolizes Tokyo's shitamachi, I would say asagao (morning glory). The energetic vine that shoots up fast, roof high, with simple flowers that fade before noon has always been favored by Edokko, the children of Edo. Looking just right as it cools their modest houses,...
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2000

The finest map in the world

Rival researchers this week announced that they had completed a draft model of the human genome -- the blueprint of the human being. The breakthrough was hailed as "a milestone in science," a "revolution in medical science" and "the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind." For once,...
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2000

Three DaimlerChrysler execs to join MMC board

Shareholders of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. approved a plan Tuesday to have on the company's board of directors three people appointed by DaimlerChrysler AG, which is to become Mitsubishi Motors' main shareholder.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 28, 2000

Venables likes France's chances at Euro 2000

BRUSSELS -- Former England manager Terry Venables is tipping France to win the European Championship. Venables, who led England to the semifinals of Euro 96 in England, has been impressed by the improvement in the French team since it won the World Cup two years ago.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Jun 28, 2000

Online education

A high school graduate who wants to wait a year before going home for her university education was invited to attend the University of Maryland University College graduation in April. There she heard reference to a program that provides online courses at a global university. She wonders if she could...
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2000

Signs of generational change

The voters' real message in Sunday's elections for the House of Representatives is ambiguous at best. It can be interpreted in several important ways. In terms of the sheer number of seats won, it means a victory for the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the Conservative...
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2000

Amex out to change 'stereotypes' of card users

American Express International is trying to change the widely held perception in Japan that only affluent customers use American Express, and only for overseas travel.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2000

MITI plans minor reshuffle ahead of G8, trade talks

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry will announce Friday a reshuffle of its staff, with fewer major personnel changes than a year ago in view of pending trade issues and the regrouping of government offices scheduled in January, ministry officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2000

Miyake on emergency volcano alert

An eruption of a volcano on Miyake Island in the Izu Island chain off Tokyo is expected within two hours, the Meteorological Agency issued an emergency alert Monday evening. The Japan Coast Guard dispatched cruisers and helicopters to rescue islanders in the event of an eruption.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki pitches for Japan during the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2023.
Major Japanese firms pay record winter bonuses
The average figure of winter bonuses agreed on by labor unions and employers stood 4.93% higher than a year earlier.
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.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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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