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JAPAN
Feb 1, 1999

Tokyo race thrown open as Aoshima withdraws

In a surprising move, Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima announced Monday that he will not seek a second four-year term in the April 11 gubernatorial election.
EDITORIALS
Jan 30, 1999

Influenza on the rampage

With more cold days and severe winter weather still ahead in many parts of the country, Japan is already suffering a major outbreak of influenza. At the moment the epidemic appears heavily concentrated in the Tokyo metropolitan area, where close to 9,000 cases have now been registered, but many other...
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

Cultist says guru ordered botulin attacks

An Aum Shinrikyo figure testified in court Friday that cult founder Shoko Asahara ordered him to spray deadly botulin bacteria on government and other public buildings and on facilities belonging to other religious sects in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

Cadillac lures younger buyers in new campaign

1998 was a disastrous year for most automobile importers, with overall sales plunging 25 percent.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 1999

H.I.S. makes foray into securities business

Hideo Sawada, president of major discount travel agent H.I.S. Co., purchased a majority stake of Kyoritsu Securities Co., a midsize brokerage affiliated with now-defunct Yamaichi Securities Co., increasing its presence in the financial sector, it was announced Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 28, 1999

A new political map in the Middle East

Even by the standards of Middle Eastern politics, it has been a tumultuous week. Former Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai has been engaged in a ferocious war of words after being sacked by his boss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the other side of the River Jordan, King Hussein announced...
JAPAN
Jan 28, 1999

U.S. policy, experts called obstacle to stable foreign exchange

U.S. trade policy and influential American economists are obstacles to creating a system to enforce a trading band for yen-dollar exchange rates, according to Kenichi Ohno, an advocate of such a system.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 1999

Europe's democracy deficit

The "European project" -- the continent's gradual evolution toward greater integration -- took a giant step forward this month with the launch of the euro. The single currency is a bold initiative, but it is merely the latest manifestation of a time-tested European strategy: Economic integration has...
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 1999

An Olympic-size mess

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, Nagano City was pulling out the stops to welcome athletes from all over the world for a mammoth festival on ice and snow. Such was the universal appeal of the Olympic Games that even warring nations laid down their arms for the duration of the competition...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 22, 1999

Jordan wasn't NBA's 'greatest'

This column originally ran in the print edition of The Japan Times on Jan. 22, 1999, approximately nine months before Wilt Chamberlain died.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 1999

New Keizai Doyukai chief aims to revise Japan's image

Fuji Zerox Co. Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi, the newly appointed chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), expressed hope Friday that he will be able to give foreigners a clear picture of a changing Japan in his new position.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 1999

Myanmar general pledges democracy after stability

A top Myanmar military intelligence official currently in Tokyo pledged a peaceful transition to democracy Thursday after stability is restored in the country, acknowledging the need to open dialogue with the National League for Democracy led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 1999

Environment Agency urges restoration of wetlands, coast

Coastal areas and wetlands around the Seto Inland Sea should be restored and land reclamation projects strictly controlled to protect remaining natural areas, an Environment Agency advisory group said in a report released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 1999

U.S. committed to Okinawa force reduction: admiral

The United States is committed to reducing its forces in Okinawa as much as possible, Adm. Joseph W. Prueher, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, said in an interview Monday with The Japan Times.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 1999

E-mail boosts use of real thing, Pitney Bowes' CEO says

Despite the growing use of electronic mail and electronic business systems, the market for physical mail systems will continue to grow as new technologies generate new business opportunities, according to the chairman and chief executive officer of a leading mailing system company.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 1999

Miyazawa qualifies 0.5% target, notes job, bank roles

Economic development in the January-March period — especially in the areas of employment and bank recapitalization — is crucial to achieve the government's 0.5 percent growth target for fiscal 1999, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 16, 1999

Coalition's anticlimactic debut

The curtain rose Thursday on the new conservative coalition government to reveal just one more unimpressive performance of the same old political drama. Much had been said and written about the apparent significance of the realignment, but it seems to have ended up as essentially just another political...
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1999

Town mergers, decentralization go together: Noda

Mergers of cities and towns should be promoted along with decentralization to reduce administrative costs, said Takeshi Noda, the new home affairs minister.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1999

Woodblock man carves niche with 'Hyakunin Isshu'

Woodblock carver David Bull refuses to be called an "artist" or "sensei."
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1999

20-year-olds celebrate adulthood

Ceremonies commemorating Coming-of-Age Day were held Friday, drawing thousands of new adults to municipal offices across the country.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1999

Air Link's members-only approach winning believers

24th in a series of occasional articles on venture businesses
JAPAN
Jan 15, 1999

32% approve of Coalition Cabinet; 44% don't

The just-launched coalition Cabinet of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party is supported by 32 percent of those polled by Kyodo News, the same support rating Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's Cabinet received in July, it was learned Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 1999

Imperial poetry reading touches on blue, youth

The Emperor and Empress took part in an annual New Year's poetry reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace Thursday where Japanese "waka" poems written by both Imperial family members and the general public were read.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 1999

Analysis: Coalition plagued with problems

After days of intense haggling between the Liberal Democratic Party and Liberal Party, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi finally launched a coalition government Thursday. But despite his desire for a stable government, he appears to be headed for trouble.
EDITORIALS
Jan 13, 1999

Avoiding a toxic meltdown

A survey conducted last year by the Environment Agency showed that endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or environmental hormones, had been detected in most of Japan's water systems. It also indicated that dioxin in excess of standardized limits existed in the air in the Tokyo Metropolitan area and many other...
JAPAN
Jan 12, 1999

Voice-mail dating proves to be risky proposition

Sex, drugs and violence often combine as the ingredients of a sensational crime, and voice-mail dating services can provide them all.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 1999

Nikkeiren puts security of jobs ahead of wages

The Japan Federation of Employers' Association (Nikkeiren) on Tuesday publicized its annual labor report, which for the first time recommended reducing overall personnel costs through the "shunto" annual spring wage bargaining round this year.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 1999

Machimura urges review of yen loans to Asia

State Foreign Secretary Nobutaka Machimura on Monday called for a review of Japan's yen loans to other parts of Asia in a bid to implement them more effectively.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 1999

Sick? 60% prefer to work

About 60 percent of company employees over 40 would not call in sick if they caught a cold, and three out of four would go to work even if they had fevers as high as 37.5, according to a recent survey by a major pharmaceutical firm.
EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 1999

Marriage, divorce and the future

In the early days of a new year, when most of the public is on holiday and many people are traveling away from home, it is all too easy for important news to be overlooked or even dismissed as nothing new. That seems to have been the case with the scant attention paid to the announcement published on...
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
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.
Hanshin quake sparked changes to Japan's disaster response policies
Self-Defense Forces members search for victims in Kobe's Nagata Ward on Jan. 28, 1995, in the wake of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
Fuji TV scrutinized over handling of allegations against ex-SMAP member Nakai
Fuji TV in the Odaiba waterfront area in Tokyo in 2021
Yokozuna Terunofuji retires after injury-plagued career
Terunofuji won 10 titles in sumo's top division during his career.
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.
Nippon Steel’s case against Biden probably unwinnable, attorneys argue
U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvannia, in 2019. Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel face significant legal challenges in their case against the United States.
Japanese companies rush to up English-language disclosures in 2025
The Tokyo Stock Exchange will soon require some companies to publish their financials in English in addition to Japanese.
Tokyo plans to subsidize epidurals, but are hospitals ready?
Epidurals during childbirth have long been uncommon in Japan, though they have been growing more popular in recent years.

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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
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