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JAPAN
Sep 4, 2001

Poor economy taking toll on health care

The number of people losing their national health insurance certificate because they failed to pay premiums due to salary reductions and other hardships is on the rise.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

Evacuated Miyake islanders get to grips with urban jungle

Motome Miyazawa's voice booms across rows of taro plants at a farm in Hachioji, western Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2001

Government to build extra shelters for homeless

To cope with the steadily growing number of homeless people, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will build seven more shelters in fiscal 2002, raising to 12 the number of facilities the government will build in two years.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2001

Hiranuma urges cap-busting budget

Takeo Hiranuma, minister of economy, trade and industry, said Tuesday he believes an extra budget of 5 trillion yen needs to be compiled this fall to stimulate the moribund economy.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2001

Robot project seeks to give industry boost

The government has announced plans to launch a project to foster the robot industry, viewed as a possible dynamo for economic growth, with subsidies and related legislative measures in fiscal 2002.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2001

Infrastructure spending key to town mergers

The government plans to emphasize social infrastructure investment as part of a comprehensive plan to support mergers of cities, towns and villages, according to a draft plan obtained by Kyodo News.
JAPAN / 50 YEARS SINCE SAN FRANCISCO
Aug 28, 2001

Carmakers had shaky start until oil shock hit market

Staff writer In 1957, Toyota Motor Corp. shipped two samples of its Toyopet Crown sedan to the United States as the first Japanese cars exported to that market. Nissan Motor Co. followed with Datsun compacts in 1958.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2001

LDP execs begin debate over size of extra budget

Senior members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday butted heads over the size of a supplementary budget it is urging Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to compile to support Japan's sagging economy.
COMMUNITY
Aug 26, 2001

Living on the edge

It's 6 a.m. on Saturday, and Teruyuki Kato is woken at home by the beeping of his government-issued pager. The University of Tokyo professor of geophysics knows he must act fast. He calls the local police, who arrive within minutes and transport him, sirens howling, red lights whirling, to the Meteorological...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2001

Extra budget needed, says policy chief

Kazuo Kitagawa, the New Komeito policy chief, said Friday an extra budget worth 5 trillion yen to 6 trillion yen is needed for the current fiscal year to help buoy the faltering economy.
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2001

S&P says Fujitsu's turnaround plan may not be enough

The radical restructuring announced by computer giant Fujitsu Ltd. earlier this week -- involving 16,400 job cuts -- may not be enough to assure recovery of the company's fundamentals, Standard & Poor's said Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Aug 24, 2001

The time for talking is over

LONDON -- Too much has been expected from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, but that is partly his own fault. There seems to have been too much "spin" and too little action. Time is not on his side as the Japanese economy splutters.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2001

Lawmaker's ex-aide tied to Chinese worker scam

A former private secretary of LDP lawmaker Koki Kobayashi made inquiries to the Justice Ministry at the request of a man involved in an illegal immigrant worker scam, sources close to the case said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2001

Prosecutors seek death for mall killer

Public prosecutors demanded the death penalty Wednesday for a 25-year-old man who earlier admitted to charges stemming from a mass stabbing in a Tokyo shopping center in 1999.
BUSINESS
Aug 22, 2001

Contractors may get job subsidies to hire engineers

The labor ministry may subsidize construction companies as part of a program to create jobs for construction engineers forced out of work as banks strive to dispose of their bad loans, ministry officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2001

Nursing-care firms leaner, back in black

Major private-sector nursing-care providers have reported improved earnings following aggressive restructuring, according to industry officials.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2001

The powerful roar of distant waves

Nami Rating: * * * * Director: Hiroshi Okuhara Running time: 111 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing Are we all going to end up slaving 24/7? The Japanese have long led the way to an all-work, no-play future, but now the Americans, writes Martin Kettle in Guardian Unlimited, are catching up....
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2001

Credit-easing calls weigh on BOJ

Bank of Japan officials began a two-day Policy Board meeting Monday amid growing pressure for the central bank to take additional credit-easing measures.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 12, 2001

Til death or demographics do us part: the changing face of family life in Japan

At the end of each year, NHK has a ritual contest of male singers vs. female singers, but signs have been emerging of more serious gender conflict on the horizon in Japan. The diverging interests of men and women are evident in a recent book on changing attitudes toward having children and an article...
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Aug 12, 2001

Copying Kyoto is way to revitalize Japan, fashion critic says

KYOTO -- If Japan wants to revitalize the sluggish economy and turn its prospects around, there are plenty of indications that Kyoto's way of life as well as its way of doing business are the answer, according to Hiromi Ichida, a fashion critic who has lived in the ancient capital for more than half...
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2001

War historian cuts past flag-waving gloss

Historian Tadatoshi Fujii has one main worry about today's Japanese: their ignorance of the basic facts about the Imperial armed forces and the nature of the wars they waged.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2001

MMC selects lucky early retirees

Ailing automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has selected 1,382 employees aged 52 or older to participate in an early retirement program.
Events
Aug 7, 2001

Privatizing nursery schools irks Takaishi parents group

TAKAISHI, Osaka Pref. -- With Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi making vague noises on the importance of education, this city of 62,000 people is realizing that words alone aren't the answer.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2001

Aging craftsman proves human eye has edge over machines

UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. -- The delicate hands and intuitive judgment of Yoshimasa Katori enable him do what no precision machine has ever accomplished -- polish glass into perfectly curved lenses.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2001

Mitsubishi Motors' Australian plant to stay open

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. killed speculation Friday that it would halt its Australian production by announcing it will upgrade and redesign the Magna/Verada model lineup produced at its plant in Adelaide, South Australia.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 4, 2001

Reflections on a most unexpected career abroad

So often you hear of people who come to Japan for a few months and wake one day to find that many years have flown by. How comforting then to find that it also works in reverse.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2001

Nikkeiren urges jobless safety net

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Pref. -- Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren), said creating a safety net for the unemployed should be a priority for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who is promoting structural reforms.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2001

Daiwa to set up holding firm with two other Kansai banks

Daiwa Bank Ltd. said Wednesday it will set up a joint holding company with two regional banks by April, creating the largest financial group in the Kansai region.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 1, 2001

. . . And then there's angst

Ghost World Rating: * * * * 1/4 Director: Terry Zwigoff Running time: 111 minutes Language: EnglishNow showing If you're lucky, you made it all the way through high school as one of the in-group, one of the "normal" kids. The next least-bad fate was to not fit in, but remain convinced that somehow...

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