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JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Pros offer multilingual counseling for stressed foreigners

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JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

Incense maker going strong 12 generations into business

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JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

State unveils measures to slash nursing-care burden

The government formally announced a set of measures Friday aimed at reducing the financial burden on people under a planned public nursing care system to be launched in April.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

EU on the fence on antidumping review

European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy expressed mixed views Friday on calls from Japan and other Asian nations to have the World Trade Organization take up antidumping issues in the upcoming round of trade liberalization negotiations.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1999

BOJ to plug 'zaito' hole with bonds

The Bank of Japan announced Friday that it will temporarily purchase government bonds to compensate for an expected funds shortage in the government's "zaito" fiscal investment and loan program.
EDITORIALS
Nov 4, 1999

Two parties in Tehran

Twenty years ago today, a group of Islamic militants took 53 members of the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Iran as hostages. That crisis lasted 444 days, although its effects color Tehran's relations with the United State to this day. On this 20th anniversary, Washington -- with a few exceptions, as always...
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

'The Body' admits he can't get used to media attention

Jesse "The Body" Ventura has taken on sharpshooters in the jungle and bloodthirsty fighters in the ring. The one thing the governor of Minnesota, who is on a 10-day visit to Japan, can't get used to is the media frenzy that swarms around him.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Nissan launches minivan, mulls minicar entry

In a move designed to tap into the current popularity of multipurpose vehicles in Japan's domestic market, Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday introduced the Bassara minivan.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Japan, EU on same page for trade talks

Japan and Europe reaffirmed their cooperation Thursday toward the upcoming trade liberalization talks under the World Trade Organization slated to begin later this month in Seattle. During their meeting here, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy reaffirmed that...
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Kepco cancels hearing on MOX fuel

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JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

At-home nursing care: a benefit or disincentive?

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JAPAN
Nov 4, 1999

Obuchi vows redress for Tokai accident victims

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Thursday said the government will compensate victims of the Tokai nuclear accident -- if they can establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the radiation and any illnesses.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 1999

Not transparent enough

Corruption is on the run. Or so we like to think. A high-visibility campaign to end the tendency of governments and businesses to look the other way has had results. Unfortunately, old habits die hard. Corruption may be under attack, but it is still too prevalent, its toll too high.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 1999

The CTBT is not dead yet

"All bets are off! You'll see a lot of testing . . . . You'll have Russia testing, you'll have China testing, you'll have India testing, you'll have Pakistan testing . . . and we will be in a much, much more dangerous world."
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 3, 1999

Marketing witchcraft

"The Blair Witch Project," which will finally appear at a theater near you this month, is one of the scariest movies of the '90s.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 1999

Data leak prompts NTT office search

OSAKA -- Police searched the Osaka branch office of NTT West on Wednesday for evidence against a former employee arrested the previous day for allegedly receiving bribes from so-called Dial Q2 service companies in exchange for information on NTT customers.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Nov 3, 1999

For better or worse

November? Already? How different it is for little kids who think there is a generation between one Christmas and another. November is a stepping stone to the yearend holiday celebration, which this year will have both special meaning and reasons for concern. Regardless of assurances, people wonder what...
JAPAN
Nov 3, 1999

Paper trail thins on Cresvale deals with Yakult Honsha

The stock bought by a former vice president of Yakult Honsha Co. with rebates from the Tokyo branch of Cresvale International Ltd. was not transferred under his name because the branch chairman did not want authorities to discover his activities, sources close to the case said Wednesday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 3, 1999

Photographic record of a trail-breaking career

I sometimes eat lunch with a close friend who has but one child, a toddler aged 2. He likes to show me photographs.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 3, 1999

How to read a bird's lifestyle in its feet

A reflexologist will tell you that feet reveal a great deal about a person's physical state, and that cures can be administered via the feet.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 3, 1999

Autumn leaves and legends of Kyushu's farthest mountains

GOKANOSHO, Kumamoto Pref. -- The tiny community of Gokanosho (made up of five hamlets, hence its name) is virtually in the center of Kyushu. Draw an imaginary semicircle arching inland from the Kumamoto-Hitoyoshi expressway, and Gokanosho will be in the middle.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 1999

26-year-old aims to be online ad king

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EDITORIALS
Nov 2, 1999

An unconvincing debut

The extraordinary Diet session that convened last Friday is the first parliamentary sitting since the tripartite coalition administration of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was launched about a month ago. The public's main concern is with what Mr. Obuchi is trying to accomplish under the expanded coalition...
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

Second bill would facilitate redress claims

The Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition submitted a bill to the Diet on Tuesday designed to facilitate redress for victims of Aum Shinrikyo's alleged crimes.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

Unlock voluntary mental patients, council says

Mental patients who are voluntarily hospitalized for treatment should in principle not be locked up, according to a report submitted Tuesday to a subcommittee of an advisory council to Health and Welfare Minister Yuya Niwa.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

NTT pair held over suspected data leak to leftists

Two NTT employees were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of helping members of a leftist extremist group illegally obtain information on members of a rival faction, police officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

Schroeder has faith economy will recover

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday he has become confident of Japan's economic recovery through talks with Japanese government and business leaders during his three-day visit here.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 2, 1999

This poetic chameleon wore khaki

SHREDDING THE TAPESTRY OF MEANING: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katsue (1902-1978), by John Solt. Harvard University Asia Center, 1999, 395 pp., $49.50. On Jan. 4, 1942, less than a month after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor, Katsue Kitazono -- the spelling that John Solt gives the name in "Shredding...
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Nov 2, 1999

Mosh mosh! Where have the punk girls disappeared to?

Hiroko is a smart TV tarento and it's her birthday so I've got a big treat in store for her: I've rustled up a pair of guest passes for a sold-out Guitar Wolf gig.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1999

Hatoyama calls Obuchi government a 'moral hazard'

Calling the new coalition government of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi a "moral hazard" formed solely to reinforce political power, DPJ head Yukio Hatoyama on Tuesday demanded the early dissolution of the Lower House.

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