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JAPAN
Dec 29, 2000

Non-EU nations circle wagons on climate

Top environmental negotiators from Japan, the United States and eight other non-European Union industrialized countries will hold secret talks in New Zealand in the middle of February, informed sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 28, 2000

Online brokerage sure of success despite late entry

Tokyo-Mitsubishi TD Waterhouse Securities Co. was late to establish its online discount brokerage operations in Japan. When the joint venture between Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and discount brokerage TD Waterhouse Group of the United States began accepting accounts in July, several major players had already...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2000

Real reform is just beginning

The central government will be reorganized Jan. 6, 2001 with the number of ministries and agencies to be cut almost in half to 13 from the present 22. The shakeup is based on a program worked out with great difficulty by the Adminis trative Reform Council, an ad hoc panel created under the Hashimoto...
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Dec 26, 2000

The best of this year's world music crop

Strangely, I had thought this year was not a particularly vintage one for world and roots music. That was until I had to whittle down a list to come up with a top 10, as part of a panel for the British magazine fRoots.
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2000

Taking a step toward transparent markets

Foreign investors and financial institutions have often criticized the Japanese financial market for being too ambiguous in its regulatory procedures and, in general, for still being a "closed" market.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 2000

A-bomb aid eyed for Pyongyang

The government will send a mission to North Korea as early as February to examine the condition of the surviving atomic bomb victims living there, government sources said Saturday.
COMMENTARY
Dec 24, 2000

English-education reform gets watered down

Imagine the fuss if Japan's car industry was producing a million defective cars a year. But for some reason no one bothers much if Japan's English-education industry produces roughly that number of defective English speakers each year.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 24, 2000

Jazzchor Freiburg

Germany's award-winning, unconventional 25-member Jazzchor Freiburg recently made its second tour of Japan. The choir is characterized by unpredictability, as its founder-conductor believes it is boring for audiences to know what is coming next. He throws into a typical concert as much variety as he...
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2000

Education Law in need of drastic review: report

The 53-year-old Fundamental Law of Education should be reviewed to determine if it meets current needs and lends itself to the formation of an educational system appropriate for the 21st century, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said in its final report released Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2000

Nippon Life, Sumitomo Mitsui in insurance tieup

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., to be launched in April through the merger of Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank, will tie up with the Nippon Life Insurance Co. group to sell insurance products at its outlets, industry sources said Friday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Dec 21, 2000

Wife prevented Kawasaki from having a new life with Red Sox

It has been said that to be great in life you have to be very selfish. I have always believed this to be true no matter what the field -- sports, politics, art or anything else.
JAPAN
Dec 20, 2000

Kono-Ivanov talks miss treaty deadline

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said Tuesday he will visit Moscow for two days from Jan. 16 for peace treaty negotiations with his Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov.
BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2000

Korean residents demand protection in wake of credit unions' insolvency

OSAKA -- Pro-Seoul Korean residents in Japan marched to the Finance Ministry's Kinki Finance Bureau in Osaka on Tuesday, seeking protection for customers of a credit union that was declared insolvent Saturday.
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2000

Pace of economic recovery slowing: BOJ

The Bank of Japan on Monday downgraded its assessment of Japan's economic performance and noted that the recovery is slowing down.
CULTURE / Music
Dec 17, 2000

Putting the double bass on top

Widely considered the greatest double bass soloist of our time, world-renowned virtuoso Gary Karr will perform tonight at Taishi Bunka Kaikan Hall in Hyogo Prefecture with the piano accompaniment of his long-time duo partner Harmon Lewis, one of the final concerts of his 11-city, 3-week tour of Japan....
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2000

Red Army figure admits hijacking

Former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka pleaded guilty Friday to hijacking a Japan Airlines jet and forcing it to fly to Pyongyang in 1970.
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2000

Mori hopes to visit U.S. soon

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori offered his congratulations Thursday to U.S. President-elect George W. Bush and said he hopes to visit the United States "as quickly as possible" after Bush takes office in January.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Dec 15, 2000

Streamlining hopes face roadblocks: Hashimoto

The ongoing process of realigning central government ministries and agencies remains trapped in a bureaucratic vise, according to former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who is currently state minister in charge of streamlining the nation's bureaucracy.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2000

Obituary: Marius Jansen

Marius Jansen, a U.S.-trained historian of modern Japan and professor emeritus of Princeton University, died Sunday at a New Jersey hospital, Princeton officials said Tuesday. He was 78.
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2000

Consortium seals deal for Taiwan shinkansen

A consortium of seven Japanese companies formally signed a contract worth about 330 billion yen Tuesday afternoon in Tokyo with Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. to build a bullet train line in Taiwan, THSRC said.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2000

India seeks approval of nuclear policy

Japan and India share the same goal in terms of universal nuclear disarmament and differ only in their approaches to achieve it, Indian Ambassador to Japan Aftab Seth said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Dec 12, 2000

Economic outlook is gloomy

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori faces an uncertain future after surviving a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet in the Diet last month. Koichi Kato, a leading dissident in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and fellow rebels had vowed to vote for the opposition-sponsored motion, but they changed their...
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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