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JAPAN
Mar 13, 1998

Japan pledges effort to submit bilateral defense bills to Diet

Japan assured the United States on March 13 that it will do its utmost to submit legislation regarding new guidelines for bilateral defense cooperation to the current Diet session.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 1998

The Asahara Trial: Cultist admits wiretap try on lawmaker

A former senior member of Aum Shinrikyo testified March 13 that he tried unsuccessfully in the fall of 1989 to install a wiretapping device at the home and office of a Diet member under the orders of cult founder Shoko Asahara.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 1998

Foreign firms attempt to cash in on Tokyo's real estate bargains

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JAPAN
Mar 9, 1998

JR Shin-Osaka fetes first kiosk targeting women

OSAKA -- LADY 1st, a new kiosk targeting female commuters, opened March 9 at JR Shin-Osaka Station.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1998

Schoolgirl strangled in Aichi

NAGOYA -- A 19-year-old youth was in police custody March 9 on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old junior high school girl, who was found dead at his home March 8, police said.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 1998

Nago mayor backs Ota on heliport

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. -- Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto on March 9 reiterated in the city assembly that he will follow Gov. Masahide Ota's judgment concerning the government's plan to build an offshore military helicopter facility off Camp Schwab.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 1998

Tokyo, Okinawa to resume talks on military bases

The central and the Okinawa governments will soon resume previously stalled talks on U.S. military bases in the prefecture, a special adviser to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on Okinawa affairs said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 1998

LDP lawmaker commits suicide before imminent arrest

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shokei Arai, who was about to be arrested for allegedly earning 29 million yen in illicit profits from Nikko Securities Co., hanged himself in a Tokyo hotel room Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 1998

Four-way cooperation called key to Asia-Pacific stability

Japan, China, Russia and the United States may launch a multilateral conference to discuss a variety of issues, including the peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region, Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi said Monday in a Diet speech.
JAPAN
Feb 13, 1998

Cabinet sends Okinawa economy bill to Diet

Seeking to ease opposition to U.S. military bases in Okinawa, the Cabinet submitted a bill to the Diet on Friday designed to stimulate Okinawa's economy through various tax incentives.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 1998

Ruling alliance approves Okinawa economy bill

The three-party ruling alliance on Tuesday approved a government-proposed bill to promote the Okinawan economy that will be submitted to the current Diet session.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 1998

Supreme court issues protest on story of Kobe boy's confession

In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court sent a protest letter Tuesday to the publisher of a monthly magazine that printed confidential prosecution documents on the Kobe boy who last year killed and beheaded an 11-year-old boy.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 1998

Firms battle for visibility during Nagano hoopla

NAGANO -- Beyond the venues where some of the world's top athletes are competing for Olympic medals, another battle is under way in this city.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 1998

Tokyo-Naha relations dealt fatal blow by Ota's decision

BY KAORUKO AITA
JAPAN
Feb 6, 1998

Defense Agency lashes out at Okinawa governor

Defense Agency chief Fumio Kyuma, angered over Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota's rejection of a heliport plan, reiterated Friday that the Futenma Air Station cannot be relocated until the prefecture finds an alternative site. Kyuma, who heads the central government's special task force to relocate the U.S....
JAPAN
Feb 6, 1998

Osaka Games bid may be a costly pipe dream in development

Staff writerOSAKA -- Kazuhito Konishi is not likely to be on the list of people Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura hopes to meet during his trip to Nagano this weekend to promote Osaka's 2008 Olympics bid.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 1998

LDP puts plans for helping Okinawa economy on hold

The Liberal Democratic Party has effectively put on hold a set of government measures to promote economic development in Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 1998

Boy said he planned to attack cop to get gun

The 15-year-old junior high school student arrested Monday after trying to stab a bicycle patrolman and steal his pistol has told investigators the attack was premeditated, police sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 1998

Celebrity's brother held over drugs

Takayuki Kuroyanagi, 41, brother of media celebrity and UNICEF Ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, was arrested in connection with drug possession and turned over to prosecutors Monday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.A small amount of stimulants was found Sunday night in his car, which was...
JAPAN
Jan 16, 1998

Tokyo starts recovering from snow

Road, railway and air transportation in Tokyo returned to near normal Friday, with only a few delays and minor trouble remaining after the season's heaviest snow paralyzed traffic the day before.Police attributed three deaths and 400 injuries in the capital and its eight neighboring prefectures during...
JAPAN
Jan 13, 1998

Armed man holds official hostage at Tokyo Stock Exchange

A man in his 40s wielding what appeared to be a pistol took a hostage Tuesday and holed up in the governor's suite on the 14th floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange building, demanding to meet with the finance minister, police said.The man, clad in a business suit, took captive Masahiro Abe, 50, an exchange...
JAPAN
Jan 9, 1998

St. Ignatius Church reveals initial phase of facelift

The first phase of construction of a new building for St. Ignatius Church, near Yotsuya Station in Tokyo, is finished and was unveiled to the press Friday.The building, a Catholic church well known in the Japanese and foreign community alike, is oval-shaped and has a floor space of 1,450 sq. meters,...
JAPAN
Jan 7, 1998

Priest held over stimulant possession

Tokyo police have arrested a Shinto priest for possessing 2 grams of stimulant drugs in violation of the Stimulant Drug Control Law, police said Wednesday.According to police, Masanori Sagara, 50, of the Oizumi Hikawa Shrine in Nerima Ward, was found in possession of 2 grams of stimulants near JR Ikebukuro...
JAPAN
Jan 7, 1998

Man arrested over Osaka murder

OSAKA -- The partial remains of a female Osaka restaurant owner missing since late December were unearthed Wednesday and the man who led police to the site has been arrested in connection with her slaying, police said.Osaka Prefectural Police arrested Yoshio Ishida, 51, of Osaka's Minato Ward, on suspicion...
JAPAN
Dec 31, 1997

Hashimoto vows to give strength to the economy

The government will take every possible measure to stabilize the nation's financial system and restore the economy to a healthy state, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto vowed during a news conference marking New Year's Day.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 1997

77.67 trillion yen budget approved for fiscal '98

The Cabinet on Thursday approved the final version of an austere 77.67 trillion yen general account budget for fiscal 1998, up only 0.4 percent from the initial budget for the current fiscal year.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 1997

Rightist breaks down Nomura's door

A suspected rightist stormed into the headquarters of Nomura Securities Co. in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Friday morning, breaking the glass front door with a metal bat.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 1997

Aqualine opens to traffic under, above Tokyo Bay

KAWASAKI -- More than three decades after the idea was first put forward, an expressway beneath Tokyo Bay opened Thursday with simultaneous ceremonies in Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 1997

'Pocket Monsters' shocks TV viewers into convulsions

At least 651 young people in 30 prefectures were taken to hospitals with convulsions and other maladies Tuesday evening after watching the popular TV cartoon "Pocket Monsters," based on the best-selling Nintendo Game Boy software of the same name, the Fire Defense Agency Agency of the Home Affairs Ministry...
JAPAN
Dec 10, 1997

The Asahara Trial: Aum doctor breaks down on stand

Aum Shinrikyo's former chief doctor, Ikuo Hayashi, weeped bitterly Wednesday at the Tokyo District Court as he testified on the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
Freed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrives in France
U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling environmental activist Paul Watson, who was released from prison in Greenland's capital Nuuk after five months in detention, arrives with Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, near Paris, on Friday.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.

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