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JAPAN
Nov 17, 1998

Coupons for foreign residents considered

The government is studying whether to distribute merchandise coupons to foreigners living in Japan with permanent residency, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1998

Clinton, Obuchi to focus on economy

U.S. President Bill Clinton will arrive in Tokyo Thursday afternoon for a two-day visit, instead of arriving early in the morning as originally scheduled, a top government spokesman said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 1998

LDP-Liberal coalition plan on hold until next meeting

Despite Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's expectations of establishing cooperative ties between the Liberal Democratic Party, which he heads, and the Liberal Party, it is still uncertain whether an agreement will be reached at the next meeting of party leaders, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said...
JAPAN
Nov 16, 1998

State awaits heliport solution as Inamine defeats Ota

The government will abandon its controversial plan to build a sea-based heliport off the northern Okinawa city of Nago and instead seek a solution based on the policy platform of Okinawa's newly elected governor, Keiichi Inamine, a government spokesman said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 1998

Clinton visit scheduled to begin Thursday

U.S. President Bill Clinton will make a two-day visit to Japan beginning Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1998

LDP to woo longtime foe Ozawa for alliance

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi will seek talks with Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Liberal Party, about forming an alliance when he returns from Russia later this week, executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 1998

SDF poised to send rescue troops into Honduras

The government dispatched a research squad to hurricane-stricken Honduras on Monday evening in preparation for sending the Self-Defense Forces to the country for relief operations.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 1998

Government backpedals on early tax break pledge

Despite mounting expectations of consumers and businesses, it will be difficult for the government to carry out planned tax cuts in January, the top government spokesman said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1998

Government announces itinerary of Jiang visit

Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit Japan as a state guest from Nov. 25 to 30, the government formally announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 1998

Obuchi-Yeltsin summit set; isles row to top agenda

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's visit to Russia to hold talks with President Boris Yeltsin will take place from Nov. 11 to 13, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1998

Nonaka supports increase in pension funding

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Monday that an increase in government contributions to state-run pensions should be included in next year's revision plan, a reversal from Health and Welfare Minister Sohei Miyashita's remarks the day before.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 1998

Obuchi reaches out in Osaka

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JAPAN
Oct 30, 1998

Parents give troubled kids cold shoulder, survey says

Many parents fail to notice signs of their children's frustration, forcing kids to try to resolve problems on their own or by turning to friends for help, according to an Education Ministry survey released Friday.One-fifth of elementary, junior high and high school students polled recently by the ministry...
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1998

Local handling urged for proposed consumption coupons

If municipal governments, instead of the central government, issue 30,000 yen gift coupons, this could help to boost personal consumption, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Wednesday.Komei and Shinto Heiwa (New Peace Party) have been asking the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to issue coupons...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998

Defense seeks 963 million yen for missile defense

The Defense Agency on Friday requested 963 million yen in the fiscal 1999 budget to start a joint research program with the United States to develop a missile defense system.The budget is to cover the design and trial manufacture of missiles to be used for the Navy Theater Wide Defense system, the sea-based...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998

Government nationalizes Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan

The government placed the troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan under state control Friday after the bank reported it may have to suspend repayments of deposits and other obligations.A report released by the Financial Supervisory Agency on the same day said the LTCB is insolvent, with liabilities...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1998

Obuchi pledges economic recovery drive

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi renewed his pledge Thursday to put the economy on a recovery path within two years and stressed that the government will do all it can do to achieve that goal.In a speech at a Tokyo hotel, Obuchi reiterated that the government will swiftly compile a third supplementary budget...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1998

Hashimoto begins China visit

Former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on Thursday embarked on a two-day visit to China to attend a reception commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1978 peace and friendship treaty between the two countries on behalf of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and former...
JAPAN
Oct 22, 1998

Prime Minister's Office to oversee bank failures

The government has established a team within the Prime Minister's Office to deal with failed and failing banks until a "financial resuscitation" committee is formally formed, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Thursday.The announcement came a day before a set of laws aiming to stabilize the...
JAPAN
Oct 21, 1998

Japan inks KEDO cost-sharing deal

Japan has lifted its freeze on financial contributions to an international project to build light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea.Terusuke Terada, Japan's ambassador to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), signed the cost-sharing agreement Wednesday with other KEDO board...
JAPAN
Oct 20, 1998

Pension premium hike in April may be shelved

The government is considering scrapping a scheduled April premium hike in the national pension plan for self-employed people, to keep from further dampening consumer spending, Health and Welfare Minister Sohei Miyashita said Tuesday.At a news conference following a Cabinet meeting, Miyashita revealed...
JAPAN
Oct 20, 1998

Jiang to visit Japan on Nov. 25

Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit Japan from Nov. 25 to the end of the month, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday.Jiang's visit was originally scheduled for early September but was postponed in August due to massive flood damage in central and northeastern China. A Cabinet decision...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1998

Obuchi says state intends to stabilize financial system

The government is determined to shore up the faltering economy within two years and stabilize the financial system by fully utilizing the bank recapitalization law and the financial stabilization laws recently approved by the Diet, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said Friday.At a news conference held after...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 1998

Japan to rejoin KEDO partners for reactor project

Japan will lift its freeze on participation in an international consortium providing nuclear reactors to North Korea as early as next week, government sources said Friday.Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi instructed Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka to forge a consensus...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1998

Nonaka scolds Kishi's resistance to bank bill

Banks should expedite their restructuring efforts and get a better understanding of their responsibility in the nation's financial system, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Thursday.Nonaka's remarks were directed at a comment made earlier in the day by Satoru Kishi, chairman of the Federation...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 1998

Sorrow expressed for Okinawa girl's death

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka expressed his sorrow Thursday over the death the previous day of a female hit-and-run victim in Okinawa Prefecture."We would like to pray for the repose of her soul," he said, referring to Yuki Uema, an 18-year-old high school student who died of head injuries sustained...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 1998

DPJ's Ikeda calls new bill 'opaque,' counterproductive

Staff writer The banking sector crisis will continue because of the "opaque" bank recapitalization bill, Motohisa Ikeda, a key member of the Democratic Party of Japan, said Wednesday. The bill, expected to be enacted Friday, will not enable accurate assessment of bank assets, sufficient injection of...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 1998

Push banks to accept public funds, council urges

The government should take the initiative to quickly inject tens of trillions of yen in public money into the nation's major banks to boost their capital bases and ease the credit crunch, a special advisory panel to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi proposed Wednesday.The Strategic Economic Council, headed...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 1998

Crime soars to postwar record

The number of reported Penal Code violations in 1997 hit another postwar record of 2.518 million, up some 52,600 from the year before, according to an annual government report on crime released Tuesday.The 1998 crime white paper, which includes an overview of last year's general criminal trends and...
JAPAN
Oct 12, 1998

Upper House enacts finance resuscitation laws

The Diet enacted financial reform laws Monday afternoon that mandate creation of a "financial resuscitation committee" to handle failed and failing banks as well as a public institution to buy bad loans from them.The government and Liberal Democratic Party now turn their attention to a bank recapitalization...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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