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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2021

China’s demographic manipulation

Officially, China's demographic situation was nothing to be alarmed about. But less than a month after the census was released, Beijing suspiciously loosened the family-planning rules.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 5, 2011

Amon Miyamoto: Globe-trotting dramatist seeks new horizons

Fifty-three years ago, Amon Miyamoto was born into a world in which he grew up listening to spirited exchanges between leading lights from the stage and showbiz in his father's coffee shop across from the modern-leaning Shinbashi Enbujo outpost of the venerable Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo's smart Ginza...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 22, 2011

Monster in Blackman case still an enigma

Richard Lloyd Parry spoke about his new book, "People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman," with Jeff Kingston. The following draws on this interview and his book.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 18, 2009

The noughties played it nice

The biggest Japanese music event in 2000 was Hikaru Utada's Bohemian Summer tour, which was launched at Tokyo's Yoyogi Pool that June. Since emerging in December 1998 with the single "Automatic," followed by the debut album "First Love" four months later, the 17-year-old singer-songwriter, daughter of...
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2004

108 active volcanoes keep agency shaking

A recent series of eruptions at Mount Asama that began last month is the latest reminder that Japan is a country of volcanoes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 4, 2002

Foreigner crime stats cover up a real cop-out

The National Police Agency recently announced that the number of crimes committed by foreigners on temporary visas jumped by 25.8 percent.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2002

Alleged abductees' kin hopeful, skeptical

Families of those believed to have been abducted to North Korea welcomed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to visit the Stalinist state next month as an opportunity to make some headway on the thorny issue.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2002

Youth sex on rise, as are serious infections

Sex education expert Atsuko Yoshida is alarmed by the increasingly decadent lifestyle of youth that has made them more susceptible than ever to sexually transmitted infections.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 10, 2002

Condom makers jazz up contraception

The country's 60 billion yen condom industry has taken the offensive lately in a withering market, promoting a batch of new products designed to woo youths who are increasingly sexually active but reluctant to use protection.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2002

Why it must be Bush vs. Gore in 2004

NEW YORK -- It is impossible to overstate the importance of tossing U.S. President George W. Bush back onto the unemployment lines in 2004. His illegitimate presidency isn't even half-over, yet Bush's disreputable Cabinet of tin-pot gangsters has already succeeded in causing irreparable harm to our great...
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2001

National wealth falls again

Japan's national wealth, or net assets, at the end of 2000 fell 0.6 percent from a year ago to 2.973 quadrillion yen, marking a third consecutive year of decline, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday.
JAPAN / STAGING A COMEBACK
Nov 9, 2001

Successful firms have learned importance of patents

It was a big challenge for Canon Inc., one of Japan's top camera makers, to embark on the copy machine business in the late 1960s, as the market was dominated by the U.S. giant Xerox Corp.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 10, 2001

There's more than one way to kill a vampire

Dracula 2000 Rating: * * Japanese title: Draculea Director: Patrick Lussier Running time: 99 minutes Language: English Showing at Marunouchi Piccadilly 2 and others
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2001

TSE-listed firms enjoyed sales increases

Many major Japanese companies, especially manufacturing firms, saw sales increases and net profits in fiscal 2000, which ended March 31, 2001.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

More teachers punished for sexual harassment

National universities penalized 16 teaching staff in the 2000 academic year for sexual harassment, a sharp increase from the three instructors punished a year earlier, according to documents released Saturday by the Education Ministry.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2001

Ministers urge curbs on Chinese imports

The ministers of agriculture, trade and finance reached a basic agreement Friday on the need to invoke temporary curbs on surging imports from China of stone leeks, fresh shiitake mushrooms and rushes used to weave tatami.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Cabbies, waiters and retailers predict a slowdown

Taxi drivers, waiters and workers in other sectors considered close to the man on the street in January were more pessimistic about the economy than in any other month since the government began conducting its so-called Economy Watchers poll a year earlier, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2001

Current account surplus up 3.7% to 12.6 trillion yen

The nation's current account surplus grew for the first time in two years in 2000, jumping 3.7 percent from the previous year to 12.6 trillion yen, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Finance Ministry.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2001

Current account surplus up 3.7% to 12.6 trillion yen

The nation's current account surplus grew for the first time in two years in 2000, jumping 3.7 percent from the previous year to 12.6 trillion yen, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Finance Ministry.
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2000

Japan Telecom on road to survival

With e-commerce blooming and cut-throat competition intensifying in the telephone business, Japan Telecom Co. is shifting its focus from voice to data transmission and enlisting the help of foreign partners, says Haruo Murakami, president of the firm.
ENVIRONMENT
Jan 10, 2000

This is last chance to get straight with environment -- UNEP report

This is last chance to get straight with environment -- UNEP report ft,b For those of us who get a kick out of odometers hitting big round numbers, this is it, a new century. Environmentally speaking, though, 100-year blocks of time are almost irrelevant.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2000

ACCJ chief aims to fortify bilateral bridge

While major elections are likely to consume Tokyo and Washington in 2000, trade disputes are simmering beneath the relatively calm surface of Japan-U.S. economic relations.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 1999

Cabinet OKs 85 trillion yen 'final push' budget

The Cabinet on Friday approved an 84.99 trillion yen budget for fiscal 2000 that leans more heavily than ever on bond issues in what is being billed as the final push to strengthen the long-fragile economy. The general-account budget, the same size as the Finance Ministry's draft proposed Monday, will...
JAPAN
Sep 17, 1999

Nuclear utilities' Y2K assurances difficult to sell

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LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 1, 1999

Walking into the millennial sunrise

If you still haven't made up your mind about where you're going to be come sunrise of the year 2000, here's one to contemplate. How about Barrow, Alaska followed by a leisurely stroll 14 km to Point Barrow at the utmost north of the Americas?
JAPAN
Jun 5, 1997

Japan to go to bat for environment at G-7 summit

Japan is ready to step to the plate at the upcoming G-7 meeting in Denver as the environment's cleanup hitter. Then again, it might not even take its bat off its shoulder.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2020

U.S. TV news networks aim for credibility, not speed, on election night

Some top U.S. television news executives see a cautionary tale in a notorious November evening two decades ago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 3, 2018

Japan's coming productivity miracle

There are solid indications that Japanese service-sector firms are finally beginning to invest in the future.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2018

Profiles of top Aum Shinrikyo members, including six still on death row

A central figure in the Aum Shinrikyo cult as a chemistry expert, Masami Tsuchiya, 53, was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in the production of sarin that was used in deadly gas attacks in Nagano Prefecture.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.

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