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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2002

Labour spinning backward

LONDON -- When its press becomes the story, a country is in a strange shape.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE EXTRA
Jun 27, 2002

Observations from the other side

It's almost over now, and I have to admit it's been a lot less painful than anticipated.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Obituary: Masao Kamei

Masao Kamei, former chairman of Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., died of pneumonia Sunday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 86.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Astronaut ready to stroll in space

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi said Wednesday he is looking forward to helping with construction work on the International Space Station when the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis is launched in January.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Aum Shinrikyo officer Niimi given death sentence for role in 26 murders

Senior Aum Shinrikyo figure Tomomitsu Niimi was sentenced Wednesday to death for his role in 26 murders and other crimes committed by the doomsday cult, including two deadly sarin attacks.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

Diet enacts law on consolidated tax

The Diet enacted a consolidated tax law Wednesday under which the losses of one group firm can be offset by the profits of another.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

A first: METI upgrades retail sales assessment

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry gently upgraded its retail sales assessment Wednesday, with the scale of the year-on-year decline in sales having shrank to 3 percent in May from 4.5 percent in April.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

FTC to take up ANA-Air Do link

Fair Trade Commission Secretary General Akio Yamada said Wednesday the FTC will look into the anticompetitive implications of a proposed tieup between All Nippon Airways and the failed Hokkaido International Airlines, better known as Air Do.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Group wants '60s poisoning recognized as dioxin pollution

An environmental group will open a center Saturday that will provide support for victims of a widespread poisoning episode in 1968 involving contaminated rice-bran oil and will seek to have the incident categorized as one of dioxin pollution, a group official said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

May auto production jumps but trucks, motorcycles fall

Japan's motor vehicle production rose 9.3 percent in May from a year earlier to 803,323 units, up for the second straight month, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

Second transport company opts out of mail service

A second transportation company made it known Wednesday that onerous conditions attached to a postal deregulation bill will keep it from entering the mail delivery business.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

Japan, Canada eye antitrust accord

Japan and Canada will begin negotiations in the near future on striking a bilateral antitrust cooperation agreement, the Fair Trade Commission and the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2002

The shrinking U.S. dollar

The U.S. dollar continues to slide on international currency markets. Actually, slide is too polite a word: "Nosedive" seems like a more apt description of the greenback's behavior in recent weeks. Some economists now worry that a "hard landing" -- a crash in the dollar's value -- is the chief threat...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 27, 2002

Maradona to arrive on Friday

Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona will arrive in Japan on Friday for a weeklong visit to watch the World Cup final in Yokohama on Sunday and participate in other events, diplomatic sources in Havana said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Economic gloom just adds to illegal workers' plight

Practically every working condition endured by 36-year-old Sajidur Rahman during his 4 1/2-year stint at a Yokohama factory is illegal under the Labor Standards Law.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2002

Panel recognizes Suginami sufferers but fails to isolate chemical culprits

The government's arbitration commission for pollution-related disputes ruled Wednesday that a public waste-processing facility in Tokyo's Suginami Ward caused a number of illnesses among residents in 1996.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENS FOR ALL
Jun 27, 2002

A temple, park and Heian pond in one

Daikakuji Temple in northwest Kyoto started life in the lyrical Heian Period as Saga-in, the Detached Palace of Emperor Saga, who reigned from 809 until he abdicated and went to live there permanently in 823. Then in 876, his daughter Princess Shoshi designated Saga-in to be converted into a Buddhist...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 27, 2002

Newshungry TV viewers fighting for English service

To start off, we have a request from "Friends of Foxnews," who are working to keep Foxnews, the up and coming challenge to CNN and BBC and the only non-edited English language news program on SkyPerfecTV here in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 27, 2002

Chinese invasion making waves in Japan

The other day, I happened to be on the platform of JR Kichijoji Station as a Sobu Line express pulled in. Wanting to be certain it would stop at the next station, Nishi-Ogikubo, I inquired to the young man standing next to me. In halting Japanese, he said that he was Chinese and didn't understand my...
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Typhoon to force railway closures as it nears Kanto on Friday
A satellite image from Wednesday afternoon shows Tropical Storm Ampil south of Japan
‘Very strong’ Typhoon Ampil set to approach eastern Japan on Friday
A satellite image shows Typhoon Ampil south of Japan on Thursday afternoon.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Global mindset crucial for reform of Japan's health care, minister says
In the past 11 months, health minister Keizo Takemi has been charting his own path, seeking to make Japan's health care policies more global and digitalized.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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