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CULTURE / Film
Feb 10, 2001

Suspense from fear of mundanity

Director M. Night Shyamalan couldn't make it to Tokyo since he and his wife have a newborn child to look after, but that didn't stop the enterprising PR people at Buena Vista from setting up a virtual press conference for "Unbreakable."
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2001

Public works bid-rigging said widespread

Takehiko Mori says he is confessing to his crime now that the three-year statute of limitations for the offense has expired.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Coalition will complete plan to boost stocks today: Kamei

The ruling coalition will accelerate work on measures to revive share prices, compiling them by tonight, the top policy maker of the Liberal Democratic Party said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Banks' loan balance in 37-month fall

The balance of outstanding bank loans dropped 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier, marking a 37th successive month of decline, according to a Bank of Japan preliminary report released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Banks' loan balance in 37-month fall

The balance of outstanding bank loans dropped 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier, marking a 37th successive month of decline, according to a Bank of Japan preliminary report released Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

Swiss forum seeks Japanese delegates

During the era of student protests in the late 1960s, five students at a Swiss business college launched a symposium to encourage dialogue between disaffected generations by inviting corporate leaders and other establishment figures to their campus.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Feb 8, 2001

With Cabinet approved, Bush gets down to business

WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush is off to a good and fast start. In his first days as U.S. president, he has begun to soften his relationships with his adversaries, organize his control over the vast bureaucracy of the federal government, initiate innovative programs and promote his promised legislative...
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Foreign reserves hit $364.22 billion

Japan's foreign exchange reserves reached a record-high $364.22 billion at the end of January, up $2.58 billion from a month earlier for the fifth month of increase, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Foreign reserves hit $364.22 billion

Japan's foreign exchange reserves reached a record-high $364.22 billion at the end of January, up $2.58 billion from a month earlier for the fifth month of increase, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001

Brash, bright, cheerful and fun

As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow....
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001

Roti: Brash, bright, cheerful and fun

As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow....
COMMUNITY
Feb 8, 2001

Adults fuel freebie figure boom

Until several years ago, grownups collecting freebie figures from candy or snack boxes would have been labeled otaku -- geeks. Now they're practically normal.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2001

Ministry wants votes tallied quickly

A central government ministry in charge of elections on Tuesday called on the election administration committees of all prefectures and major cities to begin counting votes on the same day as this summer's Upper House election, barring "special circumstances."
LIFE / Travel
Feb 7, 2001

Saved from the 'bitter sea'

XIAN, China -- When "Black Bean" was 4 years old, his mother and her lover stabbed his father to death. The lover was executed for murder and the mother was sentenced to 15 years in prison as an accessory to the crime. Yet the little boy's nightmare had only just begun. Reviled by the whole village,...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 4, 2001

Life is too short, even when you have nine!

I used to think I knew how to bury a dead cat. Then I learned the Japanese way.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 4, 2001

Shizuo Mochizuki

Shizuoka, the warm, sunny prefecture known for its peaceful hillsides where tea bushes grow, has always been home to Shizuo Mochizuki. His father kept a shop in Shizuoka where he sold Japanese cakes. Mochizuki says that neither tea bushes nor sweet cakes especially influenced him in choosing to make...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 4, 2001

Cosmic artist leaves a legacy of world harmony

Cosmic artist Sachiko Adachi knew intuitively that her art was powerful, so she went to great lengths to dispel any misunderstanding that she was playing with fire.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Illegal foreign workers should be deported, survey says

Almost half those polled in a recent survey are against having illegal foreign workers in the country and think they should be forcibly deported, the Cabinet Office said Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

Illegal foreign workers should be deported, survey says

Almost half those polled in a recent survey are against having illegal foreign workers in the country and think they should be forcibly deported, the Cabinet Office said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2001

Justice delayed or justice denied?

Thirteen years after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, a decision has been rendered. Three Scottish judges in a court in the Netherlands sentenced Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi to life imprisonment for the bombing. His codefendant, Mr. Lamen Khalifa Fahimah, was acquitted....
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2001

LDP plans to aid seaweed farmers

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday decided to provide interest-free loans to people hit hard by an unprecedentedly bad seaweed crop in the Ariake Sea in Kyushu, party officials said.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2001

LDP plans to aid seaweed farmers

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday decided to provide interest-free loans to people hit hard by an unprecedentedly bad seaweed crop in the Ariake Sea in Kyushu, party officials said.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Feb 3, 2001

A shakuhachi innovator who continues to inspire

Shakuhachi master Hozan Yamamoto is one of the most respected and innovative shakuhachi masters of modern times. He has pioneered new music for the instrument and extended its repertory, while remaining grounded in traditional music.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 2, 2001

Casting a literary eye on Japan's aging society

The sociologist and feminist Ueno Chizuko has released a collection of past essays that examine Japanese literature as primary source material reflecting the society and era in which it was written.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001

Treaty to outlaw child labor to go to Diet to fend off critics

In a move aimed at warding off possible international criticism, especially from human rights groups, the government is considering submitting a key treaty banning the worst forms of child labor to the current ordinary Diet session for ratification, government sources said Thursday.

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