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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2001

Fish stocks may resolve whaling debate

The International Whaling Commission recently completed its 53rd annual meeting. For the media, highlights included: false accusations of vote buying; the illegal withholding of Iceland's right to vote, decided by a majority when by international law it should not have been a subject for the commission...
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Public works budget favors urban projects

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Wednesday announced a budget request of 7.918 trillion yen for fiscal 2002.
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2001

Let's not forget basic research

In its guidelines for the next fiscal year's budgetary requests, the government has permitted a 5 percent hike in science and technology promotion spending, making an exception in the 10-percent cut in general expenditures and public-works spending. This is a real treat amid the deflationary climate....
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

JT to launch early retirement plan

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Wednesday it will launch an early retirement program on Nov. 19.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Ex-Aum members ordered to pay out over Kariya killing

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered eight former Aum Shinrikyo members to pay 59.37 million yen in damages to the family of Kiyoshi Kariya, a Tokyo notary public clerk who was killed in February 1995.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Eisai unit to shut down Texas plant

Drugmaker Eisai Co. said Wednesday that its U.S. subsidiary, Eisai U.S.A. Inc., will close its vitamin factory in Pasadena, Texas.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

MSDF eyes special anniversary drill

The Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to host the nation's first multinational marine search-and-rescue exercise and an international naval review at Tokyo Bay in October 2002, according to budget request plans unveiled Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Koizumi to set up two expert panels

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he will establish two expert panels to discuss issues relating to the economy and foreign policy.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Defense Agency seeks 5 trillion yen budget

The Defense Agency will request 5.0278 trillion yen from the 2002 general account budget, an increase of 1.8 percent from this year's initial budget, according to a plan submitted to the Liberal Democratic Party's defense panel Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2001

Economic might of overseas Chinese does not necessarily translate into political power

Numbering slightly less than 60 million people, the overseas Chinese form a far-flung network that extends from San Francisco to Singapore. With an estimated wealth of more than $1.5 trillion, this group constitutes what could arguably be the third largest economy in the world, following the United States...
JAPAN / History
Aug 30, 2001

A half-century of media pigeonholing

Japan is a nation of children who were led astray by their military, re-educated under the benevolence of the United States, and rose to become America's important ally. It became a nation of salaried men and office ladies gaining, for a few brief years, through international trade what it had failed...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 30, 2001

We can't stay young forever, but why not age gracefully?

Following recent reports of a mammal able to regenerate after injury, science continues to imitate fiction, with a discovery in Boston that recalls the search for the philosopher's stone. The stone, the subject of the first Harry Potter book, was long sought after by medieval alchemists, who believed...
COMMENTARY
Aug 30, 2001

A bleak forecast for France

PARIS -- As always at this time of year in France, planes and trains are overcrowded and the highways are blocked by traffic jams. The French, who enjoy the longest vacations in the world -- an average of five weeks per year -- have begun returning home from their summer holidays.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Study links care needs with age, income

Elderly people with little or no income tend to require more nursing care than those with higher incomes, according to a recent joint study by Japanese and British researchers.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 30, 2001

Jubilo moves into Nabisco semifinals

ICHIHARA, Chiba Pref. -- Jubilo Iwata advanced to the semifinals of the J. League Nabisco Cup after beating JEF United Ichihara 4-2 on aggregate on Wednesday night.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

TECOM group raided over taxes; top exec arrested

Three TECOM group companies that prepare medical students for exams were searched by Tokyo prosecutors Wednesday for alleged evasion of income tax, and the president of one of the firms was arrested.
JAPAN / 50 YEARS SINCE SAN FRANCISCO
Aug 30, 2001

American-style peace redefines Japanese palate

Fortunately, the GIs had something in their pockets and backpacks that led to instant friendship with total strangers: the Hershey chocolate bar.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2001

Nikkei plummets below 11,000 mark

The key Nikkei stock average closed on Wednesday below the psychologically important 11,000 line for the first time in nearly 17 years as Japanese investors became worried by signs of a further delay in a U.S. economic recovery.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2001

Gateway Japan halts operations

Gateway Japan Inc. said Wednesday it has shut down its operations in Japan and will lay off all of its 698 employees, including directors.
BUSINESS / THE WRITERS' SPIN
Aug 30, 2001

Internet bank's accidental author is by no means an accidental Sony man

Staff writer Hiroki Totoki is a Sony Bank director and an accidental author.
Japan issues first-ever alert over risk of Nankai Trough megaquake
Naoshi Hirata, chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday evening.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes Kanto region
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Kanto region on Friday evening.
Nankai Trough megaquake concerns become 'real' among locals
Workers remove debris from a damaged house in the city of Miyazaki on Thursday following a major earthquake.
No sumo tickets? No problem. Here are some other ways to take in the sport.
Wrestlers battle during the national women's championships in Osaka in 2018. Amateur sumo is a great way to experience the sport for tourists who are unable to get tickets to professional tournaments.
The definitive guide to Utagawa Hiroshige's masterwork is a feast for the eyes
Utagawa Hiroshige produced several highly successful series of landscape prints over the course of his career, including “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” — the largest collection of his career.
From the Bronx to Paris: Breaking set for its Olympic close-up
Shigekix, whose real name is Shigeyuki Nakarai, in action during the world championships in Leuven, Belgium, in September
Kishida looks to constitutional reform to win over LDP conservatives
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party panel on constitutional reform in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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 through immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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