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JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Ikeda school gets new building after June stabbings

OSAKA -- The elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, where eight children were fatally stabbed in June, completed construction of a temporary schoolhouse Wednesday for the resumption of classes this month.
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Thousands honor war dead at Yasukuni

About 3,000 people -- twice as many as last year -- gathered Wednesday at Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, to attend an annual memorial service to pay tribute to Japan's war dead.
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Odakyu worker fired over data leak

An employee of a Tokyo department store has been fired for divulging information on some 382,000 customers, the store operator said Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 16, 2001

Japanese cheerleaders dance to beat of San Francisco 49ers gridiron drum

If you thought names such as Ichiro Suzuki and Hideo Nomo were the only Japanese on the American sports scene, think again.
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Legitimized foreigners urge more amnesty

A 15-year-old Iranian girl's first trip to her home country in 10 years last July began with a surprise welcome at Tehran airport by some 100 relatives.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 16, 2001

World Games 2001 open in Akita

Who is the best lifesaver in the world? Who is the most elegant performer at a height of 3,000 meters? And who throws a flying disc the most accurately?
SOCCER / World cup
Aug 16, 2001

Japan whips Australia for AFC/OFC Challenge Cup

AINO, Shizuoka Pref. -- A confident Japan team cruised past Australia 3-0 Wednesday at Shizuoka's Ecopa Stadium to take the inaugural AFC/OFC Challenge Cup between the champions of Asia and Oceania.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2001

Koizumi facing rocky road to reform

Although calm has returned to the Tokyo stock market, share prices remain at a depressed level.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2001

New cafes offer broadband experience

With most homes in Japan not yet ready for high-speed access to the Internet, more and more "broadband cafes" are sprouting up to offer firsthand experience with the latest Internet services.
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Yamasaki heads for Southeast Asia

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, will leave Japan today on a nine-day visit to five Southeast Asian countries, LDP officials said Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 16, 2001

Yama-torikabuto (Japanese monkshood)

"Pipichari has given mea small quantity of the poisonous paste, and has also taken me to see the plant from the root of which it is made, the Aconitum japonicum, a monkshood, whose tall spikes of blue flowers are brightening the brushwood in all directions. The Ainos [sic] say that if a man is accidentally...
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2001

Decade-long district court trials highlight need for judicial overhaul

As calls for speedy trials mount following a blue-ribbon panel proposal in June to overhaul the judiciary, the pace of work at the Tokyo District Court probably serves as "exhibit A" in the argument for reform.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 16, 2001

Ishii strikes out nine batters as Swallows blank BayStars

Lefty ace Kazuhisa Ishii combined with Tomokazu Teramura on a two-hitter as the Central League-leading Yakult Swallows blanked the Yokohama BayStars 7-0 at Jingu Stadium on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2001

BOJ again downgrades outlook for economy

The Bank of Japan downgraded slightly its assessment of the economy for the third consecutive month Wednesday, admitting that the likelihood of a recovery by the end of the year is fading.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 16, 2001

Five years later, a friend remembered

He was probably the greatest basketball player you have never heard of. Such was the fate of my friend Derek Smith, who died five years ago last week at the age of 34, while on a cruise from New York to Bermuda.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 16, 2001

Wild answer to the deer problem

KAMIKITAYAMA, Nara Pref. -- It was a rainy Monday in July when Fumio Minamiura came across a shocking scene: a stray dog trotting along with the head and fore-parts of a young deer in its mouth. Blood was still dripping from the fresh kill.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2001

Venture capitalists bank on restructuring mood

During the heady days of the information technology boom of the late 1990s through early 2000, many foreign venture-capital firms were lured to Japan in search of Internet-related business startups.
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 16, 2001

Slow and steady wins the dispersal race

Humans have an anthropocentric tendency to look down on "cold-blooded" reptiles. We even use the term "cold-blooded" in a derogatory way to criticize people who seem somehow less than human.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2001

Myline phone service leaves 5.5 million applicants waiting

Myline registration is lagging far behind schedule due to insufficient computer capacity, a telecommunications industry group said Wednesday in an apology statement.
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.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
'I didn’t know if it was real': Yui Susaki suffers shock wrestling defeat
Yui Susaki reacts after losing in the opening round of the women's 50-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.
Kyushu escapes major damage from magnitude 7.1 earthquake
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday following a major earthquake in the Kyushu region.
Nagasaki peace ceremony overshadowed by diplomatic wrangling
The Nagasaki Municipal Government, which is hosting the city's annual peace ceremony, said it did not extend an invitation to the Israeli ambassador due to security concerns.
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.
In sleepy Chichibu, Japan's whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.

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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