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BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Panel drafts debt-waiving guidelines for troubled corporate borrowers

A panel of debtors and creditors on Friday drafted a set of guidelines for debt waivers in an effort to raise transparency in a system accused of distorting market principles.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Takuma served fresh warrant over stabbings

OSAKA — Police served a fresh arrest warrant on Mamoru Takuma on Friday on charges of stabbing seven schoolgirls to death and injuring 12 others in an attack June 8 at an Osaka elementary school.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Japan to propose holding an Asian IT conference

Economic minister Heizo Takenaka said Friday he will visit Singapore and Malaysia next week and propose holding an international conference on information technology.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

NTT launches L-mode Internet service

In a bid to halt the ongoing demise of fixed phone services, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone group on Friday launched L-mode, a text-based Internet browsing service that does not require a computer.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Matsushita warned over unfair trading

The Fair Trade Commission on Friday warned Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. against urging wholesalers and retailers not to sell its products to discount stores, FTC officials said.
COMMENTARY
Jun 30, 2001

NATO errors led to Macedonian disaster

WASHINGTON -- Leave it to NATO to turn a problem into a crisis. Two years ago, America spurred ethnic Albanian separatism by kicking Serbian forces out of Kosovo. Today NATO is fomenting civil war in Macedonia by its maladroit intervention.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2001

India and Pakistan both stand to gain

The sudden invitation extended by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to attend a summit talk in New Delhi might have taken some observers by surprise but in reality it is a calculated move based on South Asian geopolitics.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Kids' haiku published by JAL Foundation

More than 210,000 haiku from 22 countries and in 16 languages were submitted by children aged 15 and under to a recent international competition organized by the JAL Foundation.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Yagi tapped as new envoy to IMF

Ken Yagi, a deputy director general of the Finance Ministry's International Bureau, will soon become Japan's next executive director at the International Monetary Fund, a senior ministry official said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2001

OECD policy equals fiscal imperialism

There has been a lot of noise over the issue of tax laundering and tax havens. While much of the focus of publicity will be on stopping money-laundering associated with criminal activities, the subtext of it all will be to restrain tax competition. Despite the initial aim to limit "harmful tax competition,"...
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Missile shield to top Japan, U.S. talks

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday he will discuss the U.S. missile shield plan in depth when he meets with President George W. Bush this weekend.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Group sues for segregation of spirits at Yasukuni Shrine

In the first case of its kind, a group of South Koreans filed a lawsuit against the state on Friday demanding the spirits of their family members currently enshrined at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine be separated from other war dead.
COMMENTARY
Jun 30, 2001

Time for a strategic dialogue

HONOLULU -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will have a lot to talk about with U.S. President George W. Bush when the two meet for the first time at Camp David this weekend. High on the agenda should be the initiation of a strategic dialogue aimed at redefining the U.S.-Japan security relationship.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Kawasaki Steel in king of jungle quest

The new president of Kawasaki Steel Corp. said his company's decision to integrate operations with NKK Corp. is aimed at acquiring "physical and brain power" to survive "the law of the jungle" that will arise from further liberalization of the global steel market.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Foreign suffrage bills carried over

Two bills aimed at granting permanent foreign residents in Japan the right to vote in local elections will be carried over to the next Diet session, a Diet committee said Friday.
COMMUNITY
Jun 30, 2001

The Three Sisters Inn: owned by three sisters

It is not as if Kikue, Sadako and Terumi Yamada have not been interviewed before. Not so long ago it was for The New York Times, which really put them on the map.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

May consumer prices fell 20th month in row, 0.7%

The nation's core consumer prices fell a record 0.7 percent in May from a year earlier, while Tokyo prices fell 0.6 percent in June, down for a record 22nd straight month, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Koseki admits to bribing Koyama, Murakami

Tadao Koseki, the former president of scandal-tainted mutual aid foundation KSD, pleaded guilty Friday of bribing two former Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers to use their political influence to push the organization's plan to build a university.
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 30, 2001

Paraguay claims Kirin Cup opener

Goals from defender Juan Daniel Caceres and substitute midfielder Virgilio Ferreira gave Paraguay a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia in the opening match of the Kirin Cup on Thursday night at Tokyo's National Stadium.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Performance pay for civil servants?

Civil servants' wages and promotions should be based on competency and achievement rather than seniority, the government's Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters said in a basic plan approved Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Satellite to have lighter workload

Southern Hemisphere observations carried out by the Himawari No. 5 weather satellite will be slashed by two-thirds, according to the Meteorological Agency.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Foreigners net sellers for fourth straight week

Foreign investors remained net sellers of Japanese stocks for the fourth straight week last week, although their selling excess narrowed.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Suzuki, GM hail global alliance

Suzuki Motor Corp. and General Motors Corp. on Friday hailed their global strategic alliance and confirmed that Suzuki will begin manufacturing from the fall a new compact car jointly developed by the two automakers.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Tanaka considering Belgrade visit

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka may visit Yugoslavia and possibly some other countries in Europe before attending the July 18-19 Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting in Rome, a senior ministry official said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

New governor of aid agency named

The government said Friday it has promoted Kyosuke Shinozawa, deputy governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, to governor, replacing Hiroshi Yasuda.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 30, 2001

Jojima's cracks grand slam as Hawks end losing streak

Kenji Jojima hammered a grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the first inning, helping the Daiei Hawks snap their losing streak at six with a 4-0 win over the Lotte Marines 4-0 at the Fukuoka Dome on Friday night.
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.
JR East to resume production of Suica cards as early as fall
Passengers enter Yurakucho station in Tokyo on Friday.
'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.
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’
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