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JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Cuba envoy fund misuse to be probed

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicated Wednesday she will thoroughly investigate reports that a former ambassador to Cuba diverted taxpayer money for private purposes.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Launch date for spy satellites delayed until July 2003

The government decided Wednesday to postpone the launch of two of four domestically developed reconnaissance satellites by five months until July 2003, due to delays in parts procurement.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

Yamasaki to ask BOJ for even easier money

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Wednesday he will ask Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami to ease monetary policy further to prevent the economy from decelerating.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

Margin buying keeps rising

The balance of shares bought on credit rose for the fifth straight week last week, although the pace of increase slowed visibly.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

Amazon Japan adds video tapes, CDs, DVDs

The Japanese unit of Amazon.com announced Wednesday its expansion to sell compact discs, digital versatile discs and video tapes, but said there was no sign of the company making a profit yet.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Stabbing suspect aimed to harass relatives

OSAKA — The suspect in last Friday's massacre at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, has told investigators that he wanted to "stir up a commotion" to harass his relatives, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Pesky monkeys face death squads

Monkeys caused at least 850 million yen worth of damage to Japan's agricultural produce during fiscal 1999, an animal protection body said in a survey released Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

'Double bottom' could presage recovery

While Tokyo share prices have remained at a depressed level in recent weeks, the stock market could bottom out for the second time in a span of three months or so, a situation that is often followed by a strong rebound.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2001

Pressure mounts for reform in Iran

TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's landslide victory in last week's presidential election is seen as a great boost for him and his reformist followers in the power struggle that pits them against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the hardline clerical establishment.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Obituary: Yoshishige Saito

Yoshishige Saito, an internationally renowned artist and pioneer of the avant-garde movement in Japan, died Wednesday at a Yokohama hospital, his family said. He was 97.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Upper House passes stiffer driving rules

The House of Councilors on Wednesday approved amendments to the Road Traffic Law that include heavier penalties and an extension of the validity of driver's licenses to five years from the current three.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2001

Pyongyang's Chinese connection to the global economy

DANDONG, China -- When managers at a North Korean metal works began dreaming that foreigners' suits and blouses might one day be draped on the company's aluminum coat-hangers, there was no way to pursue international markets directly.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Tanaka to propose rotating military drills in Powell talks

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicated Wednesday she will ask the United States to relocate some of its military drills from Okinawa to Guam and other places.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Koizumi says U.S. rejection of Kyoto pact 'deplorable'

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he finds it "very deplorable" that the United States has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, but he stopped short of saying whether Japan will ratify the pact even without U.S. participation.
COMMENTARY
Jun 14, 2001

Solving Asia's nuclear-waste dilemma

Nuclear energy is news again. It has always been an issue for some people -- environmental activists and energy industry groups -- but nuclear power has largely faded from public consciousness, despite periodic incidents that highlighted fears of a catastrophic mishap at a nuclear power plant. The luxury...
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

Industrial output revised downward

Japan's industrial production fell a revised 2 percent in April from the previous month for the second straight monthly dip, against the earlier reported 1.7 percent decline, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Six arrested in visa scam involving fake marriages

Police arrested six people Wednesday on suspicion of arranging bogus marriages to help Chinese nationals stay in Japan to work, police said.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 14, 2001

Swallows likely to command $5 million for Ishii

Kazuhisa Ishii is a man in demand.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

J.P. Morgan Chase approved to list

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Wednesday it has approved the listing of stock for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., a leading U.S. financial services firm, on its foreign section.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Aum's request to end surveillance is rejected

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Aum Shinrikyo to void a decision by the Public Security Examination Commission to place the sect under surveillance by security authorities.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 14, 2001

When a little profit exacts a high price

Public-works projects, such as the bungled reclamation of Isahaya Bay in Kyushu and Tokyo's ill-conceived Ken'odo ring road, exemplify the bureaucratic myopia that is razing Japan's natural heritage. But the destruction is not always on a grand scale, nor solely the handiwork of public servants. Private...
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

585,000 sign up for Koizumi's e-mail magazine

More than half a million people have registered their e-mail addresses to subscribe to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's e-mail magazine to be launched today, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

JCCI probes alleged exam leak

Questions on an accounting license examination conducted Sunday by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry may have been leaked to students at accounting schools, JCCI officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2001

Top bureaucrats face reduction in retirement pay

A task force of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has begun a review of retirement allowances given to senior central government officials, with an eye to cutting such payments, LDP sources said Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / GARDENING FOR ALL
Jun 14, 2001

A green oasis in the Osaka urban desert

Historically a city of merchants, Osaka is generally thought to have little greenery. But at its very heart, on the eastern portion of Nakanoshima, a small island sandwiched between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers, there is a lovely patch of green known as Nakanoshima Rose Garden.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2001

Current account surplus declines for fifth month

The nation's current account surplus -- the broadest gauge of trade in goods and services -- fell 24.4 percent in April to 877.6 billion yen compared with the previous year, marking its fifth consecutive month in decline, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday in a preliminary report.
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jun 14, 2001

Gaku-ajisai (Lace-cap hydrangea)

"We rode for some time within hearing of the Kinugawa River with an undergrowth of red azaleas, blue hydrangea the very blue of heaven, yellow raspberries, ferns. The redundancy of the vegetation was truly tropical, and the brilliancy and variety of its living greens, dripping with recent rain,...
COMMENTARY
Jun 14, 2001

Britain's real battle begins

LONDON -- The Labour government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Tony Blair, has gained a second term of office. The conservative opposition has been utterly defeated and its leader, William Hague, has duly "fallen on his sword" by resigning.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 14, 2001

Perez kick-starts Tigers to victory over Dragons with big first inning

Eduardo Perez cleared the bases with a double in Hanshin's four-run first inning Wednesday and the Tigers held on for a 4-2 win over the Chunichi Dragons.
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.
Top envoys to Japan set to skip Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony after Israel not invited
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (left) attends a U.S.-Japan ministerial meeting on extended deterrence in Tokyo on July 28.
Japan needs foreign workers, but it might not want them to stay long
Ngun Nei Par, the general manager at Ginshotei Awashima in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, graduated from a university in Myanmar with a degree in geography.
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

The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
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