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LIFE / Travel
Jun 5, 2001

Sparks fly in Mexico's city of artists and artisans

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EDITORIALS
Jun 5, 2001

The brass tacks of reform

Over the past month or more, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has told the nation time and again that he is determined to fight forces opposed to change. Now he is coming to the point where he must show he means what he says. The immediate challenge is to flesh out his vision of "structural reform with...
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2001

Justice minister refuses to halt hangings

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama on Monday rejected a plea from six nonpartisan Diet members to have the death penalty abolished, Justice Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2001

Tomobe's wife objects to ruling

The wife of House of Councilors member Tatsuo Tomobe has filed an objection to the recent Supreme Court dismissal of her appeal of a lower court ruling sentencing her to five years in prison for fraud, her lawyers said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2001

Hope for Macedonia

As has so often been the case in the Balkans, a political minority is making big waves in Macedonia. For once, however, a government seems to be trying to accommodate that group rather than fanning the flames of discontent. Prodded by NATO and the European Union, the government in Skopje is trying to...
COMMENTARY
Jun 4, 2001

Japan needs its own third way

Since it debuted a little over a month ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration has been trumpeting the slogan "No structural reform, no economic recovery." Whether that is true is arguable. But there is no question that "structural reform" means reshaping Japan's outdated market economy...
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

Group calls for education of illegals' kids

OSAKA — Members of an Osaka group supporting children of illegal immigrants in Japan will deliver to the United Nations letters from children facing deportation with their parents but who wish to remain in Japan to continue their studies, group members said.
COMMENTARY
Jun 4, 2001

Koizumi fever grips nation

Although more than a month has passed since the birth of the new administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, its approval rating still remains amazingly high at nearly 90 percent.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2001

U.S. also caught in liquidity trap

On May 15 the United States Federal Reserve Board announced that it would cut short-term interest rates by half a percentage point. It was the fifth rate cut this year and brought the total amount of monetary easing to 2.5 percentage points.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 4, 2001

Troussier: Nakata to play in semis

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JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

Koizumi urged to rethink shrine visit

Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato, an ally of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, urged Koizumi to reconsider his pledge to visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

U.S eyed Okinawa for huge offshore base in mid-1960s

The United States planned in the mid-1960s to build a large offshore base off the east coast of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, a U.S. military document obtained by Kyodo News showed Sunday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 4, 2001

S. Korea wins battle, loses war

SUWON, South Korea -- South Korea's soccer team restored some of its pride on Sunday night with a 1-0 victory over Australia in its final group game in the Confederations Cup.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

Minister backs program to triple bar exam passers

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said Sunday she will back a plan to triple by 2010 the number of people who pass the National Bar Examination, becoming candidates for positions as judges, prosecutors and lawyers.
COMMENTARY
Jun 4, 2001

Respects due to those who died for Japan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has repeatedly said he will go to Yasukuni Shrine to worship on Aug. 15. He will be going, he says, to pay his respects to the spirits of those who have given their lives for their country. Present-day Japan exists thanks to the sacrifices of these people, Koizumi says,...
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

New Komeito joins call to lift freeze on peacekeeping forces

The leader of New Komeito said he does not object to a view expressed by Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, that the freeze on Japanese participation in U.N. peacekeeping forces should be lifted.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 4, 2001

Suzuki blasts Japan by Cameroon

NIIGATA -- Japan and Kashima Antlers forward Takayuki Suzuki struck twice as Japan advanced to the semifinals of the Confederations Cup with a convincing 2-0 win over Cameroon on Saturday night.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2001

40% of pregnant smokers don't quit

About 40 percent of pregnant women who smoked before becoming pregnant continued to do so during pregnancy, according to the results of a survey by a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry research group obtained by Kyodo News on Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 4, 2001

Carp complete sweep of Giants

Hiroshima slugger Tomoaki Kanemoto drilled a go-ahead three-run homer off Yomiuri starter Yusaku Iriki in the eighth inning as the Carp completed a three-game sweep of the Giants with a 5-4 victory at the Tokyo Dome on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2001

A candle that won't go out

Forty years ago, a British lawyer named Peter Benenson read in his morning paper about two Portuguese students who had been arrested in a Lisbon cafe and sentenced to seven years in prison for having drunk a toast "to freedom," a code phrase for opposition to the government of then dictator Antonio de...
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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