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LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Jun 3, 2001

A tip heard through the grapevine

One of our favorite destinations on the California wine route -- the Anderson Valley AVA (American Viticultural Area) -- is an insider tip. Less familiar and less traveled than Napa or Sonoma, it is situated among the redwood forests and unspoiled ridges of Mendocino County. The area is home to a community...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 3, 2001

From simple folk to the royal couple

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BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Japan and China prepare to discuss emergency import curbs

Japan and China will hold working-level talks Monday in Beijing over emergency curbs that Japan has imposed on three farm products imported mainly from China, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Med schools in serious condition

Amid a spate of errors in medical treatments and rising consciousness among patients about their rights, university medical faculties are being forced to undergo reforms to enrich doctors' social skills.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Korean wins state medical payout

OSAKA — The Osaka District Court ordered the Osaka Prefectural Government on Friday to pay a Korean survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima medical allowances that it had stopped paying after the man returned home from Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

OECD asks how green is Japan?

The nation's environment policies were placed under the microscope recently by an OECD team that was conducting the information-gathering stage of its second review of Japan's environmental policy.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Reform blueprint supports Koizumi's avowed projects

A government panel has approved the basic framework of draft guidelines on economic and fiscal policies that center on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform initiatives, including comprehensive reform of the national budget.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Draft reform goals draw cold response

A set of reform proposals adopted by the Economic and Fiscal Policy Council drew a cold response Friday from Cabinet ministers and members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Hanshin Tigers' dismal showing hits rail revenue

OSAKA — Hanshin Electric Railway Co.'s earnings from train fares paid by fans going to Koshien Stadium in fiscal 2000 dropped 12.5 percent from the previous year to 466 million yen.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Farmers turn to satellites to aid rice crop

Farm researchers in Hokkaido are trying to improve rice cultivation through satellite photographs that analyze the quality of rice plants, according to researchers.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

Errors plague new DoCoMo service

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday the trial service of its next-generation mobile phone service launched Wednesday experienced e-mail server problems from 6 p.m. Thursday until 12:30 p.m. Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Tanaka aired worry on U.S. missile plan

Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka unofficially voiced concern over U.S. missile defense plans in a series of recent diplomatic talks with her counterparts from Italy, Germany and Australia, Japanese government sources said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2001

NATO's Budapest love fest

It has been a good week for NATO. There was more common ground than disagreement at meetings between member foreign ministers in Budapest and at the five-day NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which convened in Vilnius, Lithuania. There were even tangible accomplishments on such thorny subjects as Turkey and...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Tepco puts MOX debut on hold

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the debut of a contentious plutonium-based fuel at a Niigata Prefecture nuclear plant due to local opposition, Tepco President Nobuya Minami told reporters Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

General contractors reduce workforces

Eight major general contractors, all financially ailing, cut their workforces by a combined 2,898 during fiscal 2000 as part of their rehabilitation programs, according to their employment data released Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Film office puts Tokyo in spotlight

A Tokyo Metropolitan Government office responsible for promoting filming in the city has received some 300 inquiries since its establishment about a month ago, according to metro government officials.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2001

2000 taxation expected to top predictions

Tax revenues in fiscal 2000 will probably exceed the projected 49.895 trillion yen due to higher corporate and income tax receipts, Finance Ministry officials said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2001

AIDS in prisons: a spreading problem

NEW YORK -- Several investigations worldwide have shown that the human immunodeficiency virus responsible for AIDS is spreading rapidly in prisons, where the rate of infection has been found to be several times higher than in the general population. Prisons have become one of the most potentially dangerous...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Contractors in Tottori punished over scam

The central and Tottori prefectural governments on Friday ordered 14 contractors to suspend business due to their involvement in illegal subcontracting in a public works project.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 2, 2001

Wizard of Oz shares magic printing technique

Next Saturday, Australian print artist Dianne Longley provides the opportunity to hear about and see the demonstration of a new technique: photopolymer printing. The event will be held in Tokyo's Azabu-juban, and everyone is welcome, whether experienced or novice.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Bar associations address dearth of legal resources

While Monbetsu in Hokkaido and Ishigaki in Okinawa are separated by thousands of kilometers, the efforts of bar associations in the two cities have garnered one common attribute — a supply of lawyers available to residents needing legal advice.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Hun Sen to visit Japan for nine days

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will make a nine-day visit to Japan starting Wednesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 2, 2001

The missing link in your linguistic skills

Sometimes you just can't find the right word to describe something uniquely Japanese. Thus, I have created the following words for the first Japan Lite Dictionary for foreigners in Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2001

Survey finds kids nod off later now than in the past

The number of children age 5 to 6 who go to bed at 10 p.m. or later has quadrupled over the past 20 years, according to a recent survey by an association on child health.
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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