search

 
Menu
Search
 
August 08, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
321,635 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Sony, Toshiba to make thinner chip technology

Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will jointly develop processing and design technology for producing system large-scale integrated circuits with widths of 0.07 micron to 0.1 micron, the two announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Ease 'green' car definition: lobby

The nation's auto industry group will ask the government to include gasoline-powered, low-emission vehicles among the environmentally friendly cars the government plans to buy, the head of the group said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Pygmy hippo survives debut at Ueno Zoo

A baby pygmy hippopotamus born on April 24 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo made its first public appearance Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Nissan posts record profit in fiscal 2000

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it posted record group net profits of 331.1 billion yen for fiscal 2000.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Koizumi rejects Beijing's demand for text revision

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday rejected China's demand to revise a controversial junior high school history textbook, but said he will work to improve ties with Beijing.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Man on street more optimistic

The economic outlook of workers with jobs particularly sensitive to economic shifts showed an improvement in April for the first turnaround in three months, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Tepco, three banks buy into Recruit

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and three Japanese banks bought stakes in Recruit Co., a labor market publishing and information conglomerate, in late March, industry sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Group aims to help stalking victims

KYOTO -- In an effort to provide more effective help to stalking victims in the Kansai region, a six-member network, including lawyers, public notaries and a security firm, was formed Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2001

Tokyo ready to beat the drum for IAEA nuclear arms protocol

In a rare diplomatic initiative toward curbing the global proliferation of nuclear weapons, Japan will host an international conference next month to step up efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly weapons in the Asia-Pacific region.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Cities to get crime-watch cameras

Police have decided to install 190 video cameras in 10 cities throughout Japan, including Tokyo and Osaka, this fiscal year to combat crimes in the night, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Ministry soliciting ideas for environmental policy

The Environment Ministry is looking for new ideas to help formulate innovative environmental policies.
COMMUNITY / THE PARENT TRIP
May 18, 2001

A journey with two routes

Like every other woman crammed into the waiting-room couches at the infertility clinic, I was desperate to conceive a child. Trying to become pregnant through artificial means had consumed my emotional and physical energy for over three years. Every time a heavily pregnant woman, often with another child...
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Expelled doctor explains plight of North Koreans

A German physician who worked as a volunteer doctor in North Korea for 18 months until being expelled at the end of last year has called for action to help suffering children in the country.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 18, 2001

Giants win as Uehara shines on return

Central League WonLostTied Pct.GB Yomiuri 25 16 1 .610 - Chunichi 22 18 1 .550 2.5 Yakult 19 17 2 .528 3.5 Hiroshima 18 18 2 .500 4.5 Hanshin 16 23 0 .410 8.0 Yokohama 14 22 0 .389 8.5 Pacific League WonLostTied Pct.GB Orix 24 15 3 .615 - Daiei 24 17 0 .585 1.0 Lotte 20 20 2 .500 4.5 Kintetsu 20 22...
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

BOJ expected to mull ways to boost market liquidity

The Bank of Japan Policy Board was expected to discuss the central bank's growing difficulties in increasing market liquidity during its two-day meeting that began Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Dollar-yen rate awaits Koizumi's delivery

The currency market remains caught in the crosscurrents of optimism about the structural reforms advocated by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and fears of their deflationary impact.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

WHO names envoy to fight spread of Hansen's disease

The World Health Organization has appointed Nippon Foundation President Yohei Sasakawa as special ambassador for its fight against Hansen's disease, officials of the foundation said Thursday.
JAPAN
May 18, 2001

Sentence overturned; killer to hang

The Tokyo High Court sentenced a 54-year-old former real estate agent to death Thursday for killing two people to hide a fraudulent land deal in 1989, overturning a lower court-imposed life sentence.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 18, 2001

Pipistrelle bat

*Japanese name: Abura komori *Scientific name:Pipistrellus abramus
BUSINESS
May 18, 2001

Months-old Japan-Brazil triangular aid deal is almost ripe for harvest

Well over a year after plowing the field, Japan and Brazil have finally begun to sow the seed in hopes of reaping their first crop as early as autumn.
JAPAN
May 17, 2001

Disclosed ministry document casts Matsuo case in new light

Statements by Foreign Ministry officials have been called into question following the release of a formerly classified ministry document relating to the overseas visit support division.
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.
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.
Heartbreak for Japan's volleyball team after narrow loss to Italy
Japan's Yuki Ishikawa cheers during the match on Monday.
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
Gymnastics and skateboarding highlight a solid first half of the Paris Olympics for Japan
From left: Gymnastics men's team gold medalists Takaaki Sugino, Kazuma Kaya, Wataru Tanigawa, Shinnosuke Oka (who also won gold in men's all-around) and Daiki Hashimoto at Champions Park in Paris on Thursday. The gymnastics team was one of the highlights of a successful first half of the 2024 Games for Team Japan.
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.
The wider international and domestic implications of the SDF scandals
Defense Minister Minoru Kihara speaks on July 30 during a parliamentary inquiry into a series of scandals involving the ministry and the Self-Defense Forces.
How a grassroots push helped Japan's fencers become world-beaters
Japan's Koki Kano (right) battles Yannick Borel of France in the gold-medal bout of the men's individual epee at the Paris Olympics on July 28.

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

mission sustainability vol.11 : Sekisui House Ltd.World’s top homebuilder acts on its responsibility
mission sustainability vol.11 : Sekisui House Ltd.World’s top homebuilder acts on its responsibility

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER