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BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2001

Don't keep all eggs in one falling yen basket

On hearing that deposit interest rates in Japan are near zero, an investor from Jakarta said in apparent disbelief "You must be joking."
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 23, 2001

Giants' Maru-chan talks softly and carries a big stick

No one would've blamed Domingo Martinez if he never returned to Japan after the 1998 baseball season. After hitting .283 and smacking 30 home runs for the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions that year, the designated hitter wasn't given a gold watch or even a thank-you note for his efforts. Instead he...
EDITORIALS
Mar 23, 2001

The fear on the farm

Britain has closed zoos, animal parks and tourist attractions, banned protest marches and political gatherings in some rural communities, and postponed the Crufts dog show and the Cheltenham horse races. Portugal has banned bullfights. Governments in Northern African and Central European have threatened...
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 23, 2001

Brazilians banned from Japan soccer

The J. League's disciplinary committee Wednesday handed two-match suspensions to Albirex Niigata's Brazilian striker Lindomar and defender Sergio, also a Brazilian, for violent conduct during a second-division match Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2001

A surprisingly successful summit

The first Japan-U.S. summit since the election of President George W. Bush has gone off without a hitch. Sad to say, but low expectations get a lot of the credit for the success of the meeting. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is a lame duck, both countries' economies are slumping and the tragic accident...
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Kobe Declaration a thorn in the side of diplomacy

Staff writer OSAKA -- Last year, Robert Ludan, U.S. consul general for the Osaka-Kobe region, began pursuing an issue that had lain dormant for 25 years: U.S. naval visits to Kobe.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2001

Government pulls stops to rescue economy

The yen hit a 22-month low of 123.35-38 to the dollar late Monday as deepening pessimism about Tokyo stocks and Japan's banking system dominated the currency market.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2001

Video game fans hurry to snap up Game Boy Advance as it hits shelves

OSAKA -- Video game fans formed long lines at electronic appliances stores from early Wednesday morning as Nintendo Co. launched its Game Boy Advance, successor to the top-selling Game Boy handheld machine.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Elementary school kids test online educational, cultural waters

Pupils of Nankadai Higashi Elementary School near Osaka are learning firsthand the significance of communicating with their counterparts in other countries via the Internet.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Mar 22, 2001

Bush rises while Mori falls

We are just past the halfway mark in the first 100 days of the term of U.S. President George W. Bush. How is he doing? How is he doing it? What is he changing?
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 22, 2001

Spain's Espanyol want to keep striker Nishizawa

OSAKA -- Spanish First Division side Espanyol has asked Cerezo Osaka to extend its seven-month loan deal for the services of Japan striker Akinori Nishizawa, informed sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

French institute subject of teachers' labor dispute

OSAKA -- A labor union representing French-language instructors filed a complaint with the Osaka Regional Labor Relations Commission on Wednesday accusing a Kyoto-based French cultural institute of unfair labor practices, union officials said.
SUMO
Mar 22, 2001

Unbeaten Kaio holds onto lead

OSAKA -- Ozeki Kaio gunned down veteran Takanonami for another comfortable victory on Wednesday to remain in pole position at 11-0 with just four days remaining at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Under pressure from U.S., tax breaks considered to rid banks of bad loans

The government began discussions Wednesday on specific measures to eliminate the bad loans held by Japanese banks, following a request from U.S. President George W. Bush to do so.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Bill designed to crack down on telephone clubs

The Cabinet endorsed a bill Wednesday to revise a law regulating adult entertainment in a bid to crack down on telephone dating services that facilitate sex with minors and child prostitution, government officials said.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Minister wants harsher traffic laws

Justice Minister Masahiko Komura on Wednesday ordered a fall deadline for the preparation of legislation to revise the Penal Code. The bill would impose tougher penalties on reckless and drunken drivers who have inflicted severe or fatal injuries on other people.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

LDP's Kato suspended for failing to vote

The Liberal Democratic Party decided Wednesday to suspend Koichi Kato, the LDP's former secretary general, from his current party post for three months as punishment for abstaining from a Diet vote on a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2001

Toshiba drives up its sales targets

Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday that it has set its consolidated sales target for fiscal 2003 at 7.9 trillion yen, up more than 30 percent from fiscal 2000.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2001

Tertiary industry index slips

The government said Wednesday that an index designed to gauge economic activity in Japan's tertiary industries slid 0.5 percent in January from the previous month.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2001

Trade surplus shrank by 25.4% in February

The customs-cleared trade surplus fell 25.4 percent in February from a year earlier to 879.4 billion yen for the eighth consecutive monthly decline, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 22, 2001

No winner in France's vote

PARIS -- A year before the 2002 general and presidential elections, the results of the municipal and local elections that took place the last two Sundays represent a major development in French politics. They will not ease the relationship between President Jacques Chirac and his likely rival next year,...
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

BOJ's action lifts Nikkei above 13,000

Tokyo share prices soared virtually across the board on Wednesday, reacting positively to the Bank of Japan's moves to funnel more money into the ailing economy.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Home PCs link in hunt for ET

Some 50,000 people in Japan are currently taking part in a worldwide endeavor to link their personal computers together in an attempt to catch any message from outer space that might signal the existence of another life form. Joining the project are students at Kokushikan High School, a private school...
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2001

Afghan refugees to get emergency aid

Japan said Wednesday it will offer $1.86 million in emergency grants to provide relief to Afghans who have fled their homes in the face of a prolonged civil war and natural disasters, the Foreign Ministry said.
Nikkei plunges by 12% as it registers largest-ever point fall
The 225-issue Nikkei stock average dropped more than 4,000 points on Monday.
Japan works on evacuation plans in event of Taiwan contingency
Map exercises for evacuations, simulating a situation in which an armed attack is expected, are conducted at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Jan. 30.
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.
Tokyo host bar worker arrested over kickbacks for brokering prostitution
Yoshifumi Matsumura (second from right), head of the National Public Safety Commission, inspects Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district in June.
Hiroshima marks 79 years since atomic bombing as nuclear war fears rise
Hiroshima citizens place flowers at the Cenotaph, commemorating those lost in the atomic bombing of the city, on Tuesday, the 79th anniversary of the attack.
Up rates before it’s 'too late,’ one BOJ policy board member said in June
The Bank of Japan released minutes from its June policy board meeting Monday.
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.

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