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BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

Nonbank lenders join forces to enter 'shoko' market

Consumer financing firm Acom Co., Softbank Finance Corp. and nonbank lender Nissin Co. said Tuesday they have basically agreed to cooperate in the "shoko" collateral-free, high-interest loan business.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2001

U.S. backs plan to build 2,000-meter runway at new site in Okinawa

The United States has agreed to a plan to build a 2,000-meter runway at a relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, the government said Tuesday.
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 7, 2001

Wherefore art? 'Shakespeare for Dummies'

Ever felt left behind when discussion turns to Shakespeare? Here's your chance to catch up.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 7, 2001

It ain't easy being green: Irish or just full of blarney?

Each time I grin into the mirror to find a hunk of seaweed wrapped around my teeth, I am reminded of my family background.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 7, 2001

Krabi: the next 'last paradise'

KRABI, Thailand -- The idea of an unspoiled, untroubled, untouched land has become necessary in our polluted times -- a space where nature as it was is still to be discovered and where we may once more become natural as well. It is a pleasing prospect, this visitable paradise.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Mar 7, 2001

Great Domain Robbery

I got a whiff of this story last week at Inside.com. It was in a news brief about a journalist who had floated details about a company that would soon offer new top-level domain names.
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
Mar 7, 2001

Go ahead, try some

www.tokujo.ac.jp/Tanaka/WWW97/ Hello4/yumie.html This is part of Yumie Harada's home page, the part where she describes her love for natto. And maybe this kind of personal approach is what's needed to get natto virgins past that stench and actually place the stuff in their mouths. Yumie gives the...
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Mar 7, 2001

That strange creature is mammalian kin

Therians: They may sound as if they come from a far-off planet, but these are no alien creatures. Found in nearly every corner of the Earth, they count a surprising range of species among their ranks: the next-door neighbor's pet pooch, alpacas in the Andes, aardvarks in Africa, and even you and me.
COMMUNITY
Mar 7, 2001

It's a flounder to catch but a great fish to eat

The most popular of the many species of flatfish found in Japanese waters, the olive flounder, or hirame, is a challenge to catch and a gourmet treat.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2001

The horns of a dilemma

At first glance, it looks like humanitarianism on the cheap: Send the hundreds of tons of beef that are being discarded in Germany to North Korea, where millions of people are reportedly on the brink of starvation. But it is not that simple: Germany's cattle are being killed because they might have bovine...
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Mori survives ouster vote

Beleaguered Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori survived his second no-confidence motion Monday, but his coalition partners wasted no time urging him to step down voluntarily.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Mitsubishi Chemical, Fujitsu unite on genetic drugs

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. have agreed to form an alliance in biotechnology to focus on the research and development of pharmaceuticals using data from the human genome, the two firms said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Moscow confirms summit with Mori

Japan and Russia agreed Monday to hold a bilateral summit meeting in Russia's Irkutsk on March 25 as planned, regardless of mounting calls in Japan for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to step down.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Researchers talk of 'Internet car'

Japanese researchers from academic and business circles are joining forces on a government-sponsored project to develop an "Internet car," project planners said Monday.
COMMUNITY
Mar 6, 2001

Foreign manager discovers strength in the face of adverse circumstances

SHIBUKAWA, Gunma Pref. -- There are probably few foreign nationals in the country who have found themselves charged with running a traditional Japanese company.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Footwork group firms file for court protection

Midsize trucking firm Footwork Express Co. and two of its affiliates said they have filed for court protection from creditors under a year-old law designed to make it easier for troubled firms to win court protection.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Matsushita to boost overseas output

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it plans to produce 3.4 trillion yen worth of products at its overseas plants in fiscal 2003, a 1.7-fold increase over fiscal 2000 ending March 31.
CULTURE / Film
Mar 6, 2001

Kyon Kyon's leap in the dark

Pop idols are not only a Japanese phenomenon -- Britney Spears sells from Zurich to Zimbabwe -- but Japan produces more idols, of both sexes, than anywhere else in the world and has refined the idol aesthetic to an extreme. Japanese idols must be not only cute enough to make your teeth hurt, but everlastingly...
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Subscribers to i-mode top 20 million

The number of subscribers to NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s i-mode mobile phone service has topped 20 million, reaching the mark only two years after it began, NTT DoCoMo said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Notes on debts link Obara to Blackman

Notes apparently written by Lucie Blackman, a British woman whose dismembered body was discovered last month, have been seized at a Tokyo condominium owned by the prime suspect in her case, police sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Fujimori moves into posh digs

Deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori moved into a plush condominium Monday in downtown Tokyo after moving out of the home of a novelist friend, as Peruvian authorities moved to try him in court.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Controversial history text under revision

The authors and publisher of a controversial junior high school history textbook being screened by the government are ready to comply with all of the revision requests made by an education ministry panel, sources close to the group said Monday.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Mar 6, 2001

High voltage rock 'n' roll

"I need oxygen," gasps singer Yuda, and there's little of that in Shimokitazawa's Yaneura live house tonight. One of the smallest venues in Tokyo is packed to the rafters to see Electric Summer, a band reaching for the stars and demonstrating they have the rocket fuel and never-say-die adventurous spirit...
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

War-displaced Japanese meet potential kin

Two war-displaced Japanese from China looking for family in Japan met with possible relatives in Tokyo for about two hours Monday but failed to find decisive evidence to determine any definite link, according to Japanese government officials.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Period of calm should follow trading storm

Tokyo stocks have been exhibiting chaotic movement over the past month.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2001

Man indicted over pill smuggling

OSAKA -- A 48-year-old Singaporean man has been indicted by prosecutors on suspicion of bringing about 5,200 pills of illegal drugs into Kansai airport, including a new kind of pill containing three illegal drugs, prosecution sources said Monday.
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.
Refugee Olympic Team representing displaced people and making its mark in Paris
Athletes who are part of the Refugee Olympic Team participate in the Parade of Nations on the River Seine during the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on July 26.
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.
An ideal AC temperature for sleep? Science says yes ... and no.
Temperatures are soaring across Japan, making getting to sleep at night a constant battle between your body and the right setting for your air conditioner to help you nod off.
Summer sumo tour may be tough for wrestlers, but it's a boon for fans
An event that was part of a regional sumo tour in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, in April 2019.
Social media trolls beware: Olympic athletes have had enough
Members of the Romanian Olympic women's gymnastics team check their smartphones during a training session early last month.

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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