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JAPAN
Feb 7, 2001

State to rethink Civil Code

The Justice Ministry said Tuesday that it plans to consider revising the Civil Code to legally recognize the parentage of babies born with the use of sperm or ova donated by close relatives.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Jusco to liquidate Dutch subsidiary

Major Japanese supermarket chain operator Jusco Co. said Tuesday that it will dissolve its Netherlands-based subsidiary as it is no longer needed as a fundraising channel.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Police question air controllers involved in JAL's near miss

A trainee air traffic controller and his supervisor were questioned Monday in connection with a near miss involving two Japan Airlines planes on Wednesday, police said.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Suntory brewing up momentum in Chinese beer market

OSAKA -- Struggling to survive in the saturated domestic market, Suntory Ltd. has stepped up its operations in China in a bid to capture the hearts of beer lovers in the world's most populous country.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

TV Tokyo to enter Internet content venture

Television Tokyo Channel 12 Ltd. said Monday it will set up a joint venture with six other firms on March 1 to provide economic news and animation programs via high-speed Internet connections.
EDITORIALS
Feb 6, 2001

Reaching out to problem children

School teachers throughout the country recently held brainstorming sessions as part of a voluntary effort to promote educational reform. Reports and discussions at those meetings, attended by members of the Japan Teachers Union (Nikkyoso) and the National Teachers Union (Zenkyo), reinforced the perception...
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

DPJ lawmaker comes calling with CD-ROM business cards

House of Councilors lawmaker Mitsuru Sakurai of the Democratic Party of Japan has produced multimedia business cards that introduce his political activities with images and sound when used in a personal computer.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Murakami will testify under oath about KSD

Masakuni Murakami, former head of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councilors members, agreed Monday to testify under oath over his ties to KSD, a mutual-aid foundation at the heart of a widening bribery scandal.
COMMENTARY
Feb 6, 2001

Civil servants are not serfs

The "shunju" (spring and autumn) column on the first page of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun often contains comments that are right on target. The Jan. 27 column commented on the sometimes arrogant and unwarranted demands made by Japanese politicians on Japanese diplomats in missions abroad.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Keidanren gears up for mission to Russia in June

Japan's most powerful business lobby is planning to send a mission of up to 150 representatives to Russia between June 1 and June 8, the group's head said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

10% of kids suffer psychological woes

Some 10 percent of children visiting pediatric hospitals as outpatients are suffering psychological problems, mostly girls aged 15 and boys aged 14, according to the results of the first nationwide survey on children's mental health.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Kabuki debuts at middle school

It is nothing new for kabuki actors to go out of Tokyo to perform, but Nakamura Kichiemon recently took an unprecedented step to provoke interest among young schoolchildren in the traditional theater.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

TSE sorts out computer problem

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Monday it started afternoon trading in Japanese government bond futures and options as well as stock index futures on time at 12:30 p.m. after computer trouble prevented a morning session.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 6, 2001

Trauma in a sepia-tinged Kyushu

It's not easy filming the inner lives of human beings. Novelists can go on at length about their protagonist's stream of consciousness (see "Ulysses") while filmmakers cannot show scene after voiced-over scene of that same stream without inducing audience catatonia. See Joseph Strick's misbegotten 1967...
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Embassies said to have fingers in pie

The Japanese embassies of countries officially visited by the prime minister customarily received part of the so-called secret funds controlled by the Cabinet Secretariat as a "bonus" for their services, informed sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Inefficient public works projects creaking under debt burden

KOBE -- The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge, looks superb as it spans the Akashi Strait, linking Kobe and Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Index shows brighter outlook in December after bleak November showing

The diffusion index of coincident economic indicators, a key gauge of Japan's economic activity, topped the boom-or-bust line of 50 percent in December, after falling below the line in November, the government said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Index shows brighter outlook in December after bleak November showing

The diffusion index of coincident economic indicators, a key gauge of Japan's economic activity, topped the boom-or-bust line of 50 percent in December, after falling below the line in November, the government said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Japanese-Chinese translation software goes mobile

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has developed bidirectional speech translation technology for Japanese and Chinese that can be used in compact mobile devices such as cellular phones.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Bomb blast rocks city hall men's room

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Bomb blast rocks city hall men's room

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Nomura group profit plunges in latest quarter

Nomura Securities Co. said Monday its group pretax profit for the October-December quarter plunged 87.2 percent from a year earlier to 14.2 billion yen, hit by lower revenues amid a weaker domestic stock market.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Tokyo bourse may have reached bottom

After peaking out last April, Tokyo stocks have fallen past one major threshold after another and are now languishing at the lowest level since late 1998.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Kirin to release data twice yearly

Kirin Brewery Co. will announce shipments of beer and "happoshu" low-malt beer-like beverages twice a year instead of each month as at present, starting with January data due for release later this week, company officials said Monday.
New Japanese banknotes increasingly put up for auction
The Yahoo Auction website shows new banknotes selling for much higher than their face value.
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.
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.
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.
Investors take long-term view as rate hike whipsaws Japan
The Nikkei stock index saw the biggest plunge in eight years Friday following the Bank of Japan's rate hike earlier in the week.
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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