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BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

BOJ refuses to further ease monetary policy

Despite calls from politicians for the Bank of Japan to further ease its grip on monetary policy, BOJ Gov. Masaru Hayami reiterated Monday morning that the central bank will continue its present easy monetary stance and remain vigilant to downward pressures on the economy.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Mycal to unload health club stake

OSAKA -- Mycal Corp. supermarket chain and game software developer Konami Co. said Monday they have agreed on the sale of a majority stake in People Co., a major health club chain belonging to the Mycal group, by late February.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Red Army fugitives' families seek visas to Japan

A group that supports the families of Red Army Faction fugitives who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet in 1970 and ordered it flown to North Korea has released to the media photos taken in December of five of the hijackers' relatives in Pyongyang.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Gifu, Yamagata retain incumbents

Yamagata Gov. Kazuo Takahashi won his third four-year term Sunday, while Gifu Gov. Taku Kajiwara won his fourth.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Matsuo fund scam puts accountants in spotlight

Police investigators reckon that a former senior Foreign Ministry official who allegedly embezzled hundreds of millions of yen from the government's VIP travel expense fund may have taken advantage of the lack of scrutiny by official accountants, government sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Japan sends medical team to aid India's quake victims

The Japanese government decided Monday to dispatch a medical team to India to provide emergency aid to victims of last week's earthquake, the Foreign Ministry said.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

NEC in chip deal with U.S. firms

NEC Corp. said Monday it has agreed with three U.S. semiconductor manufacturers to jointly develop Quad Data Rate static random access memories, high-speed memory chips for network equipment.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 30, 2001

Otaku loose in a noirish world

Dark future movies are, by now, as established an SF subgenre as creature features or space operas. Their world view is usually a cross between an Orwellian nightmare and a Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show: grim, oppressive and dangerous but sexy, radical and cool. In other words, you wouldn't mind visiting,...
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Expressway tollgates to go cashless

The so-called Electric Toll Collection system will begin full-scale operation on March 30 at 600 expressway gates in Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Okinawa prefectures, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry announced Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Embezzling intolerable: Hashimoto

Administrative reform minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on Monday voiced regret over the alleged embezzlement of diplomacy funds by a former senior official at the Foreign Ministry, saying such wrongdoing should not be tolerated.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

People facing retirement seen increasingly looking overseas

More middle-aged and elderly Japanese are going abroad for long stays or permanent residence to seek a new life after mandatory or early retirement.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Mayors want end to night landing exercises

Mayors of cities hosting military bases where the U.S. Navy practices night landings gathered Monday in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, and agreed that they will jointly call for an end to the exercises on mainland Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Tokyo's panda to mate in Mexico

Ling Ling, a 15-year-old giant panda who left its home in a Tokyo zoo on Monday, will spend three months in a famed Mexico City zoo in the hope of a successful mating, zoo officials said.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 30, 2001

Anna set to sparkle at Toray Pan Pacific

Now that the Super Bowl is over, are you ready for some tennis?
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Indefinite term upheld for man, 20, in '99 killing

The Tokyo High Court on Monday upheld a lower court-imposed indefinite prison term handed to a 20-year-old man for his role in the strangling of a 19-year-old male in Tochigi Prefecture in 1999.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Differences arise over bank reform

Financial Services Agency Commissioner Shoji Mori on Monday appeared to contradict LDP policymaker Shizuka Kamei, who one day earlier declared that another postponement of the limited deposit protection may become necessary.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Universal Studios theme park opening to coincide with start of spring break

OSAKA -- Universal Studios Japan, a theme park under construction on Osaka's waterfront, will open March 31, USJ Co. President Akira Sakata announced Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Foreign firms to get i-mode, PlayStation

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said Monday that they and six foreign companies will jointly develop new mobile communications network services that combine DoCoMo's i-mode technology with SCEI's PlayStation video game technology.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Industrial activity on the decline

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry downgraded its assessment of the nation's industrial activity Monday for the first time since September 1998, despite modest growth seen in the October-December quarter.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 30, 2001

Tokyo Stadium opening to public

The brand-new 50,000-seat Tokyo Stadium in Chofu City will be open to the general public on Feb. 10-12 ahead of its curtain-raiser with a J. League season-opening game.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Auto exports break losing streak

Japanese automobile exports in 2000 inched up 1 percent from the previous year to 4,454,887 units, the first increase in three years, an industry group said Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 30, 2001

Ravens dominate Giants for title

TAMPA, Fla. -- For a while it looked like it might be a game, but in the end it turned into a blowout.
CULTURE / Music
Jan 30, 2001

Kitaro tunes in to a healing vibe

Kitaro, one of few Japanese musicians known internationally, has unshaken faith in his music. With enormous energy counterpointing his calm, modest and easy-going manner, he has handled huge projects in the past and has been called the pioneer of New Age music in Japan.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jan 30, 2001

The brocaded body beautiful

PEAU DE BROCART: Le Corps Tatoue au Japon, by Philippe Pons. Paris: Seuil, 2000, 142 pp., plates (color, b/w) 60, FFr 230 (cloth). Rene Magritte has spoken of someone clad "only in the robe of her skin," and this concept of surface as substance is observed by the tattooing tradition of Japan, the...
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Koyama quits Upper House over KSD

Upper House lawmaker Takao Koyama, arrested earlier this month on suspicion of taking bribes from the mutual aid foundation KSD, tendered his resignation from the Diet Monday, a senior in the chamber from the Liberal Democratic Party said.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jan 30, 2001

Getting off on the art of noise

I got a beer in my hand and a slim bottle of Zubrovka vodka stuffed in my back pocket for back-up, but all this rock 'n' roll partying business seems rather inappropriate right now.
CULTURE / Books
Jan 30, 2001

When does a faith become a cult?

FALUN GONG'S CHALLENGE TO CHINA: Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult," by Danny Schechter. Akashic Books, 2000, 225 pp., $24 (cloth). Last year about this time, I visited Tiananmen Square, mingling with tourists and day-trippers enjoying the warmth of the midday sun. As I reminisced about this historic...
CULTURE / Books
Jan 30, 2001

Eminently sensible remediesfor Japan's economic woes

CAN JAPAN COMPETE?, by Michael Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000, 208 pp., $27.50 (cloth). The title has got to go. "Can Japan Compete?" What sort of question is that? Of course Japan can compete. No one disputes that the country has world-beating...
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Aid to Angola to be medical: Mori

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday promised to offer 500 million yen in grants to Angola to help reduce polio and malaria in the southern African country.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Idemitsu, Tokuyama link on polypropylene

Major chemical company Idemitsu Petrochemical Co. and second-tier chemical maker Tokuyama Corp. will enter into a broad-based tieup in the field of polypropylene to jointly gear up competitiveness ahead of a planned gradual tariff reduction by 2004, company sources 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.
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.
'Overwhelmed' Yulo wins historic Olympic gymnastics gold for Philippines
Carlos Yulo of the Philippines cries after winning gold in the men's floor exercise on Saturday at the Paris Olympics.
China shrugs off doping controversy to win 12 Olympic swimming medals
China's Pan Zhanle celebrates after winning Olympic gold and breaking a world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle final on July 31.
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.
Koshien at 100: 'Sacred' dirt, the Hanshin Tigers and a storied high school tourney
The front facade at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The stadium, widely regarded as the spiritual home of Japanese baseball, turns 100 on Thursday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
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