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CULTURE / Film
Jan 1, 2001

Yang offers up portrait of 'real' family life

Family dramas are a movie staple, but few have the texture of real family life, in which individual destinies unfold and interact in ways too messy and complex for the usual movie ad copy. What we usually get instead is either melodrama or caricature -- i.e., something that can be easily packaged and...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2001

The true meaning of civilization

History shows that on the eve of the collapse of the Roman Empire, its denizens reveled as if they were crazy. Just before Paris fell to German forces during World War II, dressed-up people danced all night at nightclubs in the city. And when the Cuban government of President Fulgencio Batista fell,...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2001

A possible Third Way for Japan

During the last decade of the 20th century, Japan's economy stagnated. The recession that followed the collapse of the asset-price bubble (1987-90) hit bottom in October 1993, but the economy remained flat through the end of 2000, with no visible signs of a lasting recovery.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2001

Open network at core of Japan's IT strategy

How should Japan promote its information technology revolution?
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Cities set to merge divided over new leader

It looked like a match made in heaven when, on Aug. 10, the two beaming mayors of Hoya and Tanashi shook hands on a deal to merge the two western Tokyo cities.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Guesthouse making enemies of tenants and neighbors

Advertisements for Apple House Co., a chain of low-budget guesthouses, tout it as the "biggest guesthouse in Japan" and play up its "no curfew, no key money and no guarantor required" policy.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Less cash kept over yearend period

Households, firms and financial institutions will keep estimated funds of 63.39 trillion yen on hand during the yearend holiday period, down 3.1 percent from a year earlier for the first fall in eight years.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Pioneering diesel engine developed by Fuji Heavy

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., maker of Subaru cars, has developed what it claims is the world's first horizontally opposed diesel engine and eventually plans to install it in a model to be launched in Europe, a Fuji senior managing director said Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

EPA boss received 15 million yen from KSD

Economic Planning Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga received a total of 15 million yen in donations in November 1999 and last April from the then chairman of KSD, a scandal-tainted mutual aid organization for small firms, informed sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Elderly choke on yearend delicacy

Four elderly people have had traditional "mochi" rice cakes stick in their throats since Tuesday, causing the choking deaths of two of them, the Tokyo Fire Department said Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

BSC to take on 'Voice of the Andes'

The newly established digital radio broadcasting station BSC will take over the broadcasting of "Voice of the Andes" after the Ecuador-based Japanese-language radio service goes off air today.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Warbler recalls area's innocent days

Just when the doors of the Yamanote line train are about to close at Uguisudani Station during morning rush hour, alert passengers will hear the distinctive chirp of the "uguisu," or bush warbler.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

J-Phone West's services disrupted

OSAKA -- J-Phone West Co., an Osaka-based major mobile phone service operator, on Saturday said a partial failure in its network center switchboard temporarily disrupted services until early morning that day.
EDITORIALS
Dec 31, 2000

Politicians fail to deliver

Japanese politics in 2000 was marked by two major milestones. One is the inauguration of the administration of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori following the late Keizo Obuchi's resignation due to sudden illness. The other is the July 25 Lower House election in which the governing Liberal Democratic Party...
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Mohri leaves NASDA for museum

Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri, who participated in U.S. space shuttle missions in 1992 and in February this year, is retiring from the National Space Development Agency of Japan to head a science museum to be completed in July, NASDA officials said.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

People jam transport as cities empty

Airports and railway terminals in urban areas were jammed with holiday makers Saturday as a record number of people headed overseas for the end of year holidays.
COMMUNITY
Dec 31, 2000

Michinoku Ginko chief banks on Japanese-Russian relations

Talk about a profitable end to the year. Invited to meet a Taisho man -- that is, someone born in the last year of what many consider to be Japan's most liberal period of the 20th century -- I was met in one location to be maneuvered into a taxi and delivered outside another: a nondescript utility block...
CULTURE / Music
Dec 31, 2000

One mighty orchestra, two mighty conductors

Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester Nov. 26, Mariss Jansens conducting in Suntory Hall -- "Oberon" Overture (Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, 1786-1812), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 (Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 1906-75) featuring Hilary Hahn; Symphony No. 8 in...
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2000

Currency scam puts police on alert

Police said they are on the lookout for criminals swindling cash from people with a scam involving old German currency notes and bonds that are now worthless.
COMMENTARY
Dec 31, 2000

Flaws are part and parcel of democracy

LONDON -- How democratic are the world's so-called democratic countries? Can there be totally fair elections?
CULTURE / Art
Dec 31, 2000

The art of being a farm village

"Grez was an idyllic little place," wrote a Swedish artist in 1884, "offering subjects wherever you looked . . . the river with its watermills and little waterfalls, the sun on white walls, old men in clogs, old women in coifs, girls in the sunshine, hens and ducks, grazing cattle, groves, fields and...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 31, 2000

Minoru Akimoto

"For a college kid in a provincial town in the early 50s, there were not many options for learning English. My teachers were Hollywood movies. I memorized a script and then sat in a movie theater all day, watching and listening to the same movie time and again."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 31, 2000

Slithering on through the year of the snake

It's almost 2001, the year of the snake. I've done a little research using the Chinese "koyomi" calendar for the 13th year of Heisei, the year of the snake, in order to let you know what kind of year you're about to have.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2000

Solving the Kashmir dispute

Three of the world's most protracted conflicts are in Asia: the Palestinian-Israeli crisis in West Asia, Kashmir in South Asia and Korea in East Asia. The world's interest is engaged in South Asia because of the fate of over 1 billion people, the importance of India as the world's most populous democracy...
EDITORIALS
Dec 30, 2000

Economy still stuck in a rut

Looking back to 2000, the critical question hanging over the Japanese economy is: Has there been movement, or at least the preparations for a move, toward a new system befitting the start of a new century? The answer, unfortunately, is no.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2000

Aum ranks' rights compromised by fear

NAGAREYAMA, Chiba Pref. -- As night falls, all the houses in this quiet bedroom community melt into darkness.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2000

Nikkei flirts with two-year low as 2000 trading draws to gloomy close

The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday bid farewell to 2000 with the main gauge falling enough to flirt with a two-year low.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
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