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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2000

Education yesterday, today and tomorrow

My four children have attended Japanese schools from kindergarten up. Over the years there have been innumerable positive experiences connected with this. Yet one thing has always struck me as, at best, blatantly incongruous. Virtually every principal addressing pupils and parents at the commencement...
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2000

Whaling commission denies Japan bid to host next talks

WASHINGTON -- The International Whaling Commission voted on Friday to deny Japan's request to host the group's next meeting amid continued threats of sanctions by the United States against Japan's whaling program.
CULTURE / Art
Nov 19, 2000

Wake-up calls to the subconscious

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) is the great painter of the enigma in our era and his work is now on exhibit at Tokyo's Bunkamura in one of the most comprehensive shows seen yet in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2000

Scourge of child prostitution spreading

NEW YORK -- Their names are Chandrika, Hamida, Amod, Madhuri, Maria and Jenny. And as varied as these children's names are their nationalities: Indian, Bangladeshe, Nepalese, Nicaraguan and North American. What unites them is that they have been made to work as prostitutes and, in the process, have endangered...
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2000

APEC grapples with relevance

The recent summit meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is proof of the value of low expectations. Growing concern about the group's relevance and doubts about its will to act lowered the bar for defining this year's meeting as a success. The final communique's call for a new round of...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Nursery chief admits killing baby

The 29-year-old operator of an unauthorized nursery in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, pleaded guilty Friday to fatally injuring a toddler at the facility but pleaded not guilty to another infant's death.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Blood tests set to determine relations of 'war orphans'

A war-displaced Japanese visiting from China will undergo blood tests to confirm whether a man from Hiroshima Prefecture is his uncle, Health and Welfare Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

1,900 recipients of unheated blood dead

Of an estimated 2,600 people -- apart from hemophiliacs -- who received treatment with unheated imported blood products in the 1980s, some 1,900 have died, although not all causes of death have not been confirmed, according to Diet testimony Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

No-confidence motion to be voted on Monday

A showdown that may oust Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and split the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will come Monday, when the House of Representatives votes on a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Prices flummox rail firms

The confusion among railway operators shows no sign of abating.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

30% of nonprofit groups hire former public officials: report

About 30 percent of foundations and nonprofit groups in Japan that receive some form of public subsidy hire former public officials, according to a government white paper released Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 18, 2000

Giants grab Olympian early in amateur draft

The Japan Series champion Yomiuri Giants took Japanese Olympic team catcher Shinnosuke Abe in the first round of professional baseball's amateur draft Friday, while the Daiei Hawks went for right-hander Akichika Yamada in the second round.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Tieup to create largest chemical firm in nation

Sumitomo Chemical Co. and Mitsui Chemicals Inc., Japan's second- and third-largest chemical firms, said Friday they will integrate their management by October 2003 in a bid to survive intensified global competition.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Forum to deal with rapid rise in soil pollution

The Environment Agency will create a committee in December to review how best to address soil contamination in the wake of a rapid rise in the number of cases of soil pollution reported in the past few years, agency chief Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Red Army leader anticipated her capture

Fusako Shigenobu, the founder of the Japanese Red Army guerrilla group who was arrested Nov. 9, told a court Thursday that she expected to be arrested after returning to Japan but had hoped to remain free until spring.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Panel proposes assets for World Heritage List

An advisory panel to the education minister decided Friday to propose three Japanese cultural assets for the World Heritage List of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, panel members said.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Nov 18, 2000

Autumn's rich hogaku harvest

If you've not yet had the opportunity to experience Japanese music and wish to do so, over the next six weeks some of the contemporary hogaku masters will offer a truly diverse variety of concerts, ranging from the classical to the modern.
COMMENTARY
Nov 18, 2000

Wired world has its limits

LONDON -- Is everything breaking down?
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Nov 18, 2000

Russia delights in U.S. electoral confusion

Delightful. This is how many Russians describe the postelection crisis in the United States. For 10 years, Russian elections have been a favorite target of the American media. Finally, Mother Russia is allowed to retaliate. The delicious irony of the moment is that two weeks earlier hardliners in the...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2000

Blackman case suspect charged with third rape

Joji Obara, a 48-year-old man under arrest for raping two foreign women, was served a third arrest warrant Friday, this time on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman, police said.
CULTURE / Art
Nov 18, 2000

A peep into Tokugawa Japan

During the almost two and a half centuries when Japan shunned the rest of the world, the one Western country that remained on nodding terms was the Netherlands. This year the two countries are celebrating 400 years of continuous contact in what must be one of the strangest international relationships...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2000

Rich and poor have stake in cleaner planet

Supermarket shelves offer a choice of two light bulbs: the standard incandescent type and the compact fluorescent type. In Bangladesh, the price difference is 20 taka compared to 450 taka. The fluorescent type will last at least 10 times as long and consume one-fifth of the energy. Overall, savings from...
This scientist has a risky plan to cool Earth. There’s growing interest.
David Keith believes that by intentionally releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, it would be possible to lower temperatures worldwide, blunting global warming.
Judo legend Riner leads France to team title over Japan for fifth gold medal
Japan's Tatsuru Saito (above) is dismayed after losing to France's Teddy Riner in the gold-medal bout of the judo mixed team event on Saturday at the Paris Olympics.
Novice investors under pressure after Japan stock rout
A man looks at an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Friday.
Hina Hayata fights through pain to capture first Olympic medal
Hina Hayata reacts after a point during the women's table tennis bronze medal match against South Korea's Shin Yubin at South Paris Arena on Saturday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japan experienced its hottest July on record
People cross a street in Tokyo's Harajuku district on Wednesday. In July, the deviation from the average temperature between 1991 and 2020 — a period when warming was already well underway — was 2.16 degrees Celsius.

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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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