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BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 31, 2000

Matsui, Matsunaka scoop MVP honors

Yomiuri slugger Hideki Matsui has been voted the Central League's Most Valuable Player for the season two days after leading the Giants to the Japan Series championship, the Professional Baseball Organization of Japan announced Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

Alleged rapist of foreigners was fined for obscenity in '98

A businessman accused of raping two foreign women in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1996 and 1997 was detained and fined in 1998 for videotaping a woman in a restroom, police sources said Monday.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 31, 2000

Hard lessons Japan failed to learn

JAPAN'S FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS PARALLELS TO U.S. EXPERIENCE, edited by Ryoichi Mikitani and Adam S. Posen. Washington: Institute for International Economics, Special Report 13, Sept. 2000, 228 pp., $20. There's an old joke about a politician's plea for a one-handed economist, one who can't say, "but...
CULTURE / Books
Oct 31, 2000

Hot off the press

THE JAPANESE PRESS 2000. Nihon Shinbun Kyokai, 2000, 154 pp., 2,000 yen. Nihon Shinbun Kyokai, the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, has released its annual survey of the Japanese press. As always, it includes a summary of industry trends, as well as a media directory.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 31, 2000

Speechless, but never silent

JAPANESE BEYOND WORDS: How to Walk and Talk like a Native Speaker, by Andrew Horvat. Foreword by Jan Walls. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2000, 176 pp., $14.95. As Jan Walls says in his foreword to this instructive and entertaining book, Andrew Horvat provides "a new way of looking at language . ....
CULTURE / Books
Oct 31, 2000

Just the facts, ma'am

FACTS AND FIGURES OF JAPAN, 2000 edition. Tokyo: Foreign Press Center, 116 pp., 1,300 yen. SOCIAL SECURITY IN JAPAN, by Go Miyatake. Tokyo: Foreign Press Center, 80 pp., 1,800 yen (paper). CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE RELIGION, by Nobutaka Inoue. Tokyo: Foreign Press Center, 73 pp., 1,000 yen (paper). For people...
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

Standards for GMO foods mulled

A working group for an international task force on standards for foods made from genetically modified organisms kicked off its second meeting Monday in Tokyo to discuss general principles and guidelines for assessing the risks of such foods.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

Singer appointed UNEP ambassador

Singer Tokiko Kato on Monday was appointed as the first Japanese goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

The tea with chewy marbles from Taiwan gains foothold

What's got chewy, marble-size balls, tastes like ice milk tea and gets sucked through a big, fat straw? The answer is pearl tea -- a wacky and tasty snack-in-a-beverage from Taiwan now being served in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

French light Tokyo torch of friendship in Odaiba

A sculpture that rises like a knife blade has found a place in Tokyo's fashionable Odaiba district.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

Tokyo political bodies raise 18 billion yen, spend more

Political groups in Tokyo raised 18.307 billion yen in 1999, up 10.2 percent from the previous year, and spent a combined 18.813 billion yen, up 16.5 percent, according to a report released Monday by the Tokyo metropolitan election management commission.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2000

Japan's visionless politics

Many Japanese watched on television at least part of the face-to-face debates between U.S. presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. Both candidates are said to be more or less middle-of-the-road types,with no defining differ ences in political philosophy. In my view, however, Bush showed himself...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2000

A lonely voice calls for shared values

It is one of the ironies of our time that the very process that is tying the world's disparate peoples together is at the same time generating friction between them. Globalization may be spinning a vast web of relationships as it builds a single world market, but as it does so, citizens are accentuating...
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2000

More pro-Pyongyang Koreans to visit South

A group of 106 Korean residents of Japan will make a six-day homecoming to South Korea beginning Nov. 17, the second delegation organized by the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun), association sources said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2000

Mr. Fujimori fights back

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori may be fighting for his political life, but he maintains his flair for the dramatic. Last week, he personally led a manhunt for Mr. Vladimiro Montesinos, the former head of the National Intelligence Service, who returned to Peru after fleeing the country on the heels...
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

Lawmaker reveals Mori made rice vow

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori secretly promised North Korea 500,000 tons of rice aid in 1997 when he visited Pyongyang as the head of a delegation composed of Japan's three then-ruling parties, the head of a small opposition party told Kyodo News on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

Opposition camp wants summons for Nakagawa

Opposition parties said Sunday they will demand former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa be summoned to the Diet to respond to allegations that he leaked police information to his former mistress and is closely tied with a rightwing extremist.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

Western Pacific declared free of polio

KYOTO -- The World Health Organization on Sunday declared the western Pacific region free of the virus that causes polio, an important step in international efforts to eradicate the crippling childhood disease from the world.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

University hospitals found padding food bills

Nineteen hospitals affiliated with state-run universities padded bills for patient meals they reported in fiscal 1999, officials with the government's Board of Audit said Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

Mori reviews SDF, praises performance

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori conducted his first naval review Sunday in Sagami Bay, Kanagawa Prefecture, in a ceremony involving about 10,000 people, 63 vessels and 61 aircraft from the Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense forces.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 30, 2000

T.M. Opera O wins Emperor's Cup

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JAPAN
Oct 30, 2000

Industrial efforts required to cut gas emissions: NGO

Japan can meet its international pledge to fight global warming by forcing its industries to cut energy consumption, a nongovernmental organization proposed at a symposium in Tokyo on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2000

West Papua: Indonesia's next East Timor?

LONDON -- The biggest single taxpayer in Indonesia is the U.S. firm Freeport McMoran. The money comes mostly from its Grasberg mine in the mountains of West Papua, which sits on the largest gold deposit in the world. That is why Jakarta, which used every dirty trick in the book to hang onto East Timor...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2000

Team effort beats polio in Western Pacific

Over the centuries, polio has crippled and killed millions of victims, most of them children. Today there is hope that no more children will be stricken with this debilitating disease.
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.
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.
Tokyo stocks likely to remain volatile in coming days
A man takes a picture of an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday.
U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing in Kanagawa rice paddy
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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