Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri articles from June 2001

Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri archives from June 2001

Public corp. review plans to be released early.
June 30, 2001... Public corp. review plans to be released early Yomiuri In a move to accelerate the pace of reform of public entities, Nobuteru Ishihara, state minister in charge of administrative reform, said Friday the government will unveil review...

Revitalizing Japan: Problems of public entities / Building.
June 30, 2001... Revitalizing Japan: Problems of public entities / Building needless dams costs taxpayers billions Yomiuri This is the third installment of a series of articles examining how far reform has to go to cut out the cancer within public...

S. Koreans file suit over Korean dead at Yasukuni.
June 30, 2001... S. Koreans file suit over Korean dead at Yasukuni Yomiuri A group of 252 South Koreans filed a suit against the government at the Tokyo District Court on Friday, claiming Japan infringed on the rights of Koreans drafted by the former...

Panel: N-power required.
June 30, 2001... Panel: N-power required Yomiuri Japan needs to build an additional 10 to 13 nuclear power plants by fiscal 2010 to meet the terms of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, a research group at the Natural Resources and Energy Agency...

Joint alternative to Kyoto pact theme of summit.
June 30, 2001... Joint alternative to Kyoto pact theme of summit Michio Hayashi Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Yomiuri WASHINGTON U.S. President George W. Bush will tell Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that Japan and the United States should...

Koizumi faces Kyoto pact dilemma.
June 30, 2001... Koizumi faces Kyoto pact dilemma Kazuma Yoshida Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri The clash between the United States and Europe over the Kyoto Protocol is expected to pose a dilemma for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...

Are Japanese people really well-mannered?
June 30, 2001... Are Japanese people really well-mannered? Yomiuri Good manners are said to be one of the stereotypical characteristics of Japanese people. But the truth seems otherwise--at least as far as manners on trains are concerned. Although...

Japan's second curry boom.
June 30, 2001... Japan's second curry boom Yusuke Saito Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri Japan is in the midst of another curry boom. Fifteen years ago, more and more people began eating curry simply because they liked its hot flavor. This...

Gliding down the river to Arashiyama.
June 30, 2001... Gliding down the river to Arashiyama Paul Jackson Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri "You can't describe the beauty of Arashiyama in words," Kazuo Konishi says. "You have to come and see it with your own eyes." Konishi, 54,...

Editorial / Campaign on issues, not popularity.
June 30, 2001... Editorial / Campaign on issues, not popularity Yomiuri With the end of the ordinary Diet session Friday, the political focus has shifted to the campaigning for July 29 House of Councillors election, which officially kicks off on July...

Today's youth prefer the ephemeral.
June 30, 2001... Today's youth prefer the ephemeral By Kiyokazu Washida Yomiuri I remember reading a newspaper article a few years ago that said the collective phone bill for the country's cellular phone users had topped 4 trillion yen a year....

Disposing of bad loans may cost 600,000 jobs.
June 30, 2001... Disposing of bad loans may cost 600,000 jobs Yomiuri A Cabinet Office group predicted on Thursday that governmental efforts to eventually write off bad debts held by financial institutions may force 390,000 to 600,000 people out of...

May jobless rate rises to 4.9%, matches December, January.
June 30, 2001... May jobless rate rises to 4.9%, matches December, January high Yomiuri The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May rose for the second straight month to 4.9 percent to tie for the record high unemployment rate, according to the...

Kamisaka HR sinks Swallows in 10th.
June 30, 2001... Kamisaka HR sinks Swallows in 10th Yomiuri For one day at least the Hanshin Tigers showed there's still some fight left in the hapless Central League club. Fighting back to tie the game in the ninth, the Tigers beat the Yakult...

Akita's return after snub boosts Japan's back line.
June 30, 2001... Akita's return after snub boosts Japan's back line Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri YOKOHAMA Yutaka Akita is back in Japan blue. Bigger? No. Better? Yes. "I feel I was stronger at France. Physically,...

Death penalty upheld for serial killer.
June 29, 2001... Death penalty upheld for serial killer Yomiuri The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence imposed on Tsutomu Miyazaki, who was convicted of abducting and killing four small girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture in 1988...

Japan, U.S. to strengthen diplomacy, security talks.
June 29, 2001... Japan, U.S. to strengthen diplomacy, security talks Yomiuri The Japanese and U.S. governments will announce a policy to strengthen strategic dialogues between the two countries in the areas of diplomacy and security in a joint...

2 arrested in alleged export of fishing boat to N. Korea.
June 29, 2001... 2 arrested in alleged export of fishing boat to N. Korea Yomiuri The Metropolitan Police Department arrested the president and a senior executive of a trading company in Kobe on Thursday on suspicion of instructing a South Korean...

Man gets life for 2nd murder.
June 29, 2001... Man gets life for 2nd murder Yomiuri SAITAMA The Saitama District Court Thursday sentenced 52-year-old Kenji Yokota of Adachi Ward, Tokyo, to life imprisonment for murdering a female acquaintance and dismembering and abandoning...

Ministry plans drastic redraft of air route map.
June 29, 2001... Ministry plans drastic redraft of air route map Yomiuri The Construction and Transport Ministry's plan to reform the nation's air traffic control system will result in a drastic reorganization of airspace and air routes. The...

436 to run in upper house election.
June 29, 2001... 436 to run in upper house election Yomiuri At least 436 people will run in the July 29 House of Councillors election, with 73 seats up for grabs in prefectural constituencies, and 48 seats in the proportional representation system,...

U.N. drafts anti-AIDS 'blueprint'.
June 29, 2001... U.N. drafts anti-AIDS 'blueprint' Todd Diamond Yomiuri Shimbun New York Bureau Yomiuri UNITED NATIONS The U.N. General Assembly concluded a historic conference on HIV/AIDS Wednesday by adopting a "blueprint" declaration that...

Editorial / Further monetary easing needed.
June 29, 2001... Editorial / Further monetary easing needed Yomiuri The U.S. Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates for the sixth time this year, lowering by a quarter-point both the official discount rate and the Fed's target for the federal funds...

Politics Inside / Public finally waking up to politics.
June 29, 2001... Politics Inside / Public finally waking up to politics By Kuniko Inoguchi Yomiuri Politics has never so greatly excited the Japanese people as it does today. It looks as if a new democratic revolution is taking place in this...

Hints on teaching English to children.
June 29, 2001... Hints on teaching English to children Yomiuri Following are several books helpful for anyone trying to teach English to children: Kurea-sensei no yasashii eigo kyoshitsu katsudo-shu (Ms. Claire's easy English class activities)...

Bulletin Board.
June 29, 2001... Bulletin Board Yomiuri Drama workshops The British Council will organize two workshops for English teachers at primary through high schools that will feature Britain's TransAct duo. The workshops, titled "Drama Activities in the...

Hermes outlet opens in Ginza.
June 29, 2001... Hermes outlet opens in Ginza Izumi Miyachi Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Yomiuri French luxury brand Hermes has thrown down the gauntlet in the battle for luxury goods in the Japanese market by opening its first freestanding...

Shareholders meetings relatively quiet.
June 29, 2001... Shareholders meetings relatively quiet Yomiuri Companies nationwide held their annual shareholders meetings Thursday amid a diminishing threat from sokaiya corporate racketeers. The 2,105 firms included those listed on the Tokyo...

Even the best are superstitious at Wimbledon.
June 29, 2001... Even the best are superstitious at Wimbledon Bernadette McNulty Yomiuri Shimbun London Bureau PC3 LONDON Top players at Wimbledon have revealed that they rely on more than talent and hard work to guide them through the...

Revitalizing Japan: Problems of public entities: Highway services group lacks market discipline.
June 29, 2001... This is the second installment of a series of articles examining how far reform has to go to cut out the cancer within public corporations--a huge challenge for the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "They are like bees...

Govt may pay kids' dermatitis care.
June 29, 2001... The Education, Science and Technology Ministry will add atopic dermatitis to the list of illness covered by the school health law, obliging local and central governments to pay for medical treatment of children from needy households who...

[0] Man gets life for 2nd murder.
June 29, 2001... SAITAMA -- The Saitama District Court Thursday sentenced 52-year-old Kenji Yokota of Adachi Ward, Tokyo, to life imprisonment for murdering a female acquaintance and dismembering and abandoning the corpse. Yokota committed the second murder...

[0] Police: Outsider planted drugs, syringe in police box.
June 29, 2001... FUKUOKA -- A hypodermic syringe and a small quantity of a stimulant drug were found in a cabinet in a Fukuoka police box in April, apparently placed there by someone other than the police officers, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Thursday. ...

Ministry appointments chaotic.
June 29, 2001... The Foreign Ministry is in disarray over the possible dismissal of the current vice foreign minister and three of his predecessors whom Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka has resolved to fire. Tanaka is considering dismissing the four...

ROK envoy: Request to alter textbooks not intervention.
June 29, 2001... South Korea's request for changes to be made to Japanese middle school history textbooks is not an intervention, but is simply a matter of historical facts, South Korea's ambassador to Japan said Thursday. "Our request for changes to be...

Editorial: Further monetary easing needed.
June 29, 2001... The U.S. Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates for the sixth time this year, lowering by a quarter-point both the official discount rate and the Fed's target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other. The Fed...

Politics Inside: Public finally waking up to politics.
June 29, 2001... Politics has never so greatly excited the Japanese people as it does today. It looks as if a new democratic revolution is taking place in this country. After years of being preoccupied with hopes for another economic boom, the public appears...

Critical thinking necessary for intercultural understanding.
June 29, 2001... Have you ever seen caricaturized or stereotyped Japanese characters in Hollywood movies? These bespectacled Japanese smile for no reason, bow instead of shaking hands, speak little, and tend to act as a group. To avoid such cultural...

[0] U.N. drafts anti-AIDS 'blueprint'.
June 29, 2001... UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly concluded a historic conference on HIV/AIDS Wednesday by adopting a "blueprint" declaration that sets specific targets to combat the disease that has killed more than 22 million people. The...

[0] Even the best are superstitious at Wimbledon.
June 29, 2001... LONDON -- Top players at Wimbledon have revealed that they rely on more than talent and hard work to guide them through the tournament. Superstition, it seems, is rife amongst the elite at Wimbledon to guide them through the tournament....

[0] Tokimoto earns NFL Europe honor.
June 29, 2001... Rhein Fire linebacker Masaki Tokimoto capped his first season in the NFL Europe League by being named the national player of the week following Saturday's season finale, NFL Japan announced Thursday. Tokimoto recorded four tackles,...

Revitalizing Japan / Problems of public entities / Highway.
June 29, 2001... Revitalizing Japan / Problems of public entities / Highway services group lacks market discipline Yomiuri This is the second installment of a series of articles examining how far reform has to go to cut out the cancer within public...

Revitalizing Japan-Problems of public entities / Construct.
June 28, 2001... Revitalizing Japan-Problems of public entities / Construction of loss-making roads must stop Yomiuri Administrative reforms initiated by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are finally set to begin. One of the basic policies the Council...

SDF: Electrical anomaly set off fighter's cannon.
June 28, 2001... SDF: Electrical anomaly set off fighter's cannon Yomiuri The Self-Defense Forces' investigation committee said Wednesday in its interim report that the unplanned firing of an Air Self-Defense Force fighter cannon in Hokkaido on...

Japan, U.S. plan 6 more councils to study reform.
June 28, 2001... Japan, U.S. plan 6 more councils to study reform Yomiuri The Japanese and U.S. governments will agree to set up an additional six working-level committees to study deregulatory and structural reform at a summit meeting between Prime...

Railroad chief apologizes for crash in Fukui Pref.
June 28, 2001... Railroad chief apologizes for crash in Fukui Pref. Yomiuri KYOTO KYOTO--Eiichi Ishida, the president of Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., apologized Wednesday for Sunday's head-on collision between two of the firm's trains in...

Diplomatic messages in S. Pacific said compromised.
June 28, 2001... Diplomatic messages in S. Pacific said compromised Michiko Hirai Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Yomiuri SYDNEY Echelon, a communications spy network thought to be operated by five English-speaking nations, has been...

Koyama denies taking KSD cash for influence.
June 28, 2001... Koyama denies taking KSD cash for influence Yomiuri Former House of Councillors lawmaker Takao Koyama on Wednesday admitted accepting money from KSD, a mutual-aid foundation for small and medium-sized businesses, but denied the cash...

Man held over theft of luxury tires.
June 28, 2001... Man held over theft of luxury tires Yomiuri Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing expensive tires and aluminum wheels in Tokyo, a source close to police said Wednesday. Akira Kondo, 24, is unemployed and has no fixed...

Court rules insurer underpaid female married employees.
June 28, 2001... Court rules insurer underpaid female married employees Yomiuri OSAKA Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. was ordered Wednesday to pay a total of 90 million yen to 12 women who claimed the firm had denied them salary raises and...

Ex-workers of Qantas win reinstatement.
June 28, 2001... Ex-workers of Qantas win reinstatement Yomiuri The Tokyo High Court ruled Wednesday that 12 Japanese former flight attendants fired by Sydney-based Qantas Airways should be allowed to return to the company and ordered the company to...

From volcanic ash to blue glassware.
June 28, 2001... From volcanic ash to blue glassware Yomiuri New glassware made of volcanic ash from the island of Miyakejima, in the Izu Island chain south of Tokyo, will go on sale at 38 Daiei stores in the Kanto region, starting Thursday. The...

Koizumi's Yasukuni visit annoying some in coalition.
June 28, 2001... Koizumi's Yasukuni visit annoying some in coalition Yomiuri Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine is causing unrest even within the ruling coalition. The Chinese government on Monday lodged another...

Govt to strengthen antiquake steps in Kinki, Chubu.
June 28, 2001... Govt to strengthen antiquake steps in Kinki, Chubu Yomiuri The government decided Wednesday to strengthen earthquake countermeasures in the Kinki and Chubu regions, acting on concerns that major earthquakes are predicted in the first...

Get out of a rut, into a groove Tired of corporate Japan a.
June 28, 2001... Get out of a rut, into a groove Tired of corporate Japan and the search for an outlet for your musical interests? Are yo By Paul Jackson Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Tired of corporate Japan and the search for an outlet for...

Hino administers a healthy dose of jazz Terumasa Hino Swee.
June 28, 2001... Hino administers a healthy dose of jazz Terumasa Hino Sweet Basil, Tokyo, June 20 Sometime in the early 1960s, a young, Paul Migliorato Yomiuri Sometime in the early 1960s, a young, thin, fashionable, musically voluble trumpeter...

Singing the praises of The Tallis Scholars THE TALLIS SCHO.
June 28, 2001... Singing the praises of The Tallis Scholars THE TALLIS SCHOLARS Kioi Hall, Tokyo, June 21 The grand tradition of early-mu Yukiko Kishinami Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri The grand tradition of early-music choirs in Britain is...

Hidden gem With the opening earlier this year of the new s.
June 28, 2001... Hidden gem With the opening earlier this year of the new subway station in Azabu Juban, Tokyo, you may be tempted to che Alexandra Schmertz Nusbaum Yomiuri With the opening earlier this year of the new subway station in Azabu...

Robot boy pays homage to Kubrick.
June 28, 2001... Robot boy pays homage to Kubrick By Naomi Tajitsu Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri There's no question that Steven Spielberg has been the man of the hour since he recently began discussing A.I. with the public only scant weeks...

Italian porcelain exhibition comes alive in detail and col.
June 28, 2001... Italian porcelain exhibition comes alive in detail and color Rachael Post Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri Walk through a garden reminiscent of the Champs-Elysees in Paris, past Italian marble sculptures to the Tokyo...

Miyamoto's 'Candide' a sheer delight to the eye CANDIDE To.
June 28, 2001... Miyamoto's 'Candide' a sheer delight to the eye CANDIDE Tokyo International Forum, June 22 It would be absurd to ask whe Yukiko Kishinami Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri In staging the first production in Japanese of Candide,...

Editorial / Tanaka should focus on diplomacy.
June 28, 2001... Editorial / Tanaka should focus on diplomacy Yomiuri The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives resumed deliberations Wednesday. The committee's deliberations had been put on hold since Friday, after it was...

Analysis / Banks may start unloading stocks fast after gov.
June 28, 2001... Analysis / Banks may start unloading stocks fast after govt report Yomiuri The banking industry is expected to speed up sales of stockholdings after a government panel issued a report Tuesday recommending a limit on bank...

NTT planning pay differentials for employees.
June 28, 2001... NTT planning pay differentials for employees Yomiuri NTT Corp. likely will introduce large pay differentials for about 60,000 employees of its two regional units who will be transferred to new, region-based subsidiaries under a...

Buffaloes make themselves herd in PL race.
June 28, 2001... Buffaloes make themselves herd in PL race Jim Allen Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri They come from out of the west, with a sound of thundering hoof beats, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver...OK, scratch the hi-yo...

Japan riding a new wave.
June 28, 2001... Japan riding a new wave Shintaro Kano Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri It's been a goal of Japan manager Philippe Troussier's to see his team crack the world's top 20. Believe it or not, he's getting there. Japan shot...

Time arrives for Pixy's last dance.
June 28, 2001... Time arrives for Pixy's last dance Duncan Castles Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Time waits for no one, not even pixies. Dragan Stojkovic--one of the European game's supreme playmakers--is ready to say goodbye to football...

Chilavert's Paraguay primed for success.
June 28, 2001... Chilavert's Paraguay primed for success Duncan Castles Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter Yomiuri Paraguay's national soccer team has arrived in Japan with one intention. To win the Kirin Cup. Asked about his expectations for the...

FTC probes 7 firms over bid-rigging for oil jobs.
June 28, 2001... FTC probes 7 firms over bid-rigging for oil jobs Yomiuri The Fair Trade Commission Wednesday began investigating seven companies on suspicion they were involved in bid-rigging schemes at 10 state-owned oil storage facilities that...

Baker sworn in as envoy to Japan.
June 28, 2001... WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Howard Baker, who served as White House chief of staff for former President Ronald Reagan, was sworn in Tuesday as U.S. ambassador to Japan by Secretary of State Colin Powell in a White House ceremony attended by...

Revitalizing Japan-Problems of public entities: Construction of loss-making roads must stop.
June 28, 2001... Administrative reforms initiated by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are finally set to begin. One of the basic policies the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy proposed as a reform guideline is the streamlining of public corporations....

Govt announces plan for air traffic reform.
June 28, 2001... The Construction and Transport Ministry on Wednesday announced a plan to improve the national air traffic control system on the greatest scale since 1971, when an All Nippon Airways jetliner collided with a Self-Defense Forces plane over...

[0] Railroad chief apologizes for crash in Fukui Pref.
June 28, 2001... KYOTO -- Eiichi Ishida, the president of Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., apologized Wednesday for Sunday's head-on collision between two of the firm's trains in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, in which 25 passengers were injured. "I am very...

[0] Diplomatic messages in S. Pacific said compromised.
June 28, 2001... SYDNEY -- Echelon, a communications spy network thought to be operated by five English-speaking nations, has been intersepting and analyzing Japanese diplomatic messages circulating in the South Pacific, an investigative journalist from New...

[0] Man held over theft of luxury tires.
June 28, 2001... Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing expensive tires and aluminum wheels in Tokyo, a source close to police said Wednesday. Akira Kondo, 24, is unemployed and has no fixed address. He told police that he was involved in more...

Court rules insurer underpaid female married employees.
June 28, 2001... OSAKA -- Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. was ordered Wednesday to pay a total of 90 million yen to 12 women who claimed the firm had denied them salary raises and promotions because they were married, while giving such benefits to single women...

[0] Ex-workers of Qantas win reinstatement.
June 28, 2001... The Tokyo High Court ruled Wednesday that 12 Japanese former flight attendants fired by Sydney-based Qantas Airways should be allowed to return to the company and ordered the company to pay a total of about 33 million yen in unpaid salary to...

[0] From volcanic ash to blue glassware.
June 28, 2001... New glassware made of volcanic ash from the island of Miyakejima, in the Izu Island chain south of Tokyo, will go on sale at 38 Daiei stores in the Kanto region, starting Thursday. The glassware was developed in January by the Tokyo...

Koizumi's Yasukuni visit annoying some in coalition.
June 28, 2001... Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine is causing unrest even within the ruling coalition. The Chinese government on Monday lodged another complaint with the government over Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni, where...

[0] Where to go.
June 28, 2001... -- Tokyo Blue (03) 3797-1591. Club Asia (03) 5458-1996. Large dragon looks down on dancers. Harlem (03) 3461-8806. Primarily known for hip-hop. Liquid Room (03) 3200-6831. Loop (03) 3797-9933. Techno and house. ...

Get out of a rut, into a groove.
June 28, 2001... Tired of corporate Japan and the search for an outlet for your musical interests? Are you a night person with organizational skills? Chances are you've once daydreamed about setting up your own bar or even a small club. American Greg...

Hino administers a healthy dose of jazz: Terumasa Hino Sweet Basil, Tokyo, June 20.
June 28, 2001... Sometime in the early 1960s, a young, thin, fashionable, musically voluble trumpeter came to the attention of Dr. Osamu Uchida, a physician who believed that jazz was the best medicine. The trumpeter, Terumasa Hino, was in his early 20s and...

Singing the praises of The Tallis Scholars: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS Kioi Hall, Tokyo, June 21.
June 28, 2001... The grand tradition of early-music choirs in Britain is represented by the sheer number of both professional and amateur groups specializing in the genre. At the pinnacle are a few, truly exceptional groups such as The Tallis Scholars. ...

Hidden gem.
June 28, 2001... With the opening earlier this year of the new subway station in Azabu Juban, Tokyo, you may be tempted to check out the restaurants and boutiques in this upmarket neighborhood. But the sheer abundance of eateries--often three or four per...