Backnumber of Headlines from Weekly Magazines
Unofficial translation of headlines from some Japanese major weelky magazines. (March to April of '98)
Weekly Bunshun
Apr. 23, 1998 issue
- A new inside story novel on bankruptcy of banks by an working elite bureaucrat
- Special contribution by Yo Tsumura -- How to live in the great depression learning from Korekiyo Takahashi
- The complete survey of the payment cut of corporations -- Your salary will be reduced in this way
- At last, the resignation of Ryutaro Hashimoto comes in sight
- An witness of "public execution of a boy" in North Korea
- Scoop: the suspect of shooting of NPA chief was lurking in a sushi restaurant in such and such city !
- The position of "Giants's fourth batter" will spoil Matsui
- All about the story until the catastrophe between Queen-like wife, Nitani and slave husband, Go
- Urgent contribution by Mariko Hayashi -- It's a mean spirit, Hiromi Go
Apr. 16, 1998 issue
- Secret information that newspapers cannot report : The next epicenter of the big bankruptcies will be zene-kon in east and local banks in west
- Failing companies and people in trouble -- Daiichi Corporation and Suguru Egawa, Marubeni and Suharto, Asahi Corp and Ishibashi family, Yamatane Securities ad its owner family, Yamaichi Securities and its executives
- Quit, Prime Minister Hashimoto !
- About Kirin Brewer's special revival beer
- Anonymous round table talk of bureaucrats -- MOF's new personnel arrangement suggests the early retirement of Wakui, Nagano and Sakakibara
- An unprecedented trouble of a professor who accused the personality of Ryutaro Hashimoto in his final lecture
- These veterinarians will kill your pets
- Sympathy for Rumiko Koyanagi whose husband Kenya Osumi does not thank her help
- An "woman trouble" of the killed father and killing son
- The everyone-know principal of Tomogaoka Junior High School contributed some satirical verses to criticize mass media
Apr. 9, 1998 issue
- Dear Mr Prime Minister Hashimoto, you are really just like a fart -- the worst cabinet after the World War II
- Warning special: the stock prices will collapse in April
- These omens that suggest a bottomless land slide of stock price -- pressure from foreign investors, failure of PKO (price keeping operation by the government)
- Bad loans of PHS, or Pachinko, Hotel and Supermarket, will kill banks
- A complete list of 20 real good companies -- full of mistakes in the students want-list of recruiting
- Double shock of the Daikyo's sell out of its properties to Morgan Stanley and the discount by the Housing Corporation
- Guilty writers of big newspapers who have just reported the government's announce
- An exposure novel of Shonen Jump, the popular comic magazine, written by its former editor-in-chief
- A mysterious "Religious Channel" lead by retired famous writers of the Asahi Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun
- Cold eyes on Kazu Miura who was dropped from the list of the national succor team to Seoul
- Accommodations where Showa Emperor used to stay are disappearing
- The unreported real figure of 14-year-old bad boy who killed his friend's father
- Dialogue between Nomura and Mori -- Nagashima's Yomiuri Giants will not win this year
- Scoop: the latest picture of escaping Hirata who is suspected to hit the former Director of National Police Agency
Apr. 2, 1998 issue
- A shocking scoop: The vice president of Yakult made a ¥100 billion loss by an "oracle" of "mysterious religious cult group" !!
- It's not a reluctance, but the "end" of lending of banks -- listen to these screaming of corporate managers
- Complete survey: Dispose "official house in the center of capital" of MOF worth ¥200 billion
- Another story of financial scandal:
- These previous "sin" of new governor of BOJ Mr Hayami
- The name of influential lawmakers in the accusation document of late Shokei Arai
- Try the "homosexuality message dial" of arrested MOF assistant manager
- That "pearl scandal wife" was committed for trial on a charge of blackmail
- A popular game soft puyo-puyo company failed with Naomi Kawashima's CM without her under hair
- Prince Hironomiya is "the Japan's best sommelier"
- An abnormal love on homeless of the Japanese architect who was killed in Paris
- Do not be deceived by the unusual figure of your health examination
Mar. 26, 1998 issue
- Exclusive: A shocking "accusing document" that late Shokei Arai hide just before his suicide
- Who is Professor Yoko Sazanami, chairman of the committee that judged the ¥1.8 trillion grant of public fund to Japanese banks ?
- Select this agent for your life insurance in Big Bang
- The only three months life in new house of suicide assistant manager of MOF
- The real figure of the "strange disease" that attacked professional sumo world
- Warning: your lovely dog will be killed by dog foods
- A scandal of an NTV producer who molested a 20-year-old lady in a train
- TV is sick (5) -- A pile of angry message against TBS's drama "Parade of Saints"
- The worst 10 women announcers
- Exclusive interview with a major yakuza boss, Taro Nakano, 200 days after shooting of Takumi-gumi gang leader
Mar. 19, 1998 issue
- The worst hell of MOF and BOJ
- The map of MOF faction consisting of their wives' relatives
- More facts of sexual entertainment
- No overtime work, no entertainment, no conversation in MOF these days...
- Not only the assistant manager. Bigger name of MOF will come next to the BOJ elite
- Surprising reportage on the exclusive club of MOF
- "It's time to break Japanese structure of ruling" by Katsuhito Uchihashi
- The root of decay lies in Taya and Nakajima
- The chief of prosecutors, Katsuhiko Kumazaki, sees Univ of Tokyo graduates enemies
- A doubt on "Mr. Yen" Eisuke Sakakibara
- An anonymous round table talk -- There is the suicide point in 4the floor of MOF
- TV is sick (4) -- special conversation: TBS's drama "Parade of Saints" treats handicapped people as a clown !
- Disgusting behavior of lawmakers visiting China -- Koichi Kato, Yoshiro Mori, Yoshio Hayashi...
- The shocking murder in junior high class room -- accusing conversation by five teachers
- "The reason why I wrote about homosexual love with Yukio Mishima" by author Jiro Fukushima
- Now its demonic March -- the latest data of dangerous banks
- Scoop: unexpected words by victim lady noted on the appeal by Teikyo Univ's rugby players
Mar. 12, 1998 issue
- Scoop: Crime of two "career" bureaucrats of MOF who become the target of prosecutors office
- The top executives of banks must provide their own properties before using ¥30 trillion tax !
- Special: the last moment of education
- Warning report: unveiling the secret plan of the Unification Church to have "mass wedding" in Japan next June
- A "pearl scandal" of the wife of a BOJ executive
- Watch out unkindly expensive "wine bars"
- The big campaign: TV is sick (3) -- handicapped people get really angry about a hypocritical TV drama "Parade of Saints"
- The secret experience with Yukio Mishima written by an Akutagawa prize candidate novelist
Mar. 5, 1998 issue
- Exclusive: The unpublished will of my husband, late Shokei Arai, by Mariko Arai
- Wide Special: The badly shaken families
- Exclusive interview with the husband of Yuko Arimori -- "My gay experience"
- The big campaign: TV is sick (2) -- "Paradise Lost", "Duty and Play", "A Minor"... sexual scenes of TV dramas pollute junior high school students
- Anonymous talks -- Gold medalists who played in the kyaba-kura entertainment club at Nagano
- Hidekazu Nakata answers to the bashing by mass media
- The average price per 3.3 sq. m of new condominium apartment has dropped to ¥209 million! -- it now becomes a "bad loan" of salaried people
- This is the evidence of the take-offs of Daiei Hawks slugger Kokubo's earnings by his "teacher" of baseball
Weekly Shincho
Apr. 23, 1998 issue
- The parents of Boy A appealing the false charge on the document of Kakumaru or revolutionary Marxist radical left
- The teacher who was warned in charge of agitating students in Tokorozawa High School is a union member connected to JCP
- Rhapsody of catastrophe that was made a fool of by a woman of spirit
- Hiromi Go and Yurie Nitani and Seiko Matsuda
- Kunihiko Mitamura and Mari Nakayama
- Ryuzo Hayashi and Kazuko Aoki
- Junichi Ishida and Chiaki Matsubara
- Rumiko Koyanagi and Kenya Osumi
- Kimiko Date and Kiichi Nakai and Bismarck
- The reality of an institution to help children's independence that is different from a NHK's report as an admirable story
- The crisis of Japan (9) -- The sin of Japan's diplomacy that is playing on the palm of China
- The five years inner trouble of Seiji Ozawa and Saito Kinen Orchestra that drags even Empress Michiko
Apr. 16, 1998 issue
- Mr Hashimoto Prime Minister, stock price will be up ¥2 thousands if you quit
- Chimpei Nozue bites Tokyo Governor Aoshima's politics with huge deficit
- The pressure from local people against a junior high school teacher who testify the failure of education at the Diet
- Sad story of bankrupt Asahi Corporation of prestigious Ishibashi family that used to enjoy success with its rubber-soled socks
- Abolish all unjustified allowance of local government bureaucrats such as for rainy day, sit at window, underground , etc...
- The crisis of Japan (8) -- The distorted tax system makes Japanese unhappy
- The pitfall of giant calls on "high return US dollar investment" with Big Bang
Apr. 9, 1998 issue
- The big fabrication in the famous column Yurakucho of the Mainichi Shimbun that has suffered successive troubles
- Do not haste in realizing the Emperor's visit to Korea
- A man who was supported by an woman employee of Yamaichi who stole ¥24 million the last day of the company
- Absurd behavior of the chairman of the Human Organ Transplant Network
- A famous comic author Fujio Akatsuka's one-man show "I have no time to waste in treating my cancer"
- The crisis of Japan (7) -- Objection to the Asahi Shimbun's human right reports
- Our big dilemma on the economic recovery, whether should land price rise or drop
Apr. 2, 1998 issue
- The inability of the new governor of BOJ, Mr Hayami, that was revealed by ex-auditor of Nissho Iwai where he used to preside
- Objection to the Hashimoto governments' ¥1.3 trillion embellishing stock price control
- Nobody could control the reckless drive of Yakult's ¥100 billion loss
- Exposed "shameful private life" of former master of shogi Kunio Yonenaga
- Why Japanese architect in Paris, Mr Akira Ojima, was killed ?
- The crisis of Japan (6) -- A big question on the local newspapers' report on the "Okinawa issue"
- The recommendation to retire to those people who will be encumbrances in new century
Mar. 26, 1998 issue
- Never stop the investigation without trying another gray MOF executive, Mr Sugii
- The artful performance of the governor of Aomori prefecture, the most mean man of the Heisei era
- The attractiveness of a dancer's body who accused Seiko Matsuda as sexual harassment
- Collapsing sumo with disease of both champion
- An anger of a tailor who was extort ¥100 million by the master of the supporters organization of Mr Nagashima
- The crisis of Japan (5) -- The big sin of newspapers' pushing sales promotion that is never reported by papers
- These brutal actions are needed to prevent boys from using knives
Mar. 19, 1998 issue
- A doubt on "Mr. Yen" vice finance minister Eisuke Sakakibara to help compensating the loss reported by foreign papers
- The troubled administrative reform has gone away
- The real figure of "the beaten Iwasaki" who settled the arrest of the pro boxer Tokashiki
- The truth of kidnap of Megumi Yokota unveiled by North Korean intelligence
- Is Jumbo Ozaki a dirty hero who made a team with gray sponsor ?
- The crisis of Japan (4) -- The failure of privatization of postal service attacked by zoku-giin, or lawmakers who represent special interest group
- Mortification of victims against the prosecutor's demand of life in prison for Aum doctor Ikuo Hayashi
Mar. 12, 1998 issue
- Can Director of MOF's Security Office, Nagano, who bears many bad reputations, make his get-away from prosecutors investigation ?
- The man who delivered Kobe Boy's investigation record to mass media
- Whys about the three presidents' self-hanging with the final dinner of beef bowl
- An odd man who presented himself to the police as the murderer of a banker after the run-out of the statute of limitations
- The suspect of the wife of Shokei Arai who helped his force of interest
- In order to stimulate the economy, do ¥10 trillion tax reduction rather than public enterprise
- The crisis of Japan (3) -- Disastrous heavy debt of local governments that people do not notice
Mar. 5, 1998 issue
- The blank two hours of Shokei Arai's suicide -- why did Shizuka Kamei tell a lie ?
- "Tell your children that you will be sentenced to death if you kill a people" -- a voice of the mother whose son was killed by five junior high students
- The unprecedented "Olympic recession" in Nagano where the ski tourist sharply decreased
- Awful junior high school girls who killed an old man who loved young girls
- Something mean with Yuko Arimori who accused her husband as a gay
- The new to-be-the-president of Saitama University whose new position was canceled by his love affair
- The crisis of Japan (2) -- Irresponsibility of bureaucrats who run through the pension funds capital
Weekly Asahi
Apr. 24, 1998 issue
- My plan to jack up economy
- Retire, Mr Hashimoto! ¥6 trillion tax cut with Heisei New Deal, by Naoto Kan
- No prosperity without children. Make "convenience" day-care centers, by Koichi Hori
- One study per house will vitalize Japan, by Kenichi Ohmae
- National people should bear expense cut and 20% consumption tax, by Kenji Mizutani
- "Clone hair" will save the bald Japanese economy, by Terry Ito
- Miserable workplaces in the great unemployment era
- A voice of Shiro Kishibe who went self-bankruptcy and retire the host of popular TV show "Look Look"
- An "ideal boss" of Baystars, the manager Gondo
- Haruo Minami, a popular singer and researcher of Shotoku-Taishi tells about the "moral rule" of Ikaruga, the ancient capital of Shotoku-Taishi era
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (10) -- All wrong selection of health foods
- Why now ? The confusion in the Tokorozawa High School over Hinomaru, the national flag
- The divorce of Hiromi Go and Yurie Nitani -- "The reason not to be loved"
Apr. 17, 1998 issue
- The depressing people -- Former Vice Minister of Finance Jiro Saito, ladies form Yamaichi, Naoto Kan, Kiyohara of Yomiuri Giants, actress Yoshiko Mita, top executives of JAL
- The irresponsibleness of LDP's executives who broke their public promises
- "You should have the intelligence to realize the justice" from former dean of Law at University of Tokyo to its graduates
- Pile of troubles of Yokoyama Knock's Osaka government whose debt is ¥3.5 trillion
- Complete comparison : Citibank vs Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank -- service competition under Big Bang
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (9) -- Poison of sea foods that can be a chemical weapon
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (5) -- Accusing police with the law to enforce government compensation
- An awful truth about the junior high school student's murder of his father
Apr. 10, 1998 issue
- The failures of the local governments
- The worst 100 of local governments in Japan
- Okayama prefecture is close to go bankruptcy with ¥1 trillion debt, but still moves to public enterprise
- Tokyo metropolitan government's excess liabilities and ¥27 billion wasted tax for bay area development
- "Public enterprises will ruin Japan" by Kenichi Ohmae
- A story of a junior high school student who decided to kill his father
- A swift candidate of post Hashimoto -- the "shadow prime minister" Yohei Kono
- The world's first "sommelier machine" is introduced to fight with Naomi Kawashima, Takuro Tatsumi and Keiko Saito
- A "good-to-buy index" of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka -- is it true that "it's best time to buy your new apartment house" ?
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (5) -- A bike that was brought to a court as an evidence
- Scoop: a confidential memo about the secret fund of the Cabinet Office
Apr. 3, 1998 issue
- Big restructuring on your salary
- From regular pay rise and base-up to pay on ability
- The target is inflated young employee who joined in "bubble" time
- Examples in Olympus, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Teijin, Kanaku Securities...
- The wall of BOJ's pandemonium before new governor, Mr Hayami
- Surprise! A contamination of stimulants among homosexual bureaucrats of MOF
- Residents are escaping from Tokorozawa due to the dioxin pollution >
- The suicide and boys' knife incidents that Hiroyuki Itsuki wrote in his new book
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (8) -- "natural does not always mean safe" in food additives
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (4) -- A tenacity of bereaved family who challenged police investigation
- Scoop part 2: gangs and the executives of supporters' organization of Finance Minister Matsunaga
Mar. 27, 1998 issue
- Accusation scoop: Finance Minister Matsunaga's suspect about tomb
- Sumo champion Takanohana in terrible condition -- the fearful stress syndrome
- Big name of MOF on the investigation list -- the behavior of the candidate of vice minister who is called as "king of wining and dining"
- The moment a oppressing boy became an oppressed -- a murder in Saitama's junior high school
- An exclusive interview with Morihiro Hosokawa "The New Democratic Party will bring fresh wind into Japanese politics"
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (7) -- the reality of medicines for animal that remain in meet
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (3) -- The police fabricated a deposition record
- An anxious about Kawamoto's Honda that will come back to F1 car race
- The land price will drop even more by the buyout of bad loans by foreign capital
- The arrogant Bank of Japan -- big sin of full of wining and dining -- all list of amakudari to commercial banks
Mar. 20, 1998 issue
- Finally, it's time of the "March Crisis"
- LDP lawmaker Shizuka Kamei, "Hashimoto will destroy Japan"
- Crying small companies that have generated series of suicides of presidents
- The future of zenekon
- Even such big company as Mitsubishi is a victim of bank's reluctance to lend money
- etc...
- These are the 15 ultra hard problems of the entrance exam for junior high school
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (2) -- Distorted fact of the accidents
- Sweet rooky of Yomiuri Giants, Yoshinobu Takahashi is a tough guy
- Psychosomatic diseases of children will destroy Japan
- Earthquake on MOF -- a 38 year-old elite official was arrested -- the meaning of investigation of the Securities Bureau's director room
Mar. 13, 1998 issue
- The restructure just as excuse of banks who want to utilize the ¥2 trillion public fund
- "Why executives do not retire ?" by angry bankers
- Still high level of bankers salary even after 20% cut
- The list of restructuring of major banks
- Emergency situation of Daiei group with ¥2.6 trillion debt
- The shock of Hitachi's decision to reduce corporate pension payment, the first instance among major companies
- Mystery on the suicide of three corporate presidents together
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (6) -- parasites that you eat together with raw fish and fresh vegetable
- Accusing reportage III -- Is traffic accident investigated right way ? (1) -- Why is the investigation record of police not open ?
- Already entered real race -- a surprising '98 recruit front
- A mystery on the leak of statement record of Kobe Boy
- Scoop: "I'm the criminal of the murder 20 years ago"
Mar. 6, 1998 issue
- The "secrets" that were concealed by the suicide of Shokei Arai
- Two wills written in heavy drunk
- The failure of the double-tongued life
- A slight weak-heart shown at the press conference the night before
- Teaches who reject to attend school -- increasing suicide, psychotic depression and absence from work
- The awful power of influenza that spread throughout the country
- New accusation series: The danger on the table (5) -- through water and vegetable to a human body, the danger of nitrogen fertilizer
- The crime announcement by the man who killed his father with a handmade arrow
- The love of family that has supported the Gold Medalist Harada
- High tension on the Iraq bombing
Sunday Mainichi
Apr. 26, 1998 issue
- Almost failed... screams of 405 construction companies at their settlements -- Eastern Japan version
- A friendship class for "lonely middle aged" is full to the doors
- The price of novelists that can be estimated by their letters -- Akutagawa, Soseki, Mishima, Tanizaki ....
- It's a crime to induce the change of life insurance contract
- Results of college entrance examinations from 410 private high schools
- A journey of beautiful professional mah-jongg player
- The sexual Big Bang of Hiromi Go
- Save the Hanshin Tigers from extinction !
- Trouble over the "hair-nude" picture book of actress Miho Kanno
- MOF's public service corporations do anything as they like
Apr. 19, 1998 issue
- A big question about Japanese major banks' ¥15 trillion finance to Asia
- What's happen, Osaka Governor Mr Knock ?
- Tokyo Governor Aoshima gains only 5 approval to 47 rejection from the parliament
- It's spring now, come on, Makiko Suehiro !
- Results of college entrance exam from 1380 high schools
- Please tell me about the JR's new tickets examination system
- An direct interview with rookie bureaucrat of MOF
- A new letter of Yukio Mishima was found in the dispute over his homosexuality
- A shadow of former prime minister Takeshita behind the soccer lottery interests
Apr. 12, 1998 issue
- Battles in family -- Kimijima brothers, old bread maker Kimuraya
- All employee's salary will go down ? -- the reasons of the "decision" of Nihon Seimei Life Insurance
- Super hidden technique of human resource agencies that Ministry of Labor surprised with a suspicion of fraud
- A war of news anchor women begins -- Etsuko Komiya, Yoko Sakurai, Akiko Yagi...
- Forecast of the Japanese economy of the first half of this year
- Woo! about money, job and love.... The Japan latinization plan
- Be slim with a game, Teku-teku Angel
- The real target of trouble over arrest warrant to former boxer Tokashiki was Ohta production that promotes popular Saruganseki ?
- List of successful candidates to major universities from 400 high schools
Apr. 5, 1998 issue
- The straight way to the "evil May" -- the latest measurement of danger of zenekon general constructors
- It's against promise that tax will increase three times in postal pension
- New Foreign Exchange Law will be introduced in April -- think again your savings in Yen only
- A wining and dining relationship chart of new executives of BOJ
- All about the "alibi providers"
- We cannot stand these new OLs, or office ladies
- Japanese pro baseball that cannot make real 4th batter
- All names of those who succeeded in entrance exam of University of Tokyo, Kyoto University ... second half exam.
Mar. 29, 1998 issue
- Arrogant BOJ which calls credit unions snots -- the list of 927 amakudari
- All names of those who succeeded in entrance exam of Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Ranking of high schools in entrance exam to famous private universities
- Let's anticipate the pro baseball victory of this season by words of Nomura and Nagashima
- A complete analysis -- the reality of Kyoto University
- The way in which people read a book "Drop dead, full-time housewives"
- Objection to the compensation of the bankrupt golf club Nitto Kogyo
- What is this, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, you lost ¥1.6 billion and found ¥5.2 billion ?
Mar. 22, 1998 issue
- All names of those who succeeded in entrance exam of University of Tokyo etc...
- Complete survey: The pros and cons of the University of Tokyo
- The mystery of 1000 lost entrance exam answer sheets in Meiji University
- The booming Chile wines
- Big Bang of pro baseball -- the rating of 53 foreign players
- Special: These local banks are in danger -- complete analysis of 128 banks -- Western Japan version
- The real thought of banks about public fund "We don't need such a money","That doesn't help to clear the reluctance to lend money"
- The secret of heart breaking game "Go by a train!"
Mar. 15, 1998 issue
- Special: These local banks are in danger -- complete analysis of 128 banks -- Eastern Japan version
- Former manager of Japan national soccer team, Kamo, talks about his dismissal -- what I promised current manager Okada
- Bankers salary to cut for utilization of tax, but the standard is still high
- Finally mass suicide occurs due to banks' reluctance to lend money
- Warning report: lost sight in an eyeglass shop ?
- The Gifu prefecture's proud "cultural heritage", the letters of ancient age are just cracks on a rock
- The ranking of university entrance exam results by high schools
Mar. 8, 1998 issue
- No, no, not such a few 164 people as reported to the Diet, but we know more amakudari from MOF !
- The real figure of "Erotic Politics" that Shokei Arai had dreamed of
- Can it save the slumping PHS industry ? -- the "where are you" function of new "Dorae-phone"
- The ranking of university entrance exam results by high schools (3)
- The sacrifice sales of condominiums
- The rapidly increasing consultation from husbands about divorce
- The shameless Iraq and arrogant US
Mar. 1, 1998 issue
- The pitfall of the Postal Savings -- you may lose ¥3 million
- What is the "Excuser" that becomes so prosperous with bankruptcies ?
- The half way of late soft-porn writer Takeo Tomishima
- A change in the job hunting front -- the financial firms began saying "please"
- The question on Shokei Arai's stock deal -- the origin of the "account under another person's name" in Nikko Securities
- Which phone service is most cost saving ?
- The must know for salaried men -- the standard price of "congratulations"
- The ranking of university entrance exam results by high schools
- The anniversary of late Ryotaro Shiba