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JAPAN

Jan 13, 2012

Ginza satellite stores offer hometown tastes

Known for its high-end boutiques and brand-name stores, Tokyo's Ginza district is also home to more than a dozen shops promoting delicacies and cultural products unique to various prefectures.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Nov 2, 2011

H.K. nuke fears abate; Japanese food is back

After deserting their favorite Japanese restaurants for several months when the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear accident started in March, Hong Kong people have gradually rekindled their special love for Japanese food.

BUSINESS

Oct 17, 2009

Markets mostly untroubled by DPJ's uncertain start

Over the past month since Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama assumed office, a controversial plan for a moratorium on debt repayments by small companies has hurt financial shares and uncertainty regarding the capacity of the new government has weighed on the stock market.

BUSINESS

Jun 13, 2009

Road to full recovery likely bumpy

Investors may have breathed a sigh of relief as the Nikkei stock index recovered briefly to the 10,000 line Thursday for the first time since the global financial crisis sparked a plunge last October, reflecting strong optimism that the worst of the recession is over.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Feb 19, 2009

U.S. wants Japan to step up, Aso or no

The United States is going to great lengths to tout Japan as its key partner in addressing the financial crisis and other global issues, not only sending Hillary Rodham Clinton to Tokyo on her overseas debut as secretary of state but also inviting Prime Minister Taro Aso as President Barack Obama's first foreign guest at the White House.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Feb 17, 2009

Clinton arrives in Japan ready to engage Asia

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived Monday evening in Tokyo, kicking off her first overseas visit as the top U.S. diplomat and demonstrating a new commitment by Washington to engage more closely with Asian partners on global issues.

JAPAN

Feb 13, 2009

Improving ties mutually beneficial for Tokyo, Seoul

Japan's relations with South Korea, which were in terrible shape just a few years ago, are steadfastly becoming more "future-oriented" and "mature," as the two neighbors have begun to recognize common interests in boosting their global presence and securing their alliances with the new U.S. administration.

JAPAN

Jan 3, 2009

New U.S. administration, old Asian rivalries to dominate diplomacy

Japan's "rather rosy" start in 2008, as a senior Foreign Ministry official described it recently, with all the back-patting over commitments to climate change and African development reached at key summits hosted by the nation, soon faded in the face of domestic political chaos and the global economic crisis.

JAPAN / ANALYSIS

Oct 13, 2008

U.S. delisting puts Japanese diplomacy to the test

With North Korea being removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, Japan will be forced to be more proactive in trying to resolve the emotional abduction dispute.

JAPAN

Sep 28, 2008

Domestic woes to hogtie Aso on diplomacy

Like his predecessor, new Prime Minister Taro Aso has inherited a ruling party whose hands are tied by domestic woes and a divided Diet paralyzed by political deadlock.

Japan Times

JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN

Jul 6, 2008

G8 blind to Africa's true needs, farmer says

Zambian farmer Joyce Mwanje landed in Japan after a long journey across half the globe, leaving her husband and seven children to tend to the fields where they till the land with hand hoes to grow maize, soybeans, vegetables and other crops.

Japan Times

JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN

Jun 27, 2008

Land woes taking a back seat to CO2

While climate change has finally won the attention of world leaders, the United Nations is concerned about a lack of action on another major — and yet interlinked — global challenge: land degradation and desertification.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Jun 12, 2007

Abe tries to use G8 to boost his poll numbers

He may not have had time to enjoy the white sand beaches at the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm, Germany, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was undoubtedly relieved heading home from his debut at the Group of Eight summit, having secured an agreement to address climate change that he claimed was "centered on my proposal."

JAPAN

May 10, 2007

Japan looks to ramp up effort to resolve isle row with Russia

With more high-level talks with Moscow in the offing, Japan is hoping to seize the opportunity to crack the long-standing territorial dispute over the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Sep 22, 2006

Koizumi moves out, signs off

Outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi moved out of the Prime Minister's Official Residence Thursday evening as he gets ready to hand the reins of government to new ruling party leader Shinzo Abe next Tuesday.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Mar 2, 2006

Young actors keep kabuki flourishing

Shinosuke Nakamura and his friend, Kyoju Nakamura, walk into a cafe near the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo in jeans and stylish jackets, just like any other young men in their 20s. But when they return to work, they are serious kabuki actors dressed in kimono and performing plays that date back as far as four centuries.

JAPAN

Feb 16, 2006

Soga did brief tutoring in North: Jenkins

SADO, Niigata Pref. (Kyodo) Ex-U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent four decades in North Korea and now lives in Japan, said Wednesday his wife, freed Pyongyang abductee Hitomi Soga, only had to coach six men and women, including army officers, in Japanese on three occasions in the North between 1981 and 1982 during her 24-year captivity.

JAPAN

Nov 21, 2005

At APEC, Koizumi fails to improve Asia relations

When Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wrapped up his two-day visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Saturday evening, he headed home without making headway in mending Japan's strained relations with China and South Korea. The spotlight was on what he would do about the ties with Japan's two most important neighbors after they turned sour because of his repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine.

JAPAN

Oct 15, 2005

Tsunami survivor returns to help Sri Lanka

and TECH Japan members Suvendrini Kakuchi and Akiko Ozaki show off an apron made at a sewing center for tsunami and civil war survivors here in northern Sri Lanka.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Sep 20, 2005

Veteran sailor Horie, 66, looks ahead to next voyage

Kenichi Horie made headlines in Japan in 1962 by sailing solo across the Pacific to San Francisco without a passport, and continues to record stunning seagoing achievements, including this summer, at age 66, completing his second round-the-world voyage via Cape Horn.

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.

For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on

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