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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
For Kazuaki Nagata's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Sony Corp. said Wednesday that its board of directors will consider a proposal by a U.S. hedge fund to put on the stock market a minority stake in Sony’s entertainment division, retracting an earlier statement that they won’t be put up for sale. Daniel ...
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan’s three top cellphone carriers.
GungHo Online Entertainment Inc.’s presence on the stock market has been growing rapidly on the growth of its monstrously popular smartphone game “Puzzle and Dragons.” After starting the year at ¥84,200, GungHo’s stock price had climbed to ¥1.26 million at Friday’s close on the ...
Although a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel judged Wednesday that the D-1 fault running under reactor 2 at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, that decision is premature and unacceptable, the operator’s president, Yasuo Hamada, claimed the same day. ...
A fault running under reactor 2 at the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel says, effectively killing any chance the reactor will be restarted.
NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it will team up with the popular social network provider Line to offer a special app for DoCoMo users, aiming to deepen its relationship with the operator of the growing communication tool. “Line’s growth has been incredible. . . . ...
A weaker yen, credited to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, may be helping exporters in general but struggling electronics makers are not yet out of the woods.
Thanks to the startling success of its smartphone game “Puzzle and Dragons,” the spotlight is beaming brightly on GungHo Online Entertainment Inc. “We’ve been very lucky with the success of ‘Puzzle and Dragons,’ ” CEO Kazuki Morishita said in a press briefing Friday at ...
The Japanese version of the Huffington Post website aims to encourage reserved Japanese people to participate in online discussions and express themselves, Arianna Huffington, founder of the online media giant, said Wednesday. Huffington was in Tokyo to oversee Tuesday’s launch of Huffington Post Japan, ...
Softbank Corp. said it will launch this summer a health care service package for its smartphones that includes monitoring daily health conditions and fitness information as well as 24-hour telephone counseling. At a news conference Tuesday where the firm also released its new handset ...
The Fukushima nuclear crisis struck a nerve with Japan’s normally passive public, prompting many to raise their voices against atomic power and take to the streets to voice their anger. But momentum for phasing out atomic energy appears to have weakened since the pronuclear ...
With constitutional revision emerging as the primary issue in the Upper House poll, proponents and opponents use Constitution Day to press their cases.