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JAPAN
Aug 21, 2009
Fundraising at click of a button
By Kazuaki Nagata
Fundraising is a big part of an elected official's life, especially in a country where individuals are not accustomed to offering donations to politicians or political parties.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2009
Gene trick found that helps rice survive floods
Japanese scientists have discovered genes that enable rice to survive high water, providing hope for better production in lowland areas affected by flooding.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2009
Aug 21, 2009
Decentralization picking up steam?
By Eric Johnston
OSAKA — Imagine, if you will, Japan in 2018. Following the historic Lower House election in 2009, the country passed legislation that abolished the 47 prefectures and thousands of smaller local governments.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2009
Roos gets to work, meets vice minister
By Jun Hongo
New U.S. Ambassador John Roos began his official duties Thursday after presenting Emperor Akihito with his credentials.

BUSINESS

BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2009
BOJ may set preconditions for raising rates
The Bank of Japan may consider setting preconditions for ending its policy of keeping interest rates near zero should the economy deteriorate and deflation take hold, BOJ Policy Board member Atsushi Mizuno said Thursday. "It is an option to show our commitment to keep interest rates at extremely low...
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2009
Yamaha failed to fix 'dangerous' ATV, U.S. jury told
Yamaha Motor Co. knew its Rhino all-terrain vehicle was "unreasonably dangerous" and failed to fix its design, an attorney for the family of a dead Texas teenager told jurors at the start of a trial this week. The company put profits before safety when it sold the machine as a cross between a golf cart...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2009
Battery-boosted bikes a hit with moms, firms
By Jason Clenfield
Tokyo housewife Chie Igawa, 38, is part of a trend that's transforming the streets, zipping her kids around on a battery-boosted bicycle without breaking a sweat or having to worry about traffic rules.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2009
New flu claims lives
The first deaths from the new H1N1 influenza have been reported in Japan during the past week. A 57-year-old man of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, died Aug. 15; a 77-year-old man of Kobe on Aug. 18; and an 81-year-old woman of Nagoya on Aug. 19. Both of the men had chronic renal insufficiency and were...
EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2009
Devolution moves forward
In past elections, "devolution" was hardly an issue because political parties thought the subject would not rouse voter interest. Even if local government leaders made demands, political parties did not seriously heed them. Things are different ahead of the Aug. 30 Lower House election.
COMMENTARY
Aug 21, 2009
Decay of Japanese politics
By Shinji Fukukawa
Japan's politics in recent years has lacked dynamism and incurred people's distrust. The purpose of politics is to present a vision for the nation's future, identify the systems and policies needed, and ensure the safety and prosperity of the nation and its people. Recently, though, Japanese politics...

Sports

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2009
Abe ignites Giants to triumph over BayStars
By Jason Coskrey
The Yokohama BayStars put up a good fight, but it wasn't enough to stop Shinnosuke Abe and the Yomiuri Giants from breaking out the brooms.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 21, 2009
Iwakuma's resurgence has Eagles flying high
By Jason Coskrey
Tohoku Rakuten pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is up to his old tricks in August and helping to shake up the race for the Pacific League Climax Series in the process.
BASKETBALL
Aug 21, 2009
Miyazaki, Shimane to join bj-league
By Ed Odeven
The fast-growing, upstart bj-league will feature 16 teams for the 2010-11 season, the league announced on Tuesday.

LIFE

LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 21, 2009
The new Harajuku Taproom brews up a storm with craft beer and yakitori
By Robbie Swinnerton
Another American who has been carving out an impressive niche for himself in Japan is brewmaster Bryan Baird. Over nine years has passed since he first began producing craft beers, which he sold in his own brewpub, the Fishmarket Taproom in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 21, 2009
Chinzan-so Italian festival
The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so will hold a monthlong "La Festa Italiana" of Italian cuisine, art and fashion, as an official event of "Italia in Giappone 2009," the government promotion supported by the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo and the Italian State Tourist Board.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 21, 2009
Ivan Ramen: Artisan ramen with NY accent
By Robbie Swinnerton
"Eat ramen here." It's the kind of illuminated sign you might expect to see outside a restaurant in central London or New York. To find it over the door of a one-counter noodle joint on an old-fashioned shopping arcade in the western suburbs of Tokyo is, however, little short of bizarre.

CULTURE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2009
Jeff Mills
By Daniel Robson
As a critic, it's easy to bemoan a festival that invites a similar lineup of acts year on year, as does Yokohama's annual leftfield electronica romp Wire. But critics don't usually buy tickets to festivals (free passes are one of the perks of the job), so frankly, who cares what we think? If the punters...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2009
Honey Sac "Allege"
By Daniel Robson
Sac are a hard sell. On the one hand, the band of five girls from Osaka make anime-ready guitar music that has been shaped and moulded into the most commercial of packages. And yet . . . there's something curious about them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 21, 2009
'20-Seiki Shonen'
By Mark Schilling
Yukihiko Tsutsumi's hit "20-Seiki Shonen" ("20th Century Boys") trilogy is based on one of those "what if" premises that may look almost childishly obvious, but, from a commercial standpoint, is simply brilliant.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 21, 2009
'Clean'/'Patti Smith: Dream of Life'
By Giovanni Fazio
To feel "clean," if you're a junkie, is to be in a state free of addiction, but more than that, it also implies a clean slate, a life wiped clean of its past temptations, joys and pain, in order to allow new beginnings to emerge.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 21, 2009
'MAM Project 009: Koizumi Meiro'
By Edan Corkill
Mori Art Museum
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2009
Refashioning the J-pop scene
By Ian Martin
Yasutaka Nakata is bouncing around like some kind of postmodern electro Tigger in front of a sea of adoring fans, almost uniformly young, beautiful and well-dressed. His DJ set taken in large part from his group capsule's own music, with the odd track thrown in by electro-tinged idol pop phenomenon Perfume...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 21, 2009
Timothy Saccenti: Garden of Unearthly Delights
By Danielle Demetriou
Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 21, 2009
Traveling through a symphony of art
By Donald Eubank
Several weeks ago at the Fuji Rock music festival, I realized that I might be in the wrong game. The art world is about the object: You look at a work, often something inert, and attempt to discern from it an emotion, a meaning or a truth. But music irresistibly moves you, it mysteriously reaches through...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 21, 2009
Indie hardman opens the tear ducts
By Mark Schilling
Sion Sono is Japan's edgy indie director par excellence, whose internationally acclaimed films expose social ills and challenge taboos in a variety of genres and moods, from the death-trip chills of "Jisatsu Circle" ("Suicide Club," 2001) to the black-comic laughs of "Ai no Mukidashi" ("Love Exposure,"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2009
Aimee Mann clicks into a disturbed world
By Philip Brasor
The title of Aimee Mann's latest album, "@#%&*! Smilers," does a good job of conveying the tone of the singer-songwriter's output, not to mention her wry sense of humor; which isn't to say Mann has nothing to smile about. After years of hassling with major record labels about the direction of her music,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 21, 2009
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird'
By Kaori Shoji
In what's being touted as South Korea's most expensive production to date ($17 million), three of that country's heartthrobs go on a nonstop, nonsensical action rampage that tears the screen apart and has the viewer cowering in the seat. It's not that "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" is scary, but its...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 21, 2009
A dream venue for new artists
By Lucy Birmingham
"I'm still a housewife so its amazing that an amateur can do something like this," says DanDans founder and organizer Kazuko Aso, now presenting the contemporary art cooperative's fifth exhibition titled "A Midsummer Dream" until Aug. 30 at Chinzan-so in Mejiro, Tokyo. "Maybe it's because I have such...
Students in Japan struggle with Japanese language and math sections on national exam
The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section on a national test dropped to 67.0% from 67.8% the previous year among elementary school sixth-graders.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
Japanese scientists discover clue to why women burn more fat than men
Scientists say a recently-published study could help explain why women are typically less prone to weight-related conditions and may lead to new therapies that target calorie-burning mechanisms.
Music idol and anime fandom merch is big business
Businesses who cater to fandoms gathered at Tokyo Lifestyle Week for the second annual Oshikatsu — Merch Collection Expo, a trade show devoted to fandom goods.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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