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Chico Harlan
For Chico Harlan's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2012
Output trumps energy-saving mood
In this summer of idled nuclear plants and energy shortages, corporate Japan is under duress.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2012
Nuclear redress will never approximate losses
It was 15 months ago that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant suffered three meltdowns and contaminated a broad circle of countryside and left hundreds of thousands of people without homes, jobs or both.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2012
The fax of life: Japan refuses to part with aging device
In Japan's businesses and bureaucracies, in home offices and hulking companies, the fax machine is thriving.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 1, 2012
Tax hike small change in senior-care dilemma
The ominous demographics of aging Japan have long been seen by the people as a distant concern, not a present-day one. But that mindset is being called into question by a prime minister who says a crisis requiring immediate sacrifices has already begun.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2012
Surge in fuel imports may come with dire side effect
To make up for its dwindling supply of nuclear power, Japan is on a frenzied but costly hunt for fossil fuels.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2012
Red tape impeding reform of nuclear-reliant energy policy
The hulking system that once guided Japan's pronuclear power stance worked just fine when everybody moved in lock step, but its size and complexity have proved ill-suited for resolving conflict at a time of nuclear crisis.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2011
No-go zone a wasteland frozen in time
Eight months ago, people left the town of Namie in haste. Families raced from their homes without closing the front doors. They left half-finished wine bottles on their kitchen tables and sneakers in their foyers. They jumped in their cars without taking pets and left cows hitched to milking stanchions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2011
Noda weighs public's nuclear fears, firms' export ambitions
Long dependent on domestic appetite, Japan's nuclear technology companies are increasingly looking to overseas markets, hopeful that foreign governments still trust in the reliability and safety of their technologies after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Aug 16, 2011
With debt climbing, Japan debates tax hike
Japan has within its sights the obvious but precarious solution for its fiscal mess: a tax hike.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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