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Takahiro Fukada
For Takahiro Fukada's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 30, 2010
Flu prevention advice nothing to sneeze at
As winter sets in, hospitals are calling for people to get flu shots.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2010
Selective immigration for highly skilled urged
The Japan Forum on International Relations, a Tokyo-based think tank, urged the government Wednesday to accept more foreign workers and tourists while being selective in accepting long-term residents.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2010
Kawasaki busy cleaning up its act
The sky over Kawasaki once was choked with smoke billowing from factories along its waterfront, giving the city at the center of the Keihin Coastal Industrialized Zone a reputation as one of the country's most polluted areas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2010
Hundreds decry 'unprincipled' liberalization
YOKOHAMA — Hundreds of people staged a rally Saturday in central Yokohama to voice their opposition to Japan and other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum members taking steps to accelerate "unprincipled" trade liberalization, saying the measures would destroy people's livelihoods and devastate farmers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2010
Looking back at 'Japan as No. 1'
Since the best-selling book "Japan as Number One" came out in 1979, the country has suffered through a diminished global presence and been beaten out in international business competition, according to experts who gathered to look back and evaluate the intervening decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2010
Nobelist urges youth to go abroad, study
Nobel Prize laureate Akira Suzuki urged Japanese youngsters Monday to study abroad and broaden their views, just as more are growing hesitant to do so.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2010
Tsukiji to relocate to Toyosu: Ishihara
The metropolitan government will spend ¥128.1 billion this fiscal year to relocate the Tsukiji fish market to the Toyosu district in Koto Ward, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Q&A
Oct 20, 2010
The advantages of travel via Haneda
The opening of Tokyo's Haneda airport to more international flights, starting Thursday, makes a lot of sense for travelers.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2010
50 Geos branches will be renamed
Nagoya-based investment fund Inayoshi Capital Partners said Thursday that about 50 of its 167 Geos foreign-language school branches will be renamed Nova X Geos after November.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 13, 2010
Takaki stresses value of foreign languages
Education minister Yoshiaki Takaki is stressing the importance of teaching children foreign languages to promote their interest in other countries.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2010
Prosecutor offices flawed: experts
Unless public prosecutor's offices are forced to submit to outside oversight, more travesties of justice like the one allegedly committed by prosecutor Tsunehiko Maeda will discredit the Japanese legal system, experts say.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2010
Three Fujita workers back on home ground
Three of the four Fujita Corp. employees detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of entering a restricted military zone returned to Japan on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2010
Kanagawa to open language center
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government is opening a language and cultural institute in Yokohama in January to help foreign residents learn basic Japanese, while assisting schoolteachers and local government officials as they try to deal with foreign residents.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 24, 2010
Mabuchi worried about China fallout
Sumio Mabuchi, the new minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, said he is concerned political tensions between Japan and China will seriously damage the tourism industry, which is starting to see trip cancellations, including one involving about 10,000 employees of a Chinese company.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2010
Website to document air-raid devastation
A digital archive of information about the air raids on Japan during World War II is being prepared for launch in late November by two Americans who believe more English-speaking people should have a better idea of how ordinary Japanese suffered.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 14, 2010
Pandas coming to Ueno part of bigger pattern
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government signed a deal with China in July to lease two giant pandas for 10 years for Ueno Zoo, which has been without a panda since the famous Ling Ling died in 2008.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE TROUBLE AT TOYOTA
Sep 3, 2010
Reportage seems source-biased
U.S. and Japanese media gave widespread but contrasting coverage of the sudden-acceleration accidents involving Toyota Motor Co. vehicles, mainly in North America, with accounts by victims and allegations of safety flaws getting greater play on the other side of the Pacific compared with a muted approach here.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2010
Kingpin win would delay charges
Now that Ichiro Ozawa has made it official and will run for president of the Democratic Party of Japan, a key question is whether he can be indicted over his alleged financial illegalities should he win and become prime minister.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2010
Kids find confidence in speech contest
The Children's International Speech Contest, held Saturday in Tokyo, was unique in that its participants also experienced beforehand various programs promoting cross-cultural understanding.
JAPAN / JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Aug 20, 2010
Rewards, roadblocks for volunteer teachers
Ikuko Sahara, representative of a volunteer group teaching Japanese to foreigners in Tokyo, knows it's no picnic living in a foreign country without being familiar with the language.
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.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.

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