Business / Corporate Sep 3, 2020
Japan's convenience stores are told to stop pushing 24-hour schedules
The firms' business models have been criticized for putting profit ahead of the needs of franchise owners.
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Asia Pacific Apr 15, 2015
Forget Fukushima: China powering ahead with plans for new reactors
In February, four years after pressing pause on one of the world's most ambitious nuclear energy programs, China quietly green-lighted the construction of two new nuclear reactors. The first new approvals in over two years, the decision seems to bode well for the almost 200 ...
National Mar 19, 2015
China in shock after Japanese girl wins brain battle
China's loss to Japan on a popular game show devoted to mental athletics has left the country's netizens atwitter and provoked some national soul-searching. The battleground was the popular television show "Super Brain," and the eventual winner a 9-year-old Japanese girl. The series is a sort ...
Asia Pacific Feb 22, 2015
Despite dangerous smog, most Beijingers go mask free
In early January, a toxic cloud of smog settled over Beijing. For nearly a week, it wreathed the city in a choking, yellow haze. Levels of PM2.5 — microscopic particles that can be absorbed into the lungs and bloodstream endangering human health — peaked at ...
National / Politics Jan 27, 2015
As Japan frets over hostages, China frets over Abe
The Islamic State's announcement last week of the kidnapping of two Japanese men has raised serious questions about how the crisis will affect Japan's Middle East policy. But for China, the unfolding drama has raised concerns about its neighbor's policies closer to home. News over the ...
National / History | FOCUS Jan 9, 2015
China brings sex slave issue into spotlight
For years, China literally kept the tragic story of its "comfort women" underground. Since 2007, the country's only museum dedicated to the women forced to work in Imperial Japanese Army brothels has overflowed two cramped rooms in a musty basement on the campus of Shanghai ...
Entertainment News Dec 16, 2014
Japanese actors die a thousand deaths in China's film industry
With his warm smile and shy demeanor, actor Hirotaka Tsukagoshi doesn't look like a villain. But as he gets into character, lowering his voice to a demonic growl and arching his eyebrows into a cinematic expression of cruelty, you begin to see hints of the ...
National | FOCUS Dec 5, 2014
Chinese public has no appetite for Senkakus fight: poll
A majority of Chinese citizens believe the United Nations, not the battlefield, is the proper venue for settling their country's maritime disputes with Japan, according to a first-of-its-kind opinion poll released last week. The survey, as reported by the University of Western Australia's Perth USAsia ...
National | FOCUS Sep 5, 2014
Chinese leaders attend first national commemoration of Japan's WWII surrender
China's top leaders gathered in Beijing on Wednesday to participate in China's first national observance of the "victory" against Japan, a day of remembrance added to the national calendar earlier this year as part of a campaign to castigate Japan and increase national unity ...
National / History Aug 15, 2014
Japan's war crimes still make paper-selling headlines in China, 69 years after WWII
On Aug. 15, 1945, at precisely noon, Emperor Hirohito took to the airwaves to announce the unconditional surrender of Japan's military to Allied Forces. The radio broadcast in Japan signaled the end of World War II and years of bloodshed. For most of the world, the ...