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Keisuke Okada
JAPAN / IMF-WORLD BANK IN TOKYO
Oct 12, 2012
Kajima develops technologies to cope with disasters
As a way to demonstrate its commitment to the growing corporate and social requirements for business continuity plans (BCP), Kajima Corp., Japan's leading general contractor, conducted a large-scale anti-disaster drill on Aug. 30. It was conducted on the assumption that a magnitude 7.3 earthquake with...
JAPAN / IMF-WORLD BANK IN TOKYO
Oct 12, 2012
KKE starts consultations for evacuation planning
One lesson learned from the tragic Great East Japan Earthquake disaster on March 11, 2011, is that hardware alone does not suffice to save the lives of so many people in affected areas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2012
Push to replace Tokyo's aging expressways with tunnel routes revived
A once-shelved project to bury Tokyo's expressway network, which is now aging, deep underground is finding new life, in part because of last year's devastating Tohoku quake and tsunami.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2010
Companies going all-out in English
Enhancing employee English-language skills has become a high-priority management challenge for Japanese corporations, regardless of their size and industry.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2009
Keio University president wants education funding untouched
resort to emergency short-term measures to address the critical employment situation, The question is how to create jobs," he said. Employment springs from production, Seike said, stressing that no business hires for charity.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2009
Education system still effective, valid model
Japan can contribute proactively to the rest of the world, especially developing countries, in the field of education through stepped-up exchanges of students and teachers, a senior educator believes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 22, 2009
Activist preaches global education
Given the current global racial and religious tensions, it may sound utopian to envision a world in which people of diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds live in peace and harmony by honoring the differences of others.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2009
Crisis management lacking: experts
Japan has a reputation abroad as a country whose government, corporations and citizens are fully prepared for natural and man-made catastrophes after the bitter lessons of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and the Kobe earthquake, both in 1995, as well as the regular occurrence of typhoons....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 11, 2009
International school built to serve
Early last year, Masayasu Kano, a seasoned schoolteacher, quit his local private high school to take on a new challenge. He had only a couple years left until retirement.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2009
Think tank calls for common Asian currency
Japan should take political initiatives to achieve an Asian monetary unification in the 2030s that supplements, if not replaces, the current fragile international economic and financial system, a semigovernmental think tank said in a report released Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2009
U.N. official urges steady presence in East Timor
The United Nations should extend its peacekeeping operations in East Timor for at least another year to establish long-term security in the fledgling nation, a high-ranking U.N. official said in a recent interview in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2009
Global crisis study group proposed
A semigovernmental organization for international economic exchanges has proposed formation of a study group involving Japan, the United States and European Union to work out regulatory measures to deal with the global financial crisis.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 15, 2008
Taking a structural stance on culture
It was at the groundbreaking ceremony of Osaka's Breeze Tower in the spring of 2006 that architect Yuichiro Edagawa met a German woman by the name of Sybille Fanelsa and happened to tell her about his cherished plan to publish a photo book that would introduce the splendor of Japanese culture and tradition...
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2008
Japan asked to join new Arctic shipping regime
Japan should join hands with the United States and other Arctic states in ongoing multilateral efforts to create a new shipping regime in the Arctic Ocean, a U.S. official said Thursday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2008
Diversity key to corporate growth
Diversity management is not just about promoting women in the workplace but about facilitating corporate reform and raising profitability in rapidly changing global markets, speakers at a Tokyo forum on diversity and inclusion said last week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2008
USJ turnaround artist has all the moves
If asked to name the foreign business executive who has most dramatically turned around a financially troubled Japanese corporation, Glenn Gumpel might top the list.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2008
Ties to Japan must persist: Chinese official
Strategic and mutually beneficial relations between Japan and China should not be harmed by any changes in Japan's political situation, a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party said Wednesday at a forum in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2008
Forum addresses public's aversion to China
Chinese and Japanese political, economic and academic leaders shared their apprehensions about the ever-growing aversion to China among the Japanese public when they met for a two-day forum in Tokyo starting Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2008
Group plans to bury Tokyo's elevated 'shuto'
A group of business executives is floating the idea of burying all of Tokyo's elevated highways 60 meters underground. The megaproject also includes a sweeping greening of the space they will leave behind and large-scale redevelopment at key highway ramps.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2007
Japan's schools flunking at global level: symposium
In this age of globalization, firms and businesspeople must compete with their rivals on a worldwide scale. This is also spreading to academicians and educational institutions, universities in particular.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
A viral manga prediction of a July 5 disaster has gripped Japan with anxiety and triggered an economic impact, but experts warn that while such dates are unreliable, the threat of a massive earthquake remains real. 
Residents of Tokara Islands begin evacuation as seismic swarm continues
Details about evacuations from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen written on a whiteboard in the city of Kagoshima on Thursday.
U.S. military apologizes over Okinawa sexual assault case
Col. Neil Owens (right), chief of staff for the 3rd Marine Division, bows in apology at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Thursday.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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