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LIFE
Apr 2, 2013

Gardening offers original ideas for repurposing goods

Ruthie Mundell opens a door within the warehouse of the nonprofit thrift store known as Community Forklift and eagerly displays the donations of countless gardeners.
EDITORIALS
Apr 2, 2013

Land prices show signs of life

According to a March 21 report by the land, infrastructure and tourism ministry, as of Jan. 1 land prices are showing signs of stabilizing.
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JAPAN / Media
Mar 31, 2013

Men with 'yellow fever' get a taste of their own medicine

There's no need for serious digging; just scrape the surface of history and there are plenty of examples of Caucasian men who showed the symptoms of a phenomenon known as 'yellow fever.'
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 31, 2013

Bollywood bigwigs hope Japan fans are in it for keeps

In the 1990s, one of the most popular foreign movie stars in Japan was an Indian actor named Rajinikanth, who appeared in films made for India's Tamil-speaking southern region.
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WORLD
Mar 30, 2013

No driver, no problem: how road travel will change

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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 29, 2013

Court says railway can make patrons pay through the nose

Railway patrons can now sue over fares, for what it's worth.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2013

Obama reveals support for 'strong Jewish state'

Operation Desert Schmooze, President Barack Obama's two-day charm offensive in Jerusalem last week, achieved its central goal of convincing Israelis that the U.S. president doesn't have horns.
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CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2013

Japanese acts play music ambassadors at Canadian Music Week

After rock group Jake Stone Garage hit the final chord of one of their powerful guitar-heavy songs, the crowd let out a few hoots and applauded politely.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2013

To build brand, firms produce own media

The Red Bulletin is a handsome Web and print magazine that practically oozes testosterone. Recent issues have featured stories on the world's deepest free diver, human-pyramid building in Spain and a guy who rappels into volcanoes. All of it is embellished with photography worthy of Sports Illustrated....
LIFE / Digital
Mar 27, 2013

Technology that works for prose is still a curse for verse

Washington poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller insists there is a difference between his poem "Before Hip Hop" when it is shown like this:
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013

ECB head Mario Draghi's opiate of the markets

From the standpoint of EU economic stability, the division of Italy's parliament into three mutually incompatible political forces is a terrible outcome.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2013

Chinese sentenced for military data theft

Measured in millimeters, the tiny device was designed to allow drones, missiles and rockets to hit targets without satellite guidance. An advanced version was being developed secretly for the U.S. military by a small company and L-3 Communications, a major defense contractor.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013

Testing times for U.S., China

It's easy to imagine the U.S. as a threat to China when the U.S. spends six times more on defense and has pacts with Japan, India and South Korea.
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JAPAN
Mar 27, 2013

Saitama urges Seibu to keep Chichibu Line open

Saitama Gov. Kiyoshi Ueda and other local leaders are making their case to Seibu Holdings Inc. to keep the Seibu Chichibu Line open as rumors swirl that the firm's biggest shareholder is demanding that the unprofitable railway section be abandoned.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013

Signs indicate the U.S. economy is strengthening

Traditional economic labels lose their meaning for many Americans when they're told that the U.S. economy has been in a recovery since mid-2009.
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 27, 2013

Dodgers gone, but memories remain

The Dodgers MLB franchise sure has a way of breaking the hearts of towns that love them.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2013

Cyprus bailout's long-term impact uncertain

European leaders Monday hailed a last-minute bailout for Cyprus as an important step in defending their unified currency, but some officials and analysts questioned whether the deal raised new problems that could still threaten the survival of the euro.
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BUSINESS / JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS SYMPOSIUM
Mar 26, 2013

Myanmar seeks Japan FDI to aid agriculture, economic reforms

Myanmar needs Japanese investments as well as capacity-building support as the Southeast Asian nation faces the massive challenge of rapid economic reforms, leading figures in the country's business community said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2013

Japan, EU agree to open FTA talks in April

Prime Minister Abe and two European Union leaders agree in a teleconference to start official negotiations on a free-trade pact in April.
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Mar 25, 2013

The Japan Times, New York Times announce publishing agreement for Japan

TOKYO — The Japan Times and The New York Times Company today announce a publishing agreement that will see the International New York Times packaged with The Japan Times in the Japan market. The combined product, which will be distributed Monday through Saturday, will be known as The Japan Times /...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Mar 25, 2013

'Abenomists' beware: Rising prices just one pitfall of spiraling yen

The Bank of Japan on Wednesday installed a new governor and two deputy governors who — in line with the wishes of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — are advocates of ultra-easy monetary policy.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2013

Cyprus mess portends unsafe world for deposits

The controversy over a Cyprus bailout plan the past week raises fears that future financial crises in Europe will trigger bank runs by worried depositors.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2013

Divergence of policies in Europe, Italian style

Even if the eurozone's structure is modified to achieve the desired level of fiscal discipline, countries will continue to diverge in other important respects.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past