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BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Jan 30, 2013

An ailing iconic tech giant: Does Apple have an innovation problem?

Analysts blamed flat profits for the steep slide in Apple's stock price last week. But what's ailing the iconic tech company is not a profitability problem. It's an innovation problem. And, perhaps, an expectations problem.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jan 29, 2013

Today's J-blip: Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl

Is the Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl the perfect place-setting for Japan's 'party of one' diners?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jan 28, 2013

Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims

Japan has a new hara. No, the nice couple down the hall didn't just have a baby; according to recent news, yet another form of harassment is supposedly becoming a social problem.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 28, 2013

Who'll govern the governor?

A high-ranking bureaucrat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government had this to say about new Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose: "Although he served as vice governor, it is not known whether he has the necessary political finesse. I wonder if he is capable of moving metropolitan politics forward."
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jan 27, 2013

Evessa give Cartwright winning debut

Call it a successful start.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 27, 2013

Farewell games in Japan usually teary affairs

There was a news item saying the New York Yankees were considering signing Hideki Matsui to a one-day contract so he can officially retire as a major leaguer with that club. The Jan. 10 Kyodo report quoted Yankees team co-owner Hal Steinbrenner as saying the team might also invite Matsui "to throw out...
Reader Mail
Jan 26, 2013

How does coach avoid arrest?

Since I first heard of the physical abuse perpetrated against students by a basketball coach at Osaka's Sakuranomiya Senior High School, I've been waiting fruitlessly to hear of the coach's arrest on assault charges. I cannot for the life of me understand why this man is not being prosecuted.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 26, 2013

How Kan-do attitude averted the meltdown of Japan

Covering the catastrophic series of events that began with the magnitude 9 earthquake and the tsunami it triggered on March 11, 2011, 'Tu014dden Fukushima Genpatsu Jiko Su014dri Toshite Kangaeta Koto' is one of the most revealing and insightful books published in Japan in the past decade.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jan 25, 2013

Cartwright confident he can turn lowly Osaka around

Former NBA center Bill Cartwright looks forward to his first weekend as the Osaka Evessa head coach, leading the team in action against the visiting Miyazaki Shining Suns.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2013

Naming slain captives raises privacy issues

The victims' right to privacy was pitted against the public's right to know as the media pressed for the names of the Algerian hostage crisis victims to be disclosed while the government and JGC Corp. remained tight-lipped, but Tokyo finally caved Friday, revealing the identities of the firm's 10 slain...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 25, 2013

I still haven't found what I'm looking for ...

Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory habit of every so often typing the words "what is" or "what" or "wha" into the Google search box at the top right of my computer screen. Those prompts are all the omnipotent engine needs to inform me of the current...
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 24, 2013

India rape panel calls for drastic reforms

The judicial panel set up in the wake of national protests following the gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi submitted its report Wednesday, castigating politicians, police and the army for failing to protect women and children and calling for far-reaching changes in the way India is governed....
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2013

Smokers who quit by about age 40 can stave off early death, study finds

Smokers who quit by around age 40 can stave off an early death, according to a landmark study that fills key gaps in our knowledge of smoking-related health ills.
EDITORIALS
Jan 24, 2013

Discovered while still alive

Natsuko Kuroda, 75, the oldest person yet to win the literary Akutagawa Prize, expressed appreciation that jurors discovered her 'while I am alive.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jan 24, 2013

'Fasting guys' not interested in women — at all

Remember the herbivore men? Japan's 'fasting men' make them look ambitious.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 23, 2013

Pentagon probe clears Allen of misconduct

The Pentagon's inspector general has cleared the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan of wrongdoing following an investigation into whether he exchanged inappropriate emails with the same Tampa, Florida, socialite involved in the scandal that prompted David Petraeus to resign as CIA director, senior U.S....
Reader Mail
Jan 23, 2013

Many Japanese left town, too

Although I disagree with the tone of Shigure Tatsushige's Jan. 20 letter, "Deport the solo 'flyjin' of 3/11," I can understand his sentiment, except that I think he's forgetting one very important fact: Many Japanese also fled after 3/11 — if not to other countries then elsewhere in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 23, 2013

Humble origins of great architectural photography

The last couple of shows at the Shiodome Museum have been colorful and varied affairs, but the latest exhibition, showcasing Yukio Futagawa's photos of traditional Japanese houses taken in 1955, strikes a very different note. There is an absence of color and accompanying objects, and in its place a sense...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 23, 2013

Soldier's death mask 'unacceptable'

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BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 23, 2013

BOJ agrees to uphold Abe's 2% inflation target

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday adopted a 2 percent inflation target, caving in to pressure from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, while calling for closer coordination and implementation of bold measures to fight deflation in a joint statement released with the government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 22, 2013

Sisters are DIYing it for themselves

When you have a pink hammer, everything looks like a nail.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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