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JAPAN
Mar 28, 2010

Bangladeshi envoy heads home

Bangladeshi Ambassador to Japan Ashraf-ud-Doula leaves for home Sunday feeling satisfied with the commencement of "tangible and substantial" bilateral trade and investment relations.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Mar 28, 2010

Oita's Sato was inspired by Jordan

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. The league's fifth season began in October. Kimitake Sato of the Oita HeatDevils is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 28, 2010

Study of Noh continues in West

Dec. 10, 1939
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2010

Child-allowance bill clears Diet

The bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children cleared the Upper House on Friday, enabling the ruling Democratic Party of Japan to deliver on a key promise made in last year's election campaign.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 27, 2010

Henry conflicted as match with Arsenal looms

LONDON — Jack Charlton, the former England World Cup winner and Republic of Ireland manager, always maintained that "in football, money buys your loyalty."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 26, 2010

Get your gold-plated invite to designer discounts

While top-end brands are losing out on the high street, exclusive online shopping communities might be their ticket out of tough times.
BUSINESS / U.K. JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Mar 26, 2010

Japan seems to have done less than the West to revive economy

Japan does not appear to have explored all policy options available to revive its economy, Anatole Kaletsky, editor-at-large of The Times of London, said as he compared Britain's response to the latest financial crisis and what Japan did after the collapse of its bubble boom in the 1990s.
BASKETBALL
Mar 26, 2010

89ers outlast Apache to win thrilling game

March Madness is a staple of American popular culture, one of sports' true treasures.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 26, 2010

Art fair to host 138 galleries

Tokyo's commercial art galleries tend to come in one of two types: hole-in-the-wall or out-of-the-way. So any attempt to visit several in a day can resemble a form of urban orienteering. Unless, that is, you plan your excursion for April 2-4 and set your sights for Tokyo International Forum, which is...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 26, 2010

Japanese bands go big in Texas at SXSW festival

AUSTIN, Texas — 'We want to conquer the world," says Okamoto's vocalist Shou Okamoto after their well-received gig at the 24th annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 26, 2010

Back to those gold soundz

Last fall, when the American rock band Pavement announced it would reunite for a series of concerts in New York's Central Park one year hence, nobody seemed surprised. Though the group stopped touring and recording 10 years ago, it never officially called it quits. The feeling was that Stephen Malkmus,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2010

Chronicling a collection

Last fall, Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) quietly launched a series of exhibitions seeking new interpretive approaches to the institution's permanent collection of modern and contemporary art. Tucked away in a modest group of second-floor galleries, the first exhibition in the series, "Chronicle...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 26, 2010

Delphic

famous Tony Wilson inspired Hacienda, Delphic are the latest off the conveyor belt of Manchester groups.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 26, 2010

Soudant returns to Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Drawing upon the energy and enthusiasm of British guest conductor Rumon Gamba, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) thrilled the Suntory Hall audience during their last concert there: Before intermission, four beautifully harmonized French horns featured on Robert Schumann's Konzertstuck; after, the orchestra...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 26, 2010

Theater group does drama for scientists

Kicking off the 2010-11 season at the Komaba Agora Theater in Tokyo's central Meguro Ward, a student troupe from the University of Hull in northeast England will present "Kagaku Suru Kokoro," an early masterpiece by leading Japanese contemporary playwright Oriza Hirata, in its English-language translation,...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 23, 2010

Greater peacekeeping role OK, not truce enforcement

Japan has often been criticized by the international community for resorting to "checkbook diplomacy" instead of committing uniformed personnel to danger zones as part of U.N. peacekeeping operations, but the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has signaled it wants that to change.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Mar 23, 2010

Degrading treatment at Narita immigration

"Detainees allege abuse at Kansai holding center" (Zeit Gist, March 9) by David McNeill:
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2010

Populous China heads toward labor shortage

C hina can't expect to sustain double-digit growth in the next decade because the abundant labor that supported its high-flying growth will not exist much longer, an expert on the Chinese economy said at a recent seminar.
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2010

Trouble in the workers' paradise

The reported execution of a ranking North Korean economic official is a reminder of the high personal price that can be paid for policy failures in that country. The official may be a scapegoat, but the sentence is a sign of the Pyongyang leadership's concern about the toll that a botched currency reform...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2010

Seventh-inning rally sparks Lions in PL opener

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The Saitama Seibu Lions failed to accomplish their goal of scoring early during the first game of the season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2010

Lions DH Brown still gets thrills on Opening Day

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — As far as debuts go, it doesn't get much better than this.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 21, 2010

Joho's passion gives Lakestars a real boost

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 20, 2010

Lions looking to roar at plate in '10

The Seibu Lions are getting back to the basics.
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2010

Fired Prada manager files suit

Former Prada Japan manager Rina Bovrisse filed suit Friday with the Tokyo District Court, seeking compensation for emotional distress from alleged harassment, she and her lawyers said.
EDITORIALS
Mar 19, 2010

Growing disarray in the LDP

With the approval rating of the Hatoyama administration having fallen below 40 percent, now is a good time for the opposition Liberal Democratic Party to launch into action and try to win back lost ground. But the party has so far failed to grab its chance. Its support rate has not rebounded significantly,...
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Voters in Tokyo reflect shifting political views across Japan
Pedestrians walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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