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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 9, 2013

Scott Brimmer: 'I love to do the glam rock karaoke'

I was told the squat toilets in Japan were foot washing rooms I had to use before using the toilet. But I was able to see through that after a couple times.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2013

China should pave the way for its own Steve Jobs

As Communist Party leaders begin a four-day retreat to decide where to take China's economy, they would be wise to think about Steve Jobs. Their country's economic well-being may be at risk if they don't.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2013

Robot surgery gripes double

The number of adverse incident reports involving Intuitive Surgical Inc.'s robots has more than doubled this year, according to U.S. regulators, who just released a physician survey showing no consistent training exists for the machines, which are also used in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2013

Opponents derail Obama’s dream of high-speed trains, and jobs

The gleaming red-and-white trains sit motionless in a cavernous warehouse in Century City, an industrial neighborhood that cranked out 100 million car and truck frames in its heyday. The seats are draped in plastic; an electronic screen on one reads, "Quiet Car. 11:10 a.m. 000 MPH."
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 8, 2013

Top aficionado plans contest to test the best spinners

Yoshihito Fujita, the man managing the Japan Spinning Top Museum from his own home in Nagoya, has standardized the names of different spinning styles, which vary depending on region, and has also established a ranking system.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2013

Good, bad and ugly hacking

The trial of eight journalists and others accused of hacking private phones has begun in London. It is likely to last some six months and cost millions of pounds in fees to lawyers.
Japan Times
PRESS / Services
Nov 7, 2013

The Japan Times プロデュース『朝英語の会』活動開始

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Reader Mail
Nov 6, 2013

The deadly side of job hunting

Regarding Tomoko Otake's Oct. 18 article, "Job hunt stressing students, making them suicidal (poll)": Is that true? It is beyond tragic that an estimated 149 young people in their early 20s took their own lives because of job-hunting frustrations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 6, 2013

MMC to boost minicars with new alliance

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko said Wednesday the automaker will develop new minivehicles, including an electric version, for the global market through its newly announced collaboration with the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 6, 2013

Northeast Asia LNG prices hit 10-month high before winter sets in: WGI

Liquefied natural gas prices for Northeast Asia rose this week to their highest level in 10 months as buyers sought more supplies before colder weather arrives, according to Energy Intelligence Group.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2013

Tokyo and Seoul's dangerous stalemate

Japan-South Korea relations have sunk so low because of wartime history issues that the U.S. might no longer be given a free pass to use its bases in Japan to support South Korea in a war.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 5, 2013

Outsider drawn to the circle of life

The discovery and promotion of works by self-taught or outsider artists — those who are not academically trained and create their works primarily for themselves, mostly beyond the cultural-commercial mainstream — are still relatively new activities in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2013

Washington isn't working, so why not move it?

Dispersing the headquarters of Washington's bureaucratic agencies throughout America's hinterland might well reduce people's feelings of alienation and hence lead to better government.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2013

Abe copies China's playbook on protecting state secrets

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is so obsessed with China eclipsing Japan on the global stage that he's adopting some of his neighbor's policies with regard to the protection of 'secrets.
MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Nov 5, 2013

Saints looking like they have the pep back in their step

After the New Orleans Saints had thumped Buffalo last week to run their record to 6-1, quarterback Drew Brees rolled about the Saints' Superdome locker room employing a confident-bordering-on-cocky bop and dip in his step.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 4, 2013

Hot Mommas Project promotes life balance

As the guests filed into Kathy Korman Frey's home in the District of Columbia on Saturday afternoon for the first Hot Mommas Project "Super Bowl of Mentors" global watch party, she handed each a blue notecard and asked them to rate — on a scale of 1 to 10 — how confident they were feeling.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2013

Yachi tapped to head new security council

Foreign policy adviser Shotaro Yachi has been asked to head up Japan's version of the U.S. National Security Council if the Diet backs its launch, government officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2013

Can America's military learn from its mistakes?

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army soberly examined where it had fallen short. No such intensive reviews appear to be under way today after a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2013

Former Nagano pension exec found on lam in Bangkok

A former senior executive of a Japanese pension fund admitted Saturday to embezzlement in a scandal in which billions of yen in company pension money was lost.
Reader Mail
Nov 2, 2013

Perma-deficit, underclass in Japan's future

When I came to Japan 35 years ago, this country seemed the most equitable and egalitarian place in the world. Unemployment was negligible, illiteracy was zero, everybody was entitled to health insurance, the gap between the rich and poor was not so big, and most people believed they were happy with their...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 1, 2013

Seven Unlucky Gods sowing misery across Japan

I have a theory about the conspicuous absence of the Seven Lucky Gods: They each have an evil twin.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2013

Next euro country in need of reform is Germany

The next German government — probably a grand coalition — will need to concentrate on basic issues affecting the next generation, including whether to establish a minimum wage.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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