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ENVIRONMENT
Aug 30, 2013

Smokestack emissions could produce energy

If pollution had a mascot, it would be the smokestack. Do a Google image search for "pollution." What do you see? A bunch of smokestacks with ominous gray clouds billowing out the top.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 30, 2013

Black-white economic gap in U.S. is still as wide as ever

When President Barack Obama spoke at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he symbolized part of the complicated story of America's racial progress in the past half a century. Can there be more convincing testimony to the breathtaking advancement of African-Americans...
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 30, 2013

Google exec leaves to join Chinese firm

There has been a little shake-up in the smartphone industry this week, with the announced departure of Hugo Barra, one of the team leaders for Google's Android mobile operating system.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 29, 2013

Government must take over Fukushima nuclear cleanup

It is literally a matter of national security that the decommissiong of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant be taken over by the government with the assistance of an international task force of experts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 29, 2013

Japan's love affair with Chekhov

"I have rarely seen a great production of any Chekhov play in Japan. Sometimes, I've even wanted to ask how they managed to make them so tedious."
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2013

Fukushima spill snags reactor restart quest

The Fukushima No. 1 power plant's continued pollution of the Pacific is fueling growing domestic and international concern about radiation hazards, clouding plans by utilities and the government to quickly restart a dozen reactors.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2013

Forum stresses career benefits of study abroad

Japanese students should buck the stay-at-home trend and instead study overseas to gain skills to survive in an ever more globalized and competitive world, experts and former international students said at a recent forum on overseas study in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 28, 2013

Belarus arrest of potash tycoon angers top ally Russia

As Belarus television showed the Russian head of OAO Uralkali, the world's biggest potash producer, being led around the courtyard of an undisclosed prison, Anatoly Lebedko knew exactly where it was: Amerikanka.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices
Aug 26, 2013

Tokyo: How much TV do you watch each week, and what do you watch?

Tomomi MizoguchiBar staff, 38 (Japanese)I watch around 20 hours of TV each week, which may be high, because I like to watch TV dramas such as "Kodoku no Gurume," broadcast on Wednesdays, which is about a salaryman looking for good restaurants to eat in. I like shows in which I see people eating a lot....
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JAPAN
Aug 26, 2013

Outside help offered to deal with Tepco debacle

Russia repeated an offer first made two years ago to help Japan clean up its radiation-ravaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear station, welcoming Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s decision to seek outside help.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 24, 2013

Two's company on laid-back Zamami

Being naturally averse to traffic jams, long lines at airports, overcrowded trains and cranked-up hotel rates, I've never been one for traveling far on a national holiday in Japan, especially during Golden Week in May when a few of them cluster together.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2013

Sharp holds off on share sale to mull its outlook

Sharp Corp. may delay a plan to raise about ¥100 billion through public and private share sales amid concern about its growth outlook, two sources said.
EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2013

Deadline for Fukushima victims

Victims of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster could lose their right to claim compensation by March unless the Diet extends a three-year statute of limitations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2013

Allies wage behind-the-scenes effort in Fed job push

Lawrence Summers, one of the top candidates to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, was being beaten up, and his friends from his White House years wanted to help him.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2013

Toyota's Lexus to open luxury shops

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus unit plans to open luxury stores offering consumers goods including coffee cups glazed with volcanic ash and Italian leather bags to help boost the premium marque's brand image worldwide.
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2013

Minimum wage uptick

labor ministry advisory council recommends a 2 percent uptick in the minimum hourly wage to ¥763. But consumer price increases could offset the wage rise.
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Aug 20, 2013

Chain stores suffer part-timers' stupidity on the Web

Over the last month or so, the hottest topic on the Japanese Web scene has been inconsiderate and shocking behavior by convenience- and food chain-stores employees who messed about with appliances and food, and then boasted with photos on social media, mainly on Twitter. While the initial so-called enjō...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2013

Love your job? Then thank the country where you live

It is assumed that people in economically 'advanced' countries do not differ significantly in job satisfaction scores. Yet, there are striking differences within the West.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2013

Tepco yet to track groundwater paths

Tepco's radioactive water problems at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant seem uncontainable, ranging from leaking tanks to highly radioactive groundwater flowing to the sea.

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