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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Apr 19, 2013

There's more to British food in Japan than fish and chips

Authentic British food is hard to come by in Japan, and the food at the theme-pub chains isn't often great. However, there are a handful of expat-run places that get it right — and should hit the spot for homesick Brits.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2013

'Sayonara Speed Tribes': Documentary chronicles disappearing world of bosozoku

Once a symbol of a burgeoning postwar counterculture, the bōsōzoku are fading. Gone are the days when gangs of bikers would zoom through neighborhoods with daredevil temerity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 18, 2013

Bombs are simple in design, hard to trace

The bombs that tore through a crowd of spectators at the Boston Marathon could have cost as little as $100 to build and were made of the most ordinary ingredients — so ordinary, in fact, that investigators could face a gargantuan challenge in attempting to use bomb forensics to find the culprit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 18, 2013

Nissan weighs North American Infiniti output boost

Nissan Motor Co.'s Infiniti, seeking a bigger share of global luxury vehicle sales, is considering adding a second production site in North America to produce models for the brand locally.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2013

A welcome nudge for doctors to wash their hands

Hand hygiene is the No. 1 contributor — and the most fixable — to the almost 2 million hospital-acquired infections each year that kill 100,000 people in the U.S.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2013

Tokyo bookstore boasts roof apiary

Major construction firm Kajima Corp. has started beekeeping in Tokyo jointly with bookstore chain Yaesu Book Center in a project to help raise awareness of environmental protection.
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Apr 17, 2013

Shows on the road: mobile, on-demand TV a hit in Japan

There must be very few homes in the developed world that don't have a television, and Japan is no exception. Even in the Internet era, as terrestrial TV is slowly being replaced by networked TVs, cable channels and computers, regular TV broadcasting still makes up for much of many people's leisure time....
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2013

Lose your house, collect $300

The U.S. government's settlement of the foreclosure scandal shows how things work in America: The criminals get the big payoffs and the people whose lives they destroyed get $300.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2013

Demand fall hits Bridgestone rubber

Bridgestone Corp., the biggest tire maker, may use 2.6 percent less rubber in the year though December than projected in February as demand in the U.S. will be slower than forecast, said a Nomura Holdings Inc. analyst. Rubber futures and Bridgestone shares fell.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 15, 2013

South Korea bolsters security of nuclear plant network

The state-run operator of South Korea's nuclear power plants has separated its internal computer network from the Internet in an effort to guard against possible North Korean cyber attacks, Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday.
Reader Mail
Apr 14, 2013

Taking back students' lost years

As an associate professor at a national university, I completely agree with The Japan Times April 8 editorial "Delay recruitment even longer." The current regimen robs students of critical time for education, experience and maturity.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 13, 2013

Fast Retailing raises annual profit forecast as yen weakens

Fast Retailing Co. has raised its forecast for annual profit as the seller of Uniqlo-branded apparel benefits from a weakening yen.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 13, 2013

Final Somali pirate slapped with 11-year term

The Tokyo District Court on Friday convicted a Somali national and sentenced him to 11 years imprisonment for attempting to hijack a Japan-operated oil tanker off the coast of Oman in March 2011.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EMBASSY AVENUE
Apr 13, 2013

Mexican president bestows top honors

On April 10 in Tokyo during his official working visit to Japan, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle to three Japanese figures: former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata; Hirofumi Nakasone, chairman of the Japan-Mexico Parliamentarians' Friendship...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2013

Ford, Toyota both claim to have top-selling car

For the second time in seven months, Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co. both claim to produce the world's top-selling car. The clash shows how counting in the global automotive industry is complicated.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 12, 2013

'Japan's kitchen' to throw a party

Known as "Japan's kitchen," Osaka takes pride in its culinary tradition. However, foodies in Kansai will soon be able to taste foods from further afield.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 12, 2013

A revived Japan must adjust its ASEAN business sights

If resurgent Japanese companies return to Asia looking for the strongmen, cheap land and low-wage labor of old, their expectations will be frustrated.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 11, 2013

Welsh approach to 'national' theater is efficiently different

Always keen to break new ground, Keiko Miyata, artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT), has created a series titled "With: linking theater" as the centerpiece of this season's program. In this, she has lined up three appetizing collaborations by asking playwrights from Wales, South...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 11, 2013

Election campaigning takes to Net

Japan is finally dropping restrictions on the use of the Internet as an election campaign tool in a first step toward sweeping changes to the outdated Public Offices Election law before the Upper House poll slated for July.
Reader Mail
Apr 11, 2013

Aversion to blue-collar work

Regarding The Washington Post feature article that ran in The Japan Times April 8 under the headline "India students' aspirations, job market don't match": The writer has perhaps made a sincere attempt at bringing up a serious problem. But how novel is this problem? Many graduates are known to have gone...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2013

The Iron Lady's lasting legacy

Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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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