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BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2008

Record output fall raises alarms

The recession deepened in November as companies cut production at the fastest pace in 55 years and rising unemployment prompted households to pare spending.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2008

Fuji Heavy widens output cut plan

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., maker of Subaru cars, said it will expand domestic production cuts in February and March as the global economic downturn cools auto demand.
JAPAN / Q&A
Dec 25, 2008

Temps a threatened species as job cuts bite

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JAPAN
Dec 25, 2008

Isuzu grants a Christmas gift to 550 temps due for layoff

Major truck manufacturer Isuzu Motors Ltd. announced Wednesday it won't cancel the contracts for about 550 seasonal workers after all.
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2008

Cabinet OKs monster '09 budget

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ¥88.55 trillion budget for fiscal 2009 that puts priority on sustaining the economy, but Japan's biggest spending plan in history drew tepid reactions from several economists.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2008

Scenic cliffs drawing suicidal idled part-timers

An increasing number of part-time workers thrown out of their jobs because of the recession and with nowhere else to go are heading to Tojinbo, a popular sightseeing destination — and suicide spot — in Fukui Prefecture, according to a local nonprofit organization.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 7, 2008

Tadao Ando: Icon and iconoclast

One of the first houses built by Japan's most famous architect, Tadao Ando, is centered around an open atrium. That sounds nice until you realize that the atrium forms the only "corridor" between each of the rooms. Fancy a hot cup of tea before bed on a rainy winter's night? You'll need an umbrella and...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2008

Letting the Big Three fail risks a meltdown

WASHINGTON — The financial crisis that began in 2007 has been persistently marked by muddled thinking and haphazard policymaking. Now, the U.S. Treasury is headed for a mistake of historic and catastrophic proportions by refusing to bail out America's Big Three automakers.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2008

Sticky details of Obama's clean-energy plan

SINGAPORE — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is coming to power on a torrent of promises and high expectations. Yet as recession bites deeper into the world's biggest economy, investment slumps, jobs are lost, tax revenues fall, and the U.S. budget deficit grows ever larger. It is expected to more...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 14, 2008

Japanese women in the wine world

"A man's approach to drinking is totally different from a woman's: Men think about color, what grapes were used, compare the taste and consider its place of origin. Women think about what kind of food a wine will go well with, where we might like to drink it, the kind of company it'd be good to drink...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 14, 2008

'Happy Flight'

Films that purport to go behind the scenes of an industry or institution — with the enthusiastic support of the folks they are supposedly unmasking — are almost by definition PR exercises if not outright recruiting tools.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ASEAN JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Nov 13, 2008

Japan's help sought to protect environment from development

Rapid growth and urbanization have caused serious environmental and energy problems in some Southeast Asian economies, and expectations are high for Japan to provide models and technologies to support sustainable development at affordable costs, the journalists told the Oct. 30 symposium.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2008

Consumer sentiment falls to record low as economy worsens

Consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in at least 26 years, making it unlikely shoppers will spend to support an economy weakened by slower global demand and falling stock prices, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday.
Reader Mail
Nov 2, 2008

China can afford to cool down

Regarding the Oct. 27 editorial, "China feels the pinch": Massive numbers of people have moved from the countryside to China's cities in the past 30 years because jobs were available there. If the economy slows down and jobs dry up, fewer people will move. Chinese authorities would to like to see a growth...
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Unemployment rate falls as fewer go look for work

The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell from a two-year high and job vacancies tumbled to a four-year low as job seekers stopped looking for work amid an economic slowdown.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2008

Sony Ericsson Mobile reports quarterly loss

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd., the mobile phone venture of Sony Corp. and Ericsson AB, reported its first quarterly loss in five years on costs to cut jobs and a loss of market share to rivals, including Apple Inc.
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2008

Farewell to Thabo Mbeki

It was widely believed of South Africa's outgoing president, Thabo Mbeki, that the only time when he wasn't plotting was when he was asleep. More than his bizarre views on AIDS or even his failure to do much for South Africa's poor, it was that reputation as an inveterate plotter that finally brought...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 27, 2008

Ties that bond though cultures apart

With a wry but happy smile, Jennifer Rose DiLaura recalls the day she and her husband first met their daughter, adopted from China.
COMMENTARY
Sep 25, 2008

Will bankers ever learn?

PARIS — For a week it looked as though banking was not "as safe as houses" (a phrase that has seemed singularly inappropriate recently), but instead would turn into a "house of cards" that might be blown down with a puff of wind.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2008

Asia needs to put lid on inflation, ADB warns

Asia's economies are under threat of inflation stemming from high fuel and food costs, and containing it is an immediate challenge for the region if sustainable growth is to be maintained, an Asian Development Bank executive said earlier this month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 9, 2008

Tackling the 'Zainichi' experience

Sitting across from best-selling New York author Min Jin Lee in a Tokyo expat cafe, I can't help thinking that the heroine of her debut novel "Free Food For Millionaires" is the one sipping ice tea and talking sex. Like Lee, protagonist Casey Han is unusually tall, refined in speech, and deeply interested...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2008

WHO's sick manifesto for global recession

LONDON — The World Health Organization claimed this week that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale." Its major report on the "Social Determinants of Health" concludes that social and economic inequality is a major global cause of disease and that only massive government intervention...
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2008

Reining in abuse of temps

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has started discussions that will eventually lead to stronger controls over the dispatch and use of temporary workers. The move will reverse the direction of the nation's basic labor policy. Labor market liberalization has progressed since the law on dispatched...
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Kyoto University researchers find mechanism behind malignant pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in Japan, has the lowest five-year survival rate of any cancer at just 8.5%.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs as deal's details trickle out
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at an event in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday afternoon.
Japan's average life expectancy in 2024 almost unchanged from 2023, data shows
The average life expectancy of Japanese citizens in 2024 is 81.09 years for men and 87.13 years for women, according to the health ministry.
Behind the scenes: Inside Fuji Rock’s strategy for staying on top
In recent years, Fuji Rock has had fewer blockbuster performers and showcased more top-selling Japanese acts and international musicians' first-time performances in Japan.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Hall of Fame always held deeper meaning for Ichiro
Ichiro presents then-Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson with the bat he used to break the single-season hits record in 2004.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.

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