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COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 17, 2013

Cracks in Tepco's 3/11 narrative

Tepco will never accept the theory that the earthquake, not the tsunami, caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster because it would make it difficult to restart its other nuclear power plants.
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 17, 2013

Solar panel users must now pay fee in Arizona

Arizona has permitted its largest utility to charge a monthly fee to customers who install photovoltaic panels on their roofs, a move that may threaten the surging residential solar market.
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WORLD / Society
Nov 17, 2013

U.K.'s Roma 'excluded, ignored, neglected'

The headquarters of Britain's biggest Roma charity is a large building beside a major thoroughfare in east London, yet its official address is a P.O. box. The fear of reprisal against Britain's Roma community, even in London's most multicultural borough, remains real.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 16, 2013

Paths to pay dirt are many and varied

Even stupid people can make money,' Spa magazine declares, in a package of articles aimed at the generation that the long-deflated Japanese economy has failed.
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2013

The true bitterness of sugar

Our use of sugar implicates us in land grabs that violate the rights of some of the world's poorest communities. Better-informed and more ethical consumers could change this.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 15, 2013

Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho bump up profit goals

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. raised their full-year profit goals after the economic revival spurred lending and an equity rally boosted fees and the value of their shareholdings.
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WORLD
Nov 15, 2013

Last shipment is sent under U.S.-Russian uranium deal

Take a canister, fill it with down-blended uranium worth $2.5 million, secure it and 39 others to the deck of a container ship, send it off toward Baltimore, and you have nearly completed a deal that provided commercial uses in America for the remains of 20,000 dismantled Russian nuclear bombs.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2013

Latest allegation: Toronto mayor had prostitutes in his office

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who admits smoking crack cocaine, faced new allegations in police documents released Tuesday that he brought prostitutes to his office, guzzled vodka in his car and made a racial slur to a taxi driver.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Nov 14, 2013

Dig into 400 years of local history with a roast beef dinner

A peculiar culinary milestone took place last month: the 400th anniversary of the first English roast beef dinner served in Japan. You're forgiven for missing the fanfare; there wasn't any, save for a commemorative meal at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Nov 14, 2013

Save Earth from annihilation while exercising the brain

Feel like saving the world from a giant asteroid strike? Now's your chance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2013

Mizuho group raises profit forecast by 20%

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. raised its full-year profit forecast 20 percent as the stock market rally spurred fee income and the value of its share-holdings.
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JAPAN
Nov 14, 2013

WEF chief does more than talk the talk

As a child growing up in Germany during the war, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, witnessed the consequences of all-out conflict, and the stark contrast between war and peace.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Nov 14, 2013

Funding gap puts NBL on unequal footing in drive to attract fans

This fall, the National Basketball League proudly launched as Japan's new top hoop circuit. But it has also been ridiculed by naysayers as simply a rebranding of its predecessor — the Japan Basketball League — with its content practically the same.
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BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013

Mizuho has more loans to the mob

Mizuho Bank has outstanding loans to yakuza and other antisocial elements apart from car loans extended through its affiliate credit company, Orient Corp., President Yau00adsuu00adhiu00adro Sau00adto tells the Diet.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013

Rakuten unit sues over curbs on selling drugs over Internet

Kenko.com Inc., a unit of Internet retailer Rakuten Inc., said it has filed a lawsuit against the government to fight restrictions on the online sale of some drugs.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2013

Another thorn in Tokyo-Seoul ties

Tokyo and Seoul must try to find ways to prevent recent Korean court rulings ordering Japanese companies to compensate former Korean laborers from straining bilateral relations further.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 12, 2013

U.S. jazz singer Harvey Thompson finds a new home in Japan's clubs

If Harvey Thompson had been a better 10-pin bowler, jazz would have been the loser.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2013

Mazda SUV with automatic brakes crashes in lot test

A Mazda sport utility vehicle crashes when a prospective buyer is testing its automatic braking system on a dealer lot in Saitama Prefecture.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2013

Skymark eyes ways to finance A380 purchases

Skymark Airlines Inc., the only Japanese carrier to order Airbus SAS A380s, is considering several options to raise funds as the budget airline lacks cash to pay for the superjumbos.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 11, 2013

Take stock of this easy, nutritous dinner option

Grandmothers around the world have extolled the benefits of homemade stock in chicken soup. Stock made from real bones was an ancient cold remedy, and even modern studies have found benefits in chicken soup. If it is so healthful, why not use it to make an easy dinner tonight?
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WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2013

U.S. initiative spending booms past $1 billion over past 18 months

Corporations and some of the wealthiest Americans spent more than $1 billion over the past 18 months on ballot initiatives in just 11 states, according to campaign finance data, an explosion of money used to pass new laws and influence the public debate.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years