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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2014

DLE, Toho to use theater screens as testing ground for new characters

DLE and the movie theater unit of Toho, the creator of 'Godzilla,' announced plans Wednesday to use the slot between trailers and the feature as a content incubator starting next month, pitting new characters in a popularity contest and sharing the intellectual property rights.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2014

Third Point sells Sony, takes new stakes in eBay, Alibaba

Third Point LLC, the hedge fund firm run by Daniel Loeb, sold its investment in Sony Corp. and bought stakes in eBay Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in the third quarter.
EDITORIALS
Oct 21, 2014

New power industry alliances

The comprehensive alliance struck between Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. in their thermal power generation business raises expectations of a further shakeup in the power industry ahead of the full liberalization of the retail sale of electricity in 2016.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2014

New ministers pledge no interruption to nuclear policy, female empowerment

On his first day in his new job, industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa said Tuesday he will soon be ready to visit communities near nuclear power plants, apparently pledging to maintain the momentum for reactor restarts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 15, 2014

Japan Robot Week offers new approaches to nursing care

Japan Robot Week kicked off Wednesday with a major Tokyo exhibition showcasing new technologies for everything from communications and remote video monitoring to disaster response.
COMMENTARY / World / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 11, 2014

China's new strongman Xi has a dream

President Xi Jinping is China's most authoritarian leader since Deng Xiaoping, a strongman who has moved aggressively to assert and consolidate power while promoting a cult of personality.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 7, 2014

Dorian Concept to try new live set at RBMA

Each year, thousands of budding musicians and producers vie for a place in the Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA), a globe-trotting workshop sponsored by a company better known for peddling buzz-inducing energy drinks. Over the years, the event has helped nudge a variety of artists toward wider success —...
WORLD / Society
Oct 7, 2014

New apps help users unplug from smartphones

Smartphone users feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of communications and devices vying for their time can turn to new apps to help them take a break and concentrate on other things.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2014

What's with the Alibaba IPO?

The 38 percent price gain in the shares of Chinese Internet conglomerate Alibaba at its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange last month was a vote of confidence not only in the company but also in China.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2014

Leak may sideline New Mexico nuclear waste site for five years

It may be five years before a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico closed by a radiation leak is fully operational again, and the facility will need at least $240 million to pay for the initial recovery, a U.S. Energy Department official said on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / TRAVEL INSIDER
Sep 30, 2014

Connecting in style; Cathay charity work; new flights to Indonesia

Connecting in style
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Sep 26, 2014

New markets may save Japan's manga exports

The North American manga business took a beating last decade. After peaking around 2005-06, the lethal storm of oversaturated shelves, a collapsing U.S. financial industry and the bankruptcy of major American bookstore chain, Borders, left publishers and distributors in a panic. Downsizing, restructuring...
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2014

New right-wing Sunrise Party aims to 'rebuild Japan's pride'

Conservatives were promised right-wing policies, an army, a new Constitution and the confiscation of voting rights from non-ethnic Japanese people on Thursday as two prominent rightists launched a new political party.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 22, 2014

Kaikoura and Taiji: a tale of two whaling towns

The success of a New Zealand whale-watching eco-tourist destination could hold lessons for the ailing Wakayama port tarred by association with the 'Cove' dolphin hunt.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 18, 2014

Jaguar XKE stolen in New York in 1968 is recovered en route to Netherlands

U.S. authorities have recovered a Jaguar XKE stolen 46 years ago outside a New York City apartment after finding it on a ship to the Netherlands and tracking down the 82-year-old original owner of the British luxury car, officials said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 17, 2014

Ex-NYC graffitist scratches the surface in Osaka and declares it 'dope'

Father of three Roler Miles, who grew up defacing walls and subways in New York, now runs a thriving spray-paint business, teaches Japanese students art and leads a team of artists at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2014

Wildlife activists say new U.S. lynx protections fall short

The federal government will extend protections to all imperiled Canada lynx in the lower 48 U.S. states, but wildlife advocates said on Thursday it was ignoring important parts of the rare cats' range and they vowed to challenge the move in court.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2014

New Mexico city plans to auction excavated vintage 'E.T.' video games, the worst ever

A city in New Mexico where 1,300 unwanted vintage video games were discovered buried in a landfill has voted to auction off more than half of the cartridges in the run-up to Christmas.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 10, 2014

Parties bury the hatchet, agree on new name ahead of merger

Overcoming heated arguments, two young opposition parties planning to merge later this month finally agreed Wednesday to name their new entity Ishin no To.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2014

Old school is new again at India's Nalanda

Many years of work by Amartya Sen and an international team of academics has culminated in the reopening, after eight centuries, of Nalanda University — funded mainly by the governments of India, Japan and China — to its first batch of graduate students in two disciplines.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 7, 2014

Ishin, Yui agree on new party title, offices

Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and Yui no To (Unity Party) agree to keep the word 'Ishin' in the name of their new party, which is scheduled to be launched on Sept. 21.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 6, 2014

Despite possibility of fallout, new minister says she will visit Yasukuni

Sanae Takaichi, the new internal affairs minister, said Friday she intends to visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine although she did not address concern that her new position is likely to exacerbate neighboring countries' anger over what they see as a symbol of militarism.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2014

New METI chief Obuchi rules out new nuclear power plants

Newly appointed trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi on Thursday ruled out the construction of new nuclear power plants anytime soon.
EDITORIALS
Sep 4, 2014

Keep a close eye on new Cabinet

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reshuffled executive posts of the Liberal Democratic Party and his Cabinet apparently with the aim of setting up his re-election as the Liberal Democratic Party's president in autumn 2015.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 4, 2014

New map shows Milky Way lives in Laniakea galaxy complex

The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for "immeasurable heaven."

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