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BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2009

Toyota to halt NUMMI in March

Toyota is pulling out of a California factory joint venture it had previously run with General Motors — the first time the Japanese automaker is closing a major auto assembly plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2009

Brazilian delegation studies Japan's cremation technology

In a country where most people are Roman Catholic, Brazilians have traditionally buried their loved ones in the ground under the doctrine of resurrection of the body.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 28, 2009

Ramirez sets record in reaching milestone

Earlier this year reigning Central League MVP Alex Ramirez insisted the best he had to offer in 2009 was still yet to come.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ELECTION 2009
Aug 28, 2009

Reduced pork would pit DPJ against builders

The opposition vows to slash public works spending if it wins the election. Keeping that promise may be tough in a nation where construction is the No. 5 employer and a political fundraiser.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2009

Time to reject tyranny and health insecurity

NEW YORK — Since 2001, under the guise of "reforms," the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has adopted Bush's undemocratic dogma of market fundamentalism — dysfunctional deregulation, privatization and corporate money games. Such dogma destroyed America's financial systems, social safety net and manufacturing,...
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2009

Taxi operator, U.S. developer to test switchable batteries

Better Place, a U.S. developer of electric vehicle infrastructure, said Wednesday it will partner with Tokyo taxi operator Nihon Kotsu on a pilot project for cabs using switchable batteries next January.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2009

Skymark mulls Okinawa-Taiwan service starting in 2010: chief

Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan's largest discount carrier, may start its first regular overseas flights in the first half of next year as the company seeks to broaden its customer base.
COMMENTARY
Aug 26, 2009

Drawing key lessons from the failure of Obamacare

"What worries me: time and time again," writes Brendan Skwire in the Philadelphia Weekly about the circuses that are currently passing for Democrats' town hall meetings on health care, "[is that] the needs of the stupid and disingenuous are not only treated as valid concerns, but as the greatest concerns."...
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Aug 25, 2009

Socializing on the volleyball court in Roppongi

Roppongi on Saturday morning tends to be quiet and empty, and pretty much all you see moving there apart from cars and trucks are a few sleep-deprived, hung-over remnants of the Friday night party crowd hobbling toward the station.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 23, 2009

Rich material found in penury

It is 1995, that defining year of the Kobe earthquake, the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, the year a man in Osaka confesses to dismembering the bodies of three women at his home in Osaka; the year a Buddhist priest is arrested for raping over 100 women. The times are out of joint, and the author...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 21, 2009

Haitian musicians set to tour

Passionate Caribbean sounds are sure to excite those who choose to attend "Haiti Passion and Music: All Stars from a Musical Paradise," a series of concerts that are to be held in major cities across Japan until Sept. 8.
BASKETBALL
Aug 21, 2009

Miyazaki, Shimane to join bj-league

The fast-growing, upstart bj-league will feature 16 teams for the 2010-11 season, the league announced on Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 21, 2009

'MAM Project 009: Koizumi Meiro'

Mori Art Museum
BUSINESS
Aug 19, 2009

Shutdown hurts Chubu Electric

Chubu Electric Power Co., which halted its two functioning nuclear reactors after an earthquake last week, said the closure is costing ¥400 million a day.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Idol-pop project redefines kawaii for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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