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COMMENTARY
Dec 25, 2009

Ever-widening pay gaps

LONDON — According to recent reports, chief executives of top British companies are now paid 81 times more than the average British worker. The pay gap has nearly doubled in the past decade. There is no justification for this trend.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 24, 2009

Handy music, Eiffel Tower Jr., analog emoticons and peaceful weaponry

Music of the spheres
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 24, 2009

Handy music, Eiffel Tower Jr., analog emoticons and peaceful weaponry

Music of the spheres
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2009

Using financial aid to curb suicides

KURIHARA, Miyagi Pref. — Four years ago, suicides in this city in the Tohoku region were running at nearly double the national rate, and as the global financial meltdown hit Japan they might have been expected to go even higher.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2009

Battery boost

Electronics maker Panasonic Corp. has developed a rechargeable battery that can store 10 percent more power than a model it introduced last week, two people familiar with the product said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 22, 2009

Motorcyclists embrace the spirit of Christmas

For the kids at Elizabeth Sanders Home in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Dec. 13 was a day they won't forget anytime soon. On that Sunday nearly 80 motorcycles came rolling into their compound carrying more than 150 presents.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 21, 2009

Trends in Japan 2009: drinks

Let us raise a glass to the tippling trends of 2009: to cheap booze, less calories, more nostalgia and supposedly responsible drinking.
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Dec 21, 2009

Press club system a domestic dilemma begging for change

In January, the European Business Council in Japan will launch a new magazine called eurobiz japan. This magazine will address topics of special interest to European firms here, including the press club system — an issue that continues to rankle foreign business circles.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 20, 2009

Zimbalist says Matsui's key impact for Angels will be on the field

Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui and Daisuke Matsuzaka all helped open up markets and bring new streams of revenue to their respective teams when they made their major league debuts.
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009

J. League watches over members

The Dec. 12 editorial "A yellow card for J. League" seems oblivious to underlying facts. The decision by the Yomiuri conglomerate to finally cut its ties to Verdy has been coming for at least a decade, and it was just a question of when the other shoe would drop. The timing may be related to economic...
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 20, 2009

Real Escape Game brings its creator's wonderment to life

Code-like messages on the walls grabbed my attention first: "g=circle, square, triangle"; "42, 23, 16 . . . " Then I saw the padlocked safe and the six candy dispensers — the latter for sustenance, I guessed, in case we intrepid 18 gamesters locked in this mysterious room should malinger in accomplishing...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 20, 2009

Steve Finbow: Best books of 2009

AUDITION, by Ryu Murakami. W. W. Norton & Company, 208 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 20, 2009

Stephen Mansfield: Best books of 2009

Not for those looking for a cozy fireside New Year read. The fiendish methods used by the Kempeitai, Japan's military police, are known in outline, but now we have the chilling details. Felton focuses not only on the unit's systematic physical and sexual torture of Allied soldiers and Asian civilians...
COMMUNITY
Dec 19, 2009

Group mentality — dressing to belong?

Japan's group mentality stumbles with frequent kicks from the Western mind.
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2009

Toyota unions may nix '10 wage hike demand

NAGOYA (Kyodo) The umbrella body of Toyota Motor Corp. group labor unions is considering making no uniform demand for a regular wage hike for its members in the 2010 business year, sources said Friday.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 18, 2009

Last call for Wendy's

It was only AFTER Wendy's declared defeat in the face of McDonald's dominance in Japan that the hamburgers started flying on the grill.
Reader Mail
Dec 17, 2009

Consequence of 'group' training

The Dec. 13 editorial, "An education in violence," fails to address the underlying problem with the Japanese education system and how this contributes largely to bullying. In Japanese education, nursery school children already learn to act in unison with the group — as I've seen with my own daughter...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2009

Do humanoid robots deserve to have rights?

PRINCETON/WARSAW — Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its "fully autonomous personal companion home care robot," also known as a "carebot," designed to help elderly or disabled people to live independently. A woman with short-term memory loss broke into a big smile,...

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