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Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Dec 16, 2009

Hot on grandma's trail in Hokkaido

If you're looking for your grandmother in the farming suburb of Iwamizawa, an hour northeast of Sapporo, your best bet may be to phone the municipal call center.
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2009

Tokyo Steel cuts January prices

Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co. said Monday it will cut prices for most products in January because of declining investment in condominium construction and the government review of public works spending.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2009

Wresting the press from pampered hacks

HONG KONG — Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was adamant that a free press is the most precious of all freedoms because it opens up or expands other freedoms. He famously wrote that given the choice of a government without a free press or a free press without a government,...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 12, 2009

Relations between players, managers can be tense

LONDON — Managers tell players to use their heads, but two bosses, it seems, have literally been practicing what they preach.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2009

A yellow card for J. League

The financial conditions of J. League football clubs are deteriorating because of the nation's economic downturn. Most J. League clubs are spilling red ink. They need to take measures to economize and the J. League should reconsider its expansion plans.
BUSINESS
Dec 12, 2009

Nico Nico expects profit on ad revenue, member fees

Dwango Co., operator of YouTube's biggest rival in Japan, forecast its Nico Nico Video business will soon deliver something that Google Inc.'s online-video service has never achieved: profit.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 11, 2009

Let us celebrate the miracle of wondrously difficult movies

The more movies you watch the more you become convinced how they are wondrously difficult things to make. Billy Wilder didn't say that exactly, but he did say something about the job getting harder as he got older, so I figured it out. I'm always awed by the fact that so many incredibly watchable films...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 11, 2009

Don Quixote gets punked

The contemporary Japanese dance scene has recently drifted to a more fragmented situation where groups delve deeper into their own particular take on performance, but one exception to this is Pappa Tarahumara. Founded by Hiroshi Koike (freshly back from a discussion presentation with Laurie Anderson...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 11, 2009

Rody exhibition offers holiday gift hints

When the Rody pony was first trotted out from an Italian toy company in 1990, its intention was to help children between the ages of 2-5 develop balance and coordination skills.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2009

J-Power may buy U.S. coal to cut reliance on Australia

J-Power, Japan's biggest coal importer, has bought 60,000 metric tons of the fuel from Alaska and is evaluating reviving purchases from the U.S. after a six-year gap to reduce dependence on supplies from Australia, according to Executive Vice President Yoshihiko Sakanashi.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2009

The climate in Copenhagen

The U.N. Climate Change Conference is under way in Copenhagen with more than 15,000 participants, including delegates from 192 countries, attending. Its original goal was to conclude a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and to set a global framework to curb greenhouse gas emissions between 2013...
Reader Mail
Dec 10, 2009

Prepare students for the job hunt

It has been more than one year since the Lehman Brothers collapse, which led to the current world economic crisis. Last spring the news was about student employment offers being withdrawn. According to the research of one company, almost 30 percent of university graduates had still not been offered employment,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Dec 10, 2009

Luxuriating at MoT and Vulcanize, customizing at Nike and economizing at Venus Fort

The luxury of fashion
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BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2009

Aeon to unload Talbots stake

Aeon Co. said Wednesday it will divest its stake in U.S. clothing chain Talbots Inc.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 8, 2009

In Osaka, a place the homeless call home

It was no surprise to many who know the area that Tatsuya Ichihashi, facing charges of murdering British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, has a connection with Osaka's Nishinari Ward.
COMMENTARY
Dec 6, 2009

Disgusting surfeit of anti-Obama remarks

LOS ANGELES — Some necessary context for President Barack Obama's long-awaited Afghanistan policy speech: Foreign policy performance is anything but the total measure of a president's worth. America's domestic politics, not to mention its elections, are more often than not driven by the forces, and...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 6, 2009

Clubhouse rooms with a view

Over the last 22 years we have had many guests visiting our woods up here in the Kurohime hills of Nagano Prefecture. However, their numbers have shot up since we converted our holdings into being The C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust in 2002.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2009

The Dubai debt bomb

The announcement that the government of Dubai would suspend payment of debts incurred by its investment group, Dubai World, has rattled global markets, sparking fears of another dip in the global economy.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2009

Coalition freezes Japan Post share sale

The first extraordinary Diet session held under the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama adjourned Friday after the ruling bloc used its majority to ram through the Upper House a law to freeze the state's planned sale of shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. and its banking and insurance units.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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