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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 7, 2009

Gearing up for a Windows update

In the dock: Sony's new CMT-E350HD music system boasts a 160-gigabyte internal hard drive for storing digital music, enough to store a stack of audio libraries, and is the latest swipe in the company's rivalry with Apple. The CMT-E350HD has left out an iPod dock in preference for a WM-PORT, which in...
OLYMPICS
Oct 6, 2009

Olympics urged to get tech-savvy

COPENHAGEN (AP) The Olympic movement needs to learn from the likes of YouTube or risk losing young viewers for life, IOC members were told Monday.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Oct 6, 2009

Re: Mr. James, gaijin clown

Following are a selection of readers' responses to last month's Just Be Cause column by Debito Arudou, headlined "Meet Mr. James, gaijin clown":
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2009

Mazda plans ¥96 billion share sale, sees less loss

Mazda Motor Corp. plans to raise up to ¥96 billion through a share sale as the carmaker reported a smaller than predicted first-half loss.
Reader Mail
Oct 4, 2009

Cheering on the store managers

Regarding the Sept. 30 article "Store managers sue 7-11 over discount sales ban": These store managers are absolutely right in their position! If Seven-Eleven Japan Co. is worried about its image, it should arrange to take back all unsold items on their expiry dates and not expect franchisees to bear...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 4, 2009

Tracy working miracles for playoff-bound Rockies

"Mile High Miracle, Mile High Magic, Rocky Mountain High, whatever you want to call it, but baseball in Colorado is spectacular again this year." So says Ken Shimada, a Japanese fan living in Denver who dumped the team but is now back at Coors Field as an avid supporter.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Oct 4, 2009

Mamoru Mohri: A spaceman speaks

When future historians document the story of Japanese space exploration, 2009 will likely figure as the year when the nation put two high-profile rocket launch failures, in 1999 and 2003, firmly behind it and, quite literally, took off.
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LIFE / Travel
Oct 4, 2009

Diving with dolphins in the Izu Islands

It's Saturday morning and I'm sitting on the beach, struggling to strap on a pair of oversize flippers. When they are securely in place, I waddle down to the water's edge and gingerly step into the sparkling, crystal ocean lapping Miyake Island.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 4, 2009

Japan's gender equality may be 'insufficent,' but it's surely coming

As the vast majority of societies worldwide are male dominated, one of the most contentious issues they face as they evolve centers on the status of women.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 4, 2009

Japan's gender equality may be 'insufficent,' but it's surely coming

As the vast majority of societies worldwide are male dominated, one of the most contentious issues they face as they evolve centers on the status of women.
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2009

Butting into safety probes

It has been found that Mr. Masao Yamazaki, former president of West Japan Railway Co., asked a member of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission to revise its report on the April 25, 2005, train accident on the JR West Fukuchiyama Line that killed 107 people and injured over 500....
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2009

Asian antique sales rocket in New York

NEW YORK — Any trends in the American market for Asian antiques were eclipsed by Asia Week in New York last month when, suddenly, the appetite for Chinese art and antiques could not be sated.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 1, 2009

Motherhouse: beyond Fair Trade

By cutting out the middlemen, Tokyo-based Motherhouse has found a way to make the Fair Trade system work like it's supposed to.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2009

Toyota says its future in F1 unclear

The Toyota Formula One team says its continued participation in the sport is still unclear and is dependent upon the financial performance of its parent company and cost reductions in F1.
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BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2009

Nomura reassures investors on huge share sale

Nomura Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Kenichi Watanabe, planning a record $5.7 billion share sale, is taking steps to bolster investor confidence after watching the stock plunge 19 percent in the past four days.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 30, 2009

Learn the coded language all Japanese know

Encoding and decoding may be almost as old as writing itself.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 30, 2009

Perks enhance Sony headphones; Epson pushes postcards

Sound investment: Sony may have long ago surrendered the portable music-player war to Apple, but it still wins in the battle over headphones.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2009

Funding drama yet to play out

When an extraordinary session of the Diet opens in October, the issue of money in politics will be reignited. The Liberal Democratic Party, now in opposition, will surely assail Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa over dubious political donations....
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2009

Why not try a trade system that optimizes each nation's interest?

Many of us thought that the World Trade Organization (WTO) was dead when the world financial and economic crisis demolished the myth of the benefits of free trade regimes, and that the poor of the world could rejoice. But suddenly, by some kind of voodoo trickery, it is back.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2009

NYSE Euronext chief sounds alarm against overregulation

When the major economies map out their postcrisis financial reforms, they should avoid overregulating the financial services industry in the United States and focus instead on smarter application of existing regulations, the chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext said in Tokyo recently.

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