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EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2008

New occupant in the Blue House

South Korea has a new president. Mr. Lee Myung Bak has vowed to take the same "bulldozing" approach to running his country as he did when he was the head of a construction company and the mayor of Seoul. His first priority is economic revival, but he also hopes to forge new relationships with his neighbors,...
SOCCER
Feb 27, 2008

Everton manhandles City, moves into 4th in Premier League

MANCHESTER, England (AP) Everton moved into fourth place in the English Premier League with a 2-0 win at Manchester City on Monday night.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008

Osaka governor stays popular even as doubts mount

OSAKA — It's only been one month since Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto's landslide election victory Jan. 27. But for both his supporters and opponents, it feels a lot longer.
Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2008

Promo piece light on research

The Feb. 20 article "Dyson urges youths to take interest in engineering, science" was a sad piece of journalism. The real story on British-born James Dyson (the founder of Dyson Ltd. who was in Tokyo this month to promote a new vacuum cleaner) would require a more time-consuming article on the quality...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 24, 2008

New values rise from the ashes of conformity

Second of two parts
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 24, 2008

Rightwingers who scream the loudest allowed to win in Japan

Major media coverage of the legal standoff between the Japan Teachers Union (Nikkyoso) and the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo had little effect on the standoff itself, mainly because coverage didn't really take off until everything was over.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008

Blazing a trail to the cyberfuture

Yukiko Nakagawa started toying with a personal computer when she was a 6th-grader in the early 1980s — years before Microsoft introduced its first Windows operating system, and back when most people, let alone children, had never seen a PC.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2008

Ferrari to open subsidiary as luxury car sales boom

Ferrari SpA announced Friday it will open a Japanese subsidiary on July 1, transferring importer rights from dealer Cornes & Co. in an effort to cash in on the growing Japanese luxury market.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2008

Horie's appeal starts at Tokyo High Court

The counsel for Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie pleaded not guilty to charges of accounting fraud Friday as Horie's Tokyo High Court appeal trial began.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 22, 2008

Laugh yourself healthy

'I want to open 1 million laughter clubs around the world in the next 10 years in the hope of bringing about world peace."
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2008

More funds set aside for small, midsize firms

The government unveiled a package of measures Wednesday designed to fend off a credit crunch that small and medium-size firms are suffering due to higher oil prices and a housing slump.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 21, 2008

A living play appears from the past

"I have absolutely no idea beforehand what exactly I am going to do. Everything comes together really at the last minute," says 50-year-old English dramatist Simon McBurney when asked how he's approaching his latest collaboration. Working with Japanese actors, McBurney is producing "Shunkin," a play...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2008

Loss of father to ALS inspires play about disease

The death of their father a decade ago gave Rumi and Takuya Iryo a new goal in their lives — raising public awareness of the disease he died from, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2008

Improving the day laborer's lot

The labor ministry has meted out administrative punishment against major employment agency Goodwill Inc. This case and other incidents point to the need for the government and lawmakers to move quickly to improve conditions for temporary day laborers, including revising the manpower dispatching business...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Feb 20, 2008

Toshiba unveils its new Gigabeat MP3 player; and 'Phoenix' hits the DS

Striking a chord: Toshiba has upgraded its Gigabeat T401 MP3 player, giving it wireless network connectivity and rebadging it as the T802. It also has 8 gigabytes of flash memory, up from the 4 gigabytes of the T401, and its battery is good for 16 hours of music playback or five hours of video. The new...
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Morgan fund buys Citigroup HQ

Morgan Stanley has bought Citigroup Inc.'s Tokyo headquarters to boost its Japanese property portfolio.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 19, 2008

CO2 trading mirrors, but still smoke?

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, the world has been spewing out greenhouse gases that now threaten the global ecosystem. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 379.1 parts per million in 2005, or 35 percent higher than the estimated level before...
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2008

Carmakers brace for, will have to bear, cost jump

Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and other domestic automakers may pay a combined ¥200 billion more for steel in the next business year, eroding their earnings, analysts say.
BUSINESS / CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPOSIUM
Feb 18, 2008

Climate change, rising energy costs cloud security, geopolitical horizons

Climate change and rising energy prices pose new security and geopolitical challenges that require multinational responses, U.S. experts told the Feb. 1 symposium.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2008

Up and away on a latte flight of fancy

It's a clear Wednesday morning and I have a very good view through the windows of my Cessna 172. We took off from Chofu Airport in the western suburbs of Tokyo a few minutes ago. I am already 4,000 feet up in the sky over Tokyo, flying stably north at about 185 kph. I am keeping my hands rigidly on the...
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2008

Alleged victim also has a problem

I do not condone the conduct of this American citizen for keeping company with any underage young women. Or for any man to take advantage of any young individual. But I do have to question the conduct of the young girl involved as well. I currently teach at a junior high school, and I so often see 13-...
Man falls to his death from Osaka condo, killing cyclist below
Osaka's Kita Ward. Two men died Monday morning in the ward after a man fell from a high-rise condominium and struck a passing cyclist below, according to local police.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.
Amid rice shortage, farm minister comes under fire for saying he gets plenty
Agriculture minister Taku Eto has come under fire for saying at the weekend that he receives so much rice from his supporters that he has enough to sell it.
Ishiba rebuffs tax cut demands with Greek debt comparison
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba
The race for more time: Japanese runner decided to freeze eggs for her future
Tomomi Bitoh, seen crossing the finish line in Antarctica, on the first stop of the World Marathon Challenge, is one of the very few Japanese athletes to speak publicly about her experience with egg freezing.
Agnes b. Japan CEO hopes to evolve the brand with focus on sustainability
Laurent Patouillet, the CEO and president of Agnes b. Japan, says the focus of its business is to remain independent, and evolve and adapt.
Flaunt your seasonal greens with Japan’s traditional pureed soup
With the weather warming up, there's no better time to make a bowl of chilled "surinagashi-jiru" (pureed soup).
In Nintendo’s backyard, foreign indie game devs are thriving
Kyoto's gaming landscape is dominated by Nintendo's headquarters, but a contingent of foreign-born indie developers is also working in the gaming giant's shadow.
For Formula E, ‘sustainability is at the heart’
Founded with a mission of promoting electric vehicles, Formula E has always placed sustainability at the forefront of its raison d’etre.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb
By Alex K.T. Martin

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