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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-...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Feb 17, 2008

Taking to the streets of tomorrow

Listen carefully and you might detect the slight whir of this car's motor, a little wind noise and a faint thrum from the tires. Could this be the sound of driving in the future? Will our streets one day be whisper-quiet even as they teem with traffic? Mitsubishi's electric mini-car, due on the market...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 16, 2008

Gravity and its effects on teaching

I was looking at my classroom full of students the other day and wondering — where did I go wrong? Most of them were asleep and the few who weren't were unconscious. I stopped talking, looked out the window and pondered the science of teaching. I came to the conclusion that science is indeed to blame:...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 15, 2008

Yasunao Tone, Sachiko M and Yoshihide Otomo

Yasunao Tone makes the kind of music that hi-fi buffs have nightmares about. The septuagenarian composer and sound artist has spent the past two decades pushing digital audio equipment to its limit and reveling in the wonky results.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 15, 2008

Lego turns 50

Fans of Lego will likely remember the exhibition in 2003 in Shibuya's Parco building that featured spectacular models of World Heritage sites made entirely of the children's building blocks. The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Parthenon in Athens and even an appropriately tilting Leaning Tower of Pisa helped...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 15, 2008

'Fast Food Nation'

Once upon a time, the spread of freedom and democracy was measured in the spread of hamburger franchises. Beaming network correspondents would report from places like Moscow or Beijing on how formerly gray and monolithic communist societies had opened their doors to the Golden Arches. This, truly, was...
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2008

MHI taps five suppliers for small jet

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., seeking to develop Japan's first passenger jet, has named five suppliers to help build the new plane that would compete with Bombardier Inc. and Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 15, 2008

Tokyo Players bring N.Y. comedy to town

The dearth of good comedy in English in Tokyo will be relieved in a few weeks' time, when Tokyo International Players — a 100-percent volunteer-run company that has been entertaining theatergoers since 1896 — will present "The Plaza Suite" at Akasaka V Theater. And The Japan Times has a pair of tickets...
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2008

Sapporo's takeover fears not supported by facts, Steel says

U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners Japan denied Wednesday that its proposal to take over Sapporo Breweries Ltd., the nation's third-largest brewery, would seriously harm shareholder interests, as claimed last week by a Sapporo Holdings Ltd. panel.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2008

Auto unions seek wage, bonus hikes

Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co.'s unions in Japan asked for more pay as the automakers forecast higher earnings, the firms said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2008

Omron to establish auto parts factory in Eastern Europe

Omron Corp., the country's largest maker of laser radars for cars, will build an auto parts factory in Eastern Europe within three years as it seeks to win new customers in the region.

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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