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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Oct 18, 2011

Greenthumb plants 'kolonihave' seed

Jens Jensen makes almost anything he needs for his weekend life from scratch, from a doorknob to a window frame to a small wooden hut.
COMMENTARY
Oct 14, 2011

The volatile politics of rice

A campaign promise that helped bring Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her political party to power in July elections is roiling the global market for rice, Asia's staple food that is now eaten by nearly half the world's population.
EDITORIALS
Oct 13, 2011

Budgeting for reconstruction

The government ministries and agencies have made budget requests for fiscal 2012 that total a record ¥99 trillion, exceeding the fiscal 2011 initial budget of ¥96.746 trillion. Because the government has used up surplus funds to compile the third supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 for the reconstruction...
EDITORIALS
Oct 12, 2011

Rengo takes an anti-nuclear stance

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), Japan's largest labor organization, in its Oct. 4-5 convention decided to pursue a society that will eventually stop relying on nuclear power. This is a departure from its earlier policy of pushing building of new nuclear power plants. Within Rengo, power...
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LIFE
Oct 9, 2011

Women warriors of Japan

"Ah, for some bold warrior to match with, that Kiso might see how fine a death I can die!"
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2011

Helping hand for Tepco

A government panel submitted a final report on Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s management and financial situation to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Oct. 3. Its purpose was to find ways to raise funds from Tepco's assets so that victims of the accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could be...
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CULTURE / Stage
Oct 7, 2011

Helping Japan with a dance

Take any teenager nearly 10,000 km (6,000 miles) from home on their first-ever overseas trip and you are bound to reap wonder. For 16-year-old French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who came to Tokyo with the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1981, that wonder grew into 30 years of mutual admiration.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Oct 4, 2011

Japan needs less ganbatte, more genuine action

Ganbatte kudasai!
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2011

Driving 'safe' through the Diet

The latest extraordinary Diet session, which started after the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was inaugurated, ended on Friday. Mr. Noda put priority on "safe driving" in the Diet — that is, minimizing controversial or problematic statements by him and his Cabinet members when they answer...
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2011

The nuclear test ban at 15

As Japan struggles with its nuclear energy policy, the world is struggling with problems surrounding the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Introduced 15 years ago, the CTBT has been signed by 182 countries and ratified by 155.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2011

Tokyo plans to store, burn debris from disaster zone

To help quake- and tsuami-damaged areas rebuild, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Thursday it is offering to store about 500,000 tons of debris and waste from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures for three years.
Reader Mail
Sep 29, 2011

Don't belittle individual efforts

I am a foreign resident who usually doesn't watch the Sunday morning talk shows, so I was not aware that Nobuteru Ishihara, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, and other political party leaders appeared on an NHK broadcast Sept. 11 to discuss the national government's response...
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BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2011

Tepco bond risk surges on Edano loan-waiver call

Bond prices show that creditors will have to share the bill for the nuclear crisis after the new minister responsible for power companies said banks should write off some loans to Tokyo Electric Power Co.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2011

Uranium up on strong nuclear case

Uranium spot prices rose 2.4 percent last week as buyers looked beyond the impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Ux Consulting Co. said.
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Hachiro's haunting straight talk

The Sept. 13 front-page article "Noda taps Edano for trade minister" states that former trade minister Yoshio Hachiro stepped down after he "triggered public outrage for calling the area around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant a 'town of death."
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 18, 2011

Political elite can't stand outsiders

Yoshio Hachiro's stint as the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in the new Yoshihiko Noda administration was not the briefest cabinet assignment on record, but it was certainly one of the most controversial. News outlets reported that it was "public outrage" over two remarks he made which forced...
EDITORIALS
Sep 15, 2011

Tasks set for Mr. Noda

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in his first policy speech before the Diet on Sept. 13 refrained from talking about eye-catching slogans. Instead he concentrated on listing issues his Cabinet will tackle in earnest — reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, putting the Fukushima nuclear...
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 13, 2011

Hosono to reshape nuclear policy

New Environment Minister Goshi Hosono has vowed to reduce Japan's reliance on nuclear power but has said that halted reactors that pass stringent safety tests may be restarted if the nation's energy needs are not being met.

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