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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 28, 2008

Fanfare greets Tabuse in return

UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. — For 40 minutes of action, all eyes focused on him. Pride, curiosity and excitement characterized the occasion.
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LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008

Tokyo's catwalks at last purr with pizazz

"Is Tokyo really the world's fifth fashion capital after Paris, New York, Milan and London?"
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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 10, 2008

Sanyo sheds some clean light on subject of renewable energy

Bright energy: Japan is known far and wide as the Land of the Rising Sun, but it desires to be known (again) as the Land of the Solar Charge. Once the world's leader in installed solar power, Japan has since 2005 slipped second behind Germany, which now has about double Japan's capacity. Politicians...
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 9, 2008

Tackling the 'Zainichi' experience

Sitting across from best-selling New York author Min Jin Lee in a Tokyo expat cafe, I can't help thinking that the heroine of her debut novel "Free Food For Millionaires" is the one sipping ice tea and talking sex. Like Lee, protagonist Casey Han is unusually tall, refined in speech, and deeply interested...
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ENVIRONMENT
Aug 31, 2008

New company casts light on power saving

The use of solar energy to generate power and to heat water is gradually spreading in Japan, but the most basic use of sunshine is yet to come out of the shadows — namely, for lighting.
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JAPAN
Aug 28, 2008

Temp era ending as rules change, workforce shrinks

Masahiko Tanabe's life has changed since home products retailer The Loft Co. made him a permanent employee and gave him a 10 percent pay raise.
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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Aug 27, 2008

Sharing summer memories becomes even easier

Hard copy: Camcorder owners have always had it a bit tougher than their still-camera counterparts. Sharing their memories after the (usually) fun part of imitating a Hollywood cameraman involves more steps and more time, especially with high-definition video.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Aug 26, 2008

Dewi Sukarno

Dewi Sukarno, nee Naoko Nemoto, 68, is the widow of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno. When she married him in 1959, the then 19-year-old Japanese beauty was no accidental Cinderella: From age 5, she had meticulously prepared herself for a leading role in history. Much like Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the...
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2008

'Dosokai'

Nostalgia keeps changing. The music, TV shows and junk food that leaves one generation misty-eyed are regarded by the next as quaint curiosities from a distant past, until they finally pass into that dead, hallowed realm known as history.
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LIFE / Travel
Aug 10, 2008

Nanjing now: philosophy, history and Jacuzzis

Nanjing is a bustling city of 7 million, about six times its population before the Japanese rampage of 1937, and looks like many of the other modern, gleaming urbanscapes that have mushroomed up across China.
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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Aug 6, 2008

Make a splash with your music

Pool jam:
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2008

Sony to up lithium-ion cell output

Sony Corp. will invest about ¥40 billion to boost its output capacity of lithium-ion batteries amid growing global demand, the company said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2008

Singh rises above the fray to keep fighting

HONG KONG — It was hardly the finest hour for Indian democracy, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally called the bluff of his so-called leftist allies last month and won a vote of confidence in Parliament after two days of stormy debate and widespread allegations of bribery and corruption.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2008

Matsushita plans new battery plant

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. said Wednesday it plans to build a ¥100 billion lithium-ion battery plant in Osaka.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2008

DoCoMo quarterly profit rises 41%

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday that first-quarter profit rose 41 percent after it reduced handset subsidies to customers.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2008

Sony profit fell 47.4% in quarter; forecast pared

Sony Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit plunged 47.4 percent to ¥35 billion in the April-June quarter from a year ago amid fierce competition in the consumer electronics sector, including compact digital cameras and computers.
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JAPAN
Jul 19, 2008

The rising middle classes want their wheels

BEIJING — W hat becomes immediately apparent on entering the 10th annual Beijing car show is the emotional intensity with which China has thrown itself into its greatest consumerist passion to date: the first throes of an affair with the car. The entire nation, it turns out, is in love with them, is...
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2008

Water hardly the worst option

The July 13 editorial "Real cost of bottled water" makes the well-worn argument that bottled water exacts a heavy toll on the planet and seems to suggest that vending machines run 24 hours a day to deliver a liquid that we could get from our taps.
EDITORIALS
Jul 15, 2008

Troubles grow in Afghanistan

A fghanistan is in trouble again. U.S. officials now warn that more troops are needed to combat a rising insurgency. This is not the first time that warning has been issued, but the urgency is increasing. The Taliban appears to be making a resurgence, other extremist forces are growing in strength and...
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Features
Jul 13, 2008

Top creators call for museums to save nation's modern heritage

What do industrial design, architecture, manga, anime, video games and traditional craft techniques have in common? Well, apart from each having spawned some of Japan's most popular cultural exports, the similarity is this: Japan has no national museums dedicated to their preservation, display and study....

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji