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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2009

Dollar dying at the hands of a weak renminbi

WASHINGTON — Over the last several weeks, the dollar's depreciation against the euro and yen has grabbed global attention. In a normal world, the dollar's weakening would be welcome, as it would help the United States come to grips with its unsustainable trade deficit. But, in a world where China links...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2009

Japan's 'demand management' and yen rate in the global crisis

First of two parts
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 1, 2009

Giants edge Fighters in dramatic opener

SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters had the tying run at second, the winning run at first and visions of another walk-off win in the playoffs dancing in their heads.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 1, 2009

Foundations take a new shape

THE CHANGING JAPANESE FAMILY, edited by Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka. Routledge, 2009, 224 pp., £20 (paperback) The notion of family in Japan conjures up images of stability that are increasingly out of step with emerging realities. Certainly, compared to most other advanced industrialized nations,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 1, 2009

Japanese food-safety label protects business foremost, and not people

It's wise to take any advertisement claim with a grain of salt, and some products invite not just skepticism but downright disbelief. Commercials for hair restoration aids may not actually state they will return your bald pate to a state of hirsute lushness, but they nevertheless get your hopes up toward...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Oct 31, 2009

Kidrobots on the block at Tokyo Designers Week

For Tokyo Designers Week, customized Kidrobot figurines go up for auction, with proceeds going to CARE.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2009

Nippon Ham, Yomiuri maintain focus before series opener

Sapporo It was like the calm before the storm.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2009

Nissan bet on raking in profits with Leaf name

After Nissan Motor Co. tackled technical restrictions on its first electric car involving range, battery life and temperature fluctuations, it still had to come up with a name. Choosing Leaf wasn't easy.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2009

Ogasawara returning to battle team he started with

Saturday night will mark a reunion of sorts when the Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters take the field at Sapporo Dome to open the 2009 Japan Series.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 25, 2009

Of simmering frogs and economists leaping to terminal conclusions

They say that if a frog is dropped into boiling water it will jump out, but if it is placed in water that is then heated slowly it will steadily acclimate and boil to death — having missed its chance to escape.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2009

Wakiya sparks Giants to 3-1 CL series lead

Nobody will remember Ryota Wakiya's first at-bat of the 2009 postseason. It's the second one that'll live on in the minds of Yomiuri Giants fans.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2009

Adding and subtracting dimensions to further appreciate art

The camera obscura is an optical device that was occasionally used by Dutch painters of the 17th century to help them achieve a superlative level of technical proficiency. Literally meaning "darkened chamber" in Latin, it is a room with a small hole in one wall that lets in light from outside and casts...
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2009

Winny creator rightly acquitted

In December 2006, Mr. Isamu Kaneko, a former University of Tokyo researcher, was fined ¥1.5 million for enabling two computer users to illegally make movies and other files available to download. The Kyoto District Court said he was guilty because he had continued to offer the peer-to-peer file-sharing...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 16, 2009

Ogre embrace their inner nerds

"I'm not sure. I guess it is because of our name."
SPORTS / BOOS AND BRAVOS
Oct 9, 2009

Kameda clan stoops to a new low

BOO — Good sportsmanship isn't something the Kameda family comprehends. Review the facts from October 2007 to see the stunts the Kameda brothers pulled in the ring.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 9, 2009

It is in the East and Juliet is a ballet dancer named Shoko

Shoko Nakamura, the 29-year-old principal dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin, is back in Japan for a well-earned vacation and to make her debut in a classic role.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 6, 2009

Got JAL miles?

The final fate of JAL aside, frequent flyer customers need to think about what to do with all those miles today.
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.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2009

Oshima lays out LDP's comeback fundamentals

Tadamori Oshima, the newly appointed secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Friday that regaining the public's trust will require concrete policies and a clear, new vision of what the party stands for.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 3, 2009

Wenger has had profound impact on game

LONDON — When Arsene Wenger was introduced as manager of Arsenal in October of 1996 none of the assembled media knew who he was. Some French guy who had been working in Japan was the limit of our knowledge.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2009

Some taxi firms go that extra mile

Aya Ito takes a taxi every day to bring her twin 1-year-old boys to a nursery at her workplace thanks to a cab company that is friendly to mothers and the elderly.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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