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CULTURE / Music / JAZZ NOTES
Aug 7, 2013

Sumida Fest offers newcomers a dip into the jazz scene

Jazz accounts for around 5 percent of total recorded music sales in Japan, but despite that the genre is ubiquitous in cities nationwide.
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Aug 7, 2013

New pricing plans for The Japan Times / International New York Times; details of renewed product lineup

In March this year, The Japan Times announced a publishing agreement with the New York Times Company that will see its daily newspaper, "The Japan Times" packaged with the "International New York Times" in the Japan market commencing with the Oct. 16 issue. The new combined newspaper will be called "The...
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Aug 3, 2013

Is new yakuza journal good news for Japan?

If you're a well-connected Japanese gangster, you now have your own newspaper to keep you abreast of underworld life. Another perk of the job.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2013

Obsessing over inequality threatens capitalism

It's wrong to see income gains at the top as proof of U.S. capitalism's ingrained wickedness, or to forget that clumsy intervention might affect everybody else's income.
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 2, 2013

Salesman sets out to prevent inheritance fights

As an insurance salesman in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, Hisao Ito, 55, has seen times when family members and relatives fight over inheritances.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 1, 2013

'Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso)'

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jul 30, 2013

Fairley tries to avoid spoilers but it's all part of the game

The standard opening line when speaking to someone about the TV series "Game of Thrones" basically amounts to a spoiler alert.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2013

Right royal load of parochial hot air

BBC World television coverage of the birth of the new British prince, including the mindless prattling and cooing about what he would look like, was a disgrace.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 29, 2013

There is more to my son than the fact he's a 'half'

For foreign residents, having a child in Japan can be a daunting prospect. Going to the hospital and trying to figure out what the doctor is saying in complex Japanese medical terms is just one of myriad trials.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Jul 27, 2013

Log-jamming in Shin Kiba

Last month, readers of this column found me frolicking in the sawdust and lumberyards of Shin Kiba — meaning "New Wood Place" — which arose on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay in the 1970s when the city's timber businesses were moved there from their traditional home in nearby Kiba to make way for rapid...
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 27, 2013

Story of return to bachelorhood provides vicarious experience

'The difficult thing with a column," the late Margaret Thatcher once told the journalist Jenny McCartney, "is thinking of something new to say every week." Yes, indeed.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 26, 2013

Nagoya commuters get their cycle on

Nagoya is seeing a growing number of "tsukinists," a term coined for those who commute to work by bicycle, pointing to the public's higher awareness of environmental and personal health issues.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Jul 25, 2013

Okinawans know how to beat the heat

Now that most of Japan is in the midst of a hot, sweltering summer, it's a good time to take a look at the traditional cuisine of a part of the country that lives with warm weather throughout the year: Okinawa.
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CULTURE / Music
Jul 24, 2013

Supergroup Muddy Apes get album out just in time to rock Fuji

From the beginning, rock act Muddy Apes set a lofty goal for themselves.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2013

Letting the changes out at the beach

A visit to a beach in southern Europe reveals a gender divide as well as a physical laissez-faire that occurs when people have real things to worry about.
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LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jul 23, 2013

HKG-TYO premium economy on Cathay; SAS direct to Bergen campaign; China Airlines JCB card

Cathay premium offer
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 22, 2013

Standing up for a longer life span

Michael Jensen, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnessota, is talking on the phone, but his voice is drowned out by what sounds like a vacuum cleaner. "I'm sorry," he says. "I'm on a treadmill."
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BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2013

Summer becomes mother of cool invention

Many people are desperately seeking ways to escape the summer heat, and businesses are cashing in with new services to help them cool down.
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JAPAN / EMBASSY AVENUE
Jul 19, 2013

Milan Expo 2015 welcomes Japan's participation

On July 18, the Embassy of Italy held a signing ceremony for Japan's participation in the next scheduled Universal Exposition, which will be held in Milan in 2015.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 18, 2013

Akasaka Tantei: A taste of Kyoto-style Okinawa in Tokyo

Okinawan food is — for me at least — the food of summer. When the days are short and chill, I have little interest in the flavors of Japan's southwestern isles. But when the heat and humidity build like a thunderhead, that is the time the cravings arise.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 17, 2013

'Fujiko F. Fujio 80th Anniversary Exhibition'

Tokyo Tower is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Hiroshi Fujimoto, better known as Fujiko F. Fujio, one half of the cartoonist duo Fujiko Fujio, who created the popular mechanical cat character Doraemon. The tower's exhibition features some of Fujimoto's most famous works, including Perman and Esper...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2013

Inconvenient truths about Obama's health law

The White House's recent decision to delay part of its health care overhaul illustrates six truths about the law that its supporters can't easily acknowledge.
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LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jul 15, 2013

Tablet phones and on-the-go iPhone charging, plus handy apps for traveling

Really getting to know local cuisine
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WORLD
Jul 14, 2013

Somali-American is caught up in U.S. counterpropaganda campaign

Two days after he became a U.S. citizen, Abdiwali Warsame embraced the First Amendment by creating a raucous website about his native Somalia. Packed with news and controversial opinions, it rapidly became a magnet for Somalis dispersed around the world, including tens of thousands in Minnesota.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2013

Gold's slumber is not the cue to stop hedging

The recent collapse of gold prices has not really changed the case for investing in it one way or the other, says a former chief economist for the IMF.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 14, 2013

'Alarm fatigue' at hospitals poses risks

Walk into a hospital intensive care unit and hear the din: A ventilator honks loudly. An infusion pump emits a high-pitched beep-beep every six seconds. A blood pressure monitor pushes out one long tone after another.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 12, 2013

Students dealt real-life problems to broaden outlook

The School of Foreign Studies at Aichi Prefectural University in the city of Nagakute invited Tatsuo Hirase, the head of the business promotion office at the Chubu branch of Mitsui & Co., to hold a special two-day marketing session in June.

Longform

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