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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 1, 2009

Japanese fans geared up for World Baseball Classic

It is the World Baseball Classic, but WBC here could stand for "Whopping Big Crowds" or "Wildly Boisterous Cheering." The Japanese fans are going bonkers over Team Samurai Japan, with the No. 1 attraction being Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki.
LIFE / CLOSE-UP
Mar 1, 2009

Of money and motherhood

Kazuyo Katsuma is a charismatic economic analyst, best-selling writer and working mother, who has regular columns in newspapers and appears frequently in magazines and on TV shows. Katsuma is considered one of Japan's foremost writers on the subjects of self- development skills for people in business,...
LIFE / CLOSE-UP
Mar 1, 2009

Kazuyo Katsuma: Of money and motherhood

Kazuyo Katsuma is a charismatic economic analyst, best-selling writer and working mother, who has regular columns in newspapers and appears frequently in magazines and on TV shows. Katsuma is considered one of Japan's foremost writers on the subjects of self- development skills for people in business,...
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2009

Struggling domestic airlines may receive emergency DBJ loans

Japan may offer emergency loans to Japan Airlines Corp. and All Nippon Airways Co., the country's biggest carriers, for the first time in five years as they forecast losses amid a drop in passengers.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 27, 2009

In a world first, Tokyo produces Tennessee Williams' 'Mrs. Stone' for stage

The premiere of a stage production based on a major work of fiction is a major event. If the work is "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone," a 1950 novel by Tennessee Williams — one of the giants of modern theater — it is all the more remarkable.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 27, 2009

'Tsumi toka Batsu toka'

Contemporary Japanese comedies generally come in two varieties: wacky and noisy (most films written or directed by Kankuro Kudo), or quirky and dry (Satoshi Miki's "Ten Ten" ["Adrift in Tokyo"] and Yosuke Fujita's "Zen Zen Daijobu" ["Fine, Totally, Fine"]).
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2009

Goldman to trim equity research team as demand for analysis dips

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which has cut 10 percent of its global workforce in the past year, will trim its equity research team in Japan as early as this week, two sources said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2009

Unbalanced bargaining game with China

SINGAPORE — The territorial dispute in the South China Sea — referred to as the Spratly Islands dispute — used to be described as a major regional security flash point. Although core issues remain unresolved, economic integration and globalization, since the beginning of this decade, have temporarily...
EDITORIALS
Feb 22, 2009

The freedom of Mr. Khan

On its face, the decision to release Mr. Abdul Qadeer Khan from house arrest in Pakistan is a slap in the face of international opinion and a blow to efforts to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons. According to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, the work of the world's greatest proliferator "is a closed...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 22, 2009

Blood-type drama week, smoking-cessation trials and an enka singer's road to success

Supposedly, you can tell a lot about a person by his or her blood type, and there is a cottage publishing industry in Japan dedicated to the subject. Certain blood types indicate particular personality traits, and some combinations of types are more romantically compatible than others.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2009

Hamada weighs March China trip

Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada may visit China next month and meet with his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, Defense Ministry sources said Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2009

Bent Hamer nails another odd story

N orwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer is a generous man. At the end of our interview, while waiting for the next journalist to arrive, Hamer began putting together media kits that were piled up on a desk to be sorted out by the staff of his film's promotion company. Told not to bother, he kept at it with a...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Feb 18, 2009

A bigger, better netbook — and not quite an iPod killer

Touched up: Korean innovator iriver is firing off both barrels with its latest personal media player, the P20, a model it hopes will take some market share away from Apple's iPod touch. The P20 is a chunky device with impressive hardware credentials. Released in Japan as an 80-gigabyte model, the PMP...
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2009

Slump exposes holes in safety net

The recent massive layoffs of temporary employees by blue-chip firms have shocked and scared workers in a nation long known for accommodative labor relations and lifetime employment.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 17, 2009

Accelerating Toyota forced to downshift

Figures for just the past five years show how much Toyota Motor Corp. has prospered. During that period, the carmaker continued to post record sales, profits, production and sales units, ultimately taking the top of the hill from General Motors Corp.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 14, 2009

Painting pictures from an artistic lyrical palette

As a narrative goes, lyricist Chris Mosdell's story is anything but a straightforward one.
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2009

Pandemic plan calls for mass cremations

Japan's plan for any future influenza pandemic calls for shutting down airports, closing schools and organizing mass cremations of the dead in hopes of keeping the virus off its shores or at least containing it.
EDITORIALS
Feb 13, 2009

Slush funds and tax evasion

Special investigators of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office have arrested the president of the Oita-based consulting firm Daiko and 11 others on allegations of tax evasion. It is suspected that a Daiko-affiliated interior-work company evaded ¥292 million in corporate taxes by not declaring...
EDITORIALS
Feb 12, 2009

Abuse of anonymity

The Metropolitan Police Department plans to send papers on 18 men and women, 17 to 45 years old, to public prosecutors for allegedly posting several hundreds of defamatory messages on the blog of a 37-year-old comedian. It has already sent papers on a 29-year-old woman from Kawasaki to public prosecutors...
EDITORIALS
Feb 12, 2009

Mr. Aso playing both sides

Prime Minister Taro Aso has flip-flopped again, this time over the privatization of the nation's postal services. As prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi had exploited this as the main issue in the September 2005 Lower House election, enabling the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito...

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’