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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 18, 2009

Professor, schoolgirl share victim status in grope case

Last April, the Supreme Court reversed a Tokyo High Court decision that found Masahiro Nakura, a professor of medicine at the Self-Defense Forces University, guilty of being a chikan (groper) after he was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old high school girl on the Odakyu train line in 2006....
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Oct 18, 2009

Power for all the people

The all-electric home craze sweeping Japan with its typhoon of talking bathtubs, full-service toilets and flameless kitchens may finally have met its match.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 17, 2009

Redknapp will face fury in Portsmouth return

LONDON — Harry Redknapp returns to Portsmouth on Saturday for the first time since his sudden departure to Tottenham Hotspur a year ago. The reception given to their former manager by most of the Fratton Park faithful will be red hot rather than warm, a significant difference.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 17, 2009

Artist of the cross-cultural landscape

The ocean symbolizes both a microcosm of living things and the metaphoric dream of unlimited possibilities. Gazing toward the horizon, Holly Thompson, writer and teacher, seems to find these truths reflected in that hazy line.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 16, 2009

Ogre embrace their inner nerds

"I'm not sure. I guess it is because of our name."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 16, 2009

Crystal Kay is having a ball

"There is still some racial thing going on," claims a mild-mannered Crystal Kay. "Some people can't accept there are a lot of foreigners out there, even in the industry.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 16, 2009

Love and light at Hara Museum

In 1979, when he founded the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in his grandfather's former residence in Tokyo's Shinagawa district, Toshio Hara was driven by the vision of creating one of Japan's first institutions dedicated to living artists. At the time there were precious few other venues for contemporary...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2009

Japan can learn from Silicon Valley

With unemployment figures reaching their highest level in the post-World War II era, the Japanese economy shows no sign of a Silicon Valley-like resurgence that could give hope to the unemployed or to "zombie" corporations that have no customers for their products and no growth.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2009

BayStars interested in Valentine

The Yokohama BayStars are making a "concentrated effort" to bring Bobby Valentine back to Japan. That was the word reported by FOX Sports on Tuesday, days after the manager returned to the U.S. after his final season managing the Chiba Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2009

Uncertainty surrounds first-stage teams in Pa. League Climax Series

Established in 2004, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles may be making their maiden voyage into the postseason but manager Katsuya Nomura's club has the pieces for a successful run.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2009

Campaign against groping

Every year in Japan, some 1,800 men are arrested for groping women on trains. In a 2004 NHK survey of Tokyo women in their 20s and 30s, 64 percent said they had been groped on a train. Only 2 percent reported it to police. In 2008, the police in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama recognized 2,416 cases...
SOCCER / World cup
Oct 11, 2009

Late goals give Japan triumph over Scotland

YOKOHAMA — Japan needed a late own-goal to open the door to a 2-0 win over Scotland on Saturday, as Takeshi Okada's side struggled to find its rhythm in what had effectively become a B international.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 11, 2009

Ishihara's bid for legacy was Olympian waste of taxpayer money

I hate to say I told you so . . . but I did.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 10, 2009

A seaside picture of contentment

Sayonara Kawagoe Kinema. Hello Cinema Amigo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2009

Widow asks Toyota to move now on floor mat accelerator hazard

Two years before the fatal accident that prompted Toyota Motor Corp. to warn 3.8 million U.S. car owners to take out floor mats, Troy Johnson died in a crash also suspected of being caused by a floor mat jamming an accelerator.
COMMUNITY
Oct 10, 2009

A seaside picture of contentment

Sayonara Kawagoe Kinema. Hello Cinema Amigo.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2009

Toyota files with U.S. to recall 3.8 million cars with loose mats

NEW YORK (Kyodo) Toyota Motor Corp. has formally filed a recall report with the U.S. government covering 3.8 million vehicles in seven models, including the Prius hybrid, due to the risk that a loose driver-side floor mat could jam the accelerator.
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2009

Election reform essential

The July 2007 Upper House election was challenged by lawsuits claiming that the disparity in the relative value of votes between constituencies was so large that the election should be declared unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has now ruled that the election was constitutional and valid, but the Diet...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 6, 2009

Valentine tight-lipped over rumors of Marlins post

CHIBA — Bobby Valentine's return to television may not last that long after all.
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.
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.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.

Podcast

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
By Megha Wadhwa

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