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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2011

All too familiar signs of state paralysis in Thai crisis

Like the Japan tsunami, flooding in Thailand will have a global impact on the supply and price of rice, cameras, computers and cars.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 28, 2011

"Chu Enoki: Unleashing the Museum"

Chu Enoki (b. 1944), a native of Kagawa Prefecture, is a Kobe-based contemporary artist who started his artistic career in the 1960s. He is known for his avant-garde public performances and the use of controversial motifs, such as guns and cannons.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2011

Olympus damage control: Vast adviser fees legit

Olympus Corp., whose shares plummeted about 50 percent after its ousted former president publicly criticized it for dubious money transactions, claimed Thursday there is nothing illicit about the advisory fee it paid in acquiring a British medical equipment firm.
COMMENTARY
Oct 27, 2011

Iraq war's lessons lost on U.S.

In a White House Statement on Oct. 21, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged that his country would finally withdraw forces from Iraq. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," he said.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 25, 2011

Chono was most valuable player for Giants this season

There were all sorts of strings attached to Hisayoshi Chono's last at-bat of the regular season.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2011

U.S. remembers trade diplomacy

On the morning of Oct. 14, U.S. President Barack Obama signed three free-trade agreements, one each with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. The trade deals are important steps forward for the United States and its partners. While these deals are economic agreements, they are much more. In particular,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDIA-JAPAN SYMPOSIUM
Oct 24, 2011

India bids for closer East Asia ties for regional integration

India wants to play a role in the economic integration of Asia through closer ties with East Asian powers including China — despite a long history of political hostility — and Japan, journalists and experts from India said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 23, 2011

Only the Japanese public's will can raze that lethal 'village'

"Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of the list," wrote Leuren Moret in a "Power and the people" Timeout special in The Japan Times on May 23, 2004.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 23, 2011

Minister attacked for challenging the 'family system'

Yoko Komiyama is the first woman to ever occupy the post of Japan's minister of health, welfare and labor. As a mother, she may have more insight than her male colleagues into issues her ministry addresses, and from the start of her appointment in August she has stirred up controversy, mainly with her...
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2011

Capcom expects phone games to generate 30% of profit

Capcom Co. expects the proportion of its profit generated by "Smurfs' Village" and other games played on mobile phones to rise to 30 percent as users of Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Google Inc.'s Android system download the titles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 20, 2011

Blip Festival Tokyo

If there's anything video-game geeks hate, it's interacting with other people — at least, that's the common perception. However, it's a perception that is routinely shattered by the live chiptune music scene — and where better to go multiplayer than at this weekend's Blip Festival Tokyo, which celebrates...
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2011

Olympus backtracks on Gyrus fee

Olympus Corp. said Wednesday it paid $687 million in advisory fees for its acquisition of Gyrus Group PLC, almost double the ¥30 billion Olympus Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa said the day before.
COMMENTARY
Oct 19, 2011

A decade of Afghan tragedy

On July 1, 2002, the United States bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region's many mountains. For a few hours, its people thought they were safe from a war they had never invited. They celebrated, and as customs...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 18, 2011

Bureaucrat housing perks draw fire

As The Government Scrambles To Find Funds To Rebuild The Disaster-hit Tohoku Region, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda Hinted Monday The Government May Cancel A ¥10.5 Billion Project To Construct A State-owned Housing Complex For Civil Servants In Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, Amid An Opposition Uproar.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2011

Auditor hired by fired Olympus chief smells rotten acquisition

Olympus Corp. should investigate payments made to advisers in connection with an acquisition, according to an external auditor's report.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Oct 18, 2011

Fashion Week action happening on more than just runways

Tokyo's MBFW festivities It's mid-Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo (MBFW Tokyo) and there's still an array of snazzy events to carry you through to the end while keeping you fashionable. So roll up your best, pressed sleeves and read on.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 16, 2011

Struggling Urawa falls into relegation zone

J. League heavyweights Urawa Reds slipped into the relegation places with five matches remaining after a 1-0 derby-day defeat to Omiya Ardija on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2011

Goldman surges as M&A adviser

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is on its way to taking the top spot among advisers on Japanese takeovers for the first time in five years, supplanting Nomura Holdings Inc., as companies striving to compete globally turn increasingly to foreign investment banks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2011

Engine redo stalls HondaJet release until 2013

Honda Motor Co. suffered a new setback to its HondaJet small aircraft as engine damage forced a redesign that will delay the first delivery until mid-2013, almost a year later than the previous schedule.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2011

Son mourns as he announces iPhone pricing

Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son mourned Friday over the death of a key business partner, Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, on the same day that his company started receiving reservations for the new iPhone 4S.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 8, 2011

Hasegawa has high expectations for Akita's second season

Ed OdevenSTAFF WRITER
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 7, 2011

'Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (My S.O. Has Depression)'

Here's a confession: I'm not a big reader of manga, including the many that have been made into Japanese films. Given the limited amount of reading time I have left on Earth, I'd rather spend it with Proust than "Gantz." So sue me.
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Close the air station ... tomorrow

On Sept. 7 the Noda Cabinet's new Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba made an inaugural telephone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which he assured her that Japan would stick to the accord reached last year to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko in northern Okinawa....
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2011

Social media urban legends

The ever-expanding universe of social-media technologies — including video-sharing, mobile phones, and networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter that allow individuals to share and connect — is as ubiquitous as it is misunderstood. Apostles hail its power to oust dictators and bring us together;...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Oct 5, 2011

Why do Japanese developers keep us waiting?

The problem with Japanese video games is that they take too damn long to make.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 4, 2011

World Heritage listing has its price

News that Iwate Prefecture's historic Hiraizumi area and the Ogasawara Islands would be added to UNESCO's World Heritage List last June lifted the spirits of residents in the Tohoku region after the March 11 quake-tsunami trauma.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 4, 2011

Hawks euphoric after triumph, focused on winning Japan Series title

For a few precious hours, the rigors of a demanding season were forgotten as the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks sprayed one another with bottle after bottle of beer.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 3, 2011

A short history of big gaffes by Japanese politicians

"Kokoro kara owabi mōshi-agemasu" (「心からお詫び申し上げます」 "I apologize from my heart"). The hearts of Japanese politicians must be bottomless indeed, for all the apologies that seem to ferment there. Their mouths, meanwhile, are on automatic pilot, sowing shitsugen (失言, gaffe,...
Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
As Japan marks 80 years since WWII surrender, Ishiba expresses remorse
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba lays a flower during the memorial service at the Nippon Budokan on Friday.
Trump shifts stance on road to Ukraine peace after meeting Putin in Alaska
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a news conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
War must never be repeated, says WWII guerrilla commander
Former teacher Satoshi Ito speaks during an interview in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, in June. Ito underwent training for guerrilla warfare at a secret school to prepare for a possible battle in mainland Japan during World War II.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
Reading the Japanese clock: Are times a-changin'?
People walk past a time board at Hakata Station in Fukuoka. Luckily for those trying to catch a train, reading a clock is universal.
Samansa bets on commuter cinema
Filmmakers interview the general manager of a Bald Men's club for an upcoming Flix Oven documentary that will be available via the streaming platform Samansa.
Recent deaths of Japanese boxers underline importance of emergency action plans
The Japan Boxing Commission's safety protocols have been thrust into the spotlight following the deaths of Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, who suffered fatal brain injuries while fighting on the same card on Aug. 2.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
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