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BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2012

Sharp puts up properties in bid to secure fresh bank loans

Struggling Sharp Corp. said Thursday it has put up some of its properties, including its Osaka headquarters and flagship Kameyama plant in Mie Prefecture, as collateral for ¥150 billion in fresh bank loans, confirming earlier news reports.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012

'Sho Time' delivers Fighters past Eagles

The Hokkaido Nippon Fighters nearly broke through against Manabu Mima after a double by Sho Nakata in the sixth inning.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2012

Both Ford, Toyota claim top-selling car in the world

Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, and Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's biggest car company, are each saying they produced the best-selling car in the world in the first half. Their definitions are the key.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 2, 2012

Ota's versatility, productivity ignite Giants

Taishi Ota made up for lost time in his first game back from the farm team.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2012

Giants' Koyama picks up first career victory

Neither Yuki Koyama nor Tokyo Dome existed in 1981, the year the Giants are currently celebrating with their throwback uniforms.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2012

Nankai quake projected toll radically raised

As many as 323,000 people in 30 prefectures could be killed by a major earthquake and ensuing monster tsunami that scientists say could hit in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast, the Cabinet Office's Central Disaster Prevention Council said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2012

Tokyoites pay highest smartphone bills among seven major global cities

Kyodo Residents of Tokyo pay the highest monthly smartphone bills among seven major global cities, partly due to expensive data communications fees and the yen's strength, according to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2012

Tensions rise in Northeast Asia

Japan and South Korea, allies of the United States since World War II, are supposed to be part of an Asia-Pacific counterbalance to China's growing power and its expansive maritime and island claims in East Asia's seas. Instead, an upwelling of nationalism as the region marked the Aug. 15 anniversary...
Reader Mail
Aug 23, 2012

Who's letting the tail wag the dog?

According to the Aug. 17 Kyodo article "Osprey crash in April due to pilot error: U.S.": Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is reported to have urged Tokyo to deal with the issues of U.S. Osprey aircraft deployment and Futenma air base relocation from the wider security perspective...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 23, 2012

Streaking Hawks brush Lions aside

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks have struggled for much of the season, but the reigning Japan Series champions finally seem to be putting everything together just as the pennant race is about to turn the final corner.
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2012

Noda adviser urges SDF involvement

Kyodo Akihisa Nagashima, special adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on foreign and defense matters, stressed the need Sunday to use the Self-Defense Forces for territorial surveillance in Japanese waters following the protest landing carried out by Chinese activists on the disputed Senkaku Islands...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 18, 2012

Takahashi slugs 300th homer in win over Carp

Injuries have plagued Yoshinobu Takahashi for much of what was once a promising career with the Yomiuri Giants.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2012

Keeping retirees employed

The Lower House on Aug. 2 passed a bill to make it obligatory in principle for enterprises to keep employing through the age of 65 all workers who want to continue to work after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 60. The bill is aimed at securing employment for such workers until they start receiving...
Reader Mail
Aug 9, 2012

Sure way to kill economic growth

Regarding the July 31 front-page Kyodo article "New growth strategy to focus on autos, FTAs": It's fine for the government to have a growth strategy, but the best one is just to get out of the way and let Japan's many innovative people and entrepreneurs lead the way.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2012

Hashimoto reeling after students' names leaked

Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) officials were reeling with embarrassment and threatening to file a police complaint this week after a weekly tabloid magazine published the names of the 888 students studying at an academy set up by the local political group and its founder, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto....
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.

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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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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