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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2009

Slippery slope of doctor-assisted euthanasia

PRINCETON — Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 15, 2009

Panda-poop prof scoops Ig Nobel honor

Bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas can be used to reduce food waste to less than 10 percent of its original mass. For making this stunning — and potentially invaluable — scientific discovery, Fumiaki Taguchi, Professor Emeritus of Kitasato University in Kanagawa Prefecture, was awarded...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2009

Luxury a poor fit in today's Japan

Akiko Sayama re-examined her spending habits when the Tokyo staffing agency where she works cut its overtime budget. She lost around ¥1 million in annual pay, so one of the first things she did was curb her tastes for Louis Vuitton and Gucci.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 13, 2009

Warp Records hits the big 2-0

Sheffield has come on a long way over the past 20 years. England's one-time "City of Steel" was, in the dying days of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's era, a pretty grim place to be, its factories shuttered and its high streets desolate. Today, it presents a cleaner, more affluent — and, some might...
CULTURE / Music
Nov 13, 2009

Yukie Sato

An active player in Japan's underground rock scene from his teens (he performed alongside Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto on TV while in high school), Tokyo-born guitarist Yukie Sato began to tire of his beloved genre in his 30s. His passion was renewed in 1995 after discovering Korean classic...
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2009

Producer prices fell 6.7% in October

Producer prices fell for the 10th straight month in October, underscoring the risk that deflation could undermine the economic recovery.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 13, 2009

Yukie Sato

An active player in Japan's underground rock scene from his teens (he performed alongside Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto on TV while in high school), Tokyo-born guitarist Yukie Sato began to tire of his beloved genre in his 30s. His passion was renewed in 1995 after discovering Korean classic...
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2009

Informants to split ¥10 million bounty on fugitive

Police plan to split the ¥10 million reward among multiple informants who helped lead to the Tuesday evening collar of Tatsuya Ichihashi in Osaka, marking the first such payout since the bounty system was introduced in April 2007, a National Police Agency official said.
COMMENTARY
Nov 12, 2009

Re-energizing America's role in trade talks

International trade has been an engine of growth for many Asian countries, enabling them to create jobs and raise living standards faster than in countries elsewhere in the world that were unready to take advantage of surging trade opportunities.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2009

Yet another 'Battle of Okinawa'

CANBERRA — Elections in August gave Japan a new government, headed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In electing him and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the Japanese people, like the American people less than a year earlier, were opting for change. Remarkably, however, what followed on the part...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 10, 2009

Contrite Inaba laments his missed opportunities in Japan Series loss

SAPPORO — For one last time, the entire Sapporo Dome was shaking as the crowd was trying to give energy to the Hokkaido Nippon Fighters with perhaps their most symbolic way of cheering.
Reader Mail
Nov 8, 2009

Manila lacks leverage with Burma

In his Oct. 29 letter, "ASEAN's act is far from together," Manuel J. Laserna Jr. claims that the Philippines has been reluctant to admonish the Myanmar regime (aka Burma) for its human rights abuses. This is not accurate.
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009

Matohu duo open up

Two hours late to the audition, a leggy model scrambled in to Matohu's showroom. After she presented her portfolio of photos to the designers and performed a short runway strut, she picked up her things, gave a bow and quickly left.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2009

Mr. Hatoyama fuzzy on funds

As expected, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party has launched a salvo of criticism in the Lower House's Budget Committee against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over a political funds scandal. Unfortunately for Mr. Hatoyama, his explanations have not been very convincing.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2009

Dongguan official invites direct investment

A vice mayor of the Chinese industrial city of Dongguan urged Japanese manufacturers Friday to expand on its turf and exploit its domestic market to help the city recover from the global economic crisis and fall in exports.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2009

Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui agree to merge

Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. agreed to merge to create Japan's fifth-largest bank as they seek to boost profit and brace for tougher capital requirements.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 6, 2009

The Shapeshifters

One of the world's premier house-music labels, the U.K.-based Defected Records, brings its famed global "Defected In The House" shindig to Tokyo on Nov. 6. Headlining the event are The Shapeshifters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 6, 2009

Vola & The Oriental's record-making Machine

"Once you're on a major label, you have to crank albums out fast!" says Ahito Inazawa, the frontman for Vola & The Oriental Machine.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Worker shortage forcing home care providers to turn away clients, survey finds
A survey by a labor union of home care business operators and care managers found that nearly 90% of facility managers had turned down service requests at least once during the past year, citing insufficient staffing.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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