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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2011

Marubeni swaps trail only Tepco in growth

The cost to insure debt of Marubeni Corp. is poised to rise the most this month of any Japanese company besides Tokyo Electric Power Co., reflecting concern an economic slowdown will make it more difficult to meet forecasts for record profit.
Reader Mail
Oct 27, 2011

Why TPP doesn't add up

I was impressed by Donald Wood's compelling argument regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("Reserve judgement on TPP," Oct. 23), but I'd like to point out another factor to be considered: uncertainty, in particular over water. Abuse, depletion, flood and conflict over water disrupts lives and threatens...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 27, 2011

Martyn

Dutch-born DJ and producer Martyn is perhaps best known for his dub-heavy bass tunes, and the back catalog of his own 3024 label would appear to confirm that. However, four-to-the-floor house and techno beats actually make him feel more at home. "It's very much a physical thing," he explains in an interview...
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Oct 27, 2011

Artists who'll go bump in the night

If you catch sight of The Invisible Salaryman, or rather his bandages, dark glasses and business suit, as he loops Tokyo by rail on the Yamanote Line this coming Sunday, you may want to follow him to the "abandoned" hospital hosting the latest ArtGig Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 27, 2011

Burning Spirits

DAISUKE KIKUCHI Special to The Japan Times Who says Halloween isn't popular in Japan? The Burning Spirits Halloween 2011 event will rock Shinjuku Antiknock on the scariest night of the year, with acts hand-picked to create a creepy but fun atmosphere. Expect bands and DJs made up like corpses, all offering...
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2011

Mitsubishi, DBJ eye another health care fund

Healthcare Management Partners Inc., a venture between Mitsubishi Corp. and Development Bank of Japan Inc., may plan a second fund on expectations that demand for medical services will rise in the world's most rapidly aging nation.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2011

Woodford opens door to return to Olympus

Former Olympus Corp. Chief Executive Officer Michael C. Woodford said the company's "toxic" board must go and he would be ready to run the company again if the majority of shareholders wanted him to.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Oct 26, 2011

A camera worth saving for, and the first Android 4.0 smartphone

Last week, Canon announced its new EOS-1D X DSLR camera, the latest addition to its 1D series, replacing both the EOS-1Ds Mark III and Mark IV models. The 1D X is Canon's top-of-the-line offering, targeting professionals and high-end photographers. With a hefty price tag of ¥650,000 (for the body only),...
COMMUNITY / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 25, 2011

Top Tokyo haunts: five scary spots

1) Sunshine 60 Build a massive shopping and entertainment complex in Ikebukuro (at one time the tallest building in Asia) on the very site where seven Japanese war criminals were executed and you are bound to piss off some ghosts. In fact, its construction was plagued by many incidents (injured workers,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 25, 2011

Japan Pom Pom cheerleaders founder Fumie Takino

Fumie Takino, 79, is the founder of the Japan Pom Pom cheerleaders, a group of 28 women, with an average age of 67, whose decades-defying energy would give any cheerleader a run for her money. Established in 1996, the group have now been performing wild dance routines to club music for 15 years.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 25, 2011

Get your virtual freak on this Halloween

Thanks to augmented reality voodoo, you can skip that messy fake blood and itchy costume.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2011

Olympus case a black mark for Japan

The recent dismissal of the British chief executive of Olympus has once again drawn the attention of European media to peculiarities in corporate governance in Japan. Accounting practices and lack of transparency have aroused particular concern.
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,...
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2011

What Chinese law can learn

Regarding the Oct. 20 article "Chinese law reform may be a double-edged sword," China should not include the Western convention of allowing lawyers to coach their clients to lie, in any list of reforms.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 23, 2011

Citizens' forum queries nuclear 'experts'

To whom does scientific debate belong?
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2011

Reserve judgment on TPP

Suddenly, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which the United States has been pushing for some time now, has become a very hot topic ("Noda puts TPP back on radar", Oct. 12).
EDITORIALS
Oct 23, 2011

Toward a barrier-free Japan

Japan's move to make urban environments and transportation systems barrier-free came much later than other developed countries. However, in the decade since Japan's barrier-free transport law was enacted in 2001, the number of barrier-free stations has more than tripled. The transport ministry reported...
EDITORIALS
Oct 23, 2011

Releasing psychiatric patients

A recent report by Bloomberg news that the government is planning to reduce the number of patients in psychiatric hospitals signals an important shift in Japan's view of mental health. According to the report, which was not well circulated in the Japanese press, the health ministry set a 10-year timetable...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 23, 2011

Busy offseason ahead for NPB, players

Every year when I renew acquaintances with returning foreign players — whether it be at spring training camp in Okinawa or Miyazaki, an exhibition game or an early regular-season game -I ask them as an ice-breaker, "How was your winter?" The answer I get most often is "short."
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...
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 23, 2011

One woman's Hyakumeizan

As I thumb through the tattered pages of my decade-old hiking guidebook, a sense of satisfaction coupled with disbelief takes over.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 22, 2011

Briton aims to restore poets' peak to former glory

Nineteen university students and civic-minded Kyoto residents squat on a mountain pass on a cloudless afternoon in early October as a tall British poet, Stephen Gill, 58, reads from a collection of haiku.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 22, 2011

Time for Manchester City to show mettle

There are defining moments in every season and the winning goal scored by Manchester City's Sergio Agüero against Villarreal last Tuesday is one of them for 2011-12.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 21, 2011

Burger franchises take a second go at success

Wendy's returns to Japan with a new approach, while Burger King prepares to take a bigger bite out of the fast-food market.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Voters in Tokyo reflect shifting political views across Japan
Pedestrians walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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