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BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2011

Panasonic to procure more parts overseas

Panasonic Corp. will increase the amount of parts bought outside Japan this year to help cut procurement costs by ¥500 billion, according to a senior company official.
LIFE / Digital
Sep 16, 2011

The 10 video games you must see at this year's exhibition

Whenever huge games or new kinds of hardware go on sale, fans line up to be the first to make their purchase, sometimes even waiting overnight. Lining up has become a time-honored tradition in gaming culture. However, at Tokyo Game Show, time is precious. Here are 10 games that are sure to be worth the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 16, 2011

Pizzeria e Trattoria da Isa: Proper pizza and pasta — and yes, it's in Tokyo

"You can't get proper Italian food in Japan." "It's all too pretty-pretty and refined." "There's no soul in it." These are the plaints of people pining for the taste of home. People who have never been to Pizzeria e Trattoria da Isa.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 15, 2011

Heal me: Spirituality businesses redefining "religion"

'Spirituality businesses' endeavoring to bring back that old-time religion, Japanese-style.
Reader Mail
Sep 15, 2011

Geothermal is less wasteful

Regarding the Sept. 9 Kyodo article "Kepco's massive solar plant up and running": Although I applaud Kansai Electric Power Co.'s efforts to provide us with greener energy from its 10 megawatt power plant in Osaka, I can't help but feel the land used is wasted.
Reader Mail
Sep 15, 2011

What should the U.S. have done?

I disagree with the conclusion of the Sept. 11 editorial, "The truly lost decade since 9/11," which states that "We cannot blame all of this on the U.S. response to 9/11, but the blame begins there."
Reader Mail
Sep 15, 2011

No other city can beat Tokyo

Regarding Satoshi Sato's Sept. 11 letter, "Tokyo doesn't get a enough respect": As an Englishman who has visited both Tokyo and Osaka, it is my honest opinion that not only is Tokyo Japan's No. 1 city; it is also the world's No. 1 city.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 15, 2011

Francois Girard and a woman of many letters

"This wonderful project started when my friend, the Lebanese writer Wajdi Mouawad, gave me a book and said I should make a movie out it," Francois Girard explains. "But after I read it I got back to him and said, 'Sorry, I disagree with you. This is really not right for a movie — but it's perfect for...
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2011

LDP slams Noda over ministers' miscues

Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers grilled Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in the Diet on Wednesday over recent verbal gaffes by his Cabinet ministers as well as his party's flip-flops on various key policies, and urged him to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 15, 2011

Don't miss those fleeting moments

The closest English photographer, and former night porter, Chris Shaw ever came to Japan was listening to stories at home in Merseyside from his Irish ex-merchant navy father. Sailor Shaw told his wide-eyed son of an extraordinary stopover in Osaka before the war in 1939, when he was granted shore leave....
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2011

Nippon Steel said trying to stave off Brazil threat

Nippon Steel Corp. and Brazil's Gerdau SA are in talks to stave off a rival $2.9 billion bid for a stake in Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA, or Usiminas, said two sources familiar with the negotiations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2011

BOJ board concerned strong yen 'taking root'

Bank of Japan Policy Board member Ryuzo Miyao said Wednesday the central bank is ready to take "appropriate" action as needed to support the economy amid worries that the yen will stay strong.
COMMENTARY
Sep 14, 2011

Prospects for the Arab Spring

The Gadhafi tyranny in Libya has been overthrown although the "colonel" has not yet been found and elements of his regime and his mercenaries continue to pose problems for the new regime. Much needs to be done to restore Libyan infrastructure, including restoring water and power supplies in Tripoli,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2011

Fukushima man opts to be guinea pig

Nobuyoshi Ito is skeptical of the reported effects of radiation from the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. So skeptical, in fact, that he decided to put himself on the front line of radiation research.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 14, 2011

No rush to turn to renewables

Since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, faith in renewable energy sources has spread fast in many corners of the world as an emissions-free means of generating electricity. But placing excessive expectations on renewable energy sources could...
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2011

Noda to face grilling about appointments

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to face conflict in the Diet session that kicked off Tuesday as opposition parties prepared to grill him over his Cabinet appointments, most notably about short-term trade minister Yoshio Hachiro, who stepped down after making jokes about the Fukushima nuclear...
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2011

Tohoku mental health care

As the cleanup of the physical wreckage from the Tohoku disasters continues, more work is needed to heal psychological wounds. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced plans in early September to set up mental health care centers for children who lost parents in the March 11 disasters. In August,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 13, 2011

Maeda eyes Eco-point plan to revive Tohoku

New transport minister Takeshi Maeda says he wants to bring back the Housing Eco-point incentive system to achieve low-carbon, sustainable cities in the quake- and tsunami-hit Tohoku region.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Sep 13, 2011

Swede on mission to help Japan seniors

Gustav Strandell believes that if there is something good about his home country, Sweden, that he can bring to Japan, it's the concept and some of the technical skills of its social welfare system developed over its 100-year-plus history as an aging society.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 13, 2011

Eriko Hiratsuka

Eriko Hiratsuka, 26, received her master's degree from Waseda University's Graduate School of Law in 2010. That's no small achievement for anyone, but for Eriko, who has severe hearing loss in both ears, reaching her goals has always required extra effort. Although she can only hear sounds above 80 decibels...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 13, 2011

Despite mounting debt, yen still a safe haven

The yen climbed to and has remained at a historic high since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. On Aug. 19 it hit a postwar high of 75.95 to the dollar, an event that has led the government to intervene in the foreign exchange market twice.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Sep 13, 2011

The strength of Tokyo's minimalists, Knit for Japan and rediscovering Beams

MISHA JANETTE and PAUL McINNES 'Irving Penn and Issey Miyake' For 13 years, celebrated fashion photographer Irving Penn took inspiring images of every Issey Miyake collection, without the designer himself ever stepping foot into the studio to guide him.
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2011

What's wrong with Indian labor?

Regarding the Sept. 7 Kyodo article "Strong yen forces Toyota to end Camry exports to U.S.": The stronger the yen becomes, the more such news will appear from all exporters of Japan.
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2011

Seize the Olympic opportunity

Regarding the Sept. 4 Kyodo brief "Tokyo faces five in bid for 2020 games": An argument against Tokyo bidding for the 2020 Olympics can be made on financial grounds, especially with the outcome anything but certain. But there is an aura of magnificence about the Olympiad beyond tangible measurement....
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2011

Tourists ignoring dolphin culls

Regarding Susanna Duft's Sept. 8 letter, "Boon for a new tourism drive": Duft seems to believe in the misguided logic that ending the annual dolphin slaughter in Japan will encourage much-needed tourism, which has been decimated by the March 11 Tohoku-Pacific earthquake and tsunami.
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2011

Tokyo doesn't get enough respect

According to the Global Livability Survey's ranking of 140 cities worldwide — the subject of the Sept. 1 AFP-JIJI article "Melbourne replaces Vancouver as the world's 'most-livable city'" — Tokyo came in 18th while Osaka was 12th! This annual survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit tends to rank...
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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