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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Aug 14, 2011

Time for bj-league to make serious push for recognition

In nearly two months, the bj-league will begin its seventh season. The fact that the league still exists is, well, an accomplishment; many upstart circuits don't survive this long.
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Jul 28, 2011

Fukulog shares its looks with Asia

Street fashion goes social on Fukulog, a site that's attracting attracting the attention of fashionistas in Japan and beyond.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 30, 2011

"Anything But"

The Container Closes Aug. 29
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 10, 2011

Toyama dumps coach again; Ishizaki eyes Europe

The Toyama Grouses' predictable blueprint — one that's failed repeatedly — contained the following decision on Wednesday:
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

JTA's questionable use of students

The Japan Tourism Agency's recent announcement that it will dispatch 1,100 international students to tourist destinations throughout Japan beginning in July raises more questions than it answers. JTA's press release and an accompanying PDF can be found at www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/news03_000028.html.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 29, 2011

Sake fights fallout of Japan's triple disaster

After surviving the double disaster of the magnitude 9 earthquake and towering tsunami that damaged more than 100 sake breweries in northeastern Japan on March 11, sake producers in Tohoku thought that the situation could hardly get worse. But when the media reported that the stricken reactors at Fukushima's...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 24, 2011

After March 11, Japan must reconsider its energy options

Viewed from abroad, there is no doubt that Japan is suffering an unmitigated disaster.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2011

Sony revamp to place Hirai in crucial role

Sony Corp. said Thursday it will reorganize its main electronics businesses and promote the star of its gaming operations to lead a new consumer products division.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2011

Activists to give Taiji residents free 'Cove' DVD

Supporters of a movement working to halt the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, will distribute DVDs of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" to all residents of the tiny port that grabbed global attention with its bloody cull, an activist group said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2011

Tanita working on hand-held gauge that shows who pigged out

Ate too much? With only one drop of urine, a new device developed by health care firm Tanita Corp. can check for overeating.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 19, 2011

And the next taberu rayu will be . . .

Taberu rayu became the king of condiments in 2010. Will new contenders topple it from its throne?
Reader Mail
Feb 6, 2011

A thought for Lindsay Ann Hawker

Regarding Alex Martin's Jan. 26 article, "Ichihashi book details life on run" (about the book written by Tatsuya Ichihashi, the accused killer of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker): Family members of Hawker are said to feel "disgusted" and "hurt" about the book being published before Ichihashi's trial. I agree...
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2010

Cram school buys out Shane English School

Cram school operator Eikoh Inc. said Friday it has acquired Shane English School to strengthen its English-language education for elementary school children ahead of the planned compulsory teaching of the language for fifth- and sixth-graders.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 22, 2010

Locals dance off economy woes via theater

"A (micro) history of the world economics, danced," a unique collaboration of professional and amateur actors that caused an uproar when it was first staged in France in January, will be showcased at theaters in Shizuoka and Miyazaki, featuring locals there as cast members.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2010

Leaders' broken promises are costing lives

PRINCETON, N.J. — In 2000, the world's leaders met in New York and issued a ringing Millennium Declaration, promising to halve the proportion of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 27, 2010

Expansion to 20 teams set for 2011-12 season

In a swift announcement that will have major repercussions for the future of the sport, bj-league commissioner Toshimitsu Kawachi revealed Thursday the bj-league's plans for the 2011-12 season.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2010

Promoting 'Cool Japan'

Eight years have passed since American journalist Douglas McGray first coined the phrase, but now the Japanese government is getting behind "Cool Japan" in a big way. A new Creative Industries Promotion Office was established in June within the Manufacturing Industries Bureau of the Ministry of Economy,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 6, 2010

Good news and bad news for manga lovers

Manga publishers vow to crack down on scanlation but hope comes from other quarters.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 28, 2010

How cheap is your love? Diamond appraiser hit

Does love take a hit when diamond appraisers start shifting standards?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 21, 2010

Gyaru get cooking

Ajinomoto takes gyaru mamas seriously and targets this demographic with a cooking site for mobile phones.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 16, 2010

Nets taking real risk by hiring combative Johnson

NEW YORK — Given more time and fewer resources, Rod Thorn probably could have made a worse coaching choice than Avery Johnson . . . but damned if I can imagine who that micro-managing, playoff-pressure-leaking megalomaniac might be.

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?