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JAPAN
Mar 17, 2010

Autopsy report: too few deaths examined

If the police had had their way, the sudden death of a young sumo wrestler three years ago would have been simply a tragic event quickly swept under the rug, dismissed, as it initially was, as heart failure from unknown causes.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2010

Carmakers, Tepco link to plug electric cars

Toyota and three other Japanese automakers together with a power utility have set up a group to promote electric vehicles by standardizing recharging machines and marketing the technology abroad.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 16, 2010

Lowdown on driving permits; slim pickings for foreign products

Reader A.B. is concerned that he has been driving on an International Driving Permit and is getting mixed messages as to its legality.
COMMENTARY
Mar 14, 2010

Assuaging China's expanding 'core' concerns

SINGAPORE — Not long before U.S. President Barack Obama held his low-key meeting in the White House with the exiled Tibetan leader last month, the Dalai Lama, a Chinese Embassy spokesman in Washington issued a statement on the talks and the U.S. decision to provide a new package of defensive arms to...
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2010

Prada, manager fail to come to settlement in harassment case

Prada Japan's senior retail manager said Saturday she had failed to reach a settlement with the Italian fashion label in a dispute alleging the company harassed her and other employees.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 14, 2010

Patient's tale casts a sublime lightness on some awful scars of war

"Elephant," by Minoru Betsuyaku, is a postwar classic of Japanese drama.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2010

BOJ looks to expand balance sheet

The Bank of Japan may seek next week to counter a contraction of its balance sheet caused by the monthend expiration of an emergency-credit program and persistent deflation.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Mar 12, 2010

Japan by the numbers (3.12.10)

Surveys say ... Holmes is hotter but Watson (or a government worker) would make a better husband.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 12, 2010

'Sherlock Holmes'

As with most other things in the modern world, "Sherlock Holmes" is kindly adapted to fit the "it's for everyone" format — you don't have to be an expert on Victorian London, on the whereabouts of Baker Street, on who Dr. John Watson was — or any of those elementary issues. (By the way, that famed...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 12, 2010

'Sweet Little Lies'

Marriages are strange creatures. They can die suddenly, when from the outside everything seems fine, or they can linger on for years when it's obvious to everyone, including the two principals, that it's all over.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 12, 2010

Dancer Rizzi brings unique story to Japan

"Why go to a performance instead of renting a DVD and staying at home?" ponders 44-year-old dancer, choreographer, actor and visual artist Antony Rizzi on the Boston Cyberarts Festival Web site. Rizzi feels that this is an exciting time for dance to do battle with the lethargic pull of the home entertainment...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 12, 2010

Israeli confronts past by mastering Wagner

Rising Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger will complete, in Tokyo in March, his first series of performances of "The Ring of the Nibelung," a cycle of four linked operas by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 12, 2010

Molice channel silver screen on new album

"We're really inspired by Stanley Kubrick and we want to create a sound that reflects Kubrick's visual image," says guitarist Yuzuru Takeda of Molice. The band is due to release a new album titled "Catalystrock" later this month, and we're here in a small coffee shop on the band's home turf in Kokubunji,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Mar 12, 2010

'Showa no Joseitachi'

Kiyokawa Taiji Memorial GalleryCloses March 22
COMMENTARY
Mar 11, 2010

U.S. base problem drags on

The loud dispute over the future of the U.S. Marine Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, is puzzling. Even U.S. officialdom agrees that this base causes enormous inconvenience to the residents of Ginowan city who are forced to live alongside. Plans to have it moved have been around for years. But to where?...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 11, 2010

Oh Museum to open in Fukuoka

Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh will soon have his own museum.
COMMENTARY
Mar 11, 2010

The U.S. media badly needs a wakeup call

Different societies allow their news media different roles. In most countries the media is subordinated to power, whether of the government or the ruling class. Surprisingly or not, the American model is not widely emulated globally.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Mar 11, 2010

Revamps, re-openings, relocations and the return of Fashion Week

MISHA JANETTE Get ready for Fashion Week
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 10, 2010

The cheapest night out/in

Recession drinking styles now include vending-machine stand bars and Twitter-enhanced boozing. Come here often?
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2010

No easy solutions for U.S., Japan to revive economies

Even as Japan and the United States need deficit-funded stimulus now to stay on the recovery path, sustained large budget deficits will be a long-term problem that undermines their future growth prospects and must be addressed. But how?
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2010

Shipment of nuclear waste arrives from U.K.

OSAKA — The first delivery of at least 850 canisters of high-level radioactive vitrified waste arrived Tuesday morning by ship from the U.K. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where it will sit in storage for decades before being buried deep underground.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 10, 2010

Lakers starting to look less than invincible

NEW YORK — The Lakers lost a mere 17 games all last season when they won the NBA championship.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2010

'Cove' Oscar won't end Taiji dolphin kill

TAIJI, Wakayama Pref. — The gala crowd in Los Angeles cheered as "The Cove" won the best documentary Oscar with its grisly portrayal of dolphin slaughter. But residents of this small port shown in the film abhorred the attention and said it will not end their centuries-old tradition.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
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