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BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 13, 2014

BOJ holds course as analysts delay action calls

The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its view of overseas economies while maintaining unprecedented stimulus launched as part of BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's bid to stoke 2 percent inflation in two years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 13, 2014

Okazaki's grapes, Ieyasu legacy reel in tourists

The city of Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture this year is doubling efforts to attract visitors from its neighbors in East Asia, especially China and Taiwan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 13, 2014

Abe might be the world's best leader

An American finance professor who says he used to be a Shinzo Abe skeptic now calls Japan's prime minister the most effective national leader in the world right now.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 13, 2014

Guide to Tokyo burgers returns with a new edition

When it comes to Tokyo food trends, four years is almost a lifetime. Back in 2010, when Yoshihide Matsubara wrote "The Burger Map," the definitive guide to burgers in the capital area, hamburgers were still generating a fair amount of buzz. Then came pancakes and then, in an unlikely 180-degree twist,...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 13, 2014

Deadly attacks continue against women in northern India

A woman was found hanged from a tree in India's state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and another was allegedly raped in a police station, police said, the latest incidents in a wave of crimes against women reported in the country's most populous region over the past two weeks.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 12, 2014

Interns abused as labor crisis grows

Wednesday was a regular work day at rusting Burberry factory Kameda Co. in Ishikawa Prefecture, but for three Chinese women, it was a day of escape.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2014

Fukui, neighbors agree on disaster cooperation

Fukui Prefecture, which hosts 13 of Japan's 48 nuclear reactors, agrees to participate in disaster drills and planning with neighbors Ishikawa and Nara.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 12, 2014

Tiny ancient fish unlocks secrets of Earth's early vertebrates

This is certainly not just another fish tale. A tiny jawless fish that lived more than a half-billion years ago is providing scientists with a treasure-trove of information about the very dawn of vertebrate life on Earth.
BUSINESS
Jun 12, 2014

Big BOJ balance sheet may be inflation target's legacy

Bank of Japan officials are considering maintaining a large balance sheet for the central bank even after it achieves its inflation target, reducing the risk of a surge in long-term bond yields, sources said.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 12, 2014

Wakayama can't afford Pavlicevic

After an ultra-successful start in the National Basketball League, the cash-strapped Wakayama Trians are implementing big budget cuts for the upcoming season.
EDITORIALS
Jun 12, 2014

Dangerous turn in ODA policy

The Abe administration should give up on a plan to change the government's basic policy on official development assistance in ways that could see aid used for the armed forces of foreign countries.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 12, 2014

BBQ and beer near Tokyo Tower; noodle power to beat the heat; an evening of fine Italian dining, music

BBQ and beer near Tokyo Tower
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 12, 2014

'Virginia'

Director: Dustin Lance Black
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2014

SoftBank subsidiary aims to become player in robotics operating systems

Asratec Corp. said Wednesday it has started offering an operating system for use in the manufacture of robots, and plans to sell a microcomputer board to help amateur enthusiasts build robots on their own.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2014

Abe picks for NRA 'undermine' nuclear watchdog's independence

The Lower House has approved the appointment of a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner who has received more than u00a510 million in research funding from nuclear-related entities.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2014

N.Y. plan for fleet of Nissan taxis ruled legal

New York's plan for a new fleet of cabs from Nissan Motor Co. is legal, an appeals court ruled, overturning an earlier judgment that said the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission had overstepped its authority by requiring owners to buy a specific vehicle.
Reader Mail
Jun 11, 2014

National exam mugging season

The expression "what a bummer!" hit me the other day when I got ripped off for ¥11,700. Since I left school, I've been one of the knuckleheads unable to pass the 60-percent grade threshold, sitting every summer for the tour-interpreter test. The once-a-year fee has jumped about 40 percent from last...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2014

Nintendo bolsters Wii U lineup with shooter game, toy platform

Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata has delivered his clearest message yet to gamers about the company's future: Don't count the Wii U out yet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2014

ICJ ruling will help Japan resume whaling in name of 'research': official

An embarrassing court ruling that halted Japan's Antarctic whaling will actually help Tokyo take whales in the name of science, a top whaling official said just a day after the prime minister vowed to press for commercial whaling.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2014

Knuckle sandwich: Did fistfights drive evolution of human face?

Current theory about the shape of the human face just got a big punch in the mouth.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 10, 2014

Sides battle for Ukraine-Russia border

Ukrainian border guards stand grim-faced and nervous at the remote Marynivka checkpoint on the frontier with Russia, fearing an attack by pro-Moscow separatists at any time.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2014

Some companies still struggle with their dark WWII history

The amount of bookshelf space dedicated to the 12 years of Hitler's Third Reich often exceeds that of any other period in history, but the role and the complicity of companies in the atrocities committed by the Nazis continue to be shrouded in obscurity.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 10, 2014

U.S. man held in North Korea 'was on vacation tour'

The U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle, 56, is a father of three with a passion for adventure who was in the country as part of a vacation tour, his lawyer said Monday.

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