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Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 24, 2010

Key facts and figures

Key data drawn from numerous quoted sources here succinctly suggest the enormous range of problems and issues facing delegates to COP10 — and the world.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2010

Resource-sharing deal eludes at conference

NAGOYA — Delegates to the COP10 biodiversity conference said Friday they had made steady progress toward concluding a new international agreement on access to genetic resources and sharing their benefits, but noted long-standing differences continued to keep this goal at arm's length.
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Oct 20, 2010

Japanese cell-phone users don't just talk about weather — they vote on it

A surprising number of Japanese purchase their weather information from cell phones, services that don't just tell you if it's raining — they let you vote on it.
BASKETBALL
Oct 15, 2010

Golden Kings should rule West

A pair of new expansion teams, the Miyazaki Shining Suns and the Shimane Susanoo Magic, join the bj-league's Western Conference this season.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2010

Labour's left foot forward?

New party leaders never want for advice. Since his election as leader of the British Labour Party last month, everyone has words of wisdom for Ed Miliband. This frenzied fight to mold the Miliband message is hardly surprising; a series of poor policy and presentational decisions when Labour last lost...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2010

India grappling with the China syndrome

LONDON — A two-week standoff between China and Japan over a boat collision has once again underlined the communist state's penchant for bullying its neighbors, and might have done more harm than good for the emergence of China as the leader in the region over the long term.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Oct 8, 2010

Affordable wines for all occasions

'Abstinence is bad for you," trumpeted the press in August, while reporting on a new study published in the journal "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research." The findings showed that during the 20-year study of a group of 1,824 participants between the ages 55 and 65, 69 percent of the abstainers...
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2010

Yen's impact may spur more BOJ support

Evidence in the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey that companies are growing more pessimistic may prompt the central bank to expand support as soon as next week for businesses grappling with the yen's advance.
LIFE
Sep 26, 2010

The return of Lafcadio Hearn

I came to Japan in '90 — 1890, that was — died 14 years later, and here I am again after more than a century, exploring my old haunting ground just like in the good old days.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 26, 2010

Caught in the jaws of Japan's justice system

The Recruit scandal dominated the media in the late 1980s and has become a notorious symbol of money politics in Japan. The image of "government for sale" undermined public faith in politicians while raising questions about values in a society uncomfortable with the unbridled materialism associated with...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2010

Crisis hits Third World hardest

PARIS — The global economic crisis has claimed many victims — unemployed workers, underwater homeowners and bankrupt pensioners — but nowhere have the repercussions been as devastating as in the developing world. The setback to the fragile gains of recent years, particularly in Africa, threatens...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 5, 2010

Player protection rule has negative impact on bj-league

From Hoboken, N.J. to Hokkaido and thousands of far-flung locales in between, there are few issues as contentious and complicated as player contracts in professional sports.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 22, 2010

Rakuten's English- only policy endures close media scrutiny

Learn to speak English, or else!
JAPAN / JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Aug 20, 2010

Meager pay keeps ranks of instructors in doldrums

English is a hot topic these days, thanks to the announcement by Rakuten Inc., Japan's biggest Internet shopping mall operator, that it was making English its official company language.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2010

WikiLeaks makes a splash

Mr. Julian Assange is a child of the Internet age. A former hacker and software programmer, he helped found WikiLeaks in 2006, a Web site that publishes otherwise unavailable documents provided by anonymous sources. It calls itself "an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking." WikiLeaks...
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2010

Okada, Clinton vow to keep Futenma agenda on course

HANOI (Kyodo) Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday that he and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton State Hillary Clinton agreed in their meeting that it is important to gain the support of the people of Okinawa for the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within the prefecture....
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2010

Stop exploiting trainees as cheap labor: lawyers

It is high time the government faced facts and scrapped its industrial training and internship program because it is used to exploit foreign trainees as a cheap source of labor, a lawyer group said Thursday, claiming the purpose of the system and its reality are worlds apart.
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2010

Breaking the oppression of Indian Dalits

One can fight oppression with violence, or one can fight it with education. Hema Konsotia, a 32-year-old Indian woman, has chosen the latter.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 11, 2010

Viewing dolphins as Taiji could show them

We're not the only mammals to notice the oil tanker entering the Gulf of Amvrakikos.
Reader Mail
Jul 8, 2010

Incomplete wire service coverage

The Japan Times is a necessity if one wants to keep up with the treatment of minorities that most media ignore, thanks to the original research of the paper's fine correspondents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2010

AIG may sell Japan insurance units to help reshape company

American International Group Inc., the insurer selling assets to repay a U.S. rescue, may seek buyers for its Japanese life units as Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche reshapes the firm.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 2, 2010

Tax hike amid slump: Kan's Hashimoto dilemma

Japan's slowing recovery from its worst postwar recession is signaling the economy may be too weak to sustain the higher consumption taxes under consideration by Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
Tokyo and Kyoto feature among top ‘noctourism’ destinations
Tokyo ranked second after New York and ahead of Dubai and Singapore in a ranking of the top global cities for nighttime tourism.
Elon Musk says he has created a new U.S. political party
Elon Musk looks on during a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 30.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.
As Southeast Asia heats up, a Japanese cooling giant sees a major opportunity
An employee of Daikin Cambodia explains the use of different tools during an air conditioner installation training session in Phnom Penh. Daikin is one of Japan’s oldest air conditioning companies, but as Japan’s population falls, the firm is keying in on overseas growth.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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