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BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 31, 2013

Hands-free tools make driving more dangerous

Makers of cars and mobile electronics are pushing a tempting vision of the future, one in which you can stay fully connected while driving. In the name of safety, they provide hands-free wireless setups for your cellphone, so you can talk with both hands on the wheel. The latest additions are voice-to-text...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2013

It's time for conservatives of Japan to get over the war

If conservatives renounced revisionist nationalism in favor of their inherited democracy, many outside of Japan could live with a more powerfully armed Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jul 30, 2013

Korean War's far-reaching legacy

For North Korea, the day the United Nations Command, North Korea and China signed the armistice ending the Korean War 60 years ago is a day to celebrate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2013

China should return to the natural birth model

China has one of the highest Ceasarian birthrates in the world. The consequences should make Chinese women think twice before requesting this procedure.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2013

China's financial tightrope

The world cannot afford for China to enter a major financial crisis and then to experience trouble with growth because of a rush toward financial deregulation.
LIFE / Digital
Jul 30, 2013

Post-Snowden, the days of the global Internet are numbered

Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 30, 2013

Crowdsourced art project to printout the Web honors free-information activist

The World Wide Web began to show up by snail mail at the end of May. It arrived on sheets of office paper, stacked in white boxes, slipped into bubble-wrapped manila sleeves, folded into a clean, white business envelope with Rosa Parks stamps, stuffed in neon-green packaging from Farmington Hills, Michigan....
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 30, 2013

Biotech growth fuels need for sophisticated software

When Qiagen scooped up Ingenuity Systems this year, the acquisition of the Redwood City, California-based firm marked the first time the biotechnology giant had purchased a firm that exclusively makes software.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 29, 2013

Tokyo: Now that Abe's coalition has a majority in both Diet chambers, what should he do?

I would like to buy a house in the future, so while housing loan taxes are low now, I would like to see Mr. Abe help those looking to buy houses by lowering these taxes even further. Also, I think that until the economy improves, the consumption tax should not be increased — for now.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 29, 2013

Architecture and art of a Setouchi summer

In 1988, Soichiro Fukutake, then president and representative director of Fukutake Publishing (now Benesse Corporation), approached architect Tadao Ando and told him that he wanted to create a 'utopia' in Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 29, 2013

Film, music and Moomins: events at Setouchi Triennale 2013

Though Setouchi is often referred to as an 'art festival,' there are plenty of other events taking place across the islands, including lectures, theater performances and concerts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2013

Mideast peace talks set to resume

The U.S. announces that the first substantive peace talks between Israelis and the Palestinians in years is set to begin in Washington, following a prisoner release.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 29, 2013

Matsui formally retires as Yankee during ceremony at Yankee Stadium

Hideki Matsui ended his playing career as a member of the New York Yankees on Sunday, when the team honored him with a pregame ceremony at Yankee Stadium.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 28, 2013

Farmers can't bank on Abe

Japan's farmers must scrutinize what Shinzo Abe says so as not to be deceived by him again. The prime minister has never promised to protect their future.
EDITORIALS
Jul 28, 2013

Question of objectivity

A Kyoto university's announcement that research on blood-pressure drug Diovan was manipulated raises concerns about the drugmaker's objectivity.
EDITORIALS
Jul 28, 2013

Key to Korean peace

The armistice that ended the Korean War 60 years ago has never brought real peace to the Peninsula. North Korea holds the key to make that happen.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 28, 2013

Hyper, mega, ultra: talking in superlatives

One of the ultra-fascinating facets of Japanese is its super-large arsenal of intensifying prefixes that provide an otherwise neutral expression with some emphatic edge. The best-known (and least spectacular) of them is dai (大), which usually translates as "big." When something went really well, for...
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 28, 2013

Where to go to survive the day? the corbies say

The word from a longtime Tokyo resident is that the jungle crow population, the bane of garbage piles, is finally in decline. Not everyone is happy about that.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2013

Obama: Korean War vets 'deserve better'

President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 28, 2013

Cheer over Reagan's arrival won't trickle down to most Japanese

The Ronald Reagan moment Japan investors have long fantasized about has finally arrived.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 28, 2013

In India, a rise in surrogate births for West

When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple last month, she said she felt "something like sadness."
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 28, 2013

Recovery in Rwanda; the mysterious side of Kinkakuji; CM of the week: Dandy House

One million people were killed in Rwanda 20 years ago during a period of civil terror. On Monday, TV Tokyo visits the African country for the documentary series "Mirai Seiki Jipangu" ("Future Century Japan"; 10 p.m.) to look at its "miracle recovery."
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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