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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2009

Wii gives seniors therapeutic kicks

Blanche Betten, a 76-year-old retired restaurant owner, hammered Bob Warner, 85, with a flurry of punches, sending the World War II and Korean War veteran sprawling to the ground.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 16, 2009

Italian-flavored stay package

Just in time for St. Valentine's Day, the Hotel New Otani Makuhari in Chiba Prefecture is offering an "Auberge Canoviano" accommodation package from Feb. 6 to 14.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 16, 2009

Get your skates on in the Kanto area

If you've been keeping your eye on the sports pages recently, you'll know that Mao Asada won her third straight National Figure Skating Championship last month and is currently preparing to defend her World Champion title in Los Angeles in March. Maybe you're feeling in the mood for a slide yourself....
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / STYLE WISE
Jan 15, 2009

Goocy and Gozi but no more Green

Genki at Goocy Goocy (pronounced "goosey") is the local answer to the Western "fast-fashion" invasion that has recently swept Japan. It's a pet project by brand director Harumi Fukuda and designer Mary Fukumoto of high-end label Triptych.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Jan 14, 2009

New cameras aim to make kids more than just a blur

Focused product: Gadgets can help transform the difficult into the routine and make the impossible possible. In the world of home movies, the current challenge is developing the technology that drives autofocus in video cameras. This is tougher than it seems, because the average camcorder user makes...
BASKETBALL
Jan 12, 2009

Parker, Kawazura combine to lead Fukuoka to OT victory over Shiga

Michael Parker handled the heavy-duty offensive workload, scoring 44 points, and teammate Tsuyoshi Kawazura reminded us that quality is just as important as quantity in sports.
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2009

'Wii Fit' sales top 3 million mark

Sales of Nintendo Co.'s "Wii Fit" game exceeded 3 million units in Japan since its debut in December 2007, becoming the second game for the Wii console to surpass that milestone, Enterbrain Inc. said Wednesday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 1, 2009

'Not everything goes right'

On Nov. 19 in Doha, in its final match of the year, the Japan national team turned in one of its best performances of 2008 to beat Qatar 3-0 and consolidate second place in World Cup final Asian qualifying Group 1.
EDITORIALS
Dec 31, 2008

A year of changes and dangers

If 2008 cannot be called an "annus horribilis," it is only because 2009 might hold even more shocks and surprises. Even outside the worsening economy, everything in Japan seemed a bit subprime in 2008. A midyear survey found that more than 70 percent of Japanese — the highest percentage ever — were...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 28, 2008

Facts about the Hakone Ekiden

Starting times: Jan. 2 at 8 a.m. (Tokyo to Hakone); Jan. 3 at 8 a.m. (Hakone to Tokyo)
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 28, 2008

Critics switched off over digital-TV plans

Yukichi Amano is one of Japan's sharpest media critics, so it was disconcerting to see him on NHK several weeks ago pimping for digital TV.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 26, 2008

Pennington's career year sparks Miami

Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington denies his return to the Meadowlands is about retribution or redemption or reliving the past, even if he was cast aside by the New York Jets like a leaky football.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Dec 24, 2008

Who says you can't buy a friend?

Your new chum: Gadgets are by definition small mechanical or electronic devices with a practical function that typically are thought of as novelties. Widgets, on the other hand, have until recently been merely hypothetical gadgets, handy for illustrating hypothetical examples.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 21, 2008

Japan fired up for '09 WBC to start

It remains to be seen if Japan can score back-to-back victories in the World Baseball Classic, but there is no doubt the attitude of the Japanese side is a complete reversal from 2006 when the first WBC was played.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 19, 2008

Debut offers from the Shangri-La

The Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo, scheduled to open in March, has started taking reservations through its Web site ( www.shangri-la.com ).
Reader Mail
Dec 18, 2008

Asylum seekers sidelined

In the past two decades, the number of successful asylum seekers to Japan has barely averaged in double figures, while the handful of countries that were rich and humane enough saved some 75,000 refugees from the brutality of their own countries last year alone. Admittedly the world is in recession,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Dec 14, 2008

Nostalgia drives Japanese classic car scene

In recent years, America has developed a fast-growing interest in Japanese cars from the 1960s and '70s. It used to be that only the most obsessive of auto aficionados were even aware such cars existed, but now they've begun to appear in an increasing number of books, TV shows and magazines. Car shows...
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Osaka police crack down on crime ring over underage prostitution
Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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