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JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jul 2, 2008

Talks may heat up and go nowhere but global warming isn't waiting

Eleven of the 12 years between 1995 and 2006 ranked among the 12 warmest years since 1850, and since 1993 the global sea level has risen by an annual rate of 3.1 mm.
Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Jul 2, 2008

Finding Papua war dead a vet's life

20th in a series
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2008

Regaining trust key: insurance group chief

Nonlife insurers must do everything they can to regain the trust squandered by such industrywide missteps as failing to honor legitimate claims and overcharging on premiums, according to the new chairman of a nonlife insurers' industry group.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jul 1, 2008

¥60 billion G8 budget draws flak

Japan plans to spend more than ¥60 billion in taxpayer money to host next week's Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido and related events, prompting some to question if that sum could better be used to alleviate the national health-care and social welfare crises.
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2008

The case against Mr. Sahashi

Mr. Nozomu Sahashi once built Japan's largest English-language chain. But the former president of Nova Corp. and one other former Nova official were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of misusing some ¥320 million deposited by employees into a welfare fund. Their arrests are expected to help unravel what...
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2008

Sony midterm plan focuses on core businesses, networking

In its three-year business plan unveiled Thursday, Sony Corp. said it aims to see annual sales in three additional business categories top ¥1 trillion, joining the four already above that target: LCD television sets, digital cameras and camcorders, games and mobile phones.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2008

Tokyo falls in line with U.S. on Pyongyang

The nuclear declaration delivered to China by North Korea on Thursday evening is long overdue and will likely reveal a sharp divide between Tokyo's hardline stance toward Pyongyang and Washington's policy of appeasement.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 26, 2008

CSS put their crazy show back on the road

It is January, and squeezed away upstairs in their favorite sushi restaurant in downtown Sao Paulo are the six members of CSS plus a stray boyfriend. (Turns out he belongs to producer-cum-drummer Adriano Cintra, the only fella in the group.) After 18 months touring the world, they are back home in Brazil...
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2008

'Beni' maker aims to revive rare lipstick

It's a traditional lip paint made from 1 percent beauty painstakingly polished to an iridescent shine.
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2008

Building an eco-friendly society

The government's 2008 white paper on the environment deals with the transition to a low-carbon and recycling society. In view of the expiration in 2012 of the Kyoto Protocol, it stresses the need to build a post-Kyoto framework under which all major greenhouse gas-emitting countries strive to curb emissions....
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2008

Toy show offers plenty for the kid in all of us

Why should kids have all the fun? That's an attitude on display at International Tokyo Toy Show 2008, which kicked off Thursday at Tokyo Big Sight, where people of any age are bound to find something fun to play with.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 20, 2008

Ambassador touts biofuel as climate change cure

Criticism that Brazil has prioritized the manufacture of biofuel at the expense of food production is preposterous and flies in the face of a superb solution for global warming, according to the Brazilian ambassador to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / RETRACING ROUTES
Jun 19, 2008

'Nikkei' craft own unique ethnicity, samba to manga

Igor Inocima's face filled with contentment as he described the achievement of introducing the culture of manga to Brazil, where his grandparents emigrated to some 80 years ago.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 19, 2008

The Album Leaf at Metamorphose

Although The Album Leaf started in 1998 as a side project to Jimmy LaValle's work in another band (San Diego's Tristeza), his postrock power-pop solo venture has since evolved into his main gig. The band's lineup often changes — multi-instrumentalist LaValle even performed as a one-man band on live...
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2008

Office investment returns cool off

Growth in office investment returns slowed last year as gains in property prices eased, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Longform

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