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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2010

Volatility shows faith in G20 vows flagging

Traders are losing confidence in the Group of 20 finance officials' pledge to avoid foreign-exchange manipulation less than a week after the leaders vowed to stop devaluing currencies in order to prop up their economies.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2010

Deal called biggest since '97 Kyoto pact

NAGOYA — Nearly two decades after its creation, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has finally realized one of its main goals.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2010

COP10 signs off on protocol

NAGOYA — Delegates to the COP10 biodiversity conference concluded agreements early Saturday on access to genetic resources, preserving biodiversity over the next decade, and strategies to mobilize financial resources to meet these goals.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2010

France confronts economic reality

French President Nicholas Sarkozy's plans to reform the pension system have triggered widespread public protests. Yet even the prospect of fierce protests has not changed Mr. Sarkozy's mind. Many French citizens consider retirement at age 60 a birthright, but France, like many other developed economies,...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Oct 31, 2010

Veasley eager to make impact for Albirex

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Willie Veasley of the Niigata Albirex BB is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 31, 2010

Tipping a hat to Japan creations

I was feeling an itch to don a bonnet.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 31, 2010

A rice farmer's crusade; Japanese-American drama by `Oshin' scriptwriter; CM of the week: Yahoo!/Kirin Fire

The subject of this week's "The Professional" (NHK-G, Mon., 10 p.m.) is rice farmer Minoru Ishii, who is leading the crusade for a more open-minded approach to Japanese agriculture.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 31, 2010

Okinawan garden majesty

The world's first gardens may well have been made of coral, natural clusters of underwater beauty that could be glimpsed through the transparent water. Perfectly tone-coordinated, balanced and formed, they were refined by nature to a degree that may have suggested the divine.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2010

Mr. Cameron's new 'Big Society'

British Prime Minister David Cameron calls his vision for his country "the Big Society." Doubts about what that vision entails have been put to rest in his government's first budget. "The Big Society" consists of small government and a private-nongovernment organization partnership that fills in the...
COMMENTARY
Oct 30, 2010

A diet for Britain's defense

One of the first acts of the British coalition government was the establishment of a National Security Council. Its primary task was to prepare a new strategic defense and security review. This was published on the day before the government announced its austerity program.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 30, 2010

Di Matteo's West Brom winning friends in top flight

LONDON — With a quarter of the Premier League campaign gone there can be little doubt about the team of the season so far — West Bromwich Albion.
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2010

Nintendo boss: No Wii price cut

Nintendo's president said efforts to boost Wii sales ahead of Christmas will focus on limited deals in cooperation with retailers and special packages that add game software or other products to give buyers a feeling of a discount — not an outright price cut.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2010

Consular car in Karachi shot at

KARACHI (AP) Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a Japanese consular vehicle in Pakistan's largest city Thursday, wounding two of the mission's Pakistani employees and underscoring the poor security situation in the country.
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2010

Wield budget ax with care

Japan's general account budget for fiscal 2010 is some ¥92 trillion. In addition to this, Japan has 18 special accounts that are almost unknown to the public. Funds for these accounts to manage specific programs in such fields as public works and social insurance amount to some ¥176 trillion. Movement...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 29, 2010

'All God's Children Can Dance'

Someone I knew in college said that the success of Haruki Murakami's fiction lay in the fact that everyone in his stories got laid. Someone else said the only Japanese to have love and sex on a regular basis were Murakami's characters. As for my friend Greg, he came to Japan after reading his fill of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 29, 2010

Modern serving of traditional tea

If you've ever been fortunate enough to attend a tea ceremony, then you know that within the simplicity of movements, the quiet beauty of the room and the refined elegance of the utensils, there is a deep world where the moment becomes living art.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 28, 2010

Taking stock: new trends for the Japanese hot pot

Mmmm. Is that ramen nabe we smell bubbling in hot pots across Japan?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2010

Demand convention ratification, Harrison Ford urges U.S. voters

Hollywood superstar and conservationist Harrison Ford on Thursday called on the United States to ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity, saying increasing biodiversity loss makes it imperative that Americans understand the importance of the treaty.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2010

Lawyer putting foreigners first

Masako Suzuki has dedicated her career to giving legal support to foreigners living in Japan. Starting Monday, she will become the first head of the new Section of Legal Assistance for Foreigners at the Tokyo Public Law Office.
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.

Podcast

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

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
By Mai Yoshikawa

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