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EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2008

Taxi industry in trouble

Japan's taxi industry was deregulated in 2002. But in July 2008, the transport ministry started reviving some regulations, saying that that an oversupply of taxis has led to lower profits for taxi companies and poorer working conditions for taxi drivers. In about 80 percent of the nation's taxi operation...
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2008

Suffering sales drop, Honda revamps Life minicar

Honda Motor Co. revamped its Life minicar for the first time in five years after posting the biggest drop in domestic minicar sales among the country's carmakers.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 7, 2008

Tateru Yoshino and Sucre Sale: Haute cuisine and the friendly local

The slatted, skewing facade of the new Prias Building may not be the most arresting design in Ginza — the melting-metal, curvilinear De Beers building wins that accolade hands down. But it's enough to make you stop and crane your neck.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2008

Mr. Obama wins

The senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, made history Tuesday when he was elected the 44th president of the United States. The scale and sweep of his victory are nothing short of breathtaking: Not only did he win a landslide in the electoral college, but he rode a Democratic wave into Congress. He should...
BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2008

Investor sentiment reaches 14-month high: Nomura

Individual Japanese investors are now the most optimistic since September 2007, Nomura Holdings Inc. said Wednesday in its monthly sentiment survey.
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2008

Retrial to find wartime truth

The Yokohama District Court on Oct. 31 decided to retry a case related to the worst example of Japan's wartime repression of freedom of speech — the Yokohama Incident. In the retrial, the court should delve into what actually happened, including what the police, prosecution and court did during and...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2008

Looking at development goals beyond 2015

PARIS — It is now halfway to the target date of 2015 for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — the ambitious blueprint, backed by the entire development community, for development in the world's poorest countries. In the wake of the global financial crisis, which is about to hit the developing...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 5, 2008

Nakajima, Sakamoto possess similar skills

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — While the Yomiuri Giants and Seibu Lions were tied at one apiece entering Tuesday's game, and playing merciless, hard-nosed baseball in the ongoing Japan Series, there are two young men who appear to be enjoying this prestigious stage.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2008

Different playbooks aimed at balancing Asia's powers

NEW DELHI — The Japan-India security agreement signed recently marks a significant milestone in building Asian power equilibrium. A constellation of Asian states linked by strategic cooperation and with shared common interests is becoming critical to instituting stability at a time when major shifts...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Nov 2, 2008

Probing the real Japan with Kenneth Pyle

Kenneth Pyle says his first memories of Japan were of watching war films when he was a child — "all the dogfights with Zero fighters and all that."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 31, 2008

Monoral feed on Halloween horror

'A lot of the companies we signed to disappeared, basically," says Ali Morizumi of pan-national rock duo Monoral, musing on the mysterious curse that has followed his band around.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 31, 2008

Now in their 50s, Def Leppard are still ferocious

Legendary English rock band Def Leppard brought the circus back to town last week. Paired up with fellow hair-metal survivors Whitesnake, the group began a four-date Japan tour with two nights at the prestigious Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo on Oct. 23 and 24.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2008

Oh's career sparkled with achievements as player, manager

Second in a three-part series
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2008

Foreign workers are first to feel impact of economy's slowdown

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Pref. — Brazilian Stenio Sameshima came to Japan last year planning to make a bundle of money at the country's humming auto factories. Instead, he's spending a lot of time in line at employment agencies.

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear