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BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2008

Coach builds brand of affordable luxury goods

Twenty years ago, at the height of the bubble economy, Coach Inc. started out small in Japan, selling its products at the Mitsukoshi department store in Yokohama.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2008

Kim's absence at gala baffles North watchers

Foreign Ministry officials expressed puzzlement Wednesday over North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's failure to make a public appearance Tuesday to mark the hermit state's 60th anniversary.
EDITORIALS
Sep 10, 2008

No reason to hide pacts

Invoking the Freedom of Information Law, 63 citizens, including researchers, authors and journalists, have asked the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry to disclose three secret diplomatic documents related to the 1971 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule from the United States. The government...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 5, 2008

Full plates at the Peninsula

Full plates at the Peninsula The Peninsula Tokyo is offering a Degustation Dinner Plate at The Lobby restaurant.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2008

Watching the clouds

Sudden cloudbursts have taken at least 10 people's lives this summer. On July 28, two adults and three children died after they were washed away in the Toga River in Kobe. That day, rain fell in the city at the rate of 31.5 mm per hour — a record amount in the past 10 years.
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ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 27, 2008

Exploring Antarctica for key climate clues

The steamy hot days of summer make it very tempting to imagine an escape to the snow and ice of Antarctica, though few of us will ever have that chance. Shin Sugiyama, 39, a glaciologist at Hokkaido University, is one of the exceptions.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 16, 2008

Geeks I have known

The meeting itself is not unusual. I have had students seek my consul before — on all kinds of topics.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 15, 2008

Buffets, beers and bikinis

Summer vacation buffets Through Aug. 31, the Pan Pacific Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu is serving special buffets during the summer at its Mediterranean and Japanese restaurants.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2008

About-face on Chinese 'gyoza'

It was learned Aug. 6 that an incident of "gyoza" dumpling poisoning occurred in China in mid-June, involving the same Chinese food maker whose gyoza caused cases of food poisoning in Japan last December and January. Although China informed Japan of the June incident on the night of July 7, the first...
EDITORIALS
Aug 11, 2008

Obtuse to a radiation leak

The actions of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Foreign Ministry concerning the possible leak of radioactive water from a nuclear-powered submarine during its port calls in Japan in March and April show that they lack sensitivity to the concerns of Japanese citizens.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 1, 2008

Stories that go bump in the night

Stories that go bump in the night In the Edo Period (1603-1867), getting together and telling ghost stories (kaidan) at night was a popular summer pastime. As a hotel located in the middle of Nihonbashi, the historical town that preserves the culture of Edo (Tokyo), the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo is reviving...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2008

Scorched-manager policy

MONTREAL — Signs of the American economy's perilous condition are everywhere — from yawning fiscal and current-account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 22, 2008

Nation opens its eyes to audiobooks

Seen as a good way for busy people to catch up on their "reading" during commutes or on-the-job breaks, audiobooks are quickly becoming a fixture among time-pressed Japanese.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2008

Keep pressuring Pyongyang

HONOLULU (Scott Snyder is a senior associate of the Pacific Forum CSIS. This article was originally published in PacNet Newsletter.
COMMENTARY
Jul 21, 2008

Birth of a massacre myth

With the Beijing Olympics looming we see more attempts to remind the world about the alleged June 4, 1989, massacre of democracy-seeking students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2008

Nippon Oil ditches dated pricing system

Nippon Oil Corp., the nation's largest refiner, will abandon a decades-old pricing method, breaking with common practice in an effort to boost transparency and pass on soaring crude-import costs, company officials said.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 13, 2008

Beauty of the beasts: mythological and real

A BRUSH WITH ANIMALS: Japanese Paintings 1700-1950, by Robert Schaap, with essays by Willem van Gulik, Henk Herwig, Arendie Herwig-Kempers, Daniel McKee and Andrew Thompson. Leiden: Society of Japanese Arts (distributed by Hotei/Brill), 2007, 206 pp. with 275 color illustrations, $117 (cloth), $81 (paper) This...
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JAPAN / Q&A
Jul 12, 2008

Steady now: quick tips on quake preparation

Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan. Only one month ago, a 7.2-magnitude temblor and a number of aftershocks struck the Tohoku region, killing 13 in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures and leaving 10 still listed as missing in Miyagi and Akita prefectures.

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