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CULTURE / Music
Nov 23, 2007

Kylie Minogue — "X"
Britney Spears — "Blackout"

As 2007 dribbles to a close, we are treated to long-awaited comeback albums by two renowned lady stars.
Reader Mail
Nov 22, 2007

Plenty of other things to eat

I have heard the argument that Japan has been "eating whales for 400 years." Well, it's time to stop!
Reader Mail
Nov 22, 2007

The sadness in knowing their fate

Regarding the Nov. 18 article "Japan prepares to hunt humpbacks for first time since '63": I live in Hervey Bay, Queensland, which calls itself the "Whale Watching Capital." I am 71 years old and, with my older husband, recently assisted local artist Jorge Pujol and a great many others in arduously...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2007

Thanksgiving Day's economic lessons

BALI, Indonesia — One aspect of globalization is that some holidays have become internationalized. That is certainly the case with Thanksgiving Day, a distinctly American feast day now celebrated throughout the world on the fourth Thursday of each November.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2007

Admission of a medical crisis

Medical services are collapsing in many parts of the nation. Doctor shortages are especially acute in obstetric-gynecological, pediatric and emergency care departments. It is high time that the government, lawmakers and the public seriously start discussing how to increase the number of doctors and nurses...
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2007

Discuss consumption tax hike now: panel

A hike in the consumption tax from the current 5 percent must be considered to finance the swelling social security costs stemming from the rapidly aging population, the governmental Tax Commission said in a proposal released Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2007

Myth of U.S.-EU economic decoupling

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The fact that America's economy is slowing is bad news for Europeans, regardless of claims that Europe's economy has successfully decoupled itself from the United States. Decoupling is an idea that is based on bad economics — and on some Europeans' reluctance to accept the fact...
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2007

Most nonlife insurers see profit increase

Profits at most major nonlife insurers jumped in the six months to September, thanks partly to brisk gains from investments in stocks and funds that escaped the turmoil generated by the subprime housing loan crisis in the U.S., the companies said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2007

Foreign arrivals get biometric scan

NARITA, Chiba Pref. — Japan began fingerprinting and photographing foreigners arriving in the country Tuesday under a revised immigration law to keep terrorists out, drawing criticism from rights groups and foreign residents that their data might be abused.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2007

Dalai Lama hits East's consumer craze

The Dalai Lama indicated Monday in an interview that he had set a budding democratic process in motion in Tibet that was effectively doomed by China's invasion in the early 1950s.
LIFE / Language
Nov 20, 2007

Dial up a good impression with denwa echiketto

"Moshi-moshi. Kochira wa Japan Taimuzu no Shuraibaa to moshimasu. Itsumo wo sewa ni natte orimasu" ("Hello, this is Schreiber of the Japan Times. Thanks as always for your kind support.")
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2007

An Asia-Europe partnership

BERLIN — Asia's rise as an economic and political player exemplifies what globalization is all about. By the decade's end, China's economy will be larger than Germany's. By 2040 three of the world's five largest economies — China, India and Japan — will be in Asia.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2007

Sony halves software fees to spur PS3 game designers

Sony halved the fees it charges for a software development kit for the PlayStation 3 video game machine Monday to encourage outside designers to make more games for the struggling console.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2007

Nukaga denies Yamada donation, admits selling party tickets

groups and the profits are used for political activities, while a donation is a one-way profit." Nukaga said he checked but found no records and has no recollection of being present at a dinner party with Moriya and Motonobu Miyazaki, the former Yamada executive now under arrest for alleged embezzlement....
Reader Mail
Nov 20, 2007

Balanced view of Chinese history

Regarding Gregory Clark's Nov. 15 article, "The fusillade against China": Bravo! At last, someone (Western) who is balanced in his opinions. Most Westerners don't remember or care to know about the Opium Wars, the war with eight foreign nations, the wars with Japan, Russia, etc.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2007

March of the South American caudillos

LA PAZ — The re-election for unlimited periods that Presidents Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales have sought in Venezuela and Bolivia, respectively, reflects a phenomenon — caudillismo — that has, sadly, never been far from the surface of Latin American politics.
Reader Mail
Nov 18, 2007

Alone at a time of danger

One thing that really struck me about the recent murder of a young woman in Kawaguchi City, Saitama, is how her neighbors seemed happy to go on TV and talk about it. One man said he heard a loud banging, and a woman screaming for help, which begs the question: What did he do?
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2007

Defense official tied to sour Moriya investment cut

A former Pentagon official denied Thursday having dined with any of the people named by disgraced former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya in his testimony about his dealings with an arrested defense equipment trader who entertained him in the past. In sworn testimony Thursday in the Diet, Moriya...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 17, 2007

Hopi activist brings two messages to Japan

Playing drum and chanting an eagle song, Ruben Saufkie Sr. — a Hopi messenger and silversmith — brings East and West into balance at the leading shrine in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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.
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.
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
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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