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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Nov 1, 2009

Susan Schmidt: Honored U.S. beacon for Japan

Susan Schmidt is a former editor at the University of Tokyo Press who spent 20 years living and raising a family in Japan up until the mid-1990s. She is now executive director of the U.S.-based, 1,500-member Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese — a role in which she has not only helped...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 22, 2009

Tokyo Girls Collection producer Ayako Nagaya

Ayako Nagaya, 37, is the president of F1 Media Inc. and the chief producer of Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC), a semiannual entertainment extravaganza showcasing Japanese street fashion, music and a myriad of products, from instant noodles to cars. Staged in Tokyo's Yoyogi Stadium, this one-day fashion...
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2009

Public funds mulled to keep JAL afloat

The government may need to inject public funds into Japan Airlines Corp. to keep the ailing carrier aloft, transport minister Seiji Maehara and Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii indicated Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2009

Recession can't slow Uniqlo

While celebrities watched models strut down catwalks during fashion week in Paris, dozens of people lined up in the rain to buy 40 euro cashmere sweaters at the newly opened Uniqlo store in the city's Opera district.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 16, 2009

Rich turn to solar power for latest status symbols

Forget the 58-inch flat-panel TV, the new domestic status symbol for Japan's rich is a cooker.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Oct 15, 2009

Underground rice paddies in Otemachi

Dear Alice,Please settle a bet. I met this guy in a bar who swore up and down that there are secret subterranean rice paddies all over Tokyo, part of a hush-hush government program to feed the national body in the event of nuclear war. In fact, he insisted a paddy was planted deep underground wherever...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2009

'Disruptive' Kamei roils markets

In more than three weeks since becoming financial services minister, Shizuka Kamei has sent bank stocks plunging, accused the Bank of Japan of sleeping on the job and blamed the nation's biggest business lobby for increasing the murder and suicide rates.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 24, 2009

Asahi Breweries advisor Takanori Nakajo

Takanori Nakajo, 82, is the honorary adviser of Asahi Breweries Ltd., one of Japan's leading beer and beverage makers. From "boy Friday" in 1952, Nakajo worked seven days a week until his official retirement as chairman in 1994. He poured all of his energy into beer-making and miraculously dragged the...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 24, 2009

Asahi Breweries advisor Takanori Nakajo

Takanori Nakajo, 82, is the honorary adviser of Asahi Breweries Ltd., one of Japan's leading beer and beverage makers. From "boy Friday" in 1952, Nakajo worked seven days a week until his official retirement as chairman in 1994. He poured all of his energy into beer-making and miraculously dragged the...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 23, 2009

Murray rips Rawl for reneging on offer to coach Oita

The Oita HeatDevils were in shambles last season, including in the team's front office. Not only did the club manage to lose a league-worst 44 games (it played 52), it also created unnecessary headaches for the bj-league.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2009

Firms leery of DPJ emissions vow

Despite plaudits from the international community, Japanese business remains critical of the Democratic Party of Japan's pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2009

Less work, more play to lift economy: DPJ

Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan swept to power last month with the promise to revive the nation's moribund economy. One way to do so may be to stop people from working so hard.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 6, 2009

Money: the root of all optimism

A New Development Model for Japan: Selected Essays 2000-2008 by Akira Kojima. The Japan Journal, 2009, 362 pp., ¥2,625 (cloth) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," wrote Charles Dickens in the opening passage of his famous novel "A Tale of Two Cities." Although written 150 years ago,...
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2009

SMFG to end Daiwa brokerage venture

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Japan's second-biggest bank, said it's in talks to end a brokerage venture with Daiwa Securities Group Inc. after agreeing in May to buy $5.9 billion in assets from Citigroup Inc.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2009

Still photography: a new art market

Tokyo probably has more photo fans than any megalopolis on the planet, but strangely there's never been an international photography art fair here — until now. Tokyo Photo 2009, running Sept. 4-6, offers still photography artworks for sale from 12 Japan-based galleries, four from the United States...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2009

A dose of common sense for the crisis in capitalism

HONG KONG — The global economic turmoil has sparked international debate over whether we are witnessing the death throes of capitalism or signs that a "new capitalism" needs to be devised. French commentators have gloated over the end of the Anglo-Saxon way of doing business, citing the need for the...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 29, 2009

Corporate exec puts the planet's needs on par with the bottom line

The church that Bill Werlin attended as a child had no walls. "I grew up in the mountains. People would ask me where my church was and I would point out the window and say, 'right there,' " he says.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2009

In 'sinking world,' geisha turn barmaids

In the stifling summer heat at the roadside Yebisu Beer stall in Kyoto's Gion district, Sakiko, dressed in a thick floral kimono, face plastered in white makeup, looks flustered as two foreign tourists photograph her. "Pouring beer here is different but fun," said Sakiko, one of about 90 apprentice geisha,...
Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, in first outside China
The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Nissan to solicit early retirements while eyeing plant closures in Japan
Nissan's Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, may be closed as part of the struggling carmaker's streamlining efforts.
Man falls to his death from Osaka condo, killing cyclist below
Osaka's Kita Ward. Two men died Monday morning in the ward after a man fell from a high-rise condominium and struck a passing cyclist below, according to local police.
Police arrest Chinese man in Saitama hit-and-run case
Police questioned a man who turned himself in as he closely resembled the driver recorded on the dashcam of another vehicle that happened to pass by the scene of a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture.
The race for more time: Japanese runner decided to freeze eggs for her future
Tomomi Bitoh, seen crossing the finish line in Antarctica, on the first stop of the World Marathon Challenge, is one of the very few Japanese athletes to speak publicly about her experience with egg freezing.
Agnes b. Japan CEO hopes to evolve the brand with focus on sustainability
Laurent Patouillet, the CEO and president of Agnes b. Japan, says the focus of its business is to remain independent, and evolve and adapt.
Flaunt your seasonal greens with Japan’s traditional pureed soup
With the weather warming up, there's no better time to make a bowl of chilled "surinagashi-jiru" (pureed soup).
In Nintendo’s backyard, foreign indie game devs are thriving
Kyoto's gaming landscape is dominated by Nintendo's headquarters, but a contingent of foreign-born indie developers is also working in the gaming giant's shadow.
For Formula E, ‘sustainability is at the heart’
Founded with a mission of promoting electric vehicles, Formula E has always placed sustainability at the forefront of its raison d’etre.

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