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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2014

Ruling parties want over 20% of power from clean energy by '30

Ruling parties want clean energy to make up "significantly" more than 20 percent of the nation's power by 2030.
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Figure Skating
Mar 27, 2014

Flawless Mao sets new world record after short program

Mao Asada set a new world record of 78.66 points with a superb short program at the world championships on Thursday night.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2014

Hearts blossom for Crimea's new attorney general

A viral video of Natalia Poklonskaya's charmingly shy first press conference inspires enough otaku artists to produce a shrine of manga-style illustrations.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Mar 18, 2014

New United flight; Flying on the Internet; Korean Air anniversary

New United flight
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 14, 2014

New way found to convert natural gas

U.S. scientists said Thursday they have devised a potentially easier, cheaper and cleaner way to turn natural gas into usable fuels and chemicals — a discovery that could lead to natural gas products displacing oil products in the future.
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JAPAN
Mar 11, 2014

Reactors still feared despite new rules

The cost of restarting Japan's nuclear power plants: ¥1.3 trillion and counting.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2014

Skymark's new uniform riles cabin attendants

Skymark Airlines Inc.'s miniskirt uniform for cabin attendants has drawn fire from a group of cabin attendants who claim it will disturb operations and possibly induce sexual harassment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 10, 2014

Government's new scheme to bolster social security is still hopeless

The welfare ministry plans to spend u00a55.3 billion to 'increase' collections of national pension premiums.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 6, 2014

Live-action Ghibli remake delivers a new Kiki

When is a remake not a remake? Arguably, Takashi Shimizu's "Majo no Takkyubin (Kiki's Delivery Service)" is less a reworking of the Hayao Miyazaki animation classic (which this reviewer praised on this page in 1989) than his own interpretation of the 1985 Eiko Kadono fantasy novel on which the Miyazaki...
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 1, 2014

Fat men frolic, Jews to be treated equally, U.S. ambassador stabbed, new sales tax a headache

Twenty-five fat members of the House of Representatives with two Government delegates and two journalists, each of whom weighs more than 165 pounds (75 kg), sat at a dinner at the Fukuiro, Yanokura, Ryogoku, on Monday evening.
EDITORIALS
Feb 26, 2014

Japan's new economic realities

Japan's current account surplus in 2013 is at its lowest since the mid-1980s, thanks to soaring trade deficits the past three years. Efforts to revamp the nation's growth strategy face a new trade structure.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 13, 2014

Perpetual problems plague Japan Basketball Association

Intermittent hullabaloo by the Japan Basketball Association's big wigs about "big plans" for the future of men's basketball generally produces one thing: a collective yawn by those who analyze such things.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Feb 11, 2014

Unleash your inner Cookie Monster

For the cookie lovers out there, New Zealand-based Cookie Time opened its first cookie bar in Tokyo's Harajuku in December. At ¥240 apiece, each cookie is warm and chewy on the inside, and each bite guarantees plenty of half-melted chocolate chunks. The brand uses only organic ingredients and claims...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 4, 2014

Saving Japan and China from a dangerous new conflict

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had hoped to herald his economic reform program at Davos last week. Instead, his mention of tensions between China and Japan exposed the lack of multilateral institutions like those created in Western Europe after 1945 to settle Northeast Asian disputes.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014

Chef lures new crowdfunding chief

Osamu Ito, a former Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. banker, is setting up a crowdfunding company that will raise money online to invest in startups, including a Michelin-starred chef's "bento" business.
JAPAN / WEDGE
Jan 26, 2014

NISA a hit with old investors, not new

NISA, short for Nippon Individual Savings Account, in which individual investors will be eligible for tax exemptions of up to five years on their financial gains, has begun this month. Banks and securities houses are rushing to promote sales campaigns to encourage individual investors to open NISA investment...

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years