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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2010

Hitachi recycling scarce rare earths

It takes two Hitachi Ltd. workers eight minutes to slice open the metal casing of the used air conditioner compressor. The prize inside: four wafer-thin magnets containing about 30 grams of rare earth metals.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 3, 2010

'Whatever Works (Jinsei Banzai!)'

If I were to tell you that Woody Allen's new film, "Whatever Works" (opening locally as "Jinsei Banzai!"), involves a nubile, rather dim young girl falling for a cantankerous, neurotic, much older guy, your reaction might be: "Not again!"
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 3, 2010

La Gargote: Buzzing new bistro moves in for the grill

The great guide Michelin has again spoken, and lo! Tokyo has yet more stars in its firmament, and with even greater numbers anointed to the most exalted echelons. Further confirmation, should it be needed, that this is the foodiest city on the planet.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 2, 2010

New refuse rules criminalize can-collecting

Can-collecting used to be one way for homeless people to earn a bit of cash. Recently, though, more Tokyo wards are saying, 'No, you can't.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Nov 26, 2010

'Catalysis for Life: New Language of Dutch Art and Design'

Museum of Contemporary
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2010

Pyongyang's new centrifuges

Mr. Siegfried Hecker, former chief of the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory, said Saturday that he saw "more than a thousand" centrifuges to enrich uranium and an "ultramodern control room" at a plant at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex when he visited there Nov. 12. North Korea told him and...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 20, 2010

Edo Period farmhouse gets new life in Paris

A traditional farmhouse built 150 years ago in what is now Kisomachi, Nagano Prefecture, has been open to the public since Nov. 15 after being relocated to an amusement park in Paris a dozen years ago.
JAPAN / ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
Nov 12, 2010

Transplants set to increase

Japan boasts highly skilled surgeons, universal health insurance coverage, well-equipped medical facilities — and few organ transplants.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2010

Steps vowed on region trade goals

YOKOHAMA — Foreign and trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region affirmed Thursday the importance of taking concrete steps toward achieving a regionwide free-trade zone.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 17, 2010

New Russia's political maneuvering harkens back to the U.S.S.R.

If I had to choose the event in my adult lifetime with the greatest historical import it would be, hands down, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In 2005, then president of Russia Vladimir Putin was not exaggerating when he called it "the greatest political catastrophe of the 20th century."
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2010

Yanagida won't meddle with prosecutors

New Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida said he is confident the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office will conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged evidence-tampering at the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office that led to the arrest of three of its senior ranks.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2010

Ending the secret life of the death penalty

Japan's former Justice Minister Keiko Chiba surprised many people when she ordered the hanging of two convicted killers at the end of July.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 17, 2010

New exhibition anticipates a design museum for Japan

In March, with the opening of the Design Museum Holon, Israel added its name to a long list of countries that have at least one full-fledged museum dedicated to design. Japan, despite its reputation as a design powerhouse — hard-earned during the 20th century by innovative work such as Sony's Walkman,...
EDITORIALS
Sep 12, 2010

The new frugality

In a sad start to the new season, many of the events throughout Japan featuring one of the symbols of autumn, the lowly sanma (mackerel pike or Pacific saury), had to be canceled or postponed because of poor catches. At the beginning of September the catch was only 20 percent of that of the previous...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 10, 2010

New dining at 45 floors above Tokyo

The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, opened two new restaurants on Sept. 4, replacing the all-day dining outlet Forty Five on the 45th floor.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
By Yukana Inoue

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