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EDITORIALS
Nov 23, 2009

Overhaul the privacy law

The intentions behind the Personal Information Protection Law, which went into effect in April 2005, are good, but it has contributed to a tendency for organizations to withhold benign information that has significantly useful social value. Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, state minister in charge of consumer affairs,...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 14, 2009

Time for Albirex to consider replacing Hirose as coach

When should a team fire a head coach?
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 13, 2009

Staggered start makes it tough getting out of gate

Before the dark days of the winter, the first five weeks of the season have essentially served as a dress rehearsal for the bj-league's 13 teams.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 28, 2009

Ka-ching and bling for Hello Kitty at 35

The queen of kawaii, Hello Kitty, celebrates her 35th birthday this year with global events, new products and a bit of bling.
BASKETBALL
Oct 26, 2009

Apache gather steam with win over Broncos

After a slow start this season, the Tokyo Apache are starting to hit on all cylinders.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Oct 20, 2009

Chiba's Highland Games offer true flavor of Scotland

Idle dog-walkers and shoppers around JR Makuhari Station were met with an unusual spectacle one sunny Sunday morning earlier this month. A large-framed blond man in a kilt sauntered past the shopping complex; then a group of Japanese women adorned in checked sashes came skipping along the intersection....
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 17, 2009

Johnson has work cut out for him in trying to turn around hapless Grouses

There have been few highlights for the Toyama Grouses during their brief existence as a pro basketball team.
LIFE
Oct 11, 2009

Most common Japanese family names by prefecture

The geographical distribution of today's family names, moving roughly north to south from Hokkaido to Okinawa and listing the five most commonly found in each prefecture in order of occurrence.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 11, 2009

The long road to identity

A striking fact regarding modern Japanese surnames is their sheer number. There's no precise count, but the consensus is that there are more than 100,000.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 23, 2009

Track standouts eager to end season on a positive note

KAWASAKI — After a series of fierce battles throughout the year, all the participants surely have some fatigue. But still they gave their word that they'd push themselves to the max one final time in the 2009 season.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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