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JAPAN
Dec 26, 2006

Four sent to the gallows

The Justice Ministry sent four death row inmates to the gallows Monday, inflaming lawmakers and protesters over the first executions to be carried out in 15 months.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 19, 2006

Take note: You needn't always think straight

'How-to" business books are stacked knee-high in bookstores and advertisements for motivational seminars continue to multiply through commuter trains.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2006

Taijiquan getting an all new workout

Festival in Tokyo on Nov. 23. KYODO PHOTOS
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2006

Taijiquan getting an all new workout

Festival in Tokyo on Nov. 23. KYODO PHOTOS
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2006

Pre-empting official corruption

It seems the longer that one stays in power, the more likely he is to become corrupted. Former Gov. Eisaku Sato of Fukushima Prefecture was arrested in October -- shortly after his resignation on suspicion of receiving a bribe from a contractor in a prefectural dam project -- 18 years after he was first...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 2, 2006

Toshi Atsuumi

Calcutta is a dramatic, tumultuous city. This capital of West Bengal still shows the high temper that often marked its turbulent history. Toshi Atsuumi found in Calcutta something he looks for: the survival of nature in the swirl of humanity. Calcutta was not, however, Atsuumi's introduction to a world...
BASKETBALL
Nov 27, 2006

Apache win heart attack against Toyama behind 38-point 'Helicopter' ride

John "Helicopter" Humphrey craves the spotlight.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2006

Another dent in public trust

The arrest of Wakayama Gov. Yoshiki Kimura on suspicion of involvement in rigging bids for a prefectural sewerage project has further weakened public trust in local government. He became the first incumbent governor to be arrested on such an allegation. Bribery is also suspected inasmuch as a slush fund...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 10, 2006

Hats off to expansion Grouses for road win in first game ever

Talk about a great start.
BUSINESS / POPULATION SYMPOSIUM
Nov 9, 2006

Environment, not career major hurdle to big families

See the main story: Low birthrate threatens Japan's future See related story: French values and child-care policies put family before work
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2006

FSA soliciting bids for Ashikaga bank

The Financial Services Agency began soliciting bids Thursday for the sale of state-owned Ashikaga Bank Ltd., publishing the conditions that buyers must satisfy to purchase the Tochigi Prefecture-based bank.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2006

Ozawa retains DPJ helm, is hospitalized

and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama during a party convention Monday in Tokyo. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2006

Plan afoot to increase rural doctors

The government plans to increase enrollment at private and public university medical schools in 10 prefectures that are suffering from an acute shortage of doctors, health ministry officials said Tuesday.
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 an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
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.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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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