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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2015

Robots to help out at Mitsubishi UFJ branches

Meet the latest employee of the nation's biggest bank: a multilingual robot called NAO.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 30, 2015

BOJ doesn't need more stimulus: top-rated economist

Japan's top-rated economist says the central bank doesn't need more stimulus, defying the consensus.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jan 30, 2015

Safety concerns cloud promise of powerful new cancer drugs

A new wave of experimental cancer drugs that directly recruit the immune system's powerful T cells are proving to be immensely effective weapons against tumors, potentially transforming the $100 billion global market for drugs that fight the disease.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2015

MRI owner to pay $584 million for bilking Japanese investors

A Las Vegas businessman and his company, MRI International Inc., were ordered to pay $584 million after a judge ruled that they defrauded Japanese investors in a Ponzi scheme.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jan 28, 2015

Kawabuchi to help lead task force charged with solving Japan's basketball impasse

FIBA, basketball's world governing body, on Wednesday announced the formation of a task force to lay a new foundation for the sport in Japan, and former J. League chairman Saburo Kawabuchi was appointed co-chairman.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 28, 2015

Linux makers release patch to thwart new 'Ghost' cyberthreat

Red Hat Inc. and other makers of the widely used Linux operating system for business computers updated their software on Tuesday to thwart a serious new cybe threat they warned could allow hackers to gain remote control of their systems.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 27, 2015

In South Korea, women's careers take back seat to caring for kids

Ahn Ji-sun was looking forward to going back to work after she had given birth to her second child. But she had no one to baby-sit the kids.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 27, 2015

Nomura says 'Abenomics' more likely to derail amid doubt over tax pledge

Nomura Holdings Inc. says the probability that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies will end badly is increasing.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 27, 2015

What a difference oil price makes, as Marubeni joins writedowns

"I couldn't believe that oil would drop this far," said Marubeni Corp. Chief Executive Officer Fumiya Kokubu.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2015

Self-censoring kicks in as hostage drama plays out

As the hostage drama plays out, TV stations are altering schedules and pop idols are changing song lyrics to avoid shocking audiences accidentally.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 26, 2015

From laundry detergent to foreign tourism: The heavyweights of consumption in 2014

Toward the end of every year, the media, advertising agencies, think tanks and other organizations look back on the "hit products" whose successes helped define consumer preferences over the previous 12 months.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015

Obama backs India's solar goals, seeks support for climate talks

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday offered to help finance India's ambitious solar energy target and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's support at global climate talks in Paris later this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 24, 2015

Senior U.S. diplomat ruffles Cuba by meeting dissidents

A senior U.S. diplomat in Cuba for negotiations on restoring long-frozen diplomatic relations met a group of dissidents on Friday, seeking to underline Washington's concern over human rights but irritating the island's communist government.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2015

Tourists tempted by paid, free Wi-Fi access campaigns

As tourists visit Japan in increasing numbers, mobile phone operators are moving to tap the market by providing better Wi-Fi services.
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Jan 23, 2015

Five things to keep you ahead of the game

Last year's monster hits "Pokemon Omega Ruby" and "Alpha Sapphire" are the theme to a new pop-up cafe in Shibuya. As Nintendo 3DS remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance titles "Pokemon Ruby" and "Sapphire," the new versions, with beefed-up graphics and new content, sold more than two million copies in...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2015

Scholar offers secure way for employees to blow the whistle

One man is on a quest to create transparency in Japan with a whistleblower website that has echoes of Wikileaks and promises high-tech anonymity.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2015

Mitsui Fudosan to build office tower in Manhattan

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Japan's biggest developer, will build an office tower in Manhattan with an expected cost of ¥150 billion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2015

Mitsubishi UFJ said to have held talks to acquire DZ Bank's DVB

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., the nation's biggest bank, held talks with DVB Bank SE about a possible takeover of the German shipping and aviation lender, sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2015

Ireland's Tim Cook moment: Potential future prime minister admits being gay

Ireland's health minister, tipped as a future prime minister, came out as the first openly gay Cabinet member in a Catholic country that until the 1990s banned homosexuality.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.

Podcast

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

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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