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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 14, 2010

Smokers escape the gas chamber

Smokers in Japan are losing ground, but Japan Tobacco is doing what it can to find safe havens for puffers.
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2010

Department stores fight clunker image

Once upon a time, department stores were magnets for shoppers hungry for fashion and big-ticket luxury brand goods.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Dec 30, 2009

CJK recruits Android for new Camangi Webstation tablet

Going tablet: Android is Google's shot at hitting Microsoft where it hurts — mobile devices. Windows might still dominate PC operating systems, but it has never duplicated this overwhelming presence on the small screens of mobile phones, PDAs and the like. So far, Android has shaken things up by becoming...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2009

Isuzu seeks talks with GM with eye to exiting joint engine plant

Isuzu Motors Ltd. is seeking talks with General Motors Co. to review a joint engine-making factory in the U.S. that may operate at 30 percent capacity next year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Dec 22, 2009

Expat's Japan remedy: assimilate

Don't be a nail that sticks up. Assimilate.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Dec 22, 2009

Expat's Japan remedy: assimilate

Don't be a nail that sticks up. Assimilate.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 20, 2009

Waking up to a shipwreck

It's not every morning that a 169-meter-long ship gets knocked over by a giant wave and lands like a beached whale virtually outside the front door of your quiet seaside home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2009

Japan ups pace in race for U.S. bullet train deal

NAGOYA — On a desolate stretch of track just before midnight, when all passenger lines have been put to bed, a juiced-up bullet train goes online and accelerates to over 320 kph. The 700-ton train, about 400 meters long, whooshes by rice paddies in under 5 seconds.
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2009

'Final Fantasy' sales may reach record for PS3

Square Enix Holdings Co., the creator of the "Final Fantasy" franchise, aims to sell at least 2 million units of the role-playing game's latest edition, setting a record for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console in Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2009

Made-in-China incentives may dent Kubota machinery sales

Kubota Corp., Asia's largest tractor maker, said China machinery sales may miss their 2009 target because government subsidies for farmers favor domestic makers of agricultural equipment.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2009

'Clean energy' plan may jump start NGK's sales

Japan's plan to use more renewable energy to fight climate change hinges on another technology — batteries as big as London buses to be hooked up to the power network at a cost of as much as ¥6 trillion.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2009

Kanematsu to boost soybean shipments

Kanematsu Corp., Japan's largest importer of food soybeans, plans to boost sales of the oilseed by 67 percent in three years as it expands crop supply contracts in Canada and widens shipments to Europe and Asia.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2009

Hong Kong looks to Japan's automated tombs

Hong Kong, one of the world's most densely populated areas, is looking to Japan for a solution to a perennial issue — what to do with the dead.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2009

JAL's crucial task

With its fourth annual loss in five years looming, Japan Airlines Corp. is struggling to stay afloat, and the reduction of company pension benefits has become a crucial issue. For its reconstruction efforts, the cash-strapped airline desperately seeks public funds. But because JAL retirees get fatter...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2009

Tuna farming getting a boost as species suffers

KUMANO, Mie Pref. — Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay here, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 6, 2009

Eco cars go up in smoke

Preadolescent tarento (TV celebrities) tend to provoke my gag reflex. I can only tolerate preternatural cuteness if it's presented without irony or intensification. Ten-year-old Nozomi Ohashi, who's famous for singing the theme song to the animated movie "Ponyo," has, according to her Wikipedia entry,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Dec 6, 2009

Rika Kayama: Finding satisfaction in being ourselves

Psychiatrist Rika Kayama is an outspoken doctor specializing in mental illness, a best-selling writer and a popular social commentator.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2009

Jackson, Spidey not part of Sony's 3-D plan

Michael Jackson videos or the next "Spider-Man" movie won't be among the titles that Sony Corp. releases in 3-D as it gears up to boost TV sales, according to Chief Executive Howard Stringer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2009

Pachinko maker pushes for legalization of casinos

SINGAPORE — The government lacks the will to legalize casinos and let the industry compensate for declining tax revenue amid deflation, according to the head of pachinko maker Universal Entertainment Corp.
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2009

Exporters face 'breaking point' over strong yen

Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp. are among Japanese exporters that may miss their forecasts as the yen strengthens more than they anticipated, eroding their earnings from televisions and cars sold overseas, investors said.
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2009

Dubai debt warning batters builders

Japanese construction stocks fell, led by Obayashi Corp., after Daiwa Securities Group Inc. said builders may not receive some revenue from Dubai as the nation's state-owned company asked to postpone debt payments.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2009

Super Mario endures as games come and go

NEW YORK — You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2009

Murata postpones battery sales

Murata Manufacturing Co. will postpone its plan to start selling lithium-ion batteries by at least a year as it plots a strategy to compete in a market that includes Japanese rivals Panasonic Corp. and GS Yuasa Corp.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 19, 2009

Cold cash for hot stoves

You would think that dangerous, outdated kerosene heaters would not still be considered 'modern appliances' in Japan.

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear