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BASKETBALL
Jan 10, 2012

Alvark end SeaHorses' domination

The Aisin SeaHorses certainly showed their potential with a powerful rally late in the game.
EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 2012

Variable economic winds

As the Japanese economy greets the new year, overcoming the long period of deflation that has suffocated consumer spending and corporate investment should be the main goal of the government and the private sector. Firms can expect tailwinds from a rise in demand due to stepped-up efforts in reconstruction...
BASKETBALL
Jan 9, 2012

Sunflowers capture fourth-straight Empress' Cup

The JX Sunflowers once again proved that they are the queens of the floor, giving their opponent Denso Iris a tough lesson.
Reader Mail
Jan 8, 2012

Fear of background radiation

Regarding the Jan. 3 front-page article "Fukushima meltdowns set nuclear energy debate on its ear": It appears that the Japanese are just now discovering natural background radiation. The fossil-fuel industry is playing their emotions like a violin. Please go to http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/publications/2000_1.html...
Reader Mail
Jan 8, 2012

A crisis generated by leadership

I am an American who engineered a score of nuclear power plants, nine of the Fukushima type, the Mark I. If this article (Jan. 3, "Fukushima meltdowns set nuclear energy debate on its ear")reflects Japanese thinking, it is a tragedy.
Reader Mail
Jan 8, 2012

Selective opposition to whaling

As for Robert McKinney's Dec. 29 letter, "Japanese aren't the only whalers," I would like to add:
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Jan 8, 2012

Confident backcourt star Dixon makes things happen for Phoenix

The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Jermaine Dixon of the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 8, 2012

Nosing around Nada, the nation's sake-brewing mecca

Chewing and spitting out rice, unseemly as it sounds, is a key step in making kuchikami (literally, "mouth-chew") sake, an early form of the now world-famous drink. Fortunately, the brew has come a long way since then.
EDITORIALS
Jan 7, 2012

Bumpy road ahead for Mr. Noda

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, at a new year news conference Jan. 4, expressed his determination to push a two-stage raise of the consumption tax as well as to reform the social welfare system, and called for the opposition forces to join consultations with his Democratic Party of Japan over the issue....
BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2012

GDP shrank last quarter on Europe debt woes: JCER

The rebound from the March 11 disasters was probably cut short in the fourth quarter as the impact of Europe's crisis outweighed the support from reconstruction spending.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 6, 2012

Big man Holm gives Albirex a powerful presence inside

What was the best offseason pickup by a bj-league team?
EDITORIALS
Jan 6, 2012

Mr. Kim Jong Un's direction

There are signs that following the death on Dec. 17 of North Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, his youngest son Kim Jong Un is consolidating his power as the new leader. But it is unclear what direction his foreign policy will take. Japan should be prepared to flexibly cope with whatever moves North...
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2012

Tokyo exodus nuke report's worst scenario

Areas as far as 170 km away from the Fukushima nuclear plant faced the potential risk of being declared permanent evacuation zones, according to a worst-case scenario drawn up at the height of the crisis by the chief of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission.
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2012

JAL readying ¥1 trillion IPO in September

Japan Airlines Co., the carrier that exited bankruptcy last year, is planning an initial public offering that may raise as much as ¥1 trillion as early as September, two sources said.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 5, 2012

Mahjong parlors go deeper underground to stay in business

Police get wise and crack down on some of the mahjong industry's more creative ideas.
EDITORIALS
Jan 3, 2012

Unnerving year for Northeast Asia

While 2011 was "the great unraveling," 2012 holds out the prospect of equally consequential changes for Asia, but the inflection points are visible well ahead of time. The most notable feature of the calendar will be elections that are scheduled to be held throughout the region this year, each of which...
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2012

58% of poll respondents oppose consumption tax hike

Fifty-eight percent of respondents in a nationwide survey in Japan are opposed to the government's policy of doubling the consumption tax rate in stages by the mid-2010s, according to The Tokyo Shimbun daily Sunday.
Reader Mail
Jan 1, 2012

What drives a war-loving culture?

History unfortunately is written and distorted by the victor. Hiroaki Sato, author of the Dec. 26 article "Strange how isolationist stance can ruin a politician's reputation," will find it difficult to convince his American readers that not all Japanese leaders wanted to attack Pearl Harbor and fight...
Reader Mail
Jan 1, 2012

Whales, kangaroos and ignorance

Regarding Australian Rhonda Grant's Dec. 25 letter, "Resentment by a new generation": I would like to add a couple of points. First, the Japanese perceive whales differently — as just another fish — even as they abhor the killing of kangaroos in Australia despite sound environmental reasons for reducing...
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
Three Japanese nationals among those detained by ICE at Hyundai plant in Georgia
Investigators from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations at a factory being built by South Korea's Hyundai Motor in Georgia on Friday
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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