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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 2, 2008

Lions maintain relaxed attitude before Game 1

In many ways, the 2008 Japan Series clubs — the Yomiuri Giants and Seibu Lions — are similar. Neither of them are strangers to the Fall Classic. They've been winning thanks to their fierce offensive power, and both managers are young, vigorous leaders.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Boosting liquidity key: Shirakawa

The Bank of Japan's cut Friday in the benchmark interest rate by 0.2 percentage point to 0.3 percent is aimed at increasing liquidity in the money market amid the global financial turmoil, BOJ Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

BOJ lowers its key lending rate to 0.3%

The Bank of Japan cut its benchmark interest rate Friday to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent, joining other central banks in moving to limit further damage from the global financial crisis.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2008

Nakasone raps report on North

Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone on Friday denied media reports that North Korea has no plan to reinvestigate its abductions of Japanese nationals.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Mizuho cuts full-year profit forecast by 55%

Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Japan's second-biggest bank by revenue, cut its full-year profit forecast by 55 percent because of losses on investments and rising bad-loan costs.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Unemployment rate falls as fewer go look for work

The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell from a two-year high and job vacancies tumbled to a four-year low as job seekers stopped looking for work amid an economic slowdown.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2008

Watanabe's gentle touch brings out Lions' claws

When thinking of what made the Seibu Lions' quick resurgence from the fifth-place finish of the previous season possible, as well as the players' growth, manager Hisanobu Watanabe's presence played a big part in it.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2008

Naturalist Nicol gives Prince Charles forest tour

SHINANO, Nagano Pref. — Emperor and Empress? Check. Prime Minister Taro Aso? Check. So who else did Britain's Prince Charles catch up with during his five-day visit to Japan? None other than longtime Japan Times columnist, naturalist and author C.W. Nicol.
CULTURE / Art / INSIDE ART
Oct 30, 2008

Poof! goes the art work as taboos broken

The skies above the Hiroshima Peace Memorial were perfectly clear last Tuesday morning — until a small plane appeared and started writing in smoke a Japanese word that could be translated as "Bang!"
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2008

SMFG to acquire 2% stake in KB Group

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. said Wednesday it will buy at least 2 percent of South Korea's KB Financial Group Inc.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2008

Bush's nuclear deal with India: bigger consequences to consider

HONOLULU/STOCKHOLM — The U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement was signed into law this month after two years of negotiations and bitter debates. The final deal sharply divides arms control and nonproliferation specialists. The focus of an often-emotional debate revolves around a simple question: Is...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2008

Prince Charles urges action on climate change

The effects of climate change will be long-lasting and perhaps irreversible unless immediate and comprehensive action is taken to combat global warming, Britain's Prince Charles said Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2008

Diversity key to corporate growth

Diversity management is not just about promoting women in the workplace but about facilitating corporate reform and raising profitability in rapidly changing global markets, speakers at a Tokyo forum on diversity and inclusion said last week.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 29, 2008

Nara's cute, destructive deer

Nara's Kasugayama Forest Reserve doesn't look like a landscape in crisis.
LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC
Oct 28, 2008

Take the first step to writing home in kanji

A friend in North Carolina recently showed me a yellowing nengajō (年賀状, New Year's card) I had sent her soon after first arriving in Japan back in the early 1980s. The return address, penciled in my best effort at the time — a childlike, uneven scrawl of kanji — reminded me of the intense...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 28, 2008

What are your plans for Halloween?

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 28, 2008

Paul and Neeta Daswani

Paul (61) and Neeta (60) Daswani are the owners of Sati's, a legendary clothing store in Okinawa City in the center of Okinawa Island. Since 1978, Sati's has been a one-stop shopping haven for hot tailor-made suits with cool matching accessories. Here beach bums turn into jazz cats thanks to the Daswanis'...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 27, 2008

Failure of 'last resort' speaks volumes about need for global control

T he Bank of Japan began an operation in mid-September to supply U.S. dollars to institutions participating in the Tokyo money market, including foreign banks and brokerage houses. This operation, part of a joint effort by central banks around the world to fight the credit crunch that followed the collapse...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 27, 2008

Democratic pretension vs. airs of entitlement

NEW YORK — "I was honestly dumfounded," Akira Ueda recently wrote, "when I learned that the gold medalist judoka Satoshi Ishii told the Emperor, 'I fought for you, Your Majesty.' " Ishii made that statement when Olympic medalists and others were invited to tea at the Imperial Palace by the Emperor...
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.

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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