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BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2008

Foot-to-the-floor Toyota now suddenly has to downshift

Amid the worldwide economic downturn and the dollar's nosedive against the yen, Toyota Motor Corp. is facing a turning point in the aggressive overseas strategy that until now has powered its growth.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 30, 2008

Half century on, Tokyo Tower still dazzles as landmark

Tokyo Tower, a long-standing landmark of the capital, celebrated its 50th birthday on Dec. 23. It still attracts about 3 million visitors a year and has provided the metropolis with good TV reception for decades.
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2008

Premium burger sales sizzle in recession

Despite of, or maybe because of, the recession, hamburger chains are doing a brisk business as they introduce premium fare.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2008

Sumitomo Life seeking to raise ¥100 billion in capital next month

Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. plans to raise about ¥100 billion in capital as early as next month to strengthen its financial base, a spokesman said Sunday.
CULTURE / Books
Dec 28, 2008

Folklore meets detection in Asia

CURSE OF THE POGO STICK by Colin Cotterill. New York: SOHO Press Inc., 2008, 240 pp., $24 (cloth) Some mystery series adopt a backdrop in which indigenous cultures are forced to deal with the incursion of a more modern and powerful civilization. One example would be Eliott Pattison's of mysteries set...
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2008

CPI falls again as commodities ease, recession deepens

Inflation slowed for a third month in November as oil and commodity costs tumbled and the deepening recession weakened demand.
JAPAN / Q&A
Dec 25, 2008

Temps a threatened species as job cuts bite

Last of two parts
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2008

Toy company CEOs dress up to play Santa

To help boost the sagging toy market, toy company executives transformed themselves into one-day Santa Clauses on Saturday to promote their products for Christmas.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Dec 21, 2008

A trove of fiction, all for the love of women

SPARKLING RAIN and Other Fiction From Japan of Women Who Love Women, edited by Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberly Hughes, with introductions by Hitomi Sawabe and Mieko Watanabe. Chicago: New Victoria Publishers, Inc., 2008, 216 pp., $16.95 (paper) As editor Barbara Summerhawk writes in her introduction...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 20, 2008

NPO chief helping out other charities

Daigo Sato, the man who founded the NPO that set up Japan's first political internship program, Dot-JP, 10 years ago, has embarked on a new mission this year to help the nonprofit organizations themselves.
BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2008

Morgan cuts prime brokers to two

Morgan Stanley, one of the world's two biggest prime brokers, has eliminated five jobs in the unit that provides services for hedge funds in Tokyo, two sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Dec 13, 2008

Pair's flexibility keeps their options open

Smart couples have smart rules.
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2008

Pan Pacific to cut copper output

Pan Pacific Copper Co., the biggest copper smelter in the nation, will cut production for the first time in 14 years as the global economic slowdown reduces demand.
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2008

Beef imports from U.S. plant halted

Japan, the third-largest buyer of U.S. beef, has halted imports of the meat from a Wisconsin plant owned by JBS SA after finding noncertified beef products in a shipment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2008

Skymark looks to return to black

Discount carrier Skymark Airlines Inc. will return to profit next fiscal year as it hands back the final two Boeing 767 planes in its fleet, reducing costs related with returning the aircraft, according to its president.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
‘Drop the price’: Behind the pushback on Nintendo’s Switch 2
Excitement for Nintendo's next console is high, but a vocal contingent of fans are voicing criticism over the company's pricing strategy.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

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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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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