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LIFE / Digital
Nov 21, 2007

Product placement seeks online consumers' wallets

Product placement within the entertainment industry has become widely accepted as commonplace. You only have to watch "Casino Royale" — the most recent movie in the James Bond series — to see that in-film advertising is big business. From cars and laptop computers to entire airlines, if it can be...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Nov 18, 2007

Roadside profits and the parking lottery

For my stationary sins, I have been slapped with parking tickets from Los Angeles to London, and I used to think all fines were basically the same. Eagle-eyed traffic wardens pinpoint infringers and litter windscreens with $100 fines before you can say "Gimme a break!" Then you either pay up in person...
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2007

'Sesame Street' creator starts Web site

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that created the children's educational TV program "Sesame Street," has launched a Japanese version of its multilingual educational Web site for children around the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2007

Restoring the innocence of childhood

With just a few days before International Children's Day (Nov. 20), it is high time to ponder the issues in the leadup to the event. This day is marked to commemorate globally the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was signed by the United Nations on Nov. 20, 1989, and celebrated as Children's...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Nov 13, 2007

Agosta anniversary, Swedish cool, disc hats and more

Well-preened
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2007

Foreigners still dogged by housing barriers

Having arrived in Tokyo from Seoul about a year ago, Im Yeong Eun, like many foreigners who come to Japan, soon encountered a major difficulty — housing discrimination.
Reader Mail
Nov 8, 2007

Tired old cultural conflict

Regarding the Nov. 2 Associated Press article "American sues Dentsu USA over brothel outing": This "American" gentleman has bigger issues within himself. I have seen this attitude before -- the "shock" that Anglos show when their Japanese counterparts take them out at night, whether it be to a brothel,...
Reader Mail
Nov 8, 2007

Nova system could still work

The Nov. 4 editorial, "Nova burns out," about the rise and fall of the English-teaching company, was very enlightening. Instead of painting a dark and destructive picture of the situation, it illustrated basic facts: Nova had 300,000-plus students who were paying for mostly English lessons, and in Japan...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 6, 2007

Design turns over a greener leaf

With climate change a tangible reality, environmental issues are climbing to the top of everyone's agenda. Design is no exception. After a decade-long party accompanying their rising popular profile and commercial success, designers have begun to sober up.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2007

PCs getting pushed aside by other, powerful gadgets

Masaya Igarashi wants ¥20,000 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he's torn between Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 26, 2007

Playing to tell her tales

Storytelling lies at the heart of Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge's art.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2007

Repeat offender sentenced to 14 years for confining and abusing four females

A 26-year-old man who, as a repeat offender, confined and sexually abused four women between 2003 and 2004 was sentenced to 14 years in prison Friday by the Tokyo District Court.
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 17, 2007

From Big Brother marketing tools to powered Kitty-chan collectibles

Looks alone might not determine a person's character, but for marketing they are at least a good start. NEC certainly believes in the power of appearances, with its new FieldAnalyst camera. The device, in essence, judges passersby on the basis of their looks, determining their gender and approximate...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 16, 2007

From ants to antiques

Insect infestations A concerned reader writes: "We live in a traditional Japanese house, and have noticed with some alarm that the step into our "genkan" (hallway) is being eaten away. The wood is crumbling into dust from the inside and spreading. Any idea what might be the problem?"
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2007

Sony Financial rises 3.8% in biggest Japan IPO of year

Sony Financial Holdings Inc. gained 3.8 percent Thursday on its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after raising ¥320 billion in Japan's largest initial public offering this year.
Reader Mail
Oct 11, 2007

Romaji could ease the problem

I was amused and pleased by Shinichi Terada's Oct. 2 article, "Kanji, kana trip search engines." I called attention to similar problems in my 1987 book "The Fifth Generation Fallacy" (Oxford University Press) and more recently in "Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning" (University...
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 10, 2007

Trash can's size adjusts to your trash; MP3 player one-fifth as thick as iPod

Trash suffers so much at our hands. We inflict the twin insults of scorn and apathy on it, despising our refuse and really not caring too much just how it is removed from our presence. Just think how many research grants are devoted to building the better mousetrap, while we just treat our trash cans...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 6, 2007

Grant's Chelsea future hangs on whim of meddling board

LONDON — WANTED: Manager. Or maybe only a head coach.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2007

Faces of youthful ambition

Shigeo Anzai, a photographer of artists, says he loses interest when a subject becomes too famous. That's why his retrospective at the National Art Center, Tokyo, is full of pictures of young, fresh faces.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 2, 2007

Kanji, kana trip search engines

Like the rest of the world, people in Japan rely on search engines every day to tap the ocean of information that is the World Wide Web.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 2, 2007

When women wield the DS

Imagine your typical video gamer. Male, aged 18-35, right?
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2007

Stricter law forces companies to tighten funds pitch

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Nomura Holdings Inc. are among Japanese financial companies being forced to tighten marketing of mutual funds as a law to protect individual investors comes into effect next week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / OTAKOOL
Sep 27, 2007

Akihabara's awful truths

While the Establishment packages Electric Town as a mecca for manga and anime obsessives, and a magnet for camera- toting tourists, the reality differs: 'Akiba' is alienating the geeks who once made it great
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 26, 2007

Back-chatting TVs and translating photocopiers

Bridging the gaps between the multiple towers of Babel that are modern languages has traditionally relied on software. Whether this be organic software, as in humans and their linguistic skills, or computers with their still relatively primitive ability to translate from one language to another. Fuji...
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
By Alex K.T. Martin

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