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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Oct 10, 2010

Creative battle for boost in regional tourism heads to Japan's big screen

In recent years, many regional governments in Japan have set up "film commissions" to help production crews shoot motion pictures and TV dramas in their neighborhoods, in the hopes of attracting tourists and revitalizing local communities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2010

Yanagida won't meddle with prosecutors

New Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida said he is confident the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office will conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged evidence-tampering at the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office that led to the arrest of three of its senior ranks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2010

Seiko Noda's most coveted post: motherhood

At age 50, Seiko Noda's ardent wish to become a mother looks on track to come true.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2010

New center provides day care for Diet mothers

On a sunny September day, a nurse held a 3-month-old baby while another fed a hungry 7-month-old. Outside, two boys played in a sandbox in a spacious yard, where in the summer a wading pool will be set up so the children can splash about.
COMMENTARY
Oct 5, 2010

Mr. Kan, stop wasting time

It has taken the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) two long months to settle on the continuation of Kan Naoto as prime minister. Whatever past grudges or future intricacies might exist, the Kan Cabinet must get down to work without further delay.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2010

Ozawa inquest panel rules for indictment

Former Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa should be indicted over falsified reports from his political fund management body, an independent judicial panel announced Monday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2010

Mr. Kan's to-do list trumps vision

As Japan faces serious domestic and diplomatic challenges, a 64-day extraordinary Diet session started Friday with Prime Minister Naoto Kan's policy speech. The speech drew particular public attention because it was his first policy speech following his re-election as head of the Democratic Party of...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 3, 2010

Kusanagi's grass challenge; new faces, new lives; CM of the week: Suntory Torys Whisky

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, the SMAP member whose drunken, naked midnight lark in a Roppongi park several years ago gave him an extra layer of notoriety, seems more than willing to suffer for his art, whatever that is, on the three-hour TV Asahi special "Neo Variety Matsuri: Kusanagi Tsuyoshi no Tame ni Naru"...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2010

Kan vows measures to protect economy

Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed Friday to fix the suffering economy with a stream of measures aimed at putting the brakes on deflation and coping with the strong yen.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 30, 2010

Katayama: Empowering local governments is key

From the time he started his career as an official at the old Home Affairs Ministry, and then as governor of Tottori Prefecture, Yoshihiro Katayama has been pushing for decentralization of government power.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2010

Kan hopes to meet with Wen in Europe

Reversing a decision to skip next week's Asia-Europe Meeting, Prime Minister Naoto Kan will make a three-day trip to Brussels starting Sunday, where Tokyo is exploring the possibility of organizing talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2010

Fiscally, Obama has had a rough summer

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Has the Obama administration learned anything from the string of fiscal setbacks it has suffered this summer?
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 26, 2010

Recruit founder revisits a scandal that shook the nation

Remember the infamous Recruit scandal of the late 1980s that brought down a government, tarnished the reputations of Japan's movers and shakers and left the public convinced that the government was rotten to the core?
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2010

Sensible or weak-kneed decision?

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Friday decided to release a Chinese fishing boat captain who had been arrested Sept. 8 following his boat's collision the previous day with two Japan Coast Guard patrol boats in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea....
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 26, 2010

Corporate tax cut, EPAs key: Ohata

Newly appointed Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akihiro Ohata believes Japan needs to pull out all the stops to boost its economy, including drafting an extra budget, lowering corporate tax and forging more economic partnership agreements with other countries.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

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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