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BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Feb 25, 2008

G7's changing world and the need for microeconomic steps

The Feb. 9 meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank chiefs — the first one held in Tokyo in eight years — adopted a statement recognizing that the global economy is facing more challenging and uncertain circumstances.
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2008

Right to know takes a hit

The Tokyo High Court has rejected a damages suit filed in 2005 by Mr. Takichi Nishiyama, a former Mainichi Shimbun reporter, who alleged he was illegally indicted over his news gathering on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan. The crux of the trial was whether Japan and the United States had had a...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Feb 24, 2008

Persistence helps Lawrence extend career, connect with heritage

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league — Japan's first professional basketball circuit — which is in its third season. Aaron Sakai Lawrence of the Saitama Broncos is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008

Mum fights nuke power

Yurika Ayukawa, the special adviser on climate change to the environmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature Japan (WWF Japan), believes the key to combating global warming lies in changing humans' means of generating energy.
Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2008

Punished for the acts of a few

Regarding the Feb. 21 letter "Americans shouldn't be surprised": Seriously, does the writer really believe that Korea wouldn't have teamed up with China, the Philippines and other Far East countries to attack Japan to serve revenge for their perceived abuse by the Japanese in past wars?
EDITORIALS
Feb 24, 2008

The age(s) of adulthood

One of Japan's most thriving holidays is Coming of Age Day, when those who turn 20 that year dress in bright kimono or formal hakama and take photos at shrines. The celebration of adulthood, however, is not without controversy. Recent debates by the Legislative Council have suggested that the legal definition...
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008

Top techie programs change

When Kayoko Sugahara started working as a systems engineer 25 years ago, she sometimes stayed in her office late into the night running performance tests on computers, and often went there on weekends to use the computers there.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2008

Ferrari to open subsidiary as luxury car sales boom

Ferrari SpA announced Friday it will open a Japanese subsidiary on July 1, transferring importer rights from dealer Cornes & Co. in an effort to cash in on the growing Japanese luxury market.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2008

Ballot for permanent residents

A move is gaining momentum among Diet members to give permanent foreign residents the right to vote in local elections. Korean residents have especially been vocal in calling for such rights. Both the ruling and opposition parties should hold thorough discussions aimed at enabling permanent residents...
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2008

TCI confident of green light to up stake in J-Power

Children's Investment Fund Management Ltd. is confident that Japan will allow it to double its stake in Electric Power Development Co., said John Ho, Asia chief of the U.K.-based activist fund.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 23, 2008

Hope at times comes in the form of cows

Lowell Sheppard, director Asia-Pacific of the Canada-based NGO HOPE International Development Agency is on his way back to Nagoya from Shinagawa.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2008

Hill rues U.S. forces discipline lapse, tough on North

Visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill expressed his regret Thursday to Japanese government officials in Tokyo over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old Okinawa girl by a U.S. Marine last week.
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

The root of national identity

Regarding the Feb. 16 article "(Tokyo Gov. Shintaro) Ishihara laments loss of national identity": Ishihara is quoted as saying that if North Korea launched a missile, "the Japanese would instantly change." When North Korea launched six missiles two years ago, did Japan change as a result of that?
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2008

LNG price spike to cost utilities $3.5 billion

Japanese importers of liquefied natural gas may have to pay an extra $3.5 billion to suppliers after fuel prices rose more than expected over the past four years, according to an official involved in the contract talks.
COMMENTARY
Feb 20, 2008

Obstacles to overcome in the development of a concert of Asia-Pacific democracies

NEW DELHI — The new Australian government is signaling a wish to turn its back on an initiative bringing four major democracies of the Asia-Pacific together, even as U.S. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has vowed to institutionalize that venture.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 20, 2008

Nature tour turns sour as we see 'endangered' prey killed

A great white mass, a broken blanket of sea ice, was moving south down the Sea of Okhotsk carried on currents and blown by winds from the north. From the flank of Mount Mokoto it appeared like a mirage, a whitened margin to the sea's northern horizon, but from the much closer range of the cliff tops...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPOSIUM
Feb 18, 2008

Developing nations must be part of post-Kyoto Protocol framework

Developing nations need to play a "meaningful" role in the post-Kyoto Protocol international framework on climate change, even though it may be difficult for them to accept — at least in the near future — binding caps on their greenhouse gas emissions, James Bartis, a senior policy researcher for...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 17, 2008

Trailblazer Matsui continues to hone game at Columbia

K.J. Matsui is a perfectionist.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2008

Japanese star vows to spread the 'bling-pong' gospel

When I went to the Table Tennis National Championships in Tokyo a month ago, the last thing I expected was a revolution.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 17, 2008

Veterans Kudo, Rhodes approaching longevity milestones

Among players within reach of milestones this season are two guys making the most of their longevity: Yokohama BayStars left-handed pitcher Kimiyasu Kudo and Orix Buffaloes slugger Tuffy Rhodes.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 16, 2008

In the land of the statistically speaking

Numbers don't lie. Not in Japan anyway. Here, they tend rather to flatter. Or "fibulate." Or nourish.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 16, 2008

Teaching skills pave road to self-reliance

The room is chockablock — or seems to be. Also, a baby is crying. Yet there is a center of gravity in Cesar Santoyo, a mission coordinator from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. While small meetings take place all around, he calmly sets up a promo DVD with one hand, and soothes the baby...
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara area on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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