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MULTIMEDIA
Sep 6, 2013

[VIDEO] Candle Night — We believe Tokyo 2020

EDITORIALS
Sep 5, 2013

No quick fix for Fukushima leaks

Despite the government's decision to directly involve itself in managing the Fukushima nuclear crisis, fundamental solutions are no closer at hand.
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JAPAN
Sep 5, 2013

Experts uncertain about Tokyo bid

As the weekend vote looms by the International Olympic Committee to decide the city that will host the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, experts in Japan say the three candidates are neck and neck amid lingering worries about the radioactive water leaking from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2013

Toshiba to sell Europe energy meters

Toshiba Corp. plans to sell 150,000 energy-tracking units to homeowners in Europe in the next three years to help them manage their power use.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2013

Rakuten to buy video streaming provider

Rakuten Inc., controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, said it has agreed to buy streaming video service provider Viki Inc. as the Internet retailer seeks to expand into new digital offerings.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2013

Five myths about the U.S. millennial generation

The millennial generation is not as developmentally stunted as older generations make them out to be.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2013

Knock down barriers to FDIs

If Japan wants to regain its international competitiveness and recover its innovative capabilities, it must encourage leading foreign firms to come to the Japanese market.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2013

Recruit foreign students to fuel growth, panel says

Japan should strategically bring in more students from emerging economies who can contribute to both their homeland and Japan's growth, a midterm report by an education panel working on exchange student issues said Monday.
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 26, 2013

[VIDEO] Tokyo Sky Tree shines a light for the 2020 Olympic bid

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2013

NASA's mission improbable: corral an asteroid

NASA is looking for a rock. It has to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can't be too big or too small. Something 6 to 9 meters in diameter would work. It can't be spinning too rapidly, or tumbling knees over elbows. It can't be a speed demon....
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 23, 2013

After 18.7 billion km, Voyager 1 boldly goes on ... but just where in space is it?

It's 36 years since Voyager 1 was dispatched in 1977 on a mission to send back images of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere and volcanic eruptions on one of its moons, Io. Then it was due to travel on to Saturn to examine that planet's intricate system of rings and moons. But after traveling more than 18...
EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2013

Preparing for a massive quake

Sept. 1 is the 90th anniversary of Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. But how prepared are Tokyoites for the massive earthquake forecast to hit in the near future
LIFE / Digital
Aug 20, 2013

Britain's new 'smart meters' not so clever

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make credulous. In the case of technology, especially technology involving computers, that's pretty easy to do. Quite why people are so overawed by computers when they are blasé about, say, truly miraculous technologies such as high-speed trains, is a...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 16, 2013

White House reinstalling symbolic solar panels

Jimmy Carter first installed solar panels in 1979. Ronald Reagan called them a joke and had them removed in 1986. And this week, nearly three years after promising to restore them as a sign of the administration's commitment to renewable energy, President Obama is reinstalling solar panels on the White...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2013

Fukushima replaces economy as Abe's legacy issue

orget the economy and attempts to rewrite the Constitution. History will judge Shinzo Abe on what he did, or didn't do, to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 12, 2013

Radiation fears forced me to postpone Japan visit by U.S. students

Dear Minister of Education Hakubun Shimomura,
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2013

A first: Nation's debt tops ¥1 quadrillion

The national debt exceeded ¥1 quadrillion for the first time, underscoring the case for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to proceed with a sales tax increase to shore up government finances.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2013

Panel plans strategy for overseas Japanese language education

Experts discussing ways to increase the number of Japanese language learners overseas propose promoting 'Cool Japan' pop culture and online services to provide more opportunities for speaking the language.

Longform

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