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BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2010

Yamaha pitches electric scooter for no-emission short commutes

Yamaha is targeting fashionable environmentally minded consumers with a new electric scooter designed for short city commutes.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jul 15, 2010

Ladies' plans

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 14, 2010

Wish upon a lucky star: ema cartoon craze

Ema (shrine prayer plaques) are getting a new twist as fans use them for paying homage to their favorite anime and J-pop idols.
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2010

Kokusai sees Japan yields diving

Kokusai Asset Management Co., which runs the world's second-largest bond fund, said Japanese government bond yields may drop to a record, even as larger fund supervisor Pacific Investment Management Co. expressed concern about the nation's rising debt levels.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2010

Gloomy DPJ focuses on renewal

The mood was grim Sunday at The New Otani Hotel, the Democratic Party of Japan's election base in Tokyo, as the reality set in that the ruling coalition had lost its majority in the Upper House.
JAPAN
Jul 8, 2010

Kobe-area cattle farmers hope foot-and-mouth steers clear

KOBE — Prized for its tender, marbled texture and succulent flavor, Kobe beef is a delicacy that can cost ¥19,000 for a slab of steak at some restaurants.
JAPAN / OKINAWA'S HOSTAGE ECONOMY
Jul 7, 2010

Special burden, special economic benefit

NAGO, Okinawa Pref. — On Aug. 4, 2005, then Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine was told by Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya that the United States had agreed to return all of the major military bases south of Kadena, central Okinawa Island, to Japan on condition that the Futenma air base be relocated...
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Jul 4, 2010

Sales Tax Tail

Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 4, 2010

Amami Oshima: Take a trip to the cloud forest of the imagination

Despite the environmental mistakes of the postwar decades, the violation of a once pristine landscape, a recent trip to Amami Oshima, gave very real cause for hope. Some regions have always, it seems, been in good shape. Flying over the island's green, volcanic hills, I felt as if I were gazing down...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jul 4, 2010

A meeting of minds

In 1958, just before my 18th birthday, I went along on an Inuit hunt for seals in the Canadian Arctic. That was the first time I tasted that rich, dark red — almost black — meat, and it was like nothing else I had eaten before. I loved it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2010

AIG may sell Japan insurance units to help reshape company

American International Group Inc., the insurer selling assets to repay a U.S. rescue, may seek buyers for its Japanese life units as Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche reshapes the firm.
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2010

Manufacturer mood hits two-year high

Sentiment among the country's largest manufacturers rose to a two-year high, an advance that may be hampered by evidence the global economy is slowing.
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2010

Toyota may shift some car output to Thailand

Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest carmaker, may move production of some cars to Thailand, reducing its reliance on Japanese factories.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2010

Easing of visa rules paves way for biggest tourist group from China

The Japan National Tourism Organization has landed its biggest tourist group ever — 10,000 Chinese employees and their relatives — in a welcome piece of news for the government as it eases visa rules on individual Chinese tourists starting Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2010

Tax hike policy due by March

The government wants to hammer out by the end of March its stance on raising the 5 percent consumption tax, newly appointed National Policy Unit minister Satoshi Arai said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2010

India nuke tieup OK'd

TORONTO (Kyodo) Japan and India agreed Sunday to cooperate further in the civilian use of nuclear power when Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met on the sidelines of a two-day Group of 20 summit in Toronto, Japanese officials said.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2010

Idemitsu plans to process less crude

Oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. said Monday it plans to process less crude oil from July to September because of weak domestic demand for fuel.
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2010

Loans for the indebted

Toward the end of 2006 the Diet enacted the Money- Lending Business Law to help solve the problems of consumers who have multiple debts. Since then, the government has taken steps to impose restrictions on the methods of collecting loans and to raise the barrier for entry into the consumer loan business....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 27, 2010

Exploring man's 'role' in nature; idol Koike Teppei's big acting break; CM of the week: Nissin Cup Noodle

Popular culture, movies in particular, has given us so many glimpses of the apocalypse that we may think we know exactly what it will look like. The special two-hour program "Jinrui Zero no Mirai" ("A Future of Zero Humanity"; Nihon TV, Mon., 7:56 p.m.) gives us several more, only this time without any...
JAPAN / PARTY LINE
Jun 26, 2010

New Komeito's leader lays into 'wavering' DPJ, rules out coalition

New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi denounced the ruling Democratic Party of Japan for wavering in its policies and not keeping its promises with the public, and said his party has no plan to enter into a coalition with the DPJ.

Longform

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