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JAPAN
Jun 25, 2010

Experts find tax pledge wanting

Prime Minister Naoto Kan has begun to advocate raising the consumption tax to 10 percent, attacking the political hot potato head-on.
COMMENTARY
Jun 25, 2010

Western media play along in the disinformation game

Are they being manipulated by governments? Or, are they just plain lazy, happy to go along with what everyone else is saying and what readers want to believe without wanting to look too closely into relevant background?
JAPAN / DECISION 2010
Jun 25, 2010

Kan wades deep into tax hike fray

Despite misgivings in his own party, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has pledged to raise the 5 percent consumption tax in a few years to fund snowballing social security costs and avoid a fiscal crisis like the one that engulfed Greece.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2010

Gear to create 3-D content starts to heat up

Now that 3-D TVs are hitting the stores, the equipment needed to create three-dimensional content is getting a lot of attention at the 3D & Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY
Jun 23, 2010

America's China policy flop

Success breeds confidence, and rapid success spawns arrogance. That, in a nutshell, is the China problem facing Asian states and the West. But no country faces a bigger dilemma on China than the United States because the present American policy simply isn't advancing its objectives.
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2010

Sales tax hike to take a few years: Kan

Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday it would take at least two to three years to increase the consumption tax.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2010

St. Regis looking to take Osaka upmarket

In the current state of financial uncertainty, many would think now is not the best time to open a luxury hotel.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 20, 2010

Who pays for sumo?

Sumo wrestlers don't make huge salaries but they can get a lot of yen in other ways.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2010

Renho vows to cut waste

While a sales tax hike may be on the horizon, the government will remain unyielding in its quest to eliminate wasteful spending, new state minister in charge of government revitalization Renho says.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jun 20, 2010

Towering ambition

One sunny Saturday last month, Hitachi Ltd., Japan's largest electronics maker, made headlines when it hosted a rare tour of its spanking new elevator-testing tower — the world's tallest — at its sprawling facility in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2010

Rundown of DPJ pledges

The Democratic Party of Japan is promising to
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2010

DPJ, LDP platforms test tax hike waters

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the opposition camp unofficially began campaigning Thursday for the July 11 Upper House election, by releasing their platforms, and both sides seemed to be dancing around a tax hike.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2010

Toyota upbeat, looks to complete crisis-curbed Mississippi factory

Toyota may restart its delayed Mississippi plant, according to sources, as the automobile market gradually recovers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 18, 2010

Lack of funds fail to stop Tokyo's young theater brigade

As a promising playwright, director and actor, 31-year-old Junichi Hirota highlights a cruel fact running through Japan's theater world — namely that once technicians such as lighting engineers, sound people and set-builders are paid from box-office profits, there's often little or nothing left for...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jun 17, 2010

Drinks on the house . . . all around

In a bid to get more punters in the door, more pubs are slashing prices and even putting drinks on the house.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2010

Returnee claims frameup, denies robbing cabby

An American man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to robbing and injuring a taxi driver in conspiracy with two other foreign nationals in 2008.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jun 17, 2010

Vader ladies

Dear Alice,
EDITORIALS
Jun 16, 2010

A fourth try to convince Iran

For the fourth time, the United Nations Security Council has voted to impose sanctions against Iran to get that country to share more details about its nuclear program. Tehran's determination to shield those efforts from international scrutiny only compounds doubt about its intentions. The new sanctions...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jun 16, 2010

Tokyo-based Mod forges a path for DIY publishing

The arrival of Apple's iPad at the end of last month sent shock waves through Japan's publishing industry. In the ensuing 2 1/2 weeks, dozens of publishers have announced plans to digitize magazine and other content, while others have set up think tanks to ponder their changed marketplace. Even the National...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 15, 2010

Mah-jongg ancient, progressive

Few games may be as addictive as mah-jongg, whose players range from university students to salarymen and tend to go at it all night, often for money.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 14, 2010

Tap water gains for economic not environmental reasons

Tokyo has gone to great lengths to make its tap water more drinkable ... so why do most people still buy bottled water?
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025
Japan Times
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.

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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