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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 31, 2017

North Korea hacked Daewoo Shipbuilding and took warship and sub blueprints, South lawmaker says

North Korea probably stole South Korean warship blueprints after hacking into Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd's database in April last year, a South Korean opposition lawmaker said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2017

FBI probing Puerto Rico power contract awarded to Montana start-up without bidding: WSJ

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a $300 million contract that Puerto Rico's government power company awarded to a U.S.-based energy start-up, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2017

Toyota ushers in new Century, Japan's challenge to Rolls-Royce as collectors covet older models

Toyota has just introduced a new Century. This is a big deal. The Toyota Century is the most exclusive car in Japan. Introduced in 1967 and named for the 100th birthday of company founder Sakichi Toyoda, the Century defines top-tier Japanese luxury, the kind reserved for heads of state, chief executive...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2017

Scrutinize 'work-style reform' bill

In some ways, Shinzo Abe's bill on overwork and other job-related issues does too little, in some ways it does too much.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2017

Kobe Steel plans to raise ¥70 billion with early asset sale

Kobe Steel Ltd. has shown creditors a plan to secure some ¥70 billion mainly by selling assets earlier than scheduled, informed sources said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2017

What electric vehicles portend for the future

The widespread use of electric vehicles would be good for the environment, but could be bad news for millions of workers in the automotive industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 24, 2017

Ikea returns to Aichi after 1970s department store presence proved hard fit

Swedish furniture giant Ikea opened a new store Oct. 11 in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, but few know that 45 years ago it had an outlet in a department store in the Meieki district of Nagoya.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 23, 2017

'Dajare' 101: Why should Japanese have all the pun?

Chicago-born TV personality Dave Spector is the undisputed master of puns in Japan's u82b8u80fdu754c ('geinokai,' entertainment world).
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2017

Lack of automation let Kobe Steel manually manipulate inspection certificate process, official says

Some Kobe Steel Ltd. plants lack systems that automatically input product inspection data from measuring devices to produce inspection certificates, it was learned Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Oct 21, 2017

Ginza Matcha Cake: Tokyo Banana ventures outside its curved-fruit comfort zone

The folks behind Tokyo Banana have decided to freshen things up with the Ginza Matcha Cake.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 20, 2017

Laundry-folding robot maker will represent Japan at startup competition

A Tokyo-based startup recognized for its laundry-folding robot has gained entry to an international competition for venture firms, and hopes to represent Japan as a country of innovation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2017

Kobe Steel said employees' cover-up hampered internal probe on data falsification scandal

Kobe Steel's data-fabrication scandal deepens after revelations that employees failed to disclose deceptive practices at the troubled metal maker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2017

Start-up SkyAlert's early warning app sudden hit in Mexico after massive killer temblors

Since two massive earthquakes hit Mexico in September, claiming more than 460 lives, an early warning start-up called SkyAlert has doubled its users to 5.8 million, making it one of the country's most downloaded apps.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car

Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 18, 2017

Tokyo's 'Blade Library' offers joy of blade running to amputees

Haruta Saito, a young amputee who dreams of becoming a Paralympian, remembers strapping on a prosthetic "running blade" for the first time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2017

Lexus 'evaluating' partnership with Weinstein Co.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus unit said on Tuesday it is evaluating its partnership with film and TV production firm The Weinstein Company after allegations that co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted a number of women.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Airbus stake in Bombardier C Series jet seen putting Boeing in catch-up mode

Airbus SE's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series plane threatens to leave Boeing Co. trailing in a looming race to develop a new generation of more advanced short-haul jets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2017

Internet bad boy Takafumi Horie and Wagyumafia bet the farm on intensely marbled steaks

Corporate enfant terrible, Takafumi Horie, built one of Japan's most successful internet businesses, stood for the Diet, went to prison and started a space company that aims to put the country's first privately funded rocket into orbit. Now he has a new frontier: cattle.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 14, 2017

Success is elusive on the wrong side of the wealth gap

When the political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) visited the infant United States in 1831, he was struck above all by the "equality of condition" that prevailed there.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 13, 2017

Kobe Steel scandal widens to 500 firms

Chairman says all business sections being probed, promises to shoulder clients' costs.
Reader Mail
Oct 13, 2017

Smartphones and the end of conversation

It was a sticky hot summer's night in Tokyo. The last time I was here was 10 years ago. I was now lost in Shibamata in search of an apartment we had rented. All the train riders exiting the small station were looking at their cellphones, except for one staggering businessman in a dark blue suit. Let...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage / Backstage Pass
Oct 12, 2017

Dance forms mix in pair of shows

Like many art forms in our rapidly shrinking world, dance is constantly experimenting with variants of the cross-cultural, extending and blending boundaries into innovative re-imaginings of genre. Choreographers such as Akram Khan, an English dancer of Bangladeshi descent, have found great success by...
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Japanese manufacturers moving headquarters out of central Tokyo
A building in Kawasaki housing Toshiba's new headquarters
Is sumo becoming a victim of its own popularity?
A training session at Shikoroyama stable in June 2016. Sumo training sessions are increasingly simulated or the preserve of group tours.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

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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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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