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BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2009

Crashing demand in U.S., Europe drives down auto output 56%

Toyota Motor Corp. led a 56 percent decline in February vehicle production by Japanese automakers because of slumping demand in the U.S. and Europe, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2009

Slumping market topples Azel

Real estate firm Azel Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday with the Tokyo District Court after accumulating ¥44.2 billion in liabilities.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Mar 31, 2009

Look overseas to address Japan's lag in English ability

Dear education ministry,
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 30, 2009

Okada unruffled by missed chances

SAITAMA — National team manager Takeshi Okada has defended his side's goalscoring record after watching Japan miss a slew of chances in Saturday's 1-0 win over Bahrain.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 30, 2009

Steady, reliable Iwakuma played big role in Japan's WBC title defense

The Japanese baseball national team has accomplished another great feat in the just-wrapped-up World Baseball Classic, and made a triumphant return to its homeland on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 30, 2009

Here we go again: coaxing the North to shoot straight

HONOLULU — North Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il is a hard person to like; he is even a harder person to ignore. At a time when the rest of the world would prefer to focus its attention elsewhere, the North Korean leader is trying his best to shine the spotlight on the one area of the world where...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 30, 2009

Confident Gardener finds his range to boost Phoenix past Apache

If you shot 4-for-31 from the field, as Michael Gardener did on Saturday, you'd probably expect to shoot a better percentage in your next basketball game.
EDITORIALS
Mar 30, 2009

Taking aim at the dollar

A cornerstone of America's international economic might is the dollar's status as the international reserve currency. Simply put, the dollar is the device that parties use for international transactions — even those that do not include the United States. The readiness to use the dollar reflects the...
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2009

Ukraine to use Japan's payments for energy efficiency

KIEV (Bloomberg) Ukraine will use the money it gets from selling greenhouse gas emission credits to Japan to improve energy efficiency and cut power costs, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2009

Putting the available talent to use

Regarding the March 16 editorial "Key to economic recovery": I agree that the world's No. 1 and 2 economies bear the heaviest responsibility for trying to revive the global economy, but I believe the issue goes beyond government action. It is true that increasing domestic demand is necessary and that...
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2009

Trucks pose biggest road hazard

Regarding Amy Chavez's Feb. 21 column, "Driving in Japan is not for the gullible": Actually, the most dangerous thing about driving in the suburban and rural parts of Japan is the trucks.
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2009

Condoms not as helpful as hyped

The Washington Post editorial perspective printed in The Japan Times on March 21, "Lacking condom sense," concedes that abstinence is the best remedy for controlling AIDS, but adds that the world "isn't perfect — and neither is Pope Benedict's pronouncement on the effectiveness of condoms in the battle...
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 29, 2009

Nakamura-led Japan beats Bahrain

SAITAMA — Shunsuke Nakamura hauled Japan to within touching distance of a fourth successive World Cup with a trademark free kick to give his side a 1-0 win over Bahrain on Saturday.
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2009

Atheist's perspective on Zionism

In reference to the Los Angeles Times opinion article printed in The Japan Times on March 22, "Anti-Zionism: greater threat to Jewish lives": Writer Judea Pearl has lived through my worst nightmare, losing a son. In this, Pearl has my deepest sympathies, but the idea that anti-Zionism is "discriminatory...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 29, 2009

Japan shows how a good's no good unless it's a character good

"Novels you can eat" was the title of an article in the Asahi Shimbun on March 16. It drew on the initiative displayed by a confectionery-maker in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, to commemorate this year's 100th anniversary of the birth of bohemian author Osamu Dazai. That initiative involves a box of 18...
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 29, 2009

Bodies beautiful

At 2 a.m. on a spring morning in 2002, photographer Mitsuhiro Mouri received a phone call from the most famous actress in Japan.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 29, 2009

Carp skipper Brown excited about team's chances

Hiroshima Carp manager Marty Brown says he expects his team to be much improved this season and does not feel any pressure to get the club into the Central League Climax Series.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 29, 2009

A prime-time news contender, Japanese aesthetics and tales of a reformed assassin

The new television season kicks into high gear this week with TBS's bold experiment "Soryoku Hodo The News" ("Combined Power Information The News") (Mon.-Fri., 5:50 p.m.). Though live news shows are as old as television itself, "The News" marks the first attempt by a Japanese commercial broadcaster to...
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2009

Vigorous inspiration for us all

Regarding the March 23 article "Man runs 52 marathons in 52 days": Bravo! Brave runner, great man! Sixty-five-year-old Akinori Kusuda (of Saitama) deserves a special Olympic medal for his courage, stamina and determination.
Suspect on run after stabbing woman in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
Japan sends senior official to China to cool boiling tensions
A Chinese tour group in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Sunday. China has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new prime minister about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.
Bears attacks and sightings continue in northern Japan
A bear walks in front of a box trap set up at a park in the city of Akita on Nov. 2.
Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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