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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2008

Security tight as whaling ship departs for hunt

Antiwhaling activists protested Monday as the mother ship in Japan's whaling fleet left for the annual hunt in the Antarctic, the environmental group Greenpeace said.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 18, 2008

Escalator etiquette, TV tours

A couple of replies to the query about why people stand on escalators on the right in Osaka and on the left in Tokyo:
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2008

Beaujolais Nouveau out soon but getting old hat

Japan may not be in the big leagues as far as being a wine-consuming country, but it makes up for it with its obsession for Beaujolais Nouveau.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 18, 2008

Prejudice among obstacles facing non-Japanese tenants

With a falling population, a shrinking tax base and a shortage of carers for its increasing number of elderly, calls are growing for Japan to allow in a large influx of foreign workers to plug the gap. The question is: When they come, will they be able to find a place to stay?
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Merrill to exit Japan electricity business

U.S. securities firm Merrill Lynch & Co. said Monday it will cease to trade electricity in Japan in January after failing to meet its expansion targets for the business.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 18, 2008

'Enka' still strikes nostalgic nerve

A windy night, the whistle of the midnight train, and a bad breakup.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

GM will sell its remaining 3% stake to Suzuki

General Motors Corp., seeking a federal bailout as its cash dwindles, said Monday it will raise ¥22.4 billion, or $230 million, by selling its 3 percent stake in Suzuki Motor Corp.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

SMFG, H.K. bank enter partnership

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. said Monday it signed an agreement with Hong Kong's Bank of East Asia Ltd. to cooperate in developing their businesses in China, Hong Kong and Japan.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Service demand decreases for second month

Demand for services fell for the second straight month in September as squeezed profits began to affect employment and paychecks, dimming prospects for consumer spending to support the world's second-largest economy, the government said Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Missed emissions goals add up to ¥4.4 trillion penalty

Twenty nations including Japan, Italy and Australia may be releasing more greenhouse gas pollution than they agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2008

Heavy burden for disabled people

Twenty-nine disabled people and one parent of a disabled person from eight prefectures — Tokyo, Saitama, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka — filed lawsuits Oct. 31 with district courts in their prefectural capitals contending that a law designed to help disabled people violates the...
Rugby
Nov 17, 2008

Japan claims rare win over U.S.

NAGOYA — Toyota Motor winger Kosuke Endo touched down early in the second half to ignite a comeback as Japan beat the United States for the first time in nine years with a 29-19 victory in a rugby friendly on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2008

Establishing 'equality' as a basic human right

LONDON — Following weeks of financial and economic turmoil, public debate has finally turned to the horrific potential human ramifications of the collapse of the global financial system.

Longform

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