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JAPAN
Jul 10, 2008

Toyota engineer died from overwork

The Aichi Labor Bureau has ruled that one of Toyota Motor Corp.'s top car engineers died from working too many hours.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2008

Apple fans camp out for iPhone

With the Japanese launch of Apple Inc.'s iPhone set for Friday, signs that the hype was building began emerging Wednesday at Softbank's flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando district.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 10, 2008

Fukuda seeks Hu's help on abduction row

TOYAKO, Hokkaido — Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday to urge North Korea to resolve the abduction dispute, a senior Japanese official said.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 10, 2008

Home front baggage cramps leaders

TOYAKO, Hokkaido — The Group of Eight leaders headed for home Wednesday evening after wrapping up their three-day annual summit.
EDITORIALS
Jul 10, 2008

A modest step forward

The Group of Eight leaders have reached an agreement on efforts to fight global warming, a main topic at their summit this week in Toyako, Hokkaido.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 10, 2008

Asian stars united by earthquake disaster

'When it has to happen, it will happen," declares a bullish Judy Ongg, a Taiwan-born actress, singer and novelist based in Japan. "When you think it has to be done, you have to do it yourself."
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 10, 2008

G8 couldn't push emitters to set targets

TOYAKO, Hokkaido — The three-day Group of Eight summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, concluded Wednesday as the major industrialized powers and key emerging economies agreed to jointly fight global warming but failed to set any quantitative goals to substantiate their pledge.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 10, 2008

Summit outcome belies high expectations

TOYAKO, Hokkaido — The drive for economic prosperity by the major nations still outweighs the urgent need to save an ailing planet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 10, 2008

Island chanteuse Hajime finds tranquillity on Saturn

It wouldn't be the obvious place to look. And yet singer Hajime Chitose was seeking a new peace of mind when, 1.3 billion km away, she found what she was looking for.
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2008

Power utilities under pressure to clean up their act

In March, a report compiled by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on greenhouse gas emissions of about 9,000 companies rocked the electric power industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2008

Skymark to hike prices due to jet fuel costs

Skymark Airlines Inc. plans to raise ticket prices for at least the second time in three months as it tries to cover fuel costs that have jumped 40 percent this business year.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 10, 2008

Media flummoxed: Did summit succeed, fail, what?

The masterfully crafted jargon and haziness in a statement issued Wednesday by the Group of Eight leaders and their counterparts from eight other major greenhouse gas emitters left even newspapers bamboozled on what actually took place in Toyako, Hokkaido.
BASKETBALL
Jul 9, 2008

bj-league releases 2008-09 schedule

The expansion Shiga Lakestars will make their bj-league debut at home on Oct. 11 in their season opener against the three-time defending champion Osaka Evessa, the league announced on Monday.
BASKETBALL
Jul 9, 2008

Tabuse makes debut with Nets

Yuta Tabuse made a low-key return on Monday to the NBA — albeit, the summer version of the world's top basketball league.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 9, 2008

Japan sees quiet jets, frigid cars, water-saving toilets in near future

RUSUTSU, Hokkaido — Japan's advanced technology may come in handy in the face of the world's growing environmental challenges and the Group of Eight's slow progress on diplomacy.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 9, 2008

Is there anyone out there?

W hat's the most incredible headline you could expect to read in a newspaper? For me, it would have to be something like: "We are not alone: Life found on other planets."
EDITORIALS
Jul 9, 2008

Mr. Obama's image

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has turned down public financing for the general election and chosen to carry out his campaign relying on money he raises. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will accept public funds. Last year Mr....
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 9, 2008

Developing nations skewer G8 proposal

TOYAKO, Hokkaido — Five of the top developing nations on Tuesday denounced the Group of Eight's qualified proposal to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, saying the industrialized powers should slash their own emissions by up to 95 percent below 1990 levels.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Trump: The $550 billion pledged by Japan is 'our money'
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He told CNBC that investment pledges are like signing bonuses.
The United States imposes 15% 'reciprocal' tariff on most Japanese goods
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.

Podcast

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

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
By Elizabeth Beattie

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