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BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2008

Shutdown of samurai bond mart roils investors

The fastest-growing part of the global corporate debt market, samurai bonds, has come to a standstill since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. became the first borrower to default on the securities since Argentina in 2002.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2008

Iwojima vet revisits 'Hell Island'

The tunnels of Iwojima snake deep beneath the volcanic rock and soil, their entrances camouflaged by a dense tangle of vines and tall grasses.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2008

Free gas not enough: Afghan envoy

Japan must do more to fight terrorism than continue to refuel ships in the Indian Ocean, Afghan Ambassador to Japan Haron Amin said Friday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2008

Inflation stays at 2.4% for a second month

Consumer price inflation exceeded 2 percent for a second month as companies passed on costs of food and other daily necessities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2008

Tamagotchi virtual pet gets the color treatment

The Tamagotchi virtual pet will soon be available with a color display.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2008

Inpex picks Darwin for LNG site

Inpex Holdings Inc., Japan's largest energy explorer, has picked Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory as the onshore site for a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project, moving the venture closer to development.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 26, 2008

Japan's mature spectators

Has democracy matured in Japan? Scholar-turned-politician Yoichi Masuzoe used to say Japan is a mature democratic nation, as its politics is led by public opinion. Recently, however, he seems to have reversed his way of thinking, as he states that Japanese citizens have become more like spectators than...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2008

'Stolen'/'China Blue'

Boston's Gardner Museum is one of the city's hidden gems, tucked away in the Fenway near a quiet expanse of park, just a Hulk-sized home run's distance from where the Red Sox play, yet seemingly a world away from the sports bars and peanut vendors. Walk a block in either direction and you'll hit a few...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 26, 2008

Autumn sweets, sake and afternoon tea

Autumn sweets at Hilton Odawara The Hilton Odawara Resort & Spa, about an hour by train west of Tokyo, is holding its Autumn Sweets Promotion in the hotel's first-floor Tealax- Lounge until Oct. 31.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 26, 2008

Something fishy going on

I 'm just your average fish, so cormorants are a pretty scary prospect — even at the best of times.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Sep 26, 2008

"Wanted"

Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 26, 2008

Ritenour, Grusin jazz Sumida

Two leading American figures in jazz fusion will give a Tokyo performance in collaboration with one of Japan's foremost orchestras on Oct. 2 at the Sumida Triphony Hall in Sumida Ward.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2008

'Be Kind Rewind'

How much cute can a straight man generate (and we're not talking about his looks here) without getting thwacked on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper? If the man happens to be French filmmaker Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "The Science of Sleep") the answer is: TONS. During...
CULTURE / Music
Sep 26, 2008

Immi "Switch"

While the obi strip on the CD babbles about new-rave and the album can be found in shop displays alongside Perfume, Japanese artist Immi's music follows a very French predilection for stylish electropop, as made famous internationally by Daft Punk, Air and Phoenix, or within Gallic walls by breathy jailbait...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2008

'Tokyo Sonata'

Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been filed under "horror director," though his take on the genre is anything but standard. The villain of "Cure," his deeply creepy 1997 breakout film, is not a maniac with a sharp-edged weapon but a blank-faced drifter who hypnotizes his victims into killing themselves.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

Podcast

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

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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