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Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Feb 22, 2008

Tofu maker finds success through innovation, determination

Many of Japan's small and medium-size companies are feeling the pinch as they struggle to pass rising costs on to their larger corporate customers. One, however, Saitama-based tofu maker Shinozakiya Inc., succeeded in getting supermarkets to swallow a 30 percent increase in wholesale prices in November....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 22, 2008

Italian dining in Kasumigaseki, Hina Matsuri at the Keio Plaza

Ristorante di Hokkaido Mia Angela in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki offers sophisticated yet unpretentious Italian dining, using the freshest ingredients direct from Hokkaido. With a 60-seat casual main dining area, private rooms and a chic party space, partitions can create private space for two to 50 people....
CULTURE / Music
Feb 22, 2008

The Bawdies "Awaking of Rhythm and Blues"

Few bands are better placed than R&B revivalists Bawdies to ride the current Showa Boom. Listening to this second album from the mod-attired Toyko four-piece — leader Ryo "Roy" Watanabe (bass/vocals), Taku "Taxman" Funayama (guitar/vocals), Yoshihiko "Jim" Kimura (guitar/vocals) and Masahiko "Marcy"...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 22, 2008

Manga makes it to the museum

More than anything, it reminded me of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. Not the new, four-winged fortress near Tennoz Isle, but the old and cramped one in Otemachi. And it wasn't because of the exposed plumbing running along the corridor ceilings. No, it was the number of people inside; they seemed...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / LIQUID CULTURE
Feb 22, 2008

Finding Tokyo's top theme bars

Sure, "best theme bar" is faint praise, but here are four Tokyo joints that are more fun than the Hard Rock Cafe. They were selected through the following criteria:
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 22, 2008

Laugh yourself healthy

'I want to open 1 million laughter clubs around the world in the next 10 years in the hope of bringing about world peace."
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2008

LPG merger eyed to boost competitiveness

Japan Energy Corp., the oil refining unit of Nippon Mining Holdings Inc., said Thursday it is holding talks with Osaka Gas Co. and Itochu Corp. to combine their liquefied petroleum gas businesses.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2008

Ministry proposes raising prices of pork, beef

The agriculture ministry proposed Thursday that the government increase the price floors for domestically produced beef and pork for the first time in about three decades, as rising feed grain prices boost costs for livestock farmers.
BASKETBALL
Feb 21, 2008

Jomo's Oga named WJBL MVP

The Women's Japan Basketball League Organization announced Wednesday that Jomo Sunflowers guard Yuko Oga has been named the league's regular season MVP. Oga led the WJBL in assists (7.07 per game) and steals (2.39), helping her team advance to play the Fujitsu Red Wave in the finals, which begin on...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 21, 2008

Japanese football players push to make strong impression in Europe

The NFL is still open for non-Americans, though the route has become a little different.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2008

Preventing future nuclear catastrophes

LOS ANGELES — Throughout the Cold War, nuclear deterrence was at the heart of U.S. nuclear policy. But deterrence has some important limitations that make it highly unreliable, particularly in a time of terrorism.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Feb 21, 2008

Power-hitting phenom Nakata thrust into spotlight

As if professional baseball isn't hard enough on rookies, try tackling what Hokkaido Nippon Ham newcomer Sho Nakata is probably about to go through.
COMMENTARY
Feb 21, 2008

Starting with Kyoto, Rudd aims high

LOS ANGELES — Before too much time goes by, maybe somebody ought to take note of the smart political stuff coming out of Australia lately.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 21, 2008

Final eight participants join defending champion Japan in '09 WBC field

The field for the next edition of the World Baseball Classic has been set.
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

The root of national identity

Regarding the Feb. 16 article "(Tokyo Gov. Shintaro) Ishihara laments loss of national identity": Ishihara is quoted as saying that if North Korea launched a missile, "the Japanese would instantly change." When North Korea launched six missiles two years ago, did Japan change as a result of that?
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

Students need various viewpoints

John Spiri's Feb. 19 Zeit Gist article, "Sitting out but standing tall," offers an excellent overview of the repression the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education employs against expressions of conscience with regard to the national anthem Kimigayo and the national flag Hinomaru. It is ironic that a country...
COMMENTARY
Feb 21, 2008

Aussie personalist diplomacy

Australia is never short of surprises. One is the way it has produced a prime minister, Kevin Rudd, who can talk directly with the Chinese leadership in their language. Reports say his Mandarin Chinese is excellent.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 21, 2008

"Kiyoshi Nakagami"

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2008

MSDF in troubled waters

An Aegis destroyer of the Maritime Self-Defense Force collided with a fishing boat about 40 km south-southwest of Cape Nojima, the southern tip of Chiba Prefecture, early Tuesday morning and split the boat into two. The two fishermen aboard, a father and son, are missing. Investigators are trying to...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2008

Shinginko Tokyo asks for more money

Troubled small and medium-size business lender Shinginko Tokyo said Wednesday it has asked the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for a capital injection of ¥40 billion to counter mounting losses from borrower defaults.
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

Americans shouldn't be surprised

Judging from history, citizens of most countries don't particularly relish "hosting" foreign garrisons. So it should come as no surprise that when foreign troops misbehave, the response is inevitably disproportionate. Americans taken aback or offended by the recent protests in Okinawa would do well...
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

Boost police presence on Okinawa

While the recent conduct of a U.S. Marine with a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa is more than unacceptable, I find the reactions of officials and commentators rather peculiar. While one may wish that discipline and order would prevent such incidents from happening, it will never be quite possible to avoid...
Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan chief tariff negotiator, in Tokyo
Junglia, Japan’s newest theme park, opens in northern Okinawa
In Junglia’s Dinosaur Safari attraction during a media preview on Thursday, a casual drive through a habitat for the prehistoric creatures goes haywire when several Tyrannosaurus rexes break out of containment.
Disappointing start to Nagoya tournament turns into fascinating final stretch
Ichiyamamoto (left) defeats Gonoyama to secure a winning record at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, at IG Arena on Monday.
Ignore the election hype, foreign residents are here to stay
Sohei Kamiya, founder of the Sanseito, which campaigned on a “Japanese first” message and tough immigration rhetoric, speaks at a rally in Gunma Prefecture on July 6.
Big unanswered questions follow Japan's big, beautiful deal with the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Washington, the day after he agreed to an 11th-hour trade deal with Japan.
Hall of Fame always held deeper meaning for Ichiro
Ichiro presents then-Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson with the bat he used to break the single-season hits record in 2004.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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