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Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Feb 20, 2008

'Streetfighter IV' leads the coin-op charge

Making their debut on the arcade-entertainment scene at Chiba's Makuhari Messe exhibition venue on Saturday were Crimson Viper, a redhead with a predilection for cross-dressing and ultraviolence, and Abel, a Teutonic blond whose rippling physique seemed to bear the hallmarks of some serious steroid abuse....
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Morgan fund buys Citigroup HQ

Morgan Stanley has bought Citigroup Inc.'s Tokyo headquarters to boost its Japanese property portfolio.
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

Japan's key message to the world

Regarding Kevin Rafferty's Feb. 11 article, "Wise man from Japan now the black pope" (about the new head of the Society of Jesus): Rafferty omitted the most important point. After his many years in Japan, Father Adolfo Nicolas must know that Japan's most important message to the world is that the tragedies...
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

Limit the numbers at fish market

Regarding the Feb. 7 article "Tsukiji looks to curb pesky glut of tourists": While having some sympathy for the fishmongers of Tsukiji market, the article presents the inescapable and, unfortunately, all-too-common whiff of xenophobia in Japanese institutions (however insignificant).
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 19, 2008

Fukuda and Ozawa plotting

A generally accepted view is that the opposition Democratic Party of Japan is bent on forcing Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to dissolve the Lower House and call general elections just as soon as possible, while the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito seeks to put off the elections...
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2008

Obama scores big in Japan portion of global primary

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won an overwhelming majority of the votes cast at polling stations in Japan during the first-ever global primary for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 19, 2008

Should Japan's teachers stand up for the national anthem?

EDITORIALS
Feb 19, 2008

North Korea's progress falters

A year has passed since the six-party talks concluded an agreement in February 2007 on a deal that would end North Korea's nuclear-weapons programs in stages. But the denuclearization process has failed to progress as expected. In October 2007, North Korea agreed to "disable" its facilities at its Yongbyon...
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2008

Top court sides with Korean hibakusha

Sweeping aside a high court ruling backing the city of Nagasaki's refusal to pay medical benefits to a South Korean A-bomb survivor, the Supreme Court on Monday granted the relatives of the deceased hibakusha ¥827,900.
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

Justice just as prone to error

Regarding Amit Chaturvedi's Feb. 10 letter defending the death penalty, "It's called justice, not revenge": Since the powers that be make mistakes on a regular basis in foreign policy, health care, education, social welfare, agriculture, economics etc., ad nauseam, what makes Chaturvedi think they...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2008

Ministry hopes 1880 ¥2 coin fetches 10 million times that

An 1880 Japanese gold coin, 16.97 mm in diameter and weighing 3.33 grams, is expected to fetch a record high price of around ¥20 million when the debt-ridden Finance Ministry puts it on the auction block this Sunday.
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

Booming business rewards offender

Regarding the Feb. 7 article "Akafuku resumes limited sales of sweets": After Akafuku misled consumers about its food products, the same consumers lined up hours, even a day, in advance to buy them. Is rewarding criminals with sold-out shops and media hype an intelligent way to respond to unsafe or mislabeled...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Feb 19, 2008

Takahiko Nakayama

JUDIT KAWAGUCHI For more than six years, Takahiko Nakayama has been cleaning windows on thousands of buildings in Tokyo. With every climb his fascination with architecture grew until he finally decided that he was ready to do more than just wipe the facades: He wanted to design them himself. Nakayama,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 19, 2008

CO2 trading mirrors, but still smoke?

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, the world has been spewing out greenhouse gases that now threaten the global ecosystem. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 379.1 parts per million in 2005, or 35 percent higher than the estimated level before...
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

What a difference a 'pilot' makes

Regarding the Feb. 14 article "Australian lawmakers deliver official apology to Aborigines": How long I have waited for this! I first read about the "stolen generation" in 1999 while I was staying in Australia. At first I could not believe that there was such a sad past in Australian history. But after...
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2008

Citigroup to hire hundreds in Japan

Citigroup Inc., the largest U.S. bank, plans to hire hundreds of employees in Japan this year to sell investment products to affluent customers, even as it cuts jobs globally after a record loss in the latest quarter, the head of the firm's local retail banking unit said.
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
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.
Ishiba denies reports he will resign next month, leaving his fate unclear
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks on after meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Induction of Ichiro has Cooperstown fretfully preparing
Ichiro Suzuki will soon become the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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