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JAPAN
Oct 12, 2009

Fire at Daihatsu leaves one dead

A fire at a Daihatsu Motor Co. factory in Shiga Prefecture killed one worker and injured two others.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2009

State's Japan Post share selloff must be shelved, Haraguchi says

Freezing the government selloff of its shares in the Japan Post group units is priority-one in revamping the privatization process, Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2009

Typhoon shutters carmakers' plants

Toyota Motor Corp. closed 12 plants in Aichi Prefecture Thursday as Typhoon Melor smashed into the country.
Reader Mail
Oct 8, 2009

Pension and health insurance

Here is a quote from the Sept. 29 article "Brace for a possible spring shock": "There isn't much ambiguity about shakai hoken: If a company employs more than five people, and an employee is working more than 20 hours a week for a period longer than two months, the company is obligated to submit paperwork...
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2009

JAL must face up to its problems

The government has decided to provide full support to Japan Airlines Corp., including possible infusion of public money. A task force of corporate turnaround experts has been created to help the airline, but it will not be able to resuscitate the nation's struggling top air carrier without full-scale...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2009

Hyundai sends chills down rivals' spines

Hyundai Motor Co. — not the up-and-coming Chinese, nor the leaner meaner Americans — is the automaker that has the Japanese seriously worried.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2009

Toyoda issues 'regrets' over fatal Lexus crash

Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the automaker's vehicles is suspected as the cause.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Sep 30, 2009

Tokyo Game Show fails to impress

The theme for the 2009 Tokyo Game Show is "Game, it's so energetic!" Ironic, as the energy for this year's show was less palpable than for previous ones.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2009

LDP picks Tanigaki to lead comeback

The Liberal Democratic Party elected former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki as its president Monday, giving him the task of guiding back into power a party still stinging from its recent electoral thrashing.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 27, 2009

Captains of industry must stop playing the blame game — now

While visiting India earlier this month I had a revelation.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2009

Another JAL rehab task force launched

The transport ministry launched a new task force Friday to help Japan Airlines Corp. fundamentally revise its turnaround plan by the end of November.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2009

Natural gas Down Under bound for Japan by 2014

SYDNEY — Resources-rich Australia has signed on to provide Japanese households and industries a reliable source of natural gas for decades to come.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2009

Strong yen weighs on exporters

Exporters are in danger of being left behind by a global trade recovery as the nation's change in government ushers in a tolerance for exchange-rate gains that threaten to erode their profits.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2009

Honda rolls out 'Segway' of unicycles

Honda Motor Co. unveiled on Thursday a new compact self-balancing vehicle that looks like a futuristic unicycle.
JAPAN / Q&A
Sep 23, 2009

Details on how Japan's dolphin catches work

Dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, have drawn strong protests from animal rights groups, their supporters and foreign media over what they call the brutality of the traditional hunt.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Sep 20, 2009

Car-sharing catches on as a cheap and cheerful way to go

Thinking of traveling from Tokyo to Osaka? Take a shinkansen bullet train or fly and it will set you back around ¥14,000. But if you share the costs of making the trip by car, you'll likely pay half that or less.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 19, 2009

What is it that makes things 'Japanese'?

The other day I walked along the road to the far side of the island. Kio-chan, who I hardly recognized without his trademark red Hawaiian shirt and red cap on, could be seen in the distance being walked by his dog. When I approached him, he was huffing and puffing. "Kio-chan," I said, "I didn't know...
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2009

Sanyo to log second straight net loss

Sanyo Electric Co. expects to post a group net loss for the second consecutive year in the business year ending in March 2010, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2009

Judge won't seal Toyota lawsuit

Toyota Motor Corp.'s request to seal a U.S. lawsuit by a former in-house attorney claiming the carmaker destroyed crash data was denied Thursday by a judge who said the suit was already "irreversibly" public.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 17, 2009

Tokyo Meatrea: a cut above your usual food court

Herbivores be damned. Namco announces plans for new 'food theme park' dedicated to meat. Yes, meat.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past