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COMMENTARY
Sep 24, 2011

Integrating the econ outliers

A rule of thumb in the realm of international economic cooperation goes like this: The more developed the partners, the more advanced the toolkit servicing industrial cooperation and the bigger the benefits from integration.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 23, 2011

Flavors of Italy at New Otani Tokyo

The Hotel New Otani Tokyo is offering a special Italian fair featuring seasonal fall flavors at its Western buffet-style restaurant, Top of the Tower, through Nov. 30.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 26, 2011

Tokyo Jazz Festival plays to a plethora of tastes

Jazz is always progressing. When the first jazz cafes began appearing in Yokohama around 100 years ago, nobody could have imagined the world they'd be a part of. Bebop and blues, tap dancers and turntables — the essential ingredients of the genre have evolved, and that is the main focus of the Tokyo...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 26, 2011

Living and loving The Alien from Nagoya

The year 1990 might not seem so long ago, but for many reasons, and in Japan especially, it was a completely different world. There was no Internet. There were no mobile telephones. There was hardly any way to get up-to-date English information on places beyond Tokyo and Osaka except by going there....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 26, 2011

Nagoya: What's the best reason to visit Nagoya?

David Clarke
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 24, 2011

All-Star Sato honored to pitch in hometown

For Yoshinori Sato, this is such a special All-Star Series.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 22, 2011

Hotter days, bigger dining discounts

Summer has started and the temperature and humidity in Tokyo is high. The Peninsula Tokyo welcomes the season by offering a special dinner discount called Heating Things Up. Every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday through Aug. 30, the highest temperature reached each day will be the rate of the discount for...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jul 12, 2011

Going gaga for Tominaga, mori girls, eco-fashion, Final Home and the Lady herself

Going Gaga for design In the last few weeks, Lady Gaga used her celebrity influence to bring the world's attention back to Japan and its March 11 disaster recovery efforts with her promotion of the MTV Video Music Aid concert.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2011

Woman poet signifies defiance in Bahrain

Ayat al-Qarmezi, a 20-year-old woman poet in Bahrain, recently condemned to one year in prison, has become the human face of defiance against the regime ruling the country. Her crime, to have spoken at a pro-reform rally in Manama's Pearl Roundabout in February.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 3, 2011

Grand Pacific Le Daiba hotel offers amenities for runners

With running and fitness attracting followers as the annual Tokyo Marathon gains in popularity, a new running course around Tokyo's Odaiba area (where the marathon finishes) opened on May 22. It offers views of Tokyo Bay and is uninterrupted by traffic.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 29, 2011

Evessa's Washington is greatest player in bj-league history

Six years is a long, long time in professional sports. In a word, it's an era.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 24, 2011

Of monsters and men: Godzilla's stable master

MASTER OF MINIATURES, by Jim Shepard. New York: Solid Objects, 2010, 51 pp., $12 (paper). Jim Shepard's "Master of Miniatures" is a masterful miniature, a small container filled with substantial events and substantial pleasures. Based on the life of Eiji Tsuburaya, the special effects man who made it...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 31, 2011

Design in aid of Tohoku

The design world lends its artistic hand As Japan struggles with the consequences of the Kanto-Tohoku earthquake, this month's column takes a different format to highlight some of the ways the design community has come together to provide relief and support.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 27, 2011

Time for JBA to give up charade on merger

Under normal circumstances things move at a snail's pace within the Japan Basketball Association. So it's anyone's guess if talks between JBA officials and their bj-league counterparts will pick up anytime soon and/or if any progress will be made in the months to come for the creation of a new "top league"...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 26, 2011

Here's Japan's big, white hope

I read a piece of news the other day that makes me feel that "Japan as No. 3" may finally be headed in the right direction.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 25, 2011

Spa and lunch package in Tokyo

From March 1 to June 30, the Hyatt Regency Tokyo will offer an Anniversary Beauty Spa Package to commemorate the fifth anniversary of its Joule Spa & Wellness.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2011

Government shutdown in June?

As battles rage in the Diet between the ruling and opposition camps over fiscal 2011 budget-related bills, one dreadful scenario has emerged: The debt-ridden government may run out of funds by around June.
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2011

Another DPJ metamorphosis

Japan and the United States signed an agreement last month on a five-year extension of Japan's host-nation financial support to help cover part of the costs of stationing U.S. forces in Japan under the bilateral security arrangement.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2011

Flights of fancy: making sense of airfares and ancillary charges

HONG KONG — The dogfight between American Airlines and the online travel agencies that used to be its business partners has important global implications for online ways of doing business. Unfortunately, the real loser will be the person that both sides say they are scrapping for, the airline passenger....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 6, 2011

Focusing on Masayoshi Son and Eiga Mura; CM of the week: My Land

In the earlier half of the previous decade, Japan seemed almost overrun with entrepreneurs heading digital and cyber businesses. Few, however, have succeeded as well as Masayoshi Son, the founder and president of SoftBank, one of Japan's three leading mobile phone carriers and the only one built from...
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Jan 30, 2011

Miyazaki's Shimizu enjoying leading new team in his hometown

The Japan Times features periodical interviews with players in the bj-league. Taishiro Shimizu of the Miyazaki Shining Suns is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 28, 2011

Stay in Tokyo for a strawberry buffet

Through May 8, the Hilton Tokyo is offering a new accommodation package called Strawberry Party Stay, timed to coincide with the Strawberry Dessert Fair at its 24-hour dining facility, Marble Lounge.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 23, 2011

An inside look at selection for Japan's Hall of Fame

When Hiromitsu Ochiai is inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame this coming summer, it will be a very convenient situation. As manager of the defending Central League champion Chunichi Dragons, Ochiai will also pilot the 2011 CL All-Star team, and the HOF induction ceremony will take place...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 18, 2011

Up the prosecutor's road

Public Prosecutor General Hiroshi Obayashi was forced to resign after being in office for only six months in the wake of a series of scandals involving the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad, including the tampering of evidence by one of its prosecutors.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 17, 2011

Love hotel operators lose some loopholes

Laws overseeing the operation of love hotels in Japan get stricter to weed out the fakes.
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 19, 2010

'Nitten' is no mere Braille library

Regular bookstores or libraries might not be much use to blind people, but there's one place in Tokyo where they can not only read and borrow books and meet others in similar situations, but also get advice on improving their quality of life — and even buy a range of everyday goods.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 12, 2010

New Year's cleaning; a four-legged soldier; CM of the week: Paburon

There are many customs and traditions associated with New Year's, but housecleaning tends to get overlooked since it isn't very sexy. However, this week the quiz show "Wafu Sohonke" ("Head Family of Japanese Style"; TV Tokyo, Thurs., 9 p.m.) will look at New Year's cleaning traditions in detail.

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami