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BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2008

Takefuji warns of ¥30 billion loss

Takefuji Corp. said Monday it may lose as much as ¥30 billion on derivatives transactions arranged by Merrill Lynch & Co., becoming the first Japanese consumer lender struck by the global credit-market rout.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2008

MMC focusing on emerging markets to boost income

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Japan's least-profitable carmaker, aims to raise net income in three years by winning customers in emerging markets.
JAPAN
Feb 29, 2008

Smoking ban elusive despite WHO warning

The World Health Organization issued a report in February on the global tobacco epidemic, urging countries to enforce effective smoking bans in public places.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2008

JR Tokai generates friction with costly maglev train

Concerns about huge estimated costs and future profitability are casting a shadow over Central Japan Railway Co.'s long-term project to build a magnetically levitating train system.
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2008

New models seen giving a boost to '08 vehicle sales

Domestic vehicle sales may rise this year as carmakers introduce new models, the country's automobile dealers group said.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 24, 2008

Coming of age mini-series, cop-thriller-drama, Kazakhstan documentary

Owing presumably to TV viewers' dwindling attention spans, drama series are becoming shorter. This week, Fuji TV presents a four-part dramatization of an award-winning novel over the course of four consecutive nights rather than four consecutive weeks.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Inpex to increase spending on overseas oil, gas projects by 50%

Inpex Holdings Inc. will increase spending on overseas oil and natural gas projects by as much as 50 percent a year to keep pace with soaring material and engineering costs.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Fujifilm eyes Net photo-book service as sales of film drop

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will enter the online photo-book publishing business in August as the traditional camera-film market continues to shrink.
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
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Feb 19, 2008

Chuhai

Dear Alice,
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2008

Mills agree to 65% iron ore price surge

Japanese Steelmakers led by Nippon Steel Corp. agreed Monday to a 65 percent increase in annual iron ore prices, a steel company official said, setting a global benchmark for prices of the raw material used in steelmaking.
COMMENTARY
Feb 18, 2008

The afterlife for bureaucrats

For years the phrase "from the public sector to the private sector" has been used in the context of politics and the economy. In April 1985, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. and Japan Monopoly Corp. were privatized, becoming NTT and Japan Tobacco respectively. In April 1987, Japanese National...
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2008

Blaming Nova's former president

Your edited version of my Feb. 14 letter, "Active role in Nova's downfall," gave the impression that I was accusing ALL of language-training company Nova's pre-collapse management of greed and incompetence, which is emphatically not the case. The majority of management were blameless in Nova's troubles,...
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2008

Sapporo forecasts profit to double

Sapporo Holdings Ltd., the Japanese brewer assessing a takeover proposal from U.S. fund Steel Partners, forecast profit to more than double this year.
Reader Mail
Feb 14, 2008

Government doesn't owe assistance

Regarding the Feb. 3 letter "Ex-Nova teachers stuck in limbo": As an American who has been an expat for the past 17 years (13 in Japan), I must say the very first rule of being an expat is to always, always, have an emergency fund set aside. This fund should cover at a minimum the cost of a plane ticket...
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
Woman dies after possible knife attack in Setagaya
Police investigate the scene where a woman was found bleeding on a street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
How Tokyo's Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat
A polar bear at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Thursday. The Arctic animals are among the most vulnerable species to Japan's scorching summer heat and zookeepers have to take a number of precautions in order to keep them safe.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
How Tokyo's Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat
A polar bear at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Thursday. The Arctic animals are among the most vulnerable species to Japan's scorching summer heat and zookeepers have to take a number of precautions in order to keep them safe.
Japan is warming up to tattoos — just not permanent ones
Tattoos have a complex history in Japan, but new types of temporary ink are letting locals curious about body art experiment without the commitment.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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