search

 
Menu
Search
 
September 15, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
338,189 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Livedoor stockholders to sue for compensation

About 1,000 Livedoor Co. shareholders will launch a damages suit in late May against the Internet firm and its former executives to recover their losses from the sharp fall in its stock price following allegations of accounting fraud, their lawyers said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Confidence index logs first positive reading since '96

The consumer confidence index hit a new high in March as optimists outnumbered pessimists for the first time, the Bank of Japan said in its quarterly survey report Thursday.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2006

Education bill advances after patriotism defined

into the verge of ruin," said Fuyushiba. "Considering that the phrase 'a mind that loves the nation' was used in education during those times (in the 1930s and 1940s) there was a need for thorough discussion over whether that phrase should be included in the Fundamental Law of Education to be able to...
COMMENTARY
Apr 14, 2006

Tattered NPT needs repairs

LONDON -- What has become of the globally agreed regime designed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons -- the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)? The answer these days is that while it has served the world well for many years it is now in tatters.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Wholesale prices added 2.1% in '05 as oil rose

Wholesale prices rose 2.1 percent in fiscal 2005 from the previous year for the second-straight annual increase, due mainly to rising prices of oil and oil-related products, as well higher import prices caused by the yen's depreciation, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2006

Statistics show worrying increase in underweight newborns

Pediatricians are alarmed at new statistics that show newborn infants are smaller on average than babies born 20 years ago.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

KDDI seeks e-cash tieup with BTMU

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and KDDI Corp. are in final talks to set up a bank that would accept the use of mobile phones as debit cards, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

More companies opting for delisting

Scandal-tainted Livedoor Co. is to be expelled from the Mothers market for startup firms Friday amid allegations it falsified its financial statements. But while the Internet firm is not leaving willingly, over the past year a number of companies have walked away from the stock market on their own after...
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

JT to appoint Kimura new chief

Japan Tobacco Inc. plans to appoint Director Hiroshi Kimura as the new president to succeed Katsuhiko Honda, who will become adviser, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Companies court women with children as workforce shrinks

Companies are trying to make working conditions more tolerable for women with children in an effort to retain them as the workforce continues to shrink amid population decline and the retirement of the baby boomers.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 14, 2006

Legendary lensman of rock

Jim Marshall's credentials as "THE rock 'n' roll photographer" are secured.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Wage gap getting wider

Income disparities have widened among people in their 20s in Japan and will likely get wider despite Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's denial of such a trend, according to an annual government report now under compilation.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Credit card firms kill ATM fees

The major credit card companies have abolished charges for after-hours cash withdrawals made at automated teller machines in banks because financial regulators are expected to get tough on capping interest rates, industry officials said.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 14, 2006

Your own home brew

Umeshu is one of a variety of kajitsushu (fruit liqueurs). The recipe for classic umeshu is simply green apricots (not plums), rock sugar and white liquor (a simple shochu) that has been left to steep for several months.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 14, 2006

Sigur Ros warm to a wider world

When Sigur Ros proclaimed from their remote, treeless, volcanic island in 2000 that they would "change music forever, and the way people think about music," there was something mythical about their otherworldly sound and the made-up language of their lyrics that had some listeners actually believing...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 14, 2006

The hunt begins here

The wine and sake department at Tokyu Toyoko's main department store in Shibuya offers about two dozen umeshu. The individual brands have been helpfully labeled, so you can easily distinguish what each is based on, be it nihonshu, shochu or brandy. However, do check out your local supermarket; you might...
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2006

Job-hunting students favor ANA

All Nippon Airways Co. has become the most popular company for job-seeking university students for the second consecutive year, job magazine publisher Recruit Co. said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Apr 14, 2006

Knight expands fashion empire

Eccentric British fashion designer Paul Smith is currently presiding over a rollout of stores across the globe. Following on from the December 2005 opening of a bubblegum-pink store on Melrose Avenue, L.A., last week he was in Tokyo to unveil a four-story flagship in the Aoyama district. Later this year...
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2006

Obituary: Frank Gibney

1953, was among the first to depict humanely the wartime enemy through portraits of a journalist, a naval officer, a steelworker, a farmer and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 14, 2006

Picks to sip

Oushuku Nigori Umeshu from Tokushima
COMMENTARY
Apr 14, 2006

Slow courtship for the Vatican and China

HONG KONG -- A senior Chinese official has acknowledged that Beijing and the Vatican have been in contact about the normalization of diplomatic relations. This was the first formal confirmation of hints from Vatican officials that negotiations for the restoration of ties, broken since 1951, were going...
CULTURE / Music
Apr 14, 2006

The Rogers Sisters "The Invisible Deck" (Too Pure/Hostess)

Rock musicians manifest the confrontational mode in many different ways, and New York's The Rogers Sisters utilize most of them. A classic power trio that has absorbed every trick the configuration has yielded over the years, the group works up from the kind of precision noise that sisters Jennifer and...
CULTURE / Music
Apr 14, 2006

Spank Rock "YoYoYoYoYo" (Big Dada/Beat Records)

If Spank Rock sound like a bunch of college kids clowning around, that's probably not so far off the mark. Until just a few years ago, that's exactly what they were. But while injecting hip-hop with a much-needed dose of humor, on their debut album "YoYoYoYoYo" the Baltimore duo have delivered a refreshing...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Apr 14, 2006

Psychedelic radar 04.14

Saturday, April 15
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Tokyo Gas lights the way to carbon neutrality
Tokyo Gas lights the way to carbon neutrality

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER