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BIG IN JAPAN

JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 8, 2012
'Strange' is the new 'normal' for 2012
"Whatever happens won't be strange."
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 1, 2012
Japan's troubled royals put up a brave front
Bungei Shunju ("literary spring and autumn") is arguably Japan's most prestigious monthly magazine. Emblazoned in celebratory red across the cover of its New Year's edition is the rather ominous headline, "The Day the Heisei (Era) Ends."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 18, 2011
The times may change, but the hits keep coming
The 46th year of Showa, 1971, is remembered as the year of the "Nixon Shock," when the U.S. president took unilateral action to raise the Japanese yen's value against the dollar — from ¥360 to $1, to around ¥308 to $1. Nixon sought to reduce the swelling trade deficit by action...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 11, 2011
Japanese 'good-for-nothings' heart Bhutan
Japan is in love — with Bhutan, a supposed Shangri-La of a country nestled in the Himalayas, famous for deemphasizing gross domestic product (GDP, the standard measure of well-being) in favor of a more abstract, possibly more human metric known as gross national happiness (GNH).
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 4, 2011
Occupy Wall Street resonates within Japan
While Japan's vernacular media has regularly reported on the Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept the United States over the past several months, coverage regarding the movement and its aims has been somewhat bland.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 27, 2011
Nuke fears may spread faster than radiation
There are the measurable aspects of Tohoku's ongoing tragedy — so many becquerels or sieverts of radiation, so many million tons of rubble, so many trillion yen worth of damage and losses of various kinds, so many weeks, months, years or decades before cold shutdown, decontamination, reconstruction,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 20, 2011
Is Aum's guru finally headed for the gallows?
Tomorrow, Nov. 21, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ruling on the appeal filed by Seiichi Endo, a former member of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) cult. Endo, now 51, was sentenced to death in 2002 (upheld in 2007) for his role in the nerve gas attacks in Matsumoto City in June 1994 and...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 13, 2011
Creating a future for Japan's aging society
Japan is an elderly country. Twenty-three percent of its population is 65 or over. By 2050, nearly 40 percent will be. Nothing like these demographics has ever been seen before, here or anywhere. This is well-known and much discussed, usually in terms of the grim implications for an enfeebled economy...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 6, 2011
Penny-pinching on pensions threatens to raid retirees' nest eggs
Much of the global media's attention this week was turned toward the possibility of Greece's default. Its direct effect on Japan is difficult to foresee. On the one hand, the approximately ¥1 trillion in national bonds Japan holds from the fiscally ailing countries that are referred to collectively...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 30, 2011
Less acclaim, more fun for Japan's Ig Nobel Prize winners
Since Hideki Yukawa in 1949, a total of 16 Japanese nationals have been named recipients of Nobel Prizes. In 2010, when the most recent Japanese winners were announced to receive prizes for chemistry, NHK interrupted its scheduled programming with a nyuusu sokuho (breaking news) announcement.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 23, 2011
Rich can afford to jump Japan's sinking ship
If Shukan Bunshun and Shukan Diamond are both right, Japan is in serious trouble.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 16, 2011
Average Joe could be collateral damage in war against yakuza
The war against the yakuza was raised a notch higher at the start of the month, but not everyone is happy about it.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 9, 2011
Nonprofits in Japan help 'shut-ins' get out into the open
Not everyone fits into society. Dropping out, or falling by the wayside, has numerous causes and many manifestations.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 2, 2011
Bikes keep the wheels of progress rolling
With the onslaught of super typhoon No. 15 on Sept. 21-22, for the second time in a little over six months Tokyo's public transport network was snarled by a natural disaster. Several hundreds of thousands of hapless commuters found themselves stranded for hours as kitaku nanmin ("refugees" unable to...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 25, 2011
Japan's noisy neighbors keep-a knocking
Sanshoku, the word for "encroachment" in Japanese, is written with characters meaning "silkworm" and "to eat." Imagine a mulberry leaf, being slowly consumed from the outer edges, nibble by nibble, by writhing white worms. Then overlay this leaf on a map of the Japanese archipelago, and look at the spots...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 18, 2011
Is permanent connectedness really something we all need?
An Associated Press report of Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs' resignation last month stated, "Jobs helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist's obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home." This testifies to Jobs' genius but fails to raise what seems an obvious question: Is it a change for...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 11, 2011
Print ad featuring MacArthur sends muddled message
On Sept. 2, a controversial newspaper advertisement placed by Takarajima-sha, a mid-tier publisher, went viral on Japanese blogs and Web news sites.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 4, 2011
These may be interesting times, yet we yearn to return to normality
"May you live in interesting times," goes the familiar curse — or as the Chinese say in a similar vein, "It's better to be a dog in times of peace than a human in times of chaos."
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 28, 2011
Rising yen, falling prices, cheap beer
Beginning last Wednesday, Aug. 24, the Ito Yokado supermarket chain announced a five-day sale at 120 of its branches in the greater Tokyo area. Among the reduced-price items were U.S. beef, Australian oranges and South African pineapples.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 21, 2011
Now it's Japan's turn to shout 'Yes, we can!'
Two thousand eight was a dreadful year. Long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were going badly. The U.S. "subprime crisis" was strangling the global economy. Rising food prices were causing concern at best, riots at worst. The worse things got, the more helpless the world's democratic leaders showed themselves...
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Man suspected of using smart glasses to cheat on Waseda University exams
The Waseda University campus in Tokyo. An 18-year-old male test-taker is suspected of using smart glasses to cheat during the university's entrance exam.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.

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