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BIG IN JAPAN

JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 17, 2010
Utopia means free money for everyone
Scientifically and technologically, the world is in flux bordering on chaos. Every day brings something new: a new discovery, a new device, a new technique, a new cure. The pace of change is dizzying; we scarcely know where we stand. Yesterday's novelty is today's norm, tomorrow's anachronism.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 10, 2010
Weeklies, tabloids hawkish over China
On Saturday, Oct. 2, over 2,670 demonstrators carrying Hinomaru Japanese flags marched in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park to protest the Kan government's soft handling of a long-running territorial dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands (known in Chinese as Diaoyutai), which was rekindled on Sept. 7 when the crew of a Chinese fishing trawler was detained after their vessel collided with two Japanese Coast Guard ships.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 3, 2010
Why not put a little fun into your funeral?
It's your funeral. What's your pleasure?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 26, 2010
For young staff, the workplace is no joke
Mr. Sakamoto, a sales team leader at an IT systems company, got off to a rocky start when he was transferred to his current office. At the first meeting with his underlings, all in their 30s, the 43-year-old boss detected a tense atmosphere.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 19, 2010
No sex please, we are otaku!
Shock, gasp, horror. Aya Hirano is not a virgin.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 12, 2010
Budget cuts dooming diners to plumpness
"The destiny of a nation depends on the manner in which it feeds itself," wrote French epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) in his famous treatise, "The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy."
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 5, 2010
Take it slow — but only if it suits you
Slow Life Japan is a sort of movement, or rather an antimovement, that sprouted here and there in the 1990s, little islands of quietude amid the ultra-fast life that had come to seem as unquestionable as modernity itself. Production, consumption, growth, activity, exhaustion — all very well, but what for, after all, what for?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 29, 2010
Tightened credit rules threaten to spawn 'loan refugees'
Japan may be in the midst of a silent epidemic of kinketsu-byo ("lack of money disease"). The source of the infection is a new statute that bans many borrowers from obtaining unsecured loans.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 22, 2010
Rakuten's English- only policy endures close media scrutiny
Learn to speak English, or else!
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 15, 2010
Does cost of peace consign the Japanese to frailty or strength?
A series of articles in the Aug. 1 edition of The Big Issue Japan, a biweekly magazine sold by homeless people, is addressed "to adults who have never known war." Few major powers, past or present, can equal Japan in that regard. Sixty-five years of peace in a bellicose world have turned war in this country into a fading memory, fading all the faster due to the education system's tendency to avoid the issues raised by the last war. No Japanese under 65 has "known war"; none under 80 is likely to have fought in one. Few under 50 can even imagine such a thing.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 8, 2010
Japan's dismal dearth of new heroic figures
"Created in response to deep popular needs, the legendary hero survives long after his death. . . . While the positive aspects of the hero's life and character come to be emphasized (or even created out of whole cloth), less attractive features are passed over in silence and remain forgotten until they are eventually exhumed by debunking historians of later generations."
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 1, 2010
Depression takes hold as promises of Utopia fade away
Why isn't this Utopia? Why, given material and technological advantages beyond the wildest dreams of our most visionary ancestors, are we floundering in a sea of despair?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 25, 2010
Computer addiction dulls wits at work
Differences in familiarity with computers are creating ever-wider gaps within the ranks of Japan's salarymen. Evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (July 17) reports on the emergence of a new type of person at companies who never stops typing on his PC, even while being spoken to by a colleague.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 18, 2010
Youth is wasted on the dwindling young
What's it like to be young in this most elderly, least youthful country on Earth?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 11, 2010
Media fixated with China's new wealth
With the World Cup, sumo's baseball betting scandal and Sunday's Upper House election dominating the media's attention, some readers may have not noticed the extensive coverage also being devoted to China. And we're not just talking about crowds at the Shanghai Expo, but the crowds of visitors to Ginza, whose numbers are certain to increase exponentially over the next decade.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 4, 2010
Only connect: Japan struggles to bond
When the novelist Chiyo Uno died in 1996 at age 98, she was as extravagantly eulogized for her love life as for her literary work. Four marriages, four divorces, several high-profile love affairs, one attempted love suicide — now that was living! Society disapproved? That should have been her biggest worry. Life in all its forms was there for the seizing, and she would seize it come hell or high water.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 27, 2010
What's in a name? Politics as usual
When the Democratic Party of Japan indicated in its political manifesto that it favored voting rights for foreign permanent residents, the reaction from some quarters of the media was visceral. In early April, publisher Takarajima-sha produced a 96-page "emergency publication" titled "Gaikokujin Sanseiken de Nihon ga Nakunaru Hi" ("The Day that Japan Ceases to Exist Due to Foreigner Voting Rights"), whose cover ran frantic exclamations such as "A Legal Invasion by China!" and "With a policy to admit 10 million immigrants, Japan will become a foreign country!"
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 20, 2010
Is Japan going loopy in a world so alien
"Loopy," "hapless," "embarrassing" — such is the world's, and Japan's, verdict on the short unhappy prime ministership of Yukio Hatoyama. In retrospect, this 21st-century Japanese Don Quixote seems to have been doomed to failure from the start. What he attempted was honorable, but impossible. What was this naturally compassionate man doing in politics? Answer: Learning the hard way that politics and compassion don't mix.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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