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FINE

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2015
Fiat Chrysler buy-back of unrepaired trucks may cost billions but it has resale option
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could pay billions of dollars to buy back defective trucks as part of a settlement with U.S. safety regulators, but has the option to recover costs by reselling vehicles once they are repaired.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2015
NHTSA fines Fiat Chrysler record $105 mlllion over safety recall lapses
The U.S. auto safety watchdog, toughening its stance against manufacturer defects, announced on Sunday a record $105 million in fines against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV over lapses in safety recalls involving millions of vehicles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 18, 2015
Underneath the 'Orientalist' kimono
Is it "racist" for non-Japanese to wear kimono? That question has been fiercely debated since protesters entered Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in late June to decry an exhibition encouraging visitors to try on a red uchikake kimono in front of a 1876 painting by Claude Monet of his wife wearing a similar garment.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 14, 2015
The honeymoon phase of Japan and the West
Often, when two cultures meet, it can be very messy and lead to a lot of unpleasantness. The continuing inability of the West and Islam to understand each other suggests itself as a convenient example. This kind of conflict often boils down to a question of who will be master and who will be man, with the benefits of synergy and learning from each other lost or reduced.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015
'Seductive Smiles: Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Paintings from the Weston Collection'
April 14-June 21
BUSINESS
Nov 4, 2014
Hyundai, Kia to pay $100 million for exaggerating fuel economy in U.S.
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. have agreed to pay the United States a combined $100 million fine for overstating the fuel economy of almost 1.2 million vehicles, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice said Monday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2014
'The Human Image: Picasso, Matisse, Warhol'
Pablo Picasso's "Rape of the Sabine Women" is being brought to Japan for the first time. This work, inspired by Nicolas Poussin's "The Abduction of the Sabine Women" and Jacques-Louis David's "The Intervention of the Sabine Women," depicts a tale of Ancient Rome, when the city's men forcibly took a neighboring tribe's women to be their wives. Though the theme can often be found in paintings and sculpture, Picasso uses it to express his personal reaction to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 14, 2014
Nagoya hosts works from one of the largest collections in the U.S.
For Malcolm Rogers, the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), visiting Japan in mid-April had a special resonance. The MFA this year celebrates its 15th anniversary of ties with what is not only its very first sister museum, but also its sole sister museum in Asia: the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts (N/BMFA).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 18, 2013
'Hokusai from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'
Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849), one of Japan's best-known Edo Period ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artists, has garnered admiration from across the world for more than a century. His prints are still sought after by collectors and he was the only Japanese to be selected by Life Magazine to be included in its publication "Life millennium: the 100 most important events and people of the past 1,000 years."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2013
For Japanese women painters, elegance came at expense of individuality
"Painted by Women: Elegance of Showa Period" announces a thematic concern of the time, 1926-89, on which the art world was rigidified. Japan had embarked upon a 15-year period of war (1931-1945) and the individual expressive liberties that had informed the Taisho Era (1912-26), were being reined in.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2013
UBS Japan unit told to fork out over Libor
UBS Securities Japan has been ordered to pay a $100 million (¥9.8 billion) fine as part of a global resolution of allegations that it manipulated benchmark interest rates.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 30, 2013
'Sisters in Art: Women Painters and Designers'
In the West, women's liberation began during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when more opportunities arose for their education and independence. In the field of art, women found they could seek training and their skills in painting and decorative arts began to be recognized by critics.
EDITORIALS
Jan 16, 2010
Mr. Ozawa under closer scrutiny
Tokyo public prosecutors' efforts to unravel suspected irregularities involving Rikuzankai, the political funds management body of Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, have taken a new turn.
EDITORIALS
Jun 12, 2009
A nail in the cluster bomb coffin
The Diet has endorsed an international treaty to ban the use, development, production, procurement, stockpiling and transfer of cluster bombs. The Upper House unanimously voted to do so Wednesday. The Diet deserves praise for paving the way for Japan to approve at a fairly early date the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which Japan signed in Oslo in December 2008, together with some 90 other countries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 1, 2008
Arata Isozaki: Astonishing by design
If the entire Japanese architectural fraternity was one big royal family, then Arata Isozaki would be a king approaching the end of a long and glorious reign.

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When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.
Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree