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BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2013
Pension investment fund must ditch JGBs: Ito
The world's biggest retirement fund needs to cut bond holdings now because the Japanese government will follow an advisory panel's recommendation that the wealth manager seek higher returns, the panel's head said.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 28, 2013
Yamashita and Maeda reunite for slacker dramedy
Nobuhiro Yamashita has used a variety of sources for his films since his 1999 feature debut "Donten Seikatasu (Hazy Life)," including his own experiences as a struggling indie director. But the inspiration for his latest, "Moratorium Tamako (Tamako in Moratorium)," is out of the ordinary by any standard: 30-second ads for the Music On! TV cable station.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2013
Seoul riles Tokyo with memorial to 'hero'
The government criticizes South Korea for planning to erect a monument in China to a Korean who fought Japan's rule of Korea last century and assassinated a Japanese governor.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2013
Leading cancer expert in Fukuoka hopes vaccine-based treatments thrive
After researching cancer vaccines for 20 years, Kyogo Ito in July was appointed first director of the Kurume University Cancer Vaccine Center in Fukuoka Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 17, 2013
Ito-Yokado begins six-day veggie sale
Supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. began a nationwide six-day bargain sale of vegetables Wednesday amid rising prices stemming from tight supply due to unfavorable weather.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 9, 2013
[VIDEO] 58th Matsukawa Washtub Boat Race
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 8, 2013
[SLIDESHOW] Row, row, row your tub: Matsukawa Tarai-nori Kyoso
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 4, 2013
Good, clean fun at Ito tub race
The seaside town of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, is well known for its dark, sandy beaches, hot springs, giant koi carp and spectacular summer fireworks displays.
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JAPAN
Jun 30, 2013
Kagoshima to fly 300 to Shanghai to aid Chinese airline
The Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly has approved a ¥34 million plan to send 300 local government employees, teachers and citizens on trips to Shanghai to help maintain a struggling air route served by a Chinese airline.
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CULTURE / Books
Jun 16, 2013
Historical biography captures the spirit of early feminist Japan
Time distorts, concealing the individual drops of humanity within the great tide of history. "Beauty in Disarray" attempts to reveal one such individual threatened to be lost in time, a woman named Noe Ito. In telling Ito's tragic story, biographer Harumi Setouchi (now known by her Buddhist name Jakucho) also reveals early feminist Japan. Setouchi's work itself threatens to go out of print, but a Kindle version made available this year brings Ito's story to the digital age.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Apr 30, 2013
Hall of fame: Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Setouchi, OMA
With Toyo Ito winning this year's Pritzker Prize last month — “architecture's Nobel” — Japan's architects continue to bestride the international architectural world as colossi.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Apr 8, 2013
Ito sends Japan into Davis Cup World Group playoffs
Japan beats South Korea to earn a place in the Davis Cup World Group playoffs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
Mar 17, 2013
How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku
Including loans from each of Japan's six national museums as well as the Imperial Household Agency, 'Jakuchu's Here!' represents to a gift from Japan's art establishment to an audience that it has neglected for decades.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 13, 2013
What Japan needs to do
With its economy spluttering, large parts of its northeastern region still devastated by the effects of the mammoth Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 — and releases of radioactive materials that followed — its population shrinking and aging at unprecedented rates and its citizens despairing of dysfunctional politics, Japan's entry into a new Year of the Snake appears unlikely to yield much of the steady progress that these years traditionally herald.
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BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
May 25, 2010
Clothing retailers want you to stay cool, stay fresh
Cool biz: a great opportunity for retailers to push clothing lines with coolness built in.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2009
China worries neighbors as its navy comes of age
SINGAPORE — China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has made great strides in recent years as it seeks to come of age. While moving to demonstrate its clout, it also seems to recognize the need to reassure others that the intentions behind its modernization program are peaceful.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2008
Akihito Ito: Keeper of the tales of a nuclear hell
Has George W. Bush ever heard of Akihito Ito? Dismayed at Pentagon plans to develop a new generation of "tactical" nuclear weapons — so-called mini-nukes — Ito sent Bush a gift: a box of CDs carrying the recorded voices of 284 atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Nov 5, 2006
Joi Ito: Master of multitasking
Joichi Ito, better known as Joi Ito, defies any one simple label.

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