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JAPAN

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Aug 25, 2011
Pulp it up: new directions for paper design
Designers realize their ideas by applying creativity to paper.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2011
1991 USSR coup attempt's steep cost
Twenty years ago this weekend, a group of Communist Party Politburo members and Soviet government officials attempted a coup d'état. They created an unconstitutional "committee on the state of emergency," isolated the Soviet president and removed him from power.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 19, 2011
Hot-looking guys for free
BACS, a new free paper, ostensibly targets preening young men but it also has on a eye on the women who love them.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 18, 2011
'Support angels' are always there, thanks to AR and AKB48
Hewlett Packard is harnessing the power of augmented reality and AKB48 idolatry in its summer promotion campaign.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 18, 2011
Men look to shed a few years off their aging skin
The rough-hewn look might be on its way out as makers of skin-care products aim for the middle-aged male market.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2011
Film mines rich seams of history
Hiroko Kumagai will never forget the day in 1998 when she first stepped inside the red-brick building at the entrance to the closed and shuttered Miyahara shaft in the Miike coal mine in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 11, 2011
A close shave for Japanese women
There's another way for women to brighter, whiter, softer skin: a close shave with a straight razor ... or so cutting-edge estu00e9e salons say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 10, 2011
Disaster housing proves cash cow for general contractors
Local construction companies in Tohoku have been squeezed out of the short-term housing boom.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2011
Medicine for the 'second great contraction'
Why is everyone still referring to the recent financial crisis as the "Great Recession"?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 5, 2011
Upmarket and themed karaoke spaces
Who says singing karaoke room has to be a low-rent affair?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 5, 2011
B-kyu boom: The magnificence of the mediocre
There's a B-kyu (class) for everything, which doesn't make it any less important.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jul 29, 2011
Apartment dwellers go potty for growing their own veggies
As concerns about food safety continue to grow, personal veranda farms take root in the big city.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Jul 28, 2011
Fukulog shares its looks with Asia
Street fashion goes social on Fukulog, a site that's attracting attracting the attention of fashionistas in Japan and beyond.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jul 22, 2011
A win-win for Nadeshiko and Japan's merchants
Did retailers predict that the Japan women's team would win the World Cup? Probably not, but they're perfectly happy to capitalize on Nadeshiko fever now.
EDITORIALS
Jul 21, 2011
A Nadeshiko moment
Nadeshiko Japan won the Women's World Cup by defeating the heavily favored United States on Sunday in Frankfurt. It was a great feat. Japan's women's national team became the first Japanese as well as the first Asian team to become the World Cup winner, irrespective of men's or women's soccer.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jul 19, 2011
Campaigns urge foreigners to pleeease visit Japan
The travel industry is doing its best to bring tourists back to Japan but is an Arashi promo video going to be able to do the job?
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 18, 2011
Nadeshiko Japan obviously doesn't do it for the money
Will victory mean more money for women's soccer in Japan?
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEEK 3
Jul 17, 2011
Volunteering with three teens in Tohoku
Many people want to go to the Tohoku region to help in the colossal clean-up following the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 and the resulting tsunami that hit some 400 km of the coastline.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 15, 2011
Life is sweet ... for some men
They are men, and they like to eat sweets. They are the men who eat sweets.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jul 12, 2011
Doing your bit for setsuden? Here's your discount
Guru Nabi hops on the setsuden bandwagon and gets restaurants and bars to climb on board with coupons designed to encourage energy conservation.

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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?