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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 10, 2015
Toilet seat makers, diamond sellers among Japan firms fearing China plunge
The plunge in China's stock market and concerns about its economic growth are having effects well beyond the nation's borders — with shares of Japanese companies that benefit from Chinese tourists also declining.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 8, 2015
China's stock-trading students see life lessons in market slide
A wild plunge in China's stock market over the past month has burned millions of retail investors, but 22-year-old student Zhu Qimeng prefers to view any losses as a valuable part of his education for a career in finance.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2015
China's bull market in conspiracy theories
China's financial world has officially entered the paranoia zone.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 29, 2015
Japan April job availability up to 1.17, best in 23 years
Japan's job availability improved in April to its best level in around 23 years while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 18 years, with companies willing to hire more workers on the back of an economic recovery, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 28, 2015
Loeb shows how to get at Japan Inc. $1.9 trillion cash pile
Activist investor Daniel Loeb is proving determination can pay off, even in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2015
JPMorgan's Japan head of equity research resigns
Jesper Koll is leaving JPMorgan Chase & Co. after running the firm's equity-research team in Tokyo for more than five years.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2015
As car sales slow in China, automakers trim prices
China's auto sales growth is slowing to a "new normal" with Bayerische Motoren Werke AG to Honda Motor Co. trimming their prices to sustain demand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 7, 2015
Japan must shut out short-term investors, says Orix founder
Yoshihiko Miyauchi, who ran Orix Corp. for more than 30 years, says Japan must discriminate against short-term shareholders.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2015
Seattle approves $34 million to expand historic Pike Place Market
Seattle lawmakers voted on Monday to invest $34 million in taxpayer funds to expand the city's historic Pike Place Market, which draws millions of visitors each year to its fresh produce, flower and fish stalls.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 12, 2015
NISA investments swell but still not on pace to reach target
Savers held ¥3 trillion in Japan's temporarily tax-free investment accounts at the end of the program's first year, the Financial Services Agency said in a statement on its website.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Mar 10, 2015
All Hale lunch at this Kyoto cafe
To get to Hale you'll have to wrestle your way past the armies of tourists and locals who converge on Nishiki Market — a long, narrow market that sells everything from adzuki beans to unagi (eel).
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2015
The guiding principles of economic prosperity
It would be a mistake to assume that Germany's economic performance vindicates its policymaking today, for its current economic dominance has been built on a policy framework that stands in direct opposition to that championed by the father of its post-World War II 'economic miracle.'
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2015
Default to 'Chinese characteristics' has limits
How will China define 'major country diplomacy' so as to benefit both sides? There will be little interest in this type of diplomacy if Beijing attempts to qualify it as having 'Chinese characteristics.'
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2015
Honda bets that Chinese tastes will prevail in Japan, too
Honda Motor Co. designed the Jade minivan with the extended Chinese family in mind, appealing to the preference for space to carry relatives. The automaker is pitching the same car to Japanese consumers with a twist.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2015
Japanese and U.S. law schools at a crossroads
Law schools in Japan and the U.S. find themselves trapped between a rock and a hard place as the number of applicants continues to shrink in the face of a bleak legal job market.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 28, 2015
Yokohama fest offers a performing-arts feast
Since Tokyo Performing Arts Market began in 1995, the annual event has established itself as one of Asia's leading trade shows for creators, producers and festival organizers — as well as being a great chance for general audiences to catch a wide range of cutting-edge works staged over a short period in the same area.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 10, 2015
Code + culture: New Internet artists from Japan
If the Internet is an ocean, why do we spend so much time floating on its surface? What's really going on down there? Not just in the deepest, darkest trenches, but among the forgotten protocols, faulty algorithms and emerging parameters outside the busy shipping lanes and far from the crowded life rafts of Facebook and Twitter.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 2, 2015
With steady jobs scarce, South Korean students linger on campus
It's been a year since Seoul media and communications student Lee Woong-hee finished his studies, but the 26-year-old plans to skip his class graduation ceremony in February because he thinks retaining his student status will help him finally land a job.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2014
Documentary aims to preserve sights, sounds of Tsukiji fish market before it closes
Shooting is underway on a major documentary film about one of the world's largest fish markets, Tsukiji in central Tokyo, before the facility closes and reopens at a new location.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2014
New Tokyo fish market to open in November 2016
A new wholesale market will open in early November 2016 in Tokyo's Toyosu district to replace the storied Tsukiji fish market, the construction committee decided Wednesday.
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.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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