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Masako Tsubuku
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 27, 2012
In Japan it's never too late to get in on the ground floor with stocks
Will the Japanese public, in particular women, finally start investing in the stock market?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 20, 2012
Old technology a threat to publishers' bottom lines
People who like reading books are increasingly getting over the need to own them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 14, 2012
Working the system: Beware of doctors with private rooms
Doctors have ways of making money outside the insurance system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 5, 2012
You can't take it with you: Horse gambler's system stymied by tax law
Bad bet: Osaka man busted by tax authorities over gambling winnings.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Dec 4, 2012
Japan's part-time landlords are overestimating single-tenant needs
In an effort to cut costs, electronics maker Sharp has announced that it is transferring its struggling liquid crystal display business from factories in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, to factories in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In 2004, the Kameyama facility started making large LCD screens for TVs and more...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Dec 4, 2012
Japan's part-time landowners are overestimating single-tenant needs
In an effort to cut costs, electronics maker Sharp has announced that it is transferring its struggling liquid crystal display business from factories in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, to factories in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In 2004, the Kameyama facility started making large LCD screens for TVs and more...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 30, 2012
For teachers, the business of education has become even more of a business
Private high schools are relying more and more on part-time teachers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 22, 2012
Ishihara's resignation doesn't come cheap
Tokyo taxpayers are going to have to pay a lot for their former governor's capriciousness.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 14, 2012
Theme parks make a comeback thanks to grandma and grandpa
Theme parks and amusement parks are suddenly benefiting from a demographic perfect storm.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 8, 2012
Annals of cheap: bananas
Bananas haven't been this cheap in Japan since 1979.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Nov 6, 2012
Danchi housing lets you think outside the usual box
Japanese housing experts have a list of casual terms to describe the layouts of apartments and condominiums: kamaboko (fish paste), yokan-giri (sliced bean jelly), ta no ji (rice paddy ideograph) and chocolate bars. What these terms have in common is geometrical utility. All are rectangles that can be...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 2, 2012
Want more daycare? Pay workers more
One reason for the lack of daycare centers in Japan is that no one wants the job.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 26, 2012
Candidate deposit requirement guarantees same faces on the ballot
It costs a lot to run for office in Japan, and a lot to lose.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 17, 2012
Clarifying the economic damage of the Senkakus row
Japan's overseas tourist industry can just write off all of 2012 thanks to the two territorial disputes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 12, 2012
Tax auditors running out of cheaters, ponder purpose in life
The economy is so bad, even tax investigators have nothing to do.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 4, 2012
Money for education ends up in the toilet
Officials finally realize that public school lavatories have been neglected too long.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Oct 2, 2012
Second homes may be cheap, but they are often in disrepair
Atami The ad said the property was 2 km from Ajiro Station on the Ito Line, but it was difficult to tell how far we were traveling in the agent's car. Most of the trip was up a steep, winding road into the hills above Atami on the Izu Peninsula, an area developed in the 1970s by the Tokyu Corporation...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 27, 2012
NHK uses carrot and stick approach to get your money
NHK finds new way to get paid, but there's also a new way to avoid paying.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 25, 2012
Backsliding Japan Post broadens its horizons on all fronts
Is Japan Post proceeding with privatization or backtracking to its old model?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 19, 2012
New stats about old folks
Some new numbers about elderly household income and spending.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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