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Masako Tsubuku
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 11, 2011
Realists and idealists on the cost of adopting renewable energy
If the Renewable Energy Act passes, what will it mean to your electricity bill?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 5, 2011
Okozukai vs. hesokuri: An alternate view of home economics
Wives traditionally control Japanese household finances, but that doesn't mean they have financial freedom.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Jul 5, 2011
Your dream home could become a quake nightmare
Like other people in the Tokyo metropolitan area who were living in a high-rise when the March 11 earthquake struck, we subsequently decided to move.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 29, 2011
The hidden economics of diabetes
Japanese doctors can make a lot of money from the diabetes epidemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 24, 2011
Joyful Honda and the rise of the car-centric 'home center'
Are American-styled home centers Japan's retail model for the future?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 21, 2011
Reported epidemic of elder shoplifting may not be what it seems
Media may be missing the point when it reports on rise in crime among retirees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 18, 2011
Annals of Cheap: 32-inch flat screen TVs
Prices of TV sets, especially smaller models, are now as low as they'll ever be.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 13, 2011
More shopping refugees: Residents of planned community at the mercy of bureaucratic prerogatives
Elderly residents of a corner of Chiba New Town have been left without a supermarket to shop in.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 5, 2011
Regional bank tries to make money work for good things
A small Tokyo bank encourages customers to be energy efficient in a substantial way.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 31, 2011
LEDs make it cheaper to blind family and friends
How much can you really save if you switch your light bulbs to LEDs?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 26, 2011
Will the 'morning-after pill' make gynecologists obsolete?
The morning-after pill is finally available to Japanese women.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 24, 2011
Cheap labor market will have to make do without Chinese workers
The flight of cheap labor following the earthquake may have a lasting effect on Japan's economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 20, 2011
Disaster makes the heart grow fonder, but potential marriage partners still need cash
More people are looking to get hitched since the March 11 earthquake, but will it change the criteria for selecting partners?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 17, 2011
Post-disaster business opportunities attracting wrong kind of enterprises
Yakuza groups are allegedly giving out money to evacuees in order to secure favors for future business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 14, 2011
Only chumps recharge their cell phones at home
All mobile phone service providers offer free recharging services at sales outlets, though some offer more than others.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 9, 2011
The economics of scapegoating vending machines
Vending machines have become the symbol of energy-wasting this summer in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 3, 2011
Reality check: Condo repair funds not enough
Condominium owners may be discouraged to learn that the repair fund they pay into once a month won't be enough to fix their broken buildings.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 29, 2011
Let them rent mansions: Compensation for disaster victims will barely make a difference
Compensation in the form of donations and government grants are finally starting to reach disaster victims. Will it be enough?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 23, 2011
Disasters kill appetite for travel during Japan's high season
The aftershocks of the March 11 quake will be strongly felt in the tourism industry come this Golden Week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 19, 2011
Summer electricity shortage countermeasure: Make your own
Nuclear power? Who needs it, when you've got this free and safe sun and the wind? Right? Right?
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.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
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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