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Natsuko Fukue
JAPAN
Feb 12, 2010
Temps again get short end?
The Hatoyama administration is working on an amendment to the job dispatch law in an effort to provide greater security to temporary workers hit by the economic slump.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Feb 9, 2010
'Otaku' turns passion for collecting into gold mine
Danny Choo, a Tokyo-based computer programmer and entrepreneur, calls himself a full-time "otaku."
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2010
Fliers saw bankruptcy coming, weigh options
Travelers and businesspeople reacted calmly Tuesday to Japan Airlines Corp.'s filing for bankruptcy and restructuring.
BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2010
Affiliates brace for impact from JAL's failure
Japan Airline Corp.'s Tuesday filing for bankruptcy finally starts the carrier down the government-led rehabilitation path.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2010
Metro job fair grads' last chance?
Many prospective college graduates are facing a cold, grim winter in their job hunt.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jan 12, 2010
Italian culture rep probes parallels
Umberto Donati, the 65-year-old director of the Italian Institute of Culture, is a force of nature when it comes to seizing every opportunity to introduce his country's paintings, books, art exhibitions and language courses to Japanese.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2010
Ship collision coverage exposes media bias
This week's collision in which a Japanese whaling ship chopped off the bow of an antiwhaling boat off Antarctica not only highlights the international tussle over the contentious hunt but has also led to a clash between Japanese and Western media as well.
JAPAN / LOOMING CHALLENGES
Jan 4, 2010
Universities must look abroad to reverse Japan's brain drain
Japan appears to be suffering from brain drain. Examples include chemist Osamu Shimomura and physicist Yoichiro Nambu, both of whom won Nobel Prizes in 2008 for research conducted in U.S. universities.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2009
HRW chief working to change diplomacy
Kanae Doi, a 34-year-old lawyer, has always wanted to be on the side of the weak. As a director of the Tokyo bureau of Human Rights Watch, a position she has held since 2008, she is trying to change Japanese politics to protect human rights.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2009
Famed tale a perennial favorite
. The shogunate ordered Asano to commit ritual suicide over the breach in acceptable behavior. On Dec. 14, 1702, 47 samurai followers of Asano took revenge on Kira and killed him. They then subsequently dispatched themselves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / READERS' FUND
Dec 20, 2009
Group teaching Afghan women literacy, IT skills
Fourth in a series
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2009
Zoo pool too cool, so pudgy penguins hoof it
The penguins at Asahiyama Zoological Park in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, have gained weight lately, for good reason.
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2009
Farm households could get some relief
, agrees that direct payments to full-time farmers would at least give them a minimum wage. "Their income is rapidly decreasing" because of declining food prices, he said. The average annual income from farm products for full-time rice farmers was ¥3.37 million per household in 2007, according to the...
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2009
No-tuition plan fails poor students
don't even have the right to live," she said, adding she wants society to become more supportive of impoverished single-parent households. The NPO surveyed 385 single mothers and 433 high school students in single-parent households.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2009
Young unemployed taste life in corporate fast lane
A group of unemployed young people participated Thursday in a one-day job-hunt support program in Tokyo organized by JPMorgan and Sodateage-Net, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2009
Japanese women still hitting a glass and bamboo ceiling in the boardroom
Japan ranks 31st out of 35 countries in terms of the percentage of female board of directors, falling below Jordan, Oman and Kuwait, a U.S.-based nonprofit group said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2009
Flu vaccines scarce, get divvied up
Vaccinations for swine flu started Nov. 2 for pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses in some prefectures, but many medical institutions are still struggling to keep ample stocks to inoculate their staff, who are the most prone to be exposed to the H1N1 virus.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2009
Slow Food founder pushes fair fare
Carlo Petrini, a 60-year-old Italian, is on a mission: He wants cheap, mass produced foods laced chemical fertilizers and artificial flavors to be replaced by safer, high-quality, and higher-priced, fare.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2009
Need a massage? Try a stretch
Like the professionals at Thai massage and shiatsu salons, sports trainers are turning the practice of muscle-stretching into a business.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2009
Yokohama farm event sprouts to spread Slow Food in Japan
YOKOHAMA — A food exhibition featuring local produce and the farmers who grew it opened Friday in Yokohama's Naka Ward to promote the Slow Food movement in Japan.
Freed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrives in France
U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling environmental activist Paul Watson, who was released from prison in Greenland's capital Nuuk after five months in detention, arrives with Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, near Paris, on Friday.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.

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