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Taiga Uranaka
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Aug 24, 2002
Steep costs seen stifling market for Internet ice boxes
Imagine the convenience of a microwave oven that can download 1,000 recipes and automatically set the optimal cooking temperature for each dish, or a refrigerator whose contents you check via your cell phone.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Aug 18, 2002
Veteran voyeur gives the skinny on Hibiya Park lovebirds
In Tokyo's Hibiya Park, just by the Hibiya gate entrance, couples can often be seen laying claim to benches surrounding a large fountain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Aug 17, 2002
Photo processors bet livelihoods on digital age
For photo shops, the increasing use of digital cameras among consumers means fewer people dropping off rolls of film to be developed and printed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Aug 9, 2002
New diet for sports club chains: yen supplements
Japan's major sports club chains have been flexing their muscle in recent years, expanding their businesses through aggressive mergers and acquisitions as well as by opening new outlets.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2002
As plasma-display TVs come down in price, sales go up
After an inauspicious debut just a few years ago, plasma-display TVs have become one of the hottest home appliances around.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Jul 11, 2002
'Happoshu' price war seen taking toll on brewers
It was just a regular Friday, but lovers of beerlike beverages found an excuse for another round as the country's major breweries marked down their versions of "happoshu."
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2002
India now ripe for foreign investment, expert says
Conventional wisdom says that doing business in India is a difficult proposition, given its unstable politics and restrictive investment environment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2002
Adidas cashes in on Japan's World Cup exploits
Philippe Troussier was not the only Frenchman elated with the surprisingly good performance of the Japanese squad in the FIFA World Cup.
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Jun 23, 2002
Scale model maker strives to keep high-tech rivals at bay
SHIZUOKA — Shunsaku Tamiya's great passion is trying to coax today's high-tech savvy kids into embracing the low-tech world of scale models.
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Jun 19, 2002
Japan train stations no longer a sea of black hair
Although not as flashy as the red and golden heads of the Japanese squad in the World Cup, ordinary citizens are sporting brighter hair colors these days, boosting domestic sales of hair dyes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
Jun 15, 2002
Famed sculptor's mannequins wear evolution of Western haute fashion
The Sugino Costume Museum is ensconced among campus buildings in a quiet residential area in Tokyo's Meguro district frequented by college boys in the days before World War II who were curious to glimpse female dressmaking students in stylish Western clothes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
May 26, 2002
Soccer coach for the intellectually challenged lets 'em play
After being made head coach of the national soccer team last August, Hiroshi Ohashi's first order was for the grown-ups to get off the pitch.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 10, 2002
Condom makers jazz up contraception
The country's 60 billion yen condom industry has taken the offensive lately in a withering market, promoting a batch of new products designed to woo youths who are increasingly sexually active but reluctant to use protection.
JAPAN
May 10, 2002
Experts struggle to boost prophylactics among teens
Alarmed by the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and a record number of abortions among teenagers, educators and health experts are desperately searching for ways to increase condom use.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
May 4, 2002
Shibuya museum links tobacco, salt past and present in curious harmony
To the uninitiated, the combination of tobacco and salt in a museum is a curious one.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 1, 2002
Tracking systems try to tackle food safety
Shoppers are now being invited to check with their own eyes that what something is labeled is what they actually eat.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2002
Vested-interest policymakers irked over report that pulls few punches
Lawmakers within the ruling coalition were left aghast by a scathing report submitted last week by a panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2002
Are cell phones becoming too disruptive?
Masahito Tagami spent some 900,000 yen on a relay antenna system when he opened an "izakaya" restaurant in the basement of a building in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, last April, so that customers could use their mobile phones.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2002
Playwright offers art to lift Japan out of crisis
In these gloomy times, it seems everyone in Japan is chanting the mantra of structural reform, yet progress is excruciatingly slow. The greatest obstacle is not the political old guard nor the foot-dragging banks. Instead, the main problem is lack of art, according to playwright Oriza Hirata.
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2002
Architect blames Japan cityscapes on obsession with wealth
Japan's cities have been criticized for lacking the harmony and consistence felt in other countries, especially in Europe. But that's not a result of poor city planning; the disarray of structures in Tokyo and Osaka simply mirror the country's postwar obsession with material wealth, according to architect...
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
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.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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