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BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2002

Aso lobbies for funds for public works

The ruling bloc's top policymaker urged the government Wednesday to complete unfinished public works projects by drafting and using an extra budget for fiscal 2002.
COMMENTARY
Apr 27, 2002

Pyongyang prod that works

HONOLULU -- "Our firm stance toward North Korea is working!" So goes the conventional wisdom in Washington these days, as supporters of President George W. Bush's "hardline" policy claim credit for Pyongyang's recent decision to resume its dialogue with Seoul.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 6, 2002

Y.E.S.: An English teaching system that works

In 1994, Northern-Ireland born Douglas Young was running two small branches of his English conversation school Formula 1 in the pottery town of Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture. He and his English wife then moved to Hitachi Naka, where Douglas opened a main office and Alison had her first child. The family...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2001

Public works spending to be cut 10%

The government hopes to slash public works spending by 10 percent in fiscal 2002 and abolish the system of earmarking certain tax revenues for the construction and maintenance of the nation's road system, outlining the strategy in a basic policy plan for the fiscal 2002 budget.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2001

Film about Sorge in works

A veteran Japanese film director has announced he will begin shooting a movie next year on the wartime Sorge espionage case with focus on two journalists, one German and the other Japanese, who were hanged as Soviet spies.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2001

Ministry holds first online tender for public works project

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Tuesday staged the first online tender for a public works project in the nation's history.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 19, 2001

Art with some things to say

When the Yokohama Triennale opened a couple of weeks ago, several people asked which of the pieces I particularly liked. When pressed, from the works of more than 100 artists on show, I singled out Yoko Ono's "Freight Train" and Casagrande & Rintala's "Bird Cage," two large outdoor installations located...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 9, 2001

A long-term relationship that works

PARTNERSHIP: The United States and Japan 1951-2001, edited by Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001, 333 pp., 3,800 yen (cloth). On Sept. 8, 1951, Japan and the United States, along with 47 other governments, signed a peace treaty that officially ended the Pacific...
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Aug 5, 2000

New works win for old instruments

The yearly National Theater's Hogaku Composers' Competition, entering its fourth year, has firmly established itself as an important institution for the hogaku world. The original aim of this contest was to generate interest in and foster new works of hogaku, and in this it seems to be succeeding quite...
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2000

500 billion yen to go on public works this month

The Liberal Democratic Party will push the government to spend 500 billion yen in reserve funds on public works projects by the end of July to boost the nation's economy, reappointed LDP policy chief Shizuka Kamei said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 1999

Railway, works outlays back on track

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party agreed Wednesday to use part of 500 billion yen in reserves for public works -- allocated in the initial budget for fiscal 1999 -- to build new bullet train lines, officials of the two coalition partners said.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 1998

Works kickbacks seen from small contractors

The Construction Ministry is looking into reports that small and medium-size contractors are charging commissions by "subcontracting" public works projects they can't handle to major construction firms, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 1998

Public works plan to target areas of high unemployment

In an effort to improve the worsening job climate, the government said Tuesday it will focus public works projects in areas suffering from serious unemployment, such as Hokkaido, Kyushu and city areas of the southern Kanto and Kinki regions.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 1998

Public works spending must be cut: Keidanren

To gain the maximum benefits from the forthcoming economic stimulus package, the government must avoid spending lavishly on conventional public works projects, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) said April 16.
JAPAN
May 30, 1997

DPJ proposes public works watchdog

The Democratic Party of Japan submitted a bill to the Diet on May 30 to establish a monitoring system for public works projects to improve their cost-effectiveness. DPJ coleader Yukio Hatoyama said the bill was formulated in response to the nation's worsening fiscal crisis.
Japan Times
May 9, 2023

“Toyama Media Art International Triennale 2023” We will start a public recruiting of video works!

Toyama City will hold the “Toyama Media Art International Triennale” in FY2023 with the aim of communicating the attractiveness of Toyama City through visual images and creating a continuous liveliness in the city. The new course for Toyama citizens is now open to the public. The theme for the professional...
Japan Times
Apr 3, 2023

“Toyama Media Art International Triennale 2023” We will start a public recruiting of video works!

Toyama City will hold the “Toyama Media Art International Triennale” in FY2023 with the aim of communicating the attractiveness of Toyama City through visual images and creating a continuous liveliness in the city. The new course for Toyama citizens is now open to the public. The theme for the professional...
Japan Times
Mar 3, 2023

“Toyama Media Art International Triennale 2023” We will start a public recruiting of video works!

Toyama City will hold the “Toyama Media Art International Triennale” in FY2023 with the aim of communicating the attractiveness of Toyama City through visual images and creating a continuous liveliness in the city. The new course for Toyama citizens is now open to the public. The theme for the professional...
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 5, 2023

Didier Drogba works to educate African players about fake agents

The campaign includes a pamphlet for players with practical advice such as how to identify a fake agent, what to look for in a contract, and a player's rights as a foreign employee.
The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 (right) is anchored while being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessels in the sea of Kattegat, near Jutland, Denmark, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2024

Chinese ship stirs suspicions after Baltic Sea cables damaged

The Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier was in the vicinity of fiber optic cables connecting several countries when they were damaged.
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.”
CULTURE / Film
Nov 21, 2024

The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’

Junichi Yasuda’s film about a time-traveling warrior is a loving tribute to the “jidaigeki” (period drama) genre and its practitioners.
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 21, 2024

'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists

Ko Shinjo’s novel, a bold exploration of the twisted psyches of criminals, is best appreciated as a companion work to the recent Netflix series of the same title.
Watanabe has made shapes of (from left) a monkey, an elephant and a giraffe by folding oak leaves with his hands.
CULTURE / Art / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jan 8, 2024

Kumamoto artist embodies re-evaluation of 'outsider art’ in Japan

Dubbed a "genius autistic paper cutout artist," Yoshihiro Watanabe's works are now being alongside those by trained artists.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” once the victim of high waves that dragged it into the sea, sits at the end of a pier on the south side of Naoshima.
PODCAST / deep dive
Jun 6, 2024

The sweaty pleasure of Japan’s inconvenient art

This week, writer Thu-Huong Ha is our tour guide into the world of Japan’s inconvenient art movement.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” once the victim of high waves that dragged it into the sea, sits at the end of a pier on the south side of Naoshima.
CULTURE / Art / Longform
Apr 6, 2024

Why is the most exciting art in Japan so hard to get to?

Japan has a unique movement of public art projects and festivals that are a slog to get to — by design. A writer examines the country's “inconvenient art."
“Transfer to my Account” shows dozens of "furikomi" stubs from deposits that Yasuko Toyoshima made to her own bank accounts
CULTURE / Art
Jan 14, 2024

Yasuko Toyoshima creates delight from the quotidian

A new Tokyo exhibit of the conceptual artist’s works presents a cohesive worldview about the interaction between a life of rules and deviation.
At the new teamLab Borderless museum, the crowd-favorite room of lamps from Borderless 1.0 has evolved into a room of light bubbles, which interact with each other and the bodies passing by.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 8, 2024

Have we reached teamLab saturation?

The art collective re-opens its Borderless museum in Azabudai Hills. But the experience is starting to feel stale.
Adal’s Look into Nature brand, on show at Salon del Mobile 2024, rethinks "igusa" (Japanese rush grass), traditionally used for tatami, as a sustainable material for furniture.
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Apr 13, 2024

Japan’s best and brightest designers set to shine in Milan

The Salone del Mobile trade fair and its accompanying SaloneSatellite exhibition of up-and-coming talent attracts a pool of talented Japanese designers.
Paul Cezanne’s “Mont Saint-Victoire and Chateau Noir” (Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation)
CULTURE / Art
Aug 10, 2023

Artizon Museum considers the diverse legacy of abstract art

The Artizon’s overview showcases the huge diversity that non-figurative painting can encompass while illustrating how divisive a genre it can be.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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