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Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Nov 14, 2007

Online music store helps Japanese music go global

You've heard the stories: The music industry is in crisis, CD sales are dropping year on year, iTunes is taking over the world, the future is digital, the revolution is here. While a lot of this may be true, music fans could be forgiven for some cynicism when all about them the music industry seeks to...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 13, 2007

Murakami's Nobel leanings

The news that 88-year-old Doris Lessing received the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature was not greeted by the Japanese media with as much fanfare as former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This perhaps was because Japanese literary circles were more interested in whether Haruki...
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2007

U.S. recession fears lift yen, slam Nikkei

The yen surged to an 18-month high against the dollar Monday while the benchmark Nikkei index briefly dipped below 15,000 as fears mounted that ballooning subprime loan losses will trigger a recession in the U.S.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2007

MSDF bill heads toward full vote in Lower House

Amid strong protests from opposition parties Monday, the ruling bloc rammed a special antiterrorism bill through a Lower House committee that would enable the Maritime Self-Defense Force to resume its refueling mission in the Indian Ocean.
COMMUNITY
Nov 13, 2007

Beyond Nova

On Saturday, meetings were held across Japan for Nova Corp. instructors and staff, to provide information about the sponsor's plans for the future.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2007

Trapped between borders

Frontier Mosaic: Voices of Burma from the Lands In Between, by Richard Humphries. Orchid Press, 2007, 180 pp., $29.95 (paper) "A man on a motorbike comes by and we then follow him through the streets of Mae Sot." So begins one of the narrative vignettes from "Frontier Mosaic." Based on extensive travel...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 9, 2007

Kids lead you to Oz

Tokyo Theatre for Children will perform "The Magical Land of Oz" in Tokyo on Nov. 16-18. The musical is a quirky interpretation of the all-time classic story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by American writer L. Frank Baum.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 9, 2007

Maizuru, Kyoto: For those with an interest in Cold War spy novels

Located less than two hours from central Kyoto city, the port town of Maizuru is a world away from ancient capital of Japan.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 9, 2007

Tokyo's FILMeX: small but tasty

Now in its eighth year, Tokyo FILMeX (Nov. 17-25) continues to prove that good things come in small packages. With the sprawling Tokyo International Film Festival over, think of FILMeX as the more interesting, more memorable nijikai (after party) following TIFF's pomp and circumstance. FILMeX's devoted...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 9, 2007

Indulge in kushiage at New Otani and Kizan wines at Niki Club

Roast Beef and Kushiage Fair The Hotel New Otani is holding an Autumn Roast Beef and Kushiage Fair at the Top of the Tower buffet restaurant on the 40th floor of its Garden Tower through Nov. 30.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 9, 2007

The Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet

Gonzalo Rubalcaba may be Cuba's best export besides cigars. Though the 44-year-old pianist/composer, now based in the United States, has played with various groups in Japan before, notably at the Mount Fuji Jazz Festival in the 1990s, for his forthcoming tour he will hold a solo concert in addition to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 9, 2007

New York chefs taste authentic Japanese cuisine

Top New York chefs were given a rare treat recently when master chefs from Kyoto traveled to the Big Apple to give a master class.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2007

Will entry checks cross the line?

Despite government claims it is necessary to counter terrorism, a new immigration procedure obliging most foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed upon entry to Japan has come under fire as an unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 8, 2007

Underworld outside their comfort zone

Call it a midlife crisis. Five years ago, Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith — then aged 45 and 43, respectively — took stock of their careers and realized a change was due.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 8, 2007

New MOT curator aims to do a lot with a little

Yuko Hasegawa delivers instructions to her staff in an even, polite manner that often belies the burden they impose. It's a style perhaps more suited to a corporate boardroom than an art museum. But, since she took over as chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), in April last year,...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 8, 2007

Chunichi begins preparations for Konami Cup Asia Series

The Chunichi Dragons, who ended their 53-year NPB title drought by winning the Japan Series last week, went through a casual workout at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday afternoon to prepare for the Konami Cup Asia Series 2007, which begins on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2007

G.communication has grown quickly on M&As

Nagoya-based G.communication grp., the firm taking over part of the failed language school chain Nova Corp., has grown rapidly in the past few years via aggressive mergers and acquisitions.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2007

Arriving outside Narita will be worse

OSAKA — As annoying as the new fingerprinting procedure will be for non-Japanese going through immigration at Narita International Airport, it is going to be much worse for foreign residents who don't live in the Tokyo area.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2007

Nova faces liquidation after sale

OSAKA — Nova Corp.'s court-appointed administrators plan to sell 30 of the failed language school chain's 670 branches to G.communication grp. and liquidate the rest, making tuition refunds very unlikely.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2007

End of the United Kingdom?

LONDON — Is Scotland on the way to separating from England, turning the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into something different, maybe a federal kingdom?
JAPAN / Q&A
Nov 3, 2007

Nova failure: Can teachers recoup lost pay, keep jobs?

When Japan's largest employer of foreigners effectively went bankrupt last week, thousands of instructors at the foreign-language school giant were left without jobs. Many now face complicated legal problems in a language not their own.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2007

Nanjing survivor wins ¥4 million in libel suit

," the court said. Xia welcomed the ruling, telling reporters that Higashinakano "lied and spread wrongful information" in his publication. "Higashinakano is an insolent man," she said after the ruling.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki pitches for Japan during the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2023.
Major Japanese firms pay record winter bonuses
The average figure of winter bonuses agreed on by labor unions and employers stood 4.93% higher than a year earlier.
Yokozuna Terunofuji retires after injury-plagued career
Terunofuji won 10 titles in sumo's top division during his career.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

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Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
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