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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Mar 16, 2010

Political hopeful eyes tax law changes

Citizens of the United States living overseas of working age are required to file a U.S. Internal Revenue Service tax form every year, and if they have incomes, may have to pay U.S. income taxes, on top of any levies they also face in their place of residence.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 16, 2010

What's the most interesting thing you've seen in Japan?

JAPAN
Mar 12, 2010

Prada accused of maltreatment

A senior manager at Prada Japan has filed a legal complaint against the Italian fashion label, accusing the company of harassment and discrimination based on appearance and alleging it maltreated other employees in the past.
COMMENTARY
Mar 11, 2010

The U.S. media badly needs a wakeup call

Different societies allow their news media different roles. In most countries the media is subordinated to power, whether of the government or the ruling class. Surprisingly or not, the American model is not widely emulated globally.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 9, 2010

What would you miss most about your homeland if you lived abroad?

Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 5, 2010

Springtime special hotel offers

Spring is a time of rebirth and renewal. In Japan, spring means the coming of a new year — in schools, at companies, fiscally. During this season, hotels offer a wide variety of events for you to refresh and relax in style. Like the cherry blossoms that dominate the imagery of spring, these offers...
COMMENTARY
Feb 24, 2010

Three lessons from Copenhagen

The world now accepts that protecting our atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and even cyberspace — the "global commons" — is the responsibility of all countries. Enforcing that norm is proving the difficult part.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 23, 2010

Joint effort on track to take shinkansen system to U.S.

When U.S. President Barack Obama took office, one thing he pitched was a "Green New Deal" that would reduce fossil fuel use, and high-speed passenger trains like those in Japan and Europe were part of his sweeping plan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 23, 2010

Should tax-paying permanent residents be allowed to vote in local polls?

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 16, 2010

What should sumo's disgraced yokozuna Asashoryu do next?

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 16, 2010

Help for Haiti from half a world away

A plain black bow adorns the coat of arms on the door of the Haitian Embassy in Tokyo, a poignant reminder to visitors of the hundreds of thousands who have died in the country since the devastating earthquake of Jan 12. It is a small gesture that belies the scale of the destruction wrought by the quake:...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2010

Cyber Arts Japan: As interactive as they want to be

"What are silk screen prints doing in a show of media art?"
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2010

Toyota tries to cover all bases

WASHINGTON — In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2010

Toyota recalls Prius, three other hybrids

Struggling to keep its reputation for quality from being tarnished further, Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday issued a recall of 223,068 of its hybrid cars in Japan, including the latest Prius model, to fix a brake system problem.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 10, 2010

Win Morozov's new book 'Kiss and Cry'

With the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics just days away, The Japan Times is continuing to get in the spirit by offering several readers the chance to win a copy of renowned Russian coach Nikolai Morozov's newly released Japanese book "Kiss and Cry."
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2010

Toyota confident it has loyal customers

TORRANCE, Calif. — "If there's a problem, we fix it," said Bill Coyne, general manager of South Bay Toyota, sounding frustrated.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 9, 2010

What do you make of yokozuna Asashoryu's shock announcement that he will retire?

COMMENTARY
Feb 7, 2010

China's unwritten chapters feed speculation

LOS ANGELES — We were lucky enough the other night to attend a dinner party where the fare was California fusion and the killer item on the menu was serious table talk about Asia. So much food for thought was offered that, when the evening was over, few had much of an appetite for dessert. Which was...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 2, 2010

What will Japan be like in 10 years' time?

COMMENTARY
Feb 1, 2010

Heated politics of disbelief

LONDON — Last November we had "Climategate," in which somebody hacked into the e-mails at the University of East Anglia and discovered that professor Phil Jones, head of the university's Climate Research Unit (CRU), had been trying to exclude scientific papers he regarded as flawed from being considered...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 31, 2010

Universal count, use of one ball will boost status of NPB

How about that?
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Jan 31, 2010

Resentment of Valentine's power factored in downfall

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