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BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2011

Solar thermal tech to get test in Abu Dhabi

Japan is negotiating with Masdar, Abu Dhabi's government-backed renewable energy company, to conduct a feasibility study for air cooling systems using solar thermal technology, an official said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 4, 2011

Tokyo and Yamagata: What are your resolutions for the new year?

Kazue Kawaguchi
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jan 1, 2011

Investigation of 'Japanese soul'; story behind 'Toire no Kamisama'; CM of the week: Shin Heparize Drink

The current movement toward a more insular society is believed to reflect a backlash against the postwar trend of opening up to the world. With economic growth a thing of the past, the Japanese are now more interested in Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 1, 2011

3-D games may hurt kids: Nintendo

Nintendo Co. says 3-D games on its highly anticipated new hand-held console could harm the eyesight of children aged 6 or younger, warning of possible ill effects from technology on which many companies are betting big.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 31, 2010

2010 top movies: 2-D vs. 3-D, actors vs. avatars

Even though it was released at the tail end of 2009, it was clearly "Avatar" that defined cinema in 2010. While this critic was lukewarm about it — "Dances With Wolves" in space, basically — plenty of nongeeky people I know truly loved it, so I've begun to reconsider my stance. One convincing argument...
BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2010

Sony sues to ban LG from U.S.

Sony Corp. filed patent-infringement claims seeking to block LG Electronics Inc. from shipping mobile phones to the U.S.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2010

JR East's in-station stores a success story

Despite the feeble state of domestic consumption, retailers led by East Japan Railway Co. are continuing to infiltrate train stations to tap commuters' propensity to shop.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2010

Ex-bureaucrats bent on reform

A few years before the end of the Edo Period in 1865, prominent samurai Sakamoto Ryoma founded a private navy and the Kameyama Shachu trading company in Nagasaki and led the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2010

China's No. 1 impediment to an IT military revolution

WASHINGTON — China's belief in asymmetric warfare may be one of the major forces driving its efforts at the national level to develop missiles, submarines and, more recently, cyber-warfare capability. Chinese cyber-warfare concepts subscribe to the notion of "the inferior defeating the superior," which...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 28, 2010

Mind the gap, get over it: Japan hands

Things have changed for the better for foreigners since the old days in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 27, 2010

Finders keeper . . . except on the job

Osaka's city government cracks down on 'embezzlement — sanitation workers who pocketed money that they'd found while cleaning public property.
Japan Times
LIFE
Dec 26, 2010

The great Meiji bazaar: remodeling Tokyo

JAPAN / Media
Dec 26, 2010

Somehow we survived a very explosive 2010

In April, much of the world ground to a halt.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 26, 2010

2010 Japanese baseball season featured many memorable moments

Every year, Japanese baseball produces some great stories, and some not-so-wonderful ones. During this last week of 2010, let's take a final look back at some of the good and bad events that occurred over the past 12 months.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2010

Fisheries staff whale meat gifts hit

The Fisheries Agency has warned its officials against accepting whale meat as gifts from whalers, just weeks after Japan's whaling expedition left for the Antarctic Ocean.
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2010

Nippon Yusen to triple fleet serving India

Nippon Yusen K.K., Japan's second-largest operator of dry-bulk ships, plans to more than triple its fleet of capesize vessels serving India because of demand for coal and iron ore in the world's fastest-growing major steel market.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 24, 2010

Fukuoka group offers traditional holiday

Flights overseas can get expensive around the New Year's holidays, so Fukuoka-based tourist organization Wahaha Studio Japan are hoping to make the holidays here a memorable experience.

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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat