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EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2009

Butting into safety probes

It has been found that Mr. Masao Yamazaki, former president of West Japan Railway Co., asked a member of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission to revise its report on the April 25, 2005, train accident on the JR West Fukuchiyama Line that killed 107 people and injured over 500....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2009

Asian antique sales rocket in New York

NEW YORK — Any trends in the American market for Asian antiques were eclipsed by Asia Week in New York last month when, suddenly, the appetite for Chinese art and antiques could not be sated.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 1, 2009

Motherhouse: beyond Fair Trade

By cutting out the middlemen, Tokyo-based Motherhouse has found a way to make the Fair Trade system work like it's supposed to.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2009

Toyota says its future in F1 unclear

The Toyota Formula One team says its continued participation in the sport is still unclear and is dependent upon the financial performance of its parent company and cost reductions in F1.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2009

Nomura reassures investors on huge share sale

Nomura Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Kenichi Watanabe, planning a record $5.7 billion share sale, is taking steps to bolster investor confidence after watching the stock plunge 19 percent in the past four days.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 30, 2009

Learn the coded language all Japanese know

Encoding and decoding may be almost as old as writing itself.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 30, 2009

Perks enhance Sony headphones; Epson pushes postcards

Sound investment: Sony may have long ago surrendered the portable music-player war to Apple, but it still wins in the battle over headphones.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2009

Funding drama yet to play out

When an extraordinary session of the Diet opens in October, the issue of money in politics will be reignited. The Liberal Democratic Party, now in opposition, will surely assail Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa over dubious political donations....
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2009

Why not try a trade system that optimizes each nation's interest?

Many of us thought that the World Trade Organization (WTO) was dead when the world financial and economic crisis demolished the myth of the benefits of free trade regimes, and that the poor of the world could rejoice. But suddenly, by some kind of voodoo trickery, it is back.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2009

NYSE Euronext chief sounds alarm against overregulation

When the major economies map out their postcrisis financial reforms, they should avoid overregulating the financial services industry in the United States and focus instead on smarter application of existing regulations, the chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext said in Tokyo recently.
Japan Times
LIFE
Sep 27, 2009

Bike tours offer a new view of the city

Despite long-standing conflicts between cyclists and others with a stake in using Tokyo's streets, Japan's capital can be a great place to tour by bike — as I discovered last weekend while participating in the "Tokyo Great Cycling Tour," a one-day guided trip organized by Tokyo-based operator Alive...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 27, 2009

Inner life of a giant revealed

REFLECTIONS IN A GLASS DOOR: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Soseki, by Marvin Marcus. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2009, 268 pp., $49 (hardcover) Author of a well-received study of the biographical writings of Mori Ogai ("Paragons of the Ordinary," 1993), Marvin Marcus...
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COMMUNITY
Sep 26, 2009

Reaching young people with music

When someone asks his age, Michael Di Stasio sometimes responds that it is the same as the late king of pop, Michael Jackson: "May he rest in peace."
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / LIQUID CULTURE
Sep 25, 2009

Tokyo bars toast the sugar cane

Thank God for the Crusades, so to speak.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2009

JAL president asks for public fund injection

Japan Airlines Corp. President Haruka Nishimatsu on Thursday asked transport minister Seiji Maehara for a capital injection of public funds to keep the troubled carrier flying.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 24, 2009

Designs about simplicity, shredding and shedding light

Back to basics When Naoto Fukasawa collaborated with furniture manufacturer Maruni earlier this year, they created two new series: the wood-based Hiroshima and Tradition, a modern take on some earlier Maruni collections. Both series present furniture that truly showcases Fukasawa's pared-down aesthetic....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 23, 2009

Annals of cheap: QB House

It's very chop-chop at QB House, a chain of successful barber shops where you get a cut, no chit-chat, no shampoo, all in 10 minutes.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 23, 2009

Murray rips Rawl for reneging on offer to coach Oita

The Oita HeatDevils were in shambles last season, including in the team's front office. Not only did the club manage to lose a league-worst 44 games (it played 52), it also created unnecessary headaches for the bj-league.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 22, 2009

Meiji & Yamanote celebrate with a wrapper's delight

Meiji Chocolate and Japan Railways celebrate their centennials to the delight of trainspotters and chocoholics.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 22, 2009

Lifelines lead back to World War II

Seeking an old friend Kevin Roop, writing to us from the U.S., is trying to find an old friend of his 85-year-old father, Vernon Roop, a veteran of World War II who after the war was based with his unit, the 5th AAF, at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo.

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