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BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2009

Mitsubishi, IHI to join solar project in space

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp. will join a ¥2 trillion Japanese project to build a giant solar power generator in space within three decades and beam electricity to Earth.
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 1, 2009

Do you have a message for the next prime minister of Japan?

Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 31, 2009

Latin lovers in Japan

Whether it's homegrown or imported, Latin-infused rebel rock is coming to a stage near you.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 30, 2009

Annals of cheap: Garigari-kun

Garigari: It's amazing what a brand rethink can do for ice and sugar on a stick.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 30, 2009

Japan at a crossroads of government and of its citizens' values

Charles de Gaulle, the magisterial president of France from 1959-69, was inordinately fond of the phrase, "Moi ou le chaos" — "Me or chaos." It was not much of a choice.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 30, 2009

no night to be alone

The typhoon swept into Okinawa, bringing rain and cannon-shot thunder, sheets of lightning almost low enough to sear the TV antennas on the blue-tiled roofs. The winds ripped branches from palm trees and left them flapping in the mud like broken-backed seagulls. Even the American helicopters on the nearby...
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2009

Toyota to halt NUMMI in March

Toyota is pulling out of a California factory joint venture it had previously run with General Motors — the first time the Japanese automaker is closing a major auto assembly plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2009

Brazilian delegation studies Japan's cremation technology

In a country where most people are Roman Catholic, Brazilians have traditionally buried their loved ones in the ground under the doctrine of resurrection of the body.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 28, 2009

Ramirez sets record in reaching milestone

Earlier this year reigning Central League MVP Alex Ramirez insisted the best he had to offer in 2009 was still yet to come.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ELECTION 2009
Aug 28, 2009

Reduced pork would pit DPJ against builders

The opposition vows to slash public works spending if it wins the election. Keeping that promise may be tough in a nation where construction is the No. 5 employer and a political fundraiser.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2009

Time to reject tyranny and health insecurity

NEW YORK — Since 2001, under the guise of "reforms," the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has adopted Bush's undemocratic dogma of market fundamentalism — dysfunctional deregulation, privatization and corporate money games. Such dogma destroyed America's financial systems, social safety net and manufacturing,...
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2009

Taxi operator, U.S. developer to test switchable batteries

Better Place, a U.S. developer of electric vehicle infrastructure, said Wednesday it will partner with Tokyo taxi operator Nihon Kotsu on a pilot project for cabs using switchable batteries next January.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2009

Skymark mulls Okinawa-Taiwan service starting in 2010: chief

Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan's largest discount carrier, may start its first regular overseas flights in the first half of next year as the company seeks to broaden its customer base.
COMMENTARY
Aug 26, 2009

Drawing key lessons from the failure of Obamacare

"What worries me: time and time again," writes Brendan Skwire in the Philadelphia Weekly about the circuses that are currently passing for Democrats' town hall meetings on health care, "[is that] the needs of the stupid and disingenuous are not only treated as valid concerns, but as the greatest concerns."...
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Aug 25, 2009

Socializing on the volleyball court in Roppongi

Roppongi on Saturday morning tends to be quiet and empty, and pretty much all you see moving there apart from cars and trucks are a few sleep-deprived, hung-over remnants of the Friday night party crowd hobbling toward the station.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 23, 2009

Rich material found in penury

It is 1995, that defining year of the Kobe earthquake, the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, the year a man in Osaka confesses to dismembering the bodies of three women at his home in Osaka; the year a Buddhist priest is arrested for raping over 100 women. The times are out of joint, and the author...
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

Podcast

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

Longform

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
By Greg Dvorak

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